Show FROM PAGE ONE 2A Saturday June 3 1995 Tests win compensation The extent From 1A on Human Radiation Experiments Deaths and injuries caused by the two US nuclear bombings of Japan in 1945 gave rise to worry among soldiers and the general public about the dangers of radiation “Fear of radiation is almost universal among the uninitiated and unless it is overcome in the military forces it could present a most serious problem” Dr Richard L Meiling chairman of the Pentagon’s Armed Forces Medical Policy Council wrote in a June 27 1951 memo stamped "top secret” Meiling recommended putting combat troops 12 miles from ground zero and them moving them closer after the explosion In fact some troops later were placed just 2000 yards from ground zero and many were only slightly farther away A June 3 1952 memo suggested placing troops only 800 yards away Greg Herken a nuclear historian with the presidential 25 1994 that about 1600 individuals in the “Desert Rock” tests received radiation doses in excess of 5 roentgens Today’s occupational exposure limit is 5 roentgens per year Some veterans now link serious ailments including cancers to their participation in the Nevada tests and many have organized to Raptors From 1A Those players who remain after Sunday’s “final cut” will join a number of players already under contract for the Raptors’ training camp which begins June 10 "(Tiffany) is a guy with two years minor league experience” laid Raptors manager Willie Ambos "That means he’s going to be asked back for the next two he’ll be given an days that F-1- search-and-resc- actually received nearly twice that amount At the time exposures were supposed to be limited to 6 roentgens per test Atomic Energy Commission the civilian agency that oversaw nuclear weapons development during this period saw what its officials apparently considered unacceptable risks in putting soldiers as close as 7000 yards from ground zero Among three “possible hazards” the AEC noted in an April 2 1952 memo: that the bomb blast might yield more radiation than expected that it might be dropped closer to the troops than planned and that the troops “because of failure of discipline” might get too much radiation Yet the AEC let the Pentagon go ahead with its tests hard-line- rs self-style- d Serb-hel- outfielders He later fielded grounders at third base and drastically “The next two days are going to be outstanding” said Raptors manager Willie Ambos “The talent level here is going to be way up there We’re going to have some real tough decisions to make as a 6 F-1- deliberately shortstop with the infielders and seemed to impress Ambos and Stein with his defensive skills But after watching Hagen face live pitching during an intra-squa- d group” game the Raptors brain trust decided against a second day invitation The decisions weren’t so tough on Friday however For every Ted Tiffany who came with a working knowledge of the minor leagues there were at least five others whose desire to play didn’t quite match their skill level Former University the level of John Stein competition for Saturday and Sundays’ tryouts will rise Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said Friday night that the had no business over Serbian territory “We are the masters of our skies” Karadzic said on Bosnian Serb television In Washington the Clinton administration blamed Bosnian Serbs for downing the fighter jet with the president’s spokesman calling them “outcasts and international pariahs” Bosnian Serb military sources said the plane crashed outside Mrkonjic Grad a town south of Banja Luka a stronghold of hard-lin- e nationalist Serbs about 90 miles northwest of Sarajevo Missiles were fired at two other NATO jets a Dutch plane and a French plane on Wednesday and Thursday but missed The US 6 was the second NATO jet lost over Bosnia A British Sea Harrier was downed over the eastern town of Gorazde in April 1994 while attempting an airstrike on Bosnian Serb positions The pilot was rescued by Bosnian government soldiers a NATO launched The Associated Free operation for An unidentified UN peacekeeper smiles while Serb headquarters in Pale on Friday The peace: the American pilot but refused to release other details In waiting on a bus taking him from the Bosnian keepers were scheduled to be driven to Serbia Washington a senior Pentagon In a statement the office of resumption of peace talks official would give no details but were allowed to take their Serbian President Slobodan said helicopters were involved Milosevic is holding talks with weapons with them Milosevic the region's power US and Russian negotiators with jet fighters providing cover The Bosnian Serbs had made In Naples Italian Foreign broker said the freed hostages trying to persuade him to several demands including an end Minister Susanna Agnelli said the had been turned over to Serbian recognize Bosnia in exchange for to NATO airstrikes in return for United States informed European police after appeals by Milosevic lifting economic sanctions That release of the hostages Western leaders the pilot was alive Friday’s events suggested an would end the nationalist dream officials rejected any such deals The US jet was shot down just intense power struggle among of a Greater Serbia and further France and Britain began hours after signals emerged in Bosnian Serbs over whether to ostracize the Bosnian Serb discussions on forming a rapid Pale the Bosnian Serb seek a compromise or continue to leadership of Karadzic deployment force and Britain also Earlier Friday UN officials started to boost its military force headquarters near Sarajevo of a defy the United Nations Downing of a NATO jet could said that Serbs had seized three in Bosnia French and US forces breakthrough in the Serbs’ be a move by conflict with the United Nations to end Ukrainian peacekeepers around were moved into the Adriatic Sea Red Cross officials said they any bid toward compromise build Gorazde near Bosnia had received promises from senior a siege mentality and force the Senior Western officials were UN officials in Sarajevo who Bosnian Serb leaders that the 377 isolated Bosnian Serbs to fight the spoke on condition of anonymity gathering this weekend in Paris to UN hostages would be released Muslimled Bosnian government said 16 UN hostages were taken discuss the rapid deployment soon Hours later nothing had to the end by Bosnian Serb military police force and formulate a response to Aleksa Buha foreign minister from a weapons collection point the Bosnian crisis happened and the Bosnian Serbs retracted the report before of the Bosnian Serbs’ northeast of Sarajevo where they In Belgrade US envoy Robert apparently giving in to strong government said more hostages had been surrounded to a Frasure and Russian diplomat' town southwest of the Alexander Zotov were holding pressure from Belgrade to make a would be released with a promise concession to the world of no more NATO airstrikes and a city The officials said the soldiers talks with Milosevic absorbed 14 roentgens of radiation in a 1953 bomb test opportunity" According to Ambos and Ogden player personnel director From 1A have SAM missile batteries in the area sought to injure soldiers though such possibilities were discussed It is clear too that some tests did not go as planned One report said eight officers whose film badges indicated they The “I was a little surprised they only kept a few guys” Hagen said afterward “I guess all you can do is give it your best effort there’s really nothing to lose by coming out here and giving it a try” of Utah utility player Matt Hagen fit into that category Robert Kersey of Salt Lake City made the afternoon cut and was invited to play in the game The former Snow College outfielder swung Hagen spent the morning shagging flies and testing his throwing arm with the rest of intra-squa- d the bat with authority and showed po iti' e signs in the field as well But vhen the second-da- y invittions were handed out 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Rear Adm WK Mendenhall Jr a senior nuclear weapons official who in an Oct 18 1951 memo complained that the bomb test scientists were wasting time trying to calculate precise peacetime limits for human radiation exposure “The field commander is not interested in” the science of measuring radiation Mendenhall wrote “He merely wants to know can the troops tolerate the radiation to which they are being subjected for five minutes or five days” There is no indication in the records that experiments were conducted Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments said the US nuclear troop exercises were modest compared with those of the Soviet Red Army in the 1950s “Both sides were playing that same game - to show that they could fight on a nuclear battlefield” Herken said in an interview At least 40000 men from all branches of the US military participated in eight “Desert Rock” exercises in Nevada from 1951 to 1957 according to Pentagon figures Air Force Maj Gen Kenneth L Hagemann director 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