Orrin Hatch: “I hope my colleagues and the American people saw the ABC News show ``Turning Point'' last night. The show told the…”

“I hope my colleagues and the American people saw the ABC News show ``Turning Point'' last night. The show told the stories of a few of America's cold-war casualties, the downwinders. The downwinders of southern Utah are a clean-living, healthy people who were visited with a deadly, cancerous plague from the nuclear fallout blown downwind from the Nevada test site. The stories of disease and death were wrenching; the stories of Government lies, shocking. But most tragic of all, Mr. President, is the fact that the stories of the Nissons, the Jolleys, the Petersons, and the Picketts are not the only downwinder stories. No, their stories of lost loved ones are repeated hundreds, and even thousands of times, across southern Utah, across the Western States--and perhaps across the entire country. Mr. President, Quentin Nisson was not the only one to lose a brother. Helen Jolley was not the only one to lose a husband and a son. Claudia Peterson was not the only one to lose a daughter. Elmer Pickett was not the only one to lose a wife, a sister, a niece, and so many others. And they are not the only ones who have borne their loss with dignity, and suffered their Government's indignity with grace.”