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FILE NAME: Union Carbide (UC) DATE: 1968 Mar 4 DOC#: UC182 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article with Cover Letter V, 1 INTERNAL CORRESPONDENCE CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS Toflfama) CM** Lotafhm Paul McDaniels Medical Dept* NYC Co! P. 0. BOX K, KING CITY, CALIFORNIA 93930 D<a* March 4, 1968 OriffhmMg O f t . A a m w fa s h U * r tote s*M Enclosed ia an article given to us by a local doctor. If you haven't seen it, I thought you might interested. J. A. Riddle JAR/jcb Enc: A07324 UCC 024992 s et Duty 'io 'Security' for How Than Views Hat Statemen Lynda's Husband U nited N ations I Secretary-G ened T h a n t said yesterd j li a f t o a Dtt other m atters, the bi a statem ent la s t S .rine C aptain Charles year-old general said: b y N o rth Vietnam ! eign M iniste r, N guj )bb m ay be President Retired General David T rb ih , reinforces j son's n e v son-in-law , M. Shoup, who was Marine often-stated view, h is more im m ediate Commandant in 1959-63, " is h a lt to the U n ite d : said yesterday th a t not speaking fo r the Marine th e N o r t h w ill i " w ill get the same Corps" when he discusses [peacetalks. - m ent as any other o f- the Vietnam wax. Thant mad his; o f his ra n k and speci Shoup, a World War II t h r o u g h a Units f i c V ietnam , Medal of Honor winner, has G EN ERA I CHAPM AN s p o k e s m a n , w | neral Leonadr F. Chap- spoken out against U S- in No pUns fo r Cap*. Robfc statement a u t h oj J rM who became com- volvement in Vientnam on Thant December % ian t of the Maxine Corps Monday. broke Into a several recent occasions. Chaoman 5aid Shouo snok* no m. ajor changes In doctime a " long-held com! a cessation of the j; i grin at a news ccmfer- I " as a nrivate citizen and or d ui rcescwt iuo Ln I j man's d ir cion. under Chap- North Vietnam Is j *as r e p o r t e r s asked can't comment beyond th a t" . w o lU l step . t seeuritv a rrangements at. W nnms*p CJjnurtrtr A Strap Ttahlngton A fa ta ] cancer o f the chest and abdom inal envi- " J^oPPtng up among the n atio n s asbestos wo^k- era. . " So rare that 20 years ago i t waea t even la the medical Pari t e x t b o o k s the cancer Is c a l l e d mesothelioma, and and fo re i n s alm ost p e c u l i a r to m m lst5r8- ve Euroc c u n t r i e la s t week people exposed to asbestos - n r iJ lt r ,wweeeeJkt.e f- Thoe .strricken witith, (he ve&ee?* oonfimfepaUredthvwr i+S1 -, n*u--r*f"*lys hd. .*is.s.eeaasse _iInnTcclue.d"er a nurse whose father worked in " Plnt and a man who handled asbestos fo r no: w,eaj!eD i the C o i l- more than a month while nel mon M a rket. - insulated the plumbing in H , ' ***** " t the premie own house. o f fYanee, Belgium and Lu Mesothelioma was > ir ., t b o u r g and the fo n i! *" !96-wh> a rrSr S 2-S L" "* *lr anod 1T i. isou--th A-wfroic.kaiuni dvtowcitour flound 3;ja2 Netherlands were quoted n ewes among th people liv - : " paratointem ew s by Le l- in the Cap *^._rsp.ct^dp i - as z z z z g s : uv U r e s p c t rcj . Of Good Hnram a s k a .t.. n . f Srver,D8nt o----w---a-p--a-pr Alerted to the problem, this same doctor turned up i f " in the next .two J -w jrita q u ^ o -.u ;,. doctors Nobody knows how CRITICAI.. J ' l' ip p e r quoted tie P ^taers o f France wt . gave commenti as being s .. 7* * X '-Ba " Bine tsitteo. the French p o . . .Americans have had mesotb Uoma. Even today doctor have trouble spotting- it -- whether theyre t r y i n g to diagnose It hi a person till Mive or pin tt down at an au topsy. - Prenels 'prem ier George PompUon etanchly defend eo rrench opposition to B rit J** f t r but ft appeared t. w a y apprehension that i* ^ to ia g a in a tF ra n ci -- -th. Mark,, m i, 5 at<idies in fatJ**** *^*r'doctors " ` i f * have' turned ! * 71 a - Oddly, u of them appeared to have had no re al exponue to asbestos, rile Other 0 could a il be 'sbesto contact, i S '" * " * they worked. - - in Z I*0"1*who Jr. h r s a il, neighborhoods berm i - t " f * heavily I pending on th f ^ahe" .witb asbestoe dust. I ul uie member i . T S e '-a rit A m erican'study SiTM , whether the Europe I1wIrvaisneorneTrunCaii"nn>_.19M`* fcy Dr' n * Six l r resigned t n h i J t f e l ? S<1' koft " f New f .Progressive dissolution dr 11? . M<lunt s in li Hospital, Whetfcer on th * contrary It t i W" ^e* aa study to see if deterintoed to be economical! i ? ? k , a">r ay affected ly and p olitica lly united." ,TM Uvea 'th e asbestos insu , A--G---R--I-C--U--L--T--U- RE .'M,,Yoorkn mw-eotornorckpeorslitainnartehae New He expressed the hope the t Tracing the lives 0f 632 *TM cei partner, win *. Asbestos *Pt " oommltewnt a - Worker Union who were on W y e n te re d ___ that t h . tbe unton ro lls before Jan. 1 v 5 t a iJ.tar*i Common M af ,T- Se_llk_o_fl,,found that i " , * ? * ootnpieted (and) (J^55 off1. tthheemm 'hadd ddiied by Jan. - e t the Customs Undon w il 1963. SHivJJjJj?,4 by the Brrt p ! . SURPRISE f>.nce, being the Inror...,!* hf01116 ! wba* he found did ricuiturai c*un^ 'S,, " J 1"" 12 M i l l i g l K , WR of the hve other member mel adult male poouLtl. ' ' v ~ l ^ P " r ** f a f " o^rniai procedures tiotkelioma, "This inrirf* * ttat, he said, require ttat o'>" ore than lu c e n t " au possible efforts be made lr. SeBkoff, strildne vl d i tliia an disagreement. . hjgh for a tumor which ^6is ; Igenerally considered 4 1 FEAR / :extremely rare." . | "The ^French) ex am rile n ?nn tilen launched unfortunately mv p r i i ! "r i 5S dy oi 307 progress of the Communif* ` to s]'01' nrth' 111 remain hobbled as lone Ihe turn.^ f ' ,*? j 11* surPrise, A0 732b UCC 024993 Of the Common-Market. jl.w ci.i ! *A -* , 1the state* " " red about ' ^To 1 6 2 ' h o s p l t a i j in the. ige and Deadly New Cancer Among Asbestos Workers who Worked as asbestos Insu bestos plant, one that em on UIt. About .a1l1l <thha.it rrandthiaHtioonn Even the nature of the dts- iinngg ssoonmice sseerriioouuss ssoocdiaal! and ease is Utile u n d e r s t o o d , economic problem*. southeastern poet pi the State they sent a questionnaire, lators In a shipyard. ploys 5000 workers. treatments do, he says. Is remove some of the fluid that while It' s generally known No State lists the disease asking the hospitals to report DEATHS . In the past three years, no builds up in the lungs from that the disease attacks the In Its workmen's 'compenss- Bu mesotheliomas diagnosed Of 10 deaths which seemed fewer than 19 cases of me the disease. lining of the chest and abdo tion laws, so nobody afflicted between 1958 and 1963. 'questionable" asbestos ex* sothelioma p a s s e d through . fatal men, nobody knows how It with It cats be paid damages postures, two turned.out to be Middlesex General. Only two, Back came & documented almost bizarre. One wm * of the 19 were not workers at "The disease is 100 percent gets there. * for his affliction. Even now, the first test cases are in the cases of the'disease, only 11 S w i s s of which could not be traced cheesemtker, who the nearby asbestos plant, one a woman who apparently fatal," Dr. Borow "and usually takes states, less than When asbestos dust is In haled, the fibers get trapped courts, where-they may ceivably stay for the con next to asbestos exposure. worked almost his entire life around a large boiler cov inhaled asbestos dust in laun a year-after diagnosis to run in the lung*, where they form five to 10 year*. Ten victims of the disease ered with asbestos Insulation dering h*T toretaTM*'* work clothes, the teco*f a spinster its course." Nobody knows why It at gummy deposits. This plains how sbestosis ex gets The fact that nobody know* how much exposure to asbes turned out to be tnen who that flaked off a t the touch. Another was a worker in a ;wb lived one btyck from the tacks some asbestoi worker* started, and perhaps even tos can bring on the disease . wEiogrhktedweIrne paesobpelsetows hoplUanvtesa. brewery, where it turned out plAantrelatively " n e w . and not others, or why some lung cancer. One theory ts has created controversy, too. victims of the disease get it that the gummy substance Most law* stipulate that as (near asbestos plants most of tphaalpt bfielelerrsIsmfialdteereedsstehnrtoiaulglhy ease, meaotheltoma Is also after an apparently mild ex builds up around the asbestos bestos workers be In an envi 'thetr lives. Three were mem bers of families who had one of edtton fiber and asbestos. on pf the most dlTflcutt dis posure to asbestos. The Uni nber lodged .In the lung can ronment where there Is no versity of Michigan school of cause cBnper elsewhere in tr more a 8 b e a to s worker The most convincing *tudy eases'to c o n f r o n t medicine.- modern medicine cites one case of a the body. But how does it `more than five million parti do cles of asbestos dust per one members -- a three-year-old Is the most recent one -- condnded by a .team of doctors It Is almost impossible to man who was exposed to as it? Nobody knows. cubic loot of air -- a regula girl.whose father was an as bestos engineer, a n u r s e working out of Middlesex t r e a t . Middlesex General's bestos for about a month while he insulated his house. Because It Is such a new tion that many In the asbes- whose father bas worked for General H o s p i t a l fa New Brunswick, N.J-, a few m il Dr. Maxwell Borovr says that even th e mosnt potenmt a*ntui- Six years later,' he was dead and little understood disease, ;tos Industry fought years to mesothelioma U also creat get approved. 4**ncUterlPfei % JS years In aa and a woman asbestos plant with two sons from the nation's largest * cancer drug* have no effect ' of mesothelioma. UCC 024994