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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 - I 41 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY 10017. 847-510O JOHN MANVILLE INC FOR PROGRAM SCIENTIST SPEAKOUT DATE MAY 31st 1970 2:30 PM STATION WBAI New York CITY DISSCUSICH DISSCUSICH DISSCUSICH DISSCUSI DISCUSICH CDISH CUSICH DISSCUSICH IDCUT IDCUT IDCUT THE THE ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBES ASBT ESTOSOSASBESTOS DANGER DANGER DANGER wer SE NEW NEW NEW YORK YORK YORK CITY CITY CITY GLENN PAULSON If the city took a leading role portaps 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 Dow of cutting down on the amount of asbest s 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 ldko ldko ldko to to of view #bongo #bongo #bongo du du weer rn ee we te a & we et & Wk ee oer eo te ew eee Oe s y het om as a Zionist it is very significant that a step ee el Ee 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 Whited States OFFICE AN mw YOOK DETROIT LOS SNGE-ES * WABPENETON BD C * LA FRANCISCO * NEW NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO yw -2- But rather it's rally a preventive stop 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 my toll on health We do know enough to be of course concerned and cautious from the scientific paint 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 miif* the day that it comes in Twenty years later like NOT Or forty years later like asbstos workers I wander 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 FRED KENT I think maybe we problem problem comment a little bit on the asbestos Isther than running away from it The bearings were goiny on in fact today we did have a member of the E.A.C. A person who was on the program I believe the last program you had.- Peter Graniss was - unfortunately he couldn't attend tonight because ho'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 e KAREN DUMONT I think that - it is not necessary for us to wait forty years to find out what happens with asbestos ee ey because it's happend with so many other diseases that are - that would be similar in >^ture Ake esse in coal miners in textile workers and so forth is such that we don't have to wait prommd again for something else to ee happen me Maybe we are learning ane eee e