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...like going to the dentist, only better," said Barbara Bush last week, after undergoing the first of ten consecutive days of radiation therapy at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She is being treated for Graves' disease, an affliction that inflames the thyroid gland and can cause bulging, watery eyes and double vision. After her session, she dashed off with characteristic aplomb to the White House pool for her customary 60 laps...
Last spring doctors administered a dose of radioactive iodine to slow down the First Lady's hyperactive thyroid. But treatment with a steroid, prednisone, failed to cure her vision problems. Should the radiation treatments (in which low-intensity rays are focused on swollen tissues behind the eyes) prove no more effective, the next step could be surgery...
...firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation in order to prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. Another Byelorussian, writer Ales Adamovich, says local officials ignored the appeals of a physicist to evacuate the area until he showed them that party headquarters itself was contaminated...
...Narodichi district, 68 km (42 miles) from the reactor, according to local party official Valentin Budko, "the evacuation of children was finished only on June 7. Little wonder that there are so many sick children in our district, especially those with hyperplasia of the thyroid gland." This and other radiation-related disorders, like leukemia, have allegedly been misreported as more innocent sounding conditions...
...revelations left local residents badly shaken. Some refer to one stretch near Hanford as "death mile," where they claim to have counted an unusually high number of cancer deaths. Others point to their "downwinder" neck scars as evidence of thyroid operations that they blame on radioactive-iodine releases from the weapons plant. Robert Perkes, a farmer near Mesa, his wife and three of his daughters all take medication for underactive thyroid glands. "They didn't tell us the things that were going on," Perkes complains. "They were letting it fall all over us. They used us as guinea pigs...