
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, December 31, 1993                   TAG: 9312310177
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

INTER-AGENCY MEETING CALLED ON RADIATION

Concerned about the government's role in radiation experiments on humans, the Clinton administration Thursday summoned officials from an array of federal agencies to a White House meeting Monday.

The White House took action as Defense Secretary Les Aspin ordered the armed forces and the Defense Nuclear Agency to review all files that may shed light on hundreds of radiation experiments the government conducted on humans in the 1940s and 1950s.

And the Department of Veterans Affairs is looking into whether 14 of its facilities injected low-level radioactive isotopes into veterans in the 1940s and 1950s, a spokeswoman said.

Staff members from the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Energy and from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will meet with Clinton administration officials "to coordinate the process of going through the records of these agencies," White House spokesman Jeff Eller said Thursday night.

- Associated Press

by CNB