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ft. ?e , IQOIUZZ BFG22611 Vf'/?? $irms forced to face worker health risks v-i By RICHARD GIBEAU low, in the dim illumination He makes those visit to J' * prea Ohio Bureau of a single floor lamp and undergo cystoscopic exami CINCINNATI -- For 72Eyeareojd F.' D. Allen, these *are what have been labeled, ijwith optimism, the "golden yehrs," the tips of carefree ^retirement Z Reality for A11 e n, how* pale wintry daylight, Allen (a pseudonym used at his re quest) talked about th^e domi nant feature of his retire ment yean -* a vigil against cancer.. 1 ,. 0 S1 n e e his retirement in nations, a form of surveilance to detect possible reap pearance of the bladder :nulignahcies that were first de tected in 1958, with subse quent multiple recurrenc it- During most of those years, Allen.worked at mak ever, is of a different color, the mid-1980s his life has ing benzidine, a compound dmore like a foreboding been marked off in six- used in the production of SHw*,; month epeles, the intervab dyestuffs. ' 3* Sitting in a small room in between a continuing series' Allen recalls lib warnng Jji^ ipodest suburban bunga- of hospital visits. ii i--':' by company management of | Solzhenitsyn book brings the dangers of exposure to zidine workers 1 ere. benzidine. There will be a meeting Two groups, i upported by r' I In European medical lit erature, benzidine appears as a suspect agent in cancer of the bladder as far back as 1929, in the report of a Brit ish factory doctor. That is the year the production of tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Sheraton Hopkins I n n in Cleveland among represen tatives of the National Insti tute for Occupational Safety and Health, labor unions and companies manufacture of vinyl chloride. the AFL-CIO Ii dustrial Union Departmen ., want a standard thatv ill eliminate any exposure i j the manufacture, use, processing, packaging, stori ge or hand^ ling of tha com; ounds. benzidine began at the Cin cinnati Chemical Works at the rate of 8000 pounds per shift ' The meeting concerns a continuing investigation into the cancer-causing potential Contending hat "extremely small exposure for relatively short perkds of time will caus i cancer la of vinyl chloride. a significant n umber of For *15 years the harvest workers," OCA ,V and the of turnon among Cincinnati health research group have Chemical workers remained tute for Occupational Safety filed suit agair it the Labor essentially a. private chroni cle. ` , I... and Health (NI 0 S H) here revealed in an "off-the-rec Department to : orce it to issue the standar L ' i:Clevelander sad memories Early in 1973, a member of the division of field stud ies and | clinical investiga tions of the National Insti- ord" . comment that the di vision had learned of an "in teresting" case involving bladder tumors among ben The issue is a major one for the chemical industry, affecting an es imated 1700 firms. jj By ELEANOR PRECH It Voir at least one Greater jCJeyelander the account of the Soviet prison system hr Alexander Soltzhenitsyn's book, "The Gulag Archipela go'', Brings nightmares. V Mrs. Zinaida Ilyinsky.of ,>642 Canterbury Rd., Cleve land Heights, confessed to day she hasn't been kble to rest .well after reading the * Russian language copy she got frofn Paris,, one of the first c op iesto reach this The reason is that her ' first, hu4band\Michael, was ^ among, people Soltzhenitsyn * writes about. She pointed to * tip words in the book:. 7 CWRU to set higher goal of excellence in its courses By BUD WEIDENTHAL Althopgh specific changes .programs. Six-, ear jrofes- i Trustees of Case Western Reserve University have adopted a plan which could shift the goals and direction of the city's oldest center of higher education. in departments and course offerings were not spelled out in detail it was clear that come significant aca demic changes were inevita ble. sional degrees, i ew in high er education ispossibility. So is the proposal of "guaranteed ad nissions" to some highly sel ctive ;fraduate and proti ssiona' pro-, The 23-p age document was being circulated on Specific objectives as fi nally worked out by trus grams in whicl cels. CWRU ex campus today following tees Friday are: Case Instituti df Technol months of debate and dis ogy will continie as a dis cussion among faculty, stu UNDERGRADUATE edu tinct college of engineer! dents and administrators. cation will be designed "on and science wi hin the u the assumption that most versify. fTHift rlnlowenllc frt* m