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Show Sand?. April Chernobyl's true effects unknown 10 years later sickness or disease so far caused by excessive radiation, the panel members said. The four-daconference, which ended Friday, is sponsored by the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization. excessive "Depression. smoking, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, alcoholism, headaches and constant fatigue are the most health problems found," said Terence Lee, a psychologist from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, who has studied the Chernobyl accident for a decade. "The widespread demoralization and poor health in these areas must be attributed to stress, not radiation," said Lee in a conclusion hotly debated by Ukrainian government officials. The only health problem directly attributable to radiation is thyroid cancer in children, the panel said, summing up a decade of research. Rates of thyroid cancer in children who w ere under the age of 14 at the time of the accident are up 200 percent, the WHO reported, but the total number of children affected is still less than 1,000, and fatalities are rare. Expected jumps in leukemia rates have so far failed to surface, the research showed, but are likely to increase over 10 to 20 sears. For example, cancer rates in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese cities hit with atomic bombs by the United States in World War II. only began to increase 10 years after the U.S. By NEELY TUCKER Newspapers Kntght-Ridd- er Ten VIENNA, Austria years ago this month, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine exploded, showering much of Eastern Europe with 200 times more radiation than Hiroshima and Nagasaki absorbed from the atomic bombs dropped during World War II. Now, a decade after the April 26. 1986. disaster exposed 5 "Fifty more years are needed to really know the effect of Chernobyl." Professor Fred Mettler million people to increased doses of radiation, scientists said last week they are still unsure the true extent of of Chernobyl-relate- 700-delega- te y. d diseases. "Fifty more years are needed to really know the effect of Chernobyl." said University of New Mexico Professor Fred Mettler. who led an international health assessment team to the site in northeastern Ukraine in 1990. With hard facts scarce, a panel of international experts said Wednesday the fear created by the accident at Chernobyl has led to "mass hysteria" in Ukraine and the neighboring nation of Belarus. This hysteria has wreaked far more damage to peoples' health in those areas than the radiation itself. Speaking at a symposium on the 10th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident, health-car- e paifessionals, scientists and sociologists portrayed the explosion at Chernobyl's No. 4 reactor as an ecological disaster that has bred hysteria, malaise and a caustic fatalism in Ukraine. Belarus and affected areas of western Russia. Those worries have, in turn, d set off a chain reaction of illnesses that are far worse than the actual radiation bombing raids of 1945. "Many cancers don't show up for years." said Mettler. w ho is chairman of New Mexico's ' For Department of Radiology. if a with breast cancer, example, was radiated, you young girl probably won't see the cancer show up until she is about 50." Compounding the assessment problem is that reliable data is hard to come by in impoverished Ukraine. Belarus and western Russia. Few hospitals have computers or share data, especially across international lines. stress-relate- Vefteirain) DEAR FINDERS: I would like to get back in touch with my tail gunner. Richard Clack, and my navigator, Eldon R. Marsh. B-1- Bruce ILi'nnzwn DEAR FINDERS: Amine s Day this year caused me to wonder what has happened to a !rue love o mine from more than 2" years ago We met on a blind date when I was 17. and for more than a year we were inseparable I n!ortun.ite!y. 7 Y Hit luk Page All his career in the Merchant Marine took him far away, and we lost each other's addressee. I have 'not had any success in locating him ajl,j these years. His name is Law son King Ellison III. and his laa-addrwas in Culver City. CaliLJ I w ould like v ery much to sec or. ., even talk with him. For all I we might even be neighbors!! 1 ' would like to see how he is doifl.Jj Your help would be greater" ess knt), appreciated fiferl How to find H I Ml A4",lf, someone ou want to find this person" , again All letters become the prop-. t rm.trrs c a J. ' . . ... . ... r. t . .,-f . . . i. i: sumcoiic i uyuii: iu uiiu i'u through this column, send a short note to the above address indicaJc 1 ing whether you. uo. would like to get hack in touch. It both parties are willing, finders will forward the letter. Finders is a naimnu ide column To find someone, send a short let ter(2tK) words oi lessi to finders, Mf uto Mail Road. co Suite ii Rloommgton. IN why :":. Include your name, addresc a; d phone number a we!! as the tu:tK of the person you are trying to find. Also include a paragraph or two about vour relatsonsh r and v RU l. Preo. member good friends. 7 Taiwan, China now seek to normalize relations By P.T. BANGSBERG Journal of Commerce Just over two weeks after Taiwan held a presidential election that stirred China to furious protest, the two countries are taking steps to normalize relations. The of Lee Teng-hu- i as the island's chief executive, the first direct ballot recorded in Chinese history, sparked a series of Chinese w ar games in the narrow strait separating Taiwan from the mainland. U.S. warships were rushed to the scene as a warning to China, which regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and says it will not tolerate any move toward independence. With the crisis past. Kith sides are making conciliatory noises and gestures to ensure that trade and commerce continue. Most analy sts said at the height of the tension that such would be the case once the election was over Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said it plans to ease regulations governing investments in China, and make it easier for Chinese businessmen to visit. cW On the mainland side, fujian province, the nearest point to Taiwan, announced a huge infrastructure development program designed to "pave the way for neighborly links." The Taiwan ministry intends to allow local firms to make investments in China of up to S2 million w ithout being required to set up a subsidiary in a third location. Current law restricts such direct investments to less than SI million. Many of the subsidiaries are located in Hong Kong, which also handles most trade between Taiwan and China. Taiwan maintains a limit is needed in the abviue t bilateral guarantees ot investment protection. The regulations wi!! be revised in coniunction with the C'abmet-leve- l Mainland V'fairs Cowrie .! by the end ol the month, c.uJ K:i proposes to allow Taiwan compaof with capitalization nies 5tUxor more to invite eecu- lives or senior technicians. The current threshold is SI.125.lXK). and Mainland executives semor technicians from firms,, doing Si million or more business a yeai with Taiwan will also be permitted to v isjt In addition, the ministry said it would relax restrictions on visits-b- y mainland Chinese businessmen residing outside China. At present, they must have been-aay four years, the ministry pro- poses to cut that to two or three, a spokesman said executive sectary of the Investment Commission, Lien-shen- an arm of the ministry Tsai said the existing ce img causes firms considering small-scal- e investments to waste much time and capital setting up !. subsidiaries In a preliminary revamp ot rules covering business visits by mainland Chinese, the ministrv w We'll Pay You Op To $500.00 Why vou should take ad van- tage of this offer! You can qualify for a trade-i- n of up to $500. If your system is eight years old or older, it's probably an inefficient energy hog. costing you twice as much in utilities to operate as a new. ener- - efficient model Why you should act now! The trade-i- n otter ends at the beginning of summer. Waiting can cost vou up to $500. The offer only applies to operating systems Once it dies, it's over... and so is the $500 trade in. Also ask about our 12 month ev money back guarantee. 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EldtHi had to use dead reckoning to determine our course Our crew formed in Nov ember while we were in the clouds, which 1944 at Biggs Field. EI Paso. lasted from just west of Iceland Texas. I was the pilot. We went until we came into clear skies just overseas to Glatlon. England, in before Greenland When we finalFebruary 1945 and returned to ly came out of that weather front Boston in June. We flew our just south of Greenland, we were back to the states and brought back only a few miles off our intended w ith us about 10 ground personnel. track. Eldon was an outstanding Then we returned to our respective navigator, and all during our trainleav e. bases for a ing at Biggs Field and overseas as Richard, just like the rest of my well he kept us in the forefront of crew, was one of the best men in the competition. Eldon has tried several times in the U.S. Armv Air Force, and I was 30-da- 1 HK 14. 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