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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 31 DOC NMA153 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION WBAI Radio Transcript - Discussion About The Asbestos Danger in NYC RADIO TV REPORTS INC 41 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY ian b, 10017. 647-510O JOHN MANVILLE INC FOR PROGRAM SCIENTIST SPEAKOUT DATE MAY 31st 1970 2:30 PM STATION WBAI New York DISSCUSION DISSCUSION ISOUT ISOUT THE THE ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBESTO ASBES STOS DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER IN IN NEW NEW YORK YORK ERD 8 Gea GLENN PAULSON If the city took a leading role perhaps in this particular project as another one that I've been interested in for some time where the city also seems to be moving fastest and first and that's the question which is in the news right now of cutting down on the amount of asbestos added to the city's air by controlling the spraying of asbestos insulation on the World Trade Center and other buildings We're taking this program in the middle of the hearings on the new proposed regulations which I understand it is the first time that any city agency in the United States proposed such regulations I'd like to open for comments to anybody who'd Rowe Si ee ? It's worth i i Tle. emcee ee Se eee Fe ee ee a) rk It's It's It's I of view as a Zionist it is very significant that a step petul is being taken not after damage which has been shown to the community clear cut damage although the medical history regular listeners to this program know in asbestos workers is really disastrous One out of two asbestos workers will die of lung cancer due to asbestos exposure in the United States OFFICES IN NEW YORK DETROIT LOS ANGE * WASHTON C * LN FRANCISCO * NEW ENGLAND ENGLAND CONCAGO yr -2- But rather it's rally a preventive step We do not know any clear cut way whether the several hundred tons of asbestos added to the city's air if there was no control would in the long run actually take any toll on health We do know enough to be of course concerned and cautious from the scientific point of view but rather than wait until the evidence is in that the suffer steps are being community who breaths in the air might taken to not give them the chance to become human guinea pigs This type of preventive approach to a problem is the sort that must happen on all environmental issues of course and is unfortunately all too rare and the more common condition is waiting witli he ase that it comes in Twenty years later like DDT Or forty years later like asbstos workers I wonder if anybody here has any other specific pet problems that they know of they'd like to see a similar approach adopted in the city - dealing with a city problem PRED KENT I think maybe we comment a little bit on the asbestos rather than running away from it The bearings were going on in fact today we did have a member of the E.A.C. A person who Graniss was on the program I believe the last program you had Peter was - unfortunately he couldn't attend tonight because he's trying to lobby for the Bar Association to have them to President Nixon condemning his move into Cambodia send a letter and > here's the faction who'd like to send a letter of support to Nixun He felt his effort would be very spent But I know he did have - he did go to these hearings and I know that there are other -3- community groups that attend these hearings speaking out in favor of imposing restrictions which you mentioned on the use of asbestos KAREN DUMONT I think that - it is not necessary for us e to wait forty years to find out what happens with asbestos en ara because it's happend with so many other diseases that are - that would be similar in nature Ake eeee in coal miners in textile workers and so forth is such that we don't have to wait promnd again for something else to roe happen Se Maybe we are learning seat e te e e ee ete ee Ctr 0 +