10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 31, 1995 Ito scolds Simpson defense for illegal tactics, witnesses c o Vri . 0 Judge orders jurors to disregard much of defense's opening statements LOS ANGELES (AP) - Inept investigators so polluted blood evi- dence in O.J. Simpson's murder case that they made DNA testing mean- ingless, a defense attorney said yes- terday, moments after the judge re- buked him and admonished jurors to ignore much of what he said last week because his tactics broke the law. "The evidence will be shown to be contaminated, compromised and cor- rupted," Johnnie Cochran Jr. said. "The gathering of evidence was a complete disaster." Cochran was picking up the pieces of last Wednesday's opening state- ment, interrupted by a fight over the explosive information he revealed from witnesses previously unknown to the prosecution. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito sternly warned jurors to disregard six witnesses mentioned last week, in- cluding a woman who purportedly saw four men running near the crime scene the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed. Ito told jurors the defense had vio- lated the law in withholding evidence and witnesses from the prosecution and had caused the trial to be delayed two days. Ito emphasized, however, that the illegalities were not evidence that Simpson was guilty. The jurors listened intently but took no notes as the judge spoke. Earlier, and outside the jurors' presence, Ito reprimanded the entire defense team, ruling they had pur- posely hidden the identity of several witnesses "for the purpose of gaining an unfair tactical advantage." Ito forbade defense attorneys from calling as witnesses any of the six people mentioned to jurors, as well as eight others named in separate defense reports, until the end of their case. He refused to grant prosecutors a 30-day delay to study the new evi- dence, but told Deputy District Attor- ney Marcia Clark he felt his sanctions against the defense were "as harsh a finding as the court can make under these circumstances." Simpson is on trial for the June 12 slashing murders of his ex-wife and A-bomb display cut, new version planned The Washington Post WASHINGTON -Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman yester- day scrapped a controversial exhibit about the atomic bombing of Japan, replacing it with a drastically scaled- down display of the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshimaa video about its crew and minimal text. Heyman asserted that the planned exhibit was fundamentally flawed and "consuming me and the institution." He said the forward fuselage of the B- 29 Enola Gay would be exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum without text that would have raised questions about the morality of the decision to drop the bomb. Despite Heyman's action, the 3.1- million-member American Legion said congressional hearings on the publicly supported Smithsonian should go forward as planned. Heyman said,"Despite our sincere efforts to address everyone's con- cerns, we were bound to fail," he said. However, Heyman said he is consid- ering "a series of symposia" to be held at a later date on the issues raised by atomic weapons and their use. AP PHOTO Lead defense attorney Robert Shapiro consults with O.J. Simpson during yesterday's proceedings. her friend. Prosecutors devoted half their opening remarks last week to a "trail of blood" from the bodies to Simpson's Bronco to socks at the foot of his bed. They said sophisticated DNA analysis linked Simpson and both vic- tims to many of the samples. But Cochran called the tests "gar- bage in, garbage out" because of botched collection methods by care- less, poorly trained employees. "We expect in the course of our evidence in this case to show that from their own studies, the LAPD's laboratory is a cesspool of contami- nation," he said. He showedjurors a blow nup photo that showed the feet of a woman stand- ing near Goldman's slashed body. The woman's high-heeled pumps were not covered with the protective booties normally worn by crime scene workers, and she was standing on a blood-stained sheet beside the body. A pair of bloodied examination gloves lay atop Goldman's chest, ap- parently dropped there by a police technician, Cochran said. "We think the evidence will show this scene was tracked, traipsed up, and the gathering of evidence was a complete disaster," he said. He added, "If the evidence was contaminated at the scene or mis- handled by the LAPD, it doesn't mat- ter what was done afterward." Goldman's mother and sister were asked to avert their eyes when his body was shown. Members of the Simpson and Brown families also looked away. 0 "STRAIGHT FROM THE COACH'S MOUTH"* (Talk Series) will feature BOB DARDEN U of M Men's Gymnastics Coach on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1995,12:00 PM to 1:00 PM at the LEAGUE UNDERGROUND located at the lower level of the MICHIGAN LEAGUE *This program to be telecast on Channel 60 (Columbia Cable) (Date and Time to be announced later) Sponsored by the Michigan League Programming Radioactive village now learning nuclear secrets * MUSLIUMOVO, Russia (AP) - The shallow creek runs beneath an abandoned mill. Cows wander knee- deep in the water. In the summer, it is where the village's children swim. This pastoral scene is deceptive, however. The TechaRiver is radioac- tive and has been for almost half a century. The nearby Mayak nuclear com- plex, also known as Chelaybinsk-65, began dumping raw nuclear waste into the Ural Mountains river in 1949, when it housed the Soviet Union's first reactor to produce plutonium for atomic bombs. By the mid-1950s, radiation at the top-secret plant affected 124,000 people living along the Techa, which flows through a pretty forest and lake region. About 20 villages around Musliumovo, with their 8,000 to 9,000 residents, were evacuated because radiation levels were considered too dangerous. Musliumovo was not, even though radiation in the village often exceeded that at the evacuated sites. Many vil- lagers suspect they were left behind as human guinea pigs. "For 40 years, they've been check- ing how a living being can survive in a radiation zone," said Valentina Kaidaneyeva, a teacher. "A lot of professors studying us must be dead by now, but we are still alive," she told a visiting group of foreign scientists, politicians and re- porters this fall. Officials are at a loss to explain why Musliumovo, 930 miles east of Moscow, was not relocated. A senior scientist said he saw the evacuation order with his own eyes. "I don't think it was done on pur- pose, but probably because the vil- lage was too big and too expensive to evacuate," said Mira Kosenko, an expert on radiation medicine from Chelyabinsk, the regional capital. Whatever the case, thousands of people remained in Musliumovo, us- ing the river water for their house- holds and letting cattle graze in con- taminated fields, unaware of the poi- son creeping into their bones. The former Soviet Union zeal- ously guarded its nuclear secrets, and public health hardly mattered. So the villagers were not told anything about strontium-90 and cesium-137. In- stead, they were told to keep out of the river because it was dirty. The mostly Bashkir-Tatar people of Musliumovo did not listen. For them, the Techa was a source of life. If they fell sick, medical personnel were under orders to keep silent about radiation, Kosenko said. The revelation came in 1989, when the Russian government first men- tioned Mayak's legacy of nuclear ac- cidents and radioactive pollution. Detailed reports later brought more knowledge and more despair. The village's people learned that the level of radiation accumulated in their bodies greatly exceeded permis- sible amounts, that scientists had found traces of even deadlier pluto- nium in the area, and that the river was so contaminated its silt could be classified as solid nuclear waste. Doctors began to speak of the region's problems with immune defi- ciencies, bone pains, blood disorders, chronic radiation sickness and can- cers. Infant mortality is said to be high. But scientific studies of the vil- lage are only just starting, so there are no reliable figures on health prob- lems. While radiation is clearly a dan- ger, some physicians are cautious about attributing its effects. They say the heavily industrialized Chelyabinsk region also has health problems from general pollution. "As people learn more about the health effects, they begin to insist on leaving this place. They're very much concerned," said Gennady Gabitov, the head of the district administration in nearby Kunashak. 0 r "General Motors. A global leadcer with global concerns. As the world's largest corporation, we understand the responsibility that comes with success. That's why our diverse workforce continues to explore new technologies and set new standards of excellence. We proudly direct more resources into safety research and development than any other auto manufacturer in the world. In fact, no one builds more safety into its vehicle lineup than GM. And when it comes to the environment, our patented catalytic converter is recognized as the most significant piece of emission control hardware ever produced. General Motors. 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