Calls for compensation may become even louderwhen victims of a 1961 experiment at the WrenthamState School, another Massachusetts institutionfor the retarded, are identified.

In that test, which was organized and run byHarvard researchers, children from ages one to 11were given doses of radioactive iodine. Task forcemembers were strongest in their condemnation ofthat experiment, with some suggesting that thesubjects of the iodine tests likely sufferedhealth problems as a result.

The state says it will continue itsinvestigation into the Wrentham experiment atleast until June.

If it wants to avoid compensating victims,Harvard may have to argue that it is notresponsible for the actions of its researchers,even though documents show that Universityscientists were using their Harvard titles inappealing for the experiment.

And any Harvard defense of its researchers islikely to be undermined by the documents found inthe task force report.

For example, Dr. Clemens E. Benda, a HarvardMedical School faculty member, was so closelyinvolved in the testing at Fernald that he wrote aletter to the mother of a Fernald patient askingher to delay the family vacation because her son"is cooperating in a science test and it isextremely important that he be here on the 1st and2nd of July."

And any effort by Harvard to avoid compensationis likely to raise at least the ire of White-Lief.

"[The University researchers] violated therights of those people," he said