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Show File lawsuit c Sheepmen claim cover-up sheepmen, have caused financial problems even to this day. In March and May 1953, atmospheric tests, called "Nancy" and "Harry," were conducted in Nevada while the plaintiffs were grazing their sheep in eastern Nevada, near the test site. For related story see page A -6 It alleges that Pearson, Rust, Dunning and Trum "formulated the position of the AEC with regard to that agency's liability for the death and injury to sheep in heavy fallout areas near the Nevada Test Site." The men "knowingly and with reckless and with wanton disregard for the property and lives of humans and animals in the fallout area, determined that the AEC woud deny any and all liability for sheep death or injury and further would deny that radioactive fallout contributed to sheep injury or death," says the suit. All defendants, the suit continues, "collaborated in a massive and deliberate attempt to coverup all evidence tending to show that the AEC was responsible for the death and injury of the plaintiffs' sheeo." The sheepmen lost their case in Federal Court in 1956, says the suit, for a number of reasons, including facts that were misrepresented and manipulated, evidence that was concealed and scientists who were coerced into testifying differently that they once believed. According to Bushnell's assistant, the case could be heard rather soon in the Fifth District Court, with a verdict hoped for within one year. The suit says scientific data on the tests was collected by Paul B. Pearson, then chief of the biology branch, United States Division of Biology and Medicine, assisted by Gordon Dunning, John H. Rust and Bernard F. Trum. PAROWAN A lawsuit asking for $15 million was filed here last week on ? behalf of Iron County sheep ranchers who believe that government nuclear tests in the 50s killed their sheep. The suit, filed in Fifth District Court by Salt Lake City attorney Dan Bushnell, alleges that when the original lawsuit against the United States government went to trial in 1956, that government officials perpetrated a mass coverup to avoid paying for the i damages. The suit arises from incidents in 1953, when sheep that were in the fallout zone of nuclear tests in eastern Nevada died by the hundreds after two particularly large bomb explosions and probable doses of radiation. The plaintiffs in the matter are David Bulloch, McRae Bulloch, Kern Bulloch, Douglas Corry, A.E. Seegmiller, Myron Higbee, Nelson Webster, Lillian W. Clark, Lambeth Brothers Livestock, T. , Randall Adams and Dee Evans. They are suing four different groups of individual government employees. First named are four employees of the Atomic Energy Commission, including those who conducted studies of the sheep and the effects of radiation on them. , Also named are three United State Attorneys and two scientists, General Electric Corporation and two of its researchers, the State of Utah and two employees who participated in the investigation. The suit alleges basically two things: first, that the radiation caused the death of the sheep, and second that major coverup and fraud had been committed by the government and its employees to avoid having to pay damages, damages which, say the |