Pentagon Cites Radium Risk for Up to 20,000 Ex-Troops

[Andy Hull <hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov>]

The above Subject consists of the wording of the headline of an Aug. 27
bylined news article by Philip Shenon to the New York Times, and published
in it today (8/28).  Basically the treatment was given to veterans,
principally air crews and submariners,  who received nasopharyngeal radium
therapy for an inflammation that caused pressure to build up in the inner ear.

Andy Hull
S&EP Div-BNL?
Upton, N.Y. 11973
Tel 516 344 4210
Fax 516 344 3105