| Show Page 2 - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday January 4 1994 Government looking for radiation is test subjects : National report Postal Service considering rate increase WASHINGTON (AP)— The US Postal Service governing board is considering raising rates but is undecided on the amount of any increase or when it would take effect the braid’s chairman said today “We have not decided what we will propose” board Chairman Bert H Mackie said The board is expected to wkg a rate announcement within the next month or so and speculation has focused on a stamp price of 32 or 33 cents up from the current 29 cents However any new price would not take effect until sometime in 1995 because of the lengthy legal procedures required first-cla- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clinton administration is embarking on a massive governmentwide paper search to learn how Woman says boss fired her for having abortion many Americans deliberately were subjected to radiation experiments during the early years of the Cold War “We’re committed to getting to the bottom of it” White House communications director Mark Gearan told reporters Monday after an interagency task force met for the first time to map out the He said President Clinton intended to work with Congress on getting compensation for any victims who have been wronged -- by questionable radiation experimentation Meanwhile thousands of callers jammed a toll-frtelephone line at the Energy Department that was set up two weeks ago to allow ee people to provide information about improper human radiation testing much of it in the 1940s and 1950s “Our lines are swamped” said Mary Ann Freeman a department spokeswoman She said there have been as many as 10000 calls a day with many people unable to reach (me of 12 operators on duty - Hazel Secretary O’Leary who has promised full disclosure of radiation experimentation has said as many as 800 individuals may have been subEnergy COLUMBIA Md (AP) — A woman who said she was fired from her job because she had an abortion has filed a $37 million lawsuit against her former employer Robin Flanigan said the couple she worked for at a hair salon began hamming her when they discovered she was considering an abortion She said she was fired five days after the procedure in 199(1 when she was 21 and unmarried n cases in the The lawsuit filed on Dec 6 is one of about a country involving women who say they were fired for having abortions said the American Civil Liberties Union Robin George Davidson who operates Revelations in Hair Design in fMnmhia said he fired Flanigan not because she had the abortion but because she became unreliable after the procedure A state unemployment insurance board ruled in 1991 that Davidson and his wife Patnce had no grounds for the dismissal and awarded Flanigan unemployment benefits Flanigan said the Davidsons called her at home about the abortion and hammed her relatives with phone calls to ask them to discourage the abortion Pictures of fetuses also were hung at her work station Flanigan said “The pictures just totally blew me away” Ms Flanigan said “It just continues to haunt you” half-doze- records collection effort - AP photo Jackson Hole mishap dent occurred as the jet turned off the runway onto Airport workers shovel a Delta Boeing 737-30- 0 dear of snow after the aircraft skidded off the end of the runway Monday in Jackson Wyo The acci-- a paved taxiway at the Jackson Hole Airport No injuries were reported in the incident Public hearings set on cause of smog in national parks PHOENIX (AP) — Residents of eight Western states will be asked for their ideas on how to deal jected to questionable testing But others including Rep Ed with pollution at the Grand Canyon and 15 other have suggested national parks during a series of public hearings this Markey ' the number could be much higher month Markey held hearings in 1986 mi The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commis’ human radiation tests and outlined sion created by the federal 1990 Clean Air Act and some of the experimentation in a funded by a grant from the US Environmental Proreport that year tection Agency is investigating the cause of the haze But he said the Energy Departthat limits visibility at the parks often ment then refused to cooperate by The commission consists of die governors or their providing further documents from Arizona New Mexico Colrepresentatives Markey appearing this morning on NBC’s Today show had praise orado California Nevada Oregon Wyoming and ' for the Clinton administration’s Utah Arizona Gov Fife Symington is the chairman Project manager John Leary said the commission performance on the issue saying : that the administration had been will seek public input during a series of hearings Jan 13 at Northern Arizona University in about beginning open “breathtakingly records that have been closed for Flagstaff They hearings are intended to help the ' over 45 years” commission decide how to evaluate Gearan took a swipe at the Bush strategies and to determine whether it has a and Reagan administrations sayfull range of options before it Leary said Hearings ing they ignored the findings by will be held in each of the eight states represented on Markey’s subcommittee and the commission refused to cooperate by making Leary said the commission’s final report due in public documents related to the November 1995 will be based on a scientific analytesting sis of natural and manmade pollution sources such ss ' 1 1 cmissions-man-ageme- nt - as emissions agriculture industry and motor-vehic- le home-heati- ng Winner saved $16 million Jackpot for Christmas TALLAHASSEE Fla (AP)— Johnnie Mosley won $157 million in the lottery on Sept 4 — then waited until Christmas to tell anyone After all the other presents were opened she gave her husband Charles a folder and told him “This is the best I can da” Inside was a copy of the Florida lottery ticket and newspaper clipsearch for the winner pings detailing a “My dad thought it was a joke at first” said the Mosleys son Mike “But when my mom told him it wasn’t that she had the real ticket in a safe deposit box everyone started jumping up and down Then my dad started crying We all started crying Then we were all dancing around” The Mosleys will received $789000 a year for 20 years Mrs Mosley 43 who manages a hair salon presented the ticket to lottery officials on Monday “I didn't put it under the tree” she told them “I kept it hidden and then I walked up and handed it to him and said ‘This is the best I can do this year I love you” four-mon- th “In general there is no real significant debate over the sources” Leary said from his office in Denver “There is some work being done on bow much each of those sources contributes to the problem” For example some studies have concluded that smog from the Los Angeles area is a major contributor to the haze that has been known to shrink visibiliMCI to update network $20 billion ty at the Grand Canyon from 150 miles on dear days WASHINGTON (AP) — MCI Communications Corp announced to less than the width of the canyon on bad days today that it would spend more than $20 billion to update its Leary said there is evidence that Southern Californetwork to handle the most advanced computer telephone or telenia smog contributes to the visibility problems at the vision systems and expand access to the Internet the world’s most extensive computer network canyon 250 miles to the east But Los Angeles obviously is not the sole source It also said it would spend $2 billion creating local phone service in of the problem he said major metropolitan areas The “In general there is agreement that when you get project will be called networkMCI and use fiber winds from Los Angeles you get impairment mi the optic technology known as SONET which moves data 15 times faster Colorado Plateau" Leary said “When you get than any other wire technology now available MCI said in a statement “This strategic vision is thq sin) of all our plans and opportunitjeS-iwinds from the south from Arizona and Mexico you the new emerging markets with pcsvices that consumers businesses mid get impairment The best days are when the winds government will want at their fingertips as we move into' the 21sf centuare from the north” said Bert Roberts MCI chairman and chief executive officer: ry” Leary said the commission has approached the which stands for Synchronous Optical Network has already SONET problem on a regional basis as opposed to the been used in half of MQ’s network said Roberts approach such as those that pinpointed the Navajo power plant uspsati-az- CPC - 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