Man says Gulf War made him ill
MKDFOKD (AIM Before ho served in the Per
Man Gulf War, Chris < ihesselet never had anv seri
ous health problems
Now Chesselet. 25, lives in the Veterans' Affairs
Domiciliary, where his ailments include chronii
fatigue, back pain, bleeding gums headai lies, t old
sweats and forgetfulness
In the spring of 1002. he was treated for kidnev
failure
It's s< arvChesselet said. I don't know what's
going to happen next Am 1 going to Inn e cancer in
two years7 What else is going to happen ’
Chesselet believes he was made sick by the war,
possibly because of chemical or hiologit al < onta
initiation.
Chesselet received a medical discharge from the
Army in August 1002.
The problem has been tracing his illness to the
Persian Gulf, said Dr Bonnar Dysart. i liief of med
ical services at the domiciliary
"Getting objective findings, that's the rule" he
said.
Gulf War S\ ndrome symptoms type ally include
muscle aches, fatigue, hair loss and diarrhea, he
said, citing reports from Veterans Administration
hospitals.
"Those are also the complaints we have seen in
a couple of gulf veterans here," Dysart said. "We
are encouraging all Persian Gulf v ets to < nine in
and got a baseline exam."
Dysart said the information would he used to
determine the extent of the problem.
"I feel the VA is giving them the benefit of the
doubt." Dysart said of the veterans who have the
ailment. "The VA is assuming there is a problem.
Chesselet said troops were given a short i lass on
how to defend against chemical or biological war
fare. They were issued cliemii a 1 suits, but he and
the other soldiers never wore them
" They gave us anthrax vaccines That really con
cerns me.” Chesselet said "They put us in a line.
IVe are encouraging all
Persian Gulf vets to come in
and get a baseline exam.'
Bonnar Dysart,
hief of services Veterans Altai's
Domiciliary
had us si jin a waiver and gave us thi> shots And
thus told us not to lull anyone a (xml it
t duissolet was working as .1 wntur purification
spu( inlist when a s< ud missile slammed to earth
a bout four miles awav No one donned a gas mask
or chemical suit during the incident, he said
Later, he worked at a laundry, processing uni
forms for troops stationed a! the front
Chessolet was discharged from the Arnn in
April loot In April t‘i'12. he was taken to the
emergent \ room of a hospital in Cons Hav for treat
numt of kidney failure
■ 'I’ve never had that problem Indore, he said I
couldn't walk la feet Without keeling over
l ather Martin I.eKov. .111 Anglo an t itholu
priest who has been a ( lose friend for five soars
said ( hesselet hatl changed when tie returned
from the w ar
"He couldn't sit down, always pat mg bai k and
forth," I.eKov said lie would forget things He
would be walking down the street and forget
w here he w as going
Chessolet also endured cold sweats. il< lung and
nightmares, his friend said
Chessolet isn't complaining about his militarv
experience or the medical care he is its eiv mg
"Nobody really knows w hat's going on so there
is oniv so nun h they t an do." he said I want to
know what's w rong with tile I didn't feel like this
before the Cult War
Fish found in lake near volcano
VANCOUVER. Wash. (AP) —
State researchers made on
important breakthrough in their
study of how a volcanic erup
tion affects a natural ei osystem:
They caught a fish.
Jim Byrd, a state biologist,
recently captured a healthy,
eight-inch rainbow trout in Spir
it Lake, which was filled with
ash and debris after Mount St
Helens erupted It's the first con
firmed capture of a trout in Spir
it Lake since the 1980 eruption,
state wildlife officials said
Bvrd. a Department of
Wildlife employee at the fish
collection station on Tootle Riv
er. made the catch by hiking
down to the 2,500-ac re lake
from the Windy Ridge area and
setting two gill nets from an
inflatable raft.
When Mount St Helens
erupted on May 18. 1980. it lev
eled 230 square miles of forest,
killed 57 people and spread vol
canic debris over a vast area —
including Spirit Lake The
resulting wave splashed 600 foot
up the opposite shore.
For years, however, scientists
have speculated that trout had
returned to the lake
Byrd said lie did not see indi
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"It would lie a real shot ill the
dark to i.atch the only fish in the
lake.” he said
At the request of researi hers,
the lores! Serve e and its Mount
St Helens Scientific Advisors
Hoard, the state did not stoi k
Spirit Hike, oni e a popular fish
ing and i amping spot
Spirit Lake oflers a i ham e to
studs a hods ol water that had
its biochemistry turned on its
head, said Peter Fren/.en, a
Mount St Helens National Vul
can i< Monument si iontist
“It's important to the ecologist
and fish manager to have these
systems that aren't stocked to
learn and understand about
these life forms." he said
The monument calls for no
sport fisheries at Spirit Lake
Tint disi overs of the trout does
not change that, Fren/.en said.
File post eruption lake is
almost twice the si/.e of the orig
inal and I'll feet higher ill ele
vation
The lake was filled with a
stesv that included ash.
avalanche debris, trees and for
est foliage. In the two years after
the eruption, the water boiled
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The rainbow
(trout) was a
surprise.'
Jim Byrd,
Doihirtmcnt of Wildlito
biologist
with km aping carbon dioxide
and methane gas is bacteria
blooms created .1 lake devoid of
oxygon
it was unlikely that fish
would have survived much
beyond the blast, scientists said
It is not (dear where the trout
i a me from.
bake trout a form of ( bar.
not a true trout were dm u
mented several years ago in St
I felons baku. a small take north
west of Spirit Lake, and wildlife
biologist Hob I.ur is "was think
ing lake trout might have
dropped into Spirit." Hvrd said
"The rainbow was a sur
prise "
St Helens bake was stoi ked
w ith rainbows in 1051. but no
rainbow catches were logged in
011 astonal surveys of sports
catches between IU51 and 19H0.
he said.
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Man says Canadian
Indian tribe not extinct
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A man who says ho
belongs to an Indian trilwi the Canadian government contends
is extint t has lx-en ordered to leave Canada
Robert Watt has spent the past five sears as tmretakor at an
ancient native Indian burial site in the West Kootenay area
of southwestern British Columbia
Watt. 40. savs he is a memltor of the Sinixt, or Arrow hakes,
people who roamed through the B C. Interior and Washington
state for 3,500 years.
But the Canadian government declared the tribe extinct in
the l<150s after the last registered Sinixt (pronounced Sin-eye*
ixt) died.
"I am very much alive," Watt said. "My people are alive,
too."
Watt was iiom in Nospelem, Wusii , when) the Sinixt art* still
recognised as one of the Colville Confederated Tribes.
The Canadian government says smallpox decimated the tribe
ami many Sinixt were absorbed or married into neighboring
hands.
Watt said the Sininxt were more numerous than the gov
ernment realized hut Ins auso they \yerc a nomudii and unsis
sunilated people, they kept to w ilderness areas and avoided
Canadian census takers
Watt believes there are several hundred Sinixt still 11s mg in
the B C Interior
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