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t y x. /3, /9 7& tei !.- S^ectAi to Tne wojuiniiuu ru> . zania.---u.o. ncuc..j -- uuuu..u0, . . f-State; Heniy;:A: .Kissingertended today hv '..begins his second trip to A- cause^oi lhe do. . pigments for coloring paint, ink/plas- ',.';r''sj<^er. * danger; line for: lead absorp:..^ rica today in-what appears' is:a-clear;.indic ',,f; ,tic and.cement--complained to'state--;-`".-"tion^^ ;t'Abve;-E0 . micrograms, . ex i to be a' largely self-created--value; China -p . ^.authorities about what he thought was plained Dr. J. Julian, Chisholm, associ- . i\ atmosphere of limited -offi-';; .relatioiis^ iv/jtli 1 v*-.'* lead poisoning from dust in.the plant. . ate professor of.-pediatrics at--Jo>ins . , cial optimism, matched here Statesi.because -ltj-"-;Twice thatiyear, Maryland health:," v , Hopkins' -University Medical'.School.- /, by a'sense-of deep skepti- ' perception'ofl .'^inspectors went to the factory to- in^'3. an^ a nationally; recognized;-expert on ;-v ^`clstri and .Vcveh .'suspicion ..Soviet.powecV: `: ,'vestigate. But each time, according to .ilead disease,`the risk', of seno.us: ;;v. -about his -mission-among: Strong*vevick .'instate records, company officials shut;*! .symptoms of-lead poisoning Increases ^> ' * African, and nationalist.lead-. importance wa. tdhoewni.npspoetec.ntotriasllywedruestyunoapb, e,lera: ti.ons and '`v' -" ".d.rnamnraintircfallhya.'.*l,;f-i;c..r.'-; ffliu: trdQfc. cra.tp .'inn\'"k _e_rs_. _ .i'shoi'lly-.after'M ~:;-v' Moderate . AfricVnV chiefs-': 'sources there.'' :iv Vre ir *ead contamination?.?-:; of state bke.Zambiahr-'Presi^y Maol-,persona!^ 'iiJ'^'This year;"Clarence Wolfe,. < ^a.c-- ... .... . v ...... dent-Kemreth Kaundanow^V.''.ledrthe;;invUa '.TSl- and gaunt-looking worker- at' Mineral .;'|'.::;..deadlines for:;Correctmg:it;haye een.. >,r,- /Y.'belieye KissingeC';>s?f`gfop".'i.;;!;^pi:.Uy/before " -- --set repeatedlytt^.;^:;^ irig ifr th e. darkfor- a;,1 astfV'.?.a.s ;?mihute;' negotiated"1 settle? V^r^s^rriyal...... / nient . in(- -'Llftis ' wdrsejangd'^-XChe origin'ai t 'Rbo'desia'-and Namibia dis-'fh'Vhdderby.Moo '.imputes. U.Militant';., Rhodesian y-'lhgeryrwas -stii ^.nationalist leaders like Rob'-.;V;?.de'fcrfse^'but. ' V, riskmkea toktver- fcmtcerymm. vJAVesteni``pii ppet"; 1 ,v:... - yernments; .in,-Rhodes -h; -tv '-r-s'i k--.% Ifi-Namibia, (Southwest.? 'IVthe better to - contain ' the'M | spread .`ofj Soviet-backed'~so-l {3. COLD SPUING HARBOR, N.Y., Sept" -" > victims had PCBsJn: their tissues at,- - ' cialist states" and:'preserve- .i-:. .i>r i-: 12--A .t.oxic in"dVustriai l..c'.he"m.ical that;. bi. rth..,' and . also hva;d, .s,evere skin.rd.isc-ov-..;:/;-- . r Western economic and ' po-M ; litical- interests, id mineral'-: VS.-' V A-recently* *\vas found in the-milk of 65 :* ";PCBs, extremely stable ^^chemicals;' '-'i of 67 tested American: nursing molhers^^ 3 are -used in electrical equipment, : vllcb southern Africa. - -' * -ry-'.'Perhaps the .word `con 3? - ..-^. was linked to liver-cancer in,humans. j.j; .,paintsr? printing, ink, adhesives and . ;> tainment' best summarizes '**ip*i V'S'.-J.oday by a leading Japanese scientist. ' -..other products.' They have been used : % the new U.S. policysaid the The chemical, polychlorinated bi-. ' widely for 45' years but were not re- ; y. Tanzanian Daily News last--' phenyls (PCBs), is believed to-be pres- ; garded as .'environmental..-contami-' J;' ' yweek.. ;"By ^attempting "to yv 3. ent in the fatty tissue of nearly every...-- ' ?'.Tidnts,until 1966. kykr . .manage the emergence of-. v; 'V- person in the-.-United: States, Japan-.,vViv't Tjkeshi-rHirayama,, a specialist ..majority rule - in .Namibia .-ri- and .possibly other industrialized ?M? dn tracing the causes bfhuman1.dis- - and Zimbabwe, (Rhodesia); vT1 ^;courittfes/;^^vAfa'Jfaf4%`t?^^^?^A^*i|>;eas'e;>f>th'eriKati6naUiahcer; 'Center''',';.^ ;' the U.S. is; li-ying. to? steer. -yv/y.The association of PCBs with ' hu- v:.K Research 'Instituto^n rTokyo. lold"nn3.: that nationalism- in_Ca'.' mo'd'-Wiv man liver. cauccr^-whicU. is'always -faf^^toternaUonaJ?conference, on cancer, .iteration dircctipd'l^M; ^.f'.talgenerally;, within a::. year3ievel-.- - Me?-Cold Spring Hai'bor.I.aborntory that v .-The only, optimism voiced t^ITrb'ped from.-an 'episode in which -about ;'-v>:"f',,five of.the,.Yust!0 .victims died, of liver; ;;. in .southern? Africa' tls'J in - ifi> 1,000 persons in Yusho,:Japan, over- a. '. ;!3canccr withiivfiveyyears niter eating-. '..vSouth.'Africa,'.where; the Kis ad period of.a few weeks in 1068, ate rice ;'V'3;.^'ft TOn^amitiated cooking oil.-lhis fig- . . (.^singer missionVis. regardcd-'V I:y T'.l^oU'accidentally; contaminated with ;a- ATv- nrer. oUt to a-rate' of,50Q-per-. 100,000, jS*ns" vital- dnd has 'served to PCB-ARCH-EXT0376432 ty rule; and: te after it is ceful negoti-. PCC, From Al .... .... . . : v :rr.,' - > - two cases and possible or probable in the -ting in Preve crucial to ; outh African -ss or failure : remaining 1 three.- The two definite, cases alone translate into a fate six times higher than normal,'while ail five -cases translate . into a 16-fold higjier incidence, he said. y. ve to break .:' Hirayamals'. presentation followed - a report' ~ ,sa. i by pathologist James. R. .Allen of the Univer-. of gloom.is"- sity.of Wisconsin,'..who warned, that "any. .level" rts in Rhode- of human exposure to PCBs "may be injurious.,. -nism regard- . to human health.". gvA-id?y.r appa ren*tl*y-,C,Vi'On.i/v- The Yusho rates-- reinforced by. data on ' brain-changes; in monkeys , arid other adverse ng here say . ; effects in animals'-cited by Allen--suggest a Julius Nyer-;-.'. "high"; possibility"-that; PGBs:- caused the liver ;- the frontline - .;.;,cancsrs,-.Hirayama ill tell Kis- 4 ( Asf for'.,the hundredsC of - millions -.of persons ; Tuesday that--, /'.who;have ingested much smaller'amounts of t achieving a.-y fPCBs,- mainly-.in', theiri-food,;'Hirayama said, .... nibia dispute ''CV-'T-vam 'concerned'-about/the 'implications for ! bout making'.4 ,`r,peoplc:every\s-here :4h;-'.Thefe- isprio.question aesia. at the A; front- -jv tyr--'r.-t.hye- problem is .1 serjou.s..i^.-f':;,'1 ."M-if- j'- ore prepared ' n nationalist .-- a -African-Peo- V rA.`Although Hirayama previously.ihadreport*'. cd-tho. liver: cancer risk calculations in Japan.-they cameras a surprise toseveral at- . iPO),- into a li tending.scientists who, specialize in.-causes of ... st the divided -,~r i.erivironmen.tai cancer.:--;- a this regard, VS oHirayama's disclosure ``is one .of the-most ae presidents . - worrisome sets of data that we have recently -s to intensify- ' seen," said one of those scientist; Dr.. Irving n Namibia as - J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai/School of . . Medicine in New Yprk City., . aonents for ra elections with ons presence, - The Environmental Protection Agency re- " cently reported that PCBs had been found in ' tests of milk of mothers who live in 10 states. v EPA and Department of Health,".Education. . a Nujoma said y and Welfare-officials have set .Sept. 23 for a outh African- meeting with obstetricians and pediatricians arrent consti- . about ;how to advise .mothers-about breast ... -to sit in the feeding. m to any in: inference on . mas in effect ae same table-. '} '..-A-"The concentration of PCBs in the-rriothers',.; milk fat. was highest^lO.6 parts pel*.'million, in a'Michigan woman; while it averaged 1.4 . > ppm in 18 Virginia, women. Overall; fhe averi' aidicated that i>se an invitamm the Nami- . jy discussing ' vthe wrangle - age was 1.7 ppm. .'1 ^r.* 1 r-'.-h :>-v' .; .- .The .temporary, maximum allowed by _the\, 'Food1 and Drug Administration , is: 0 2 jipm ... for infant and. junior food, but is 2.5 ['pin.; ' for cow's milk on grocer's shcly.es;- shape of the .In -recent studies reported by; pathologist; d in the Paris . Allen, female monkeys that consumed'.PCBs . at ia-yrate. of. 2.5 ppm had much .higher,1 cori-.ri;; .- ias chosen to ixeakup of the , centrations--up to 16 ppm--. in-theiiir-jrriilk^l;,; faL-Exppsed to this ?`severe: toxicity;"';Alleri;>A adieved to be assinger-Nyer- xis. presumed 3p the Ameri-: - ,, said, their breast-feel,infants developed i.skinv- 'discoloration,.- acne, . loss ' of ;.;eyelashcs,*and i.'; swelling and 'congestion of.'tiie- eyellds.^'j^;-^*'- V:' The infarits 'iinproved- when, weaned, from- vy aosals to- the us speculated. de, if riot the ;; sineet directly '.''..milk containing ; PCBs. but. .Allen -said- a . V1976 study Showed that "behavioral and .-r.; learning deficits"ihad;.persisted for;at` least";/, .a year, and may stilj^continue^y^'^p^-^t.^^*' Jstate foir AfiSchaufcle Jr. . ice. in. Lusaka. ihur of Africa. - i -f- iojitiriues SSlleii \'recalled', -that ; the. first ^indication /y . .that PCBs may. be; linked to' cancer came from a -Japanese- study of mice/in .1972.-' Iri - '*;a study of rats reported ;in 1975,-92 per. cent.I - 'of PCB-fed rats developed apparently malig-. .. Afn^ntiliyer-growths.1?! ^'..'rNot.-yet' .knowing' of -Hirayama's caiciila-.-y, igAfrica. .Sept.y ' i tions of the1 human liver cancer increase at; fried rocks at V .vYusho,'.Allen based his concern that; PCBs.; smotorists- to- " may be. carcinogcns"ori .animal data, saying,; stwo coloreds ;. .'.`There :.are . only .suggestions^that a higher, imth Africans ' incidence of cancer occurs .in .nersons ex-: racial violence posed to PCB."' . ; itCape Penin-:,- V yy.;; ' ;.; .' tf.iips /v:V"v Ssii:r-. - - - ..... /:! tV l. Vr-M-.r.-.h-Xi.-.-.v : . -- --------- ------ ------- ------------- -------- --l /A. ,g'v'-"'-. /'r' 7: " Vv-"pyv::v-rw-. i-A; - -J-'}. ..... 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