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INTERNAL. CORRESPONDENCE CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS 7o<Nom) DhUhm Loeafhm Paul McDaniels Medical Dept* NYC CcfV* P. 0. BOX K, KING CITY, CALIFORNIA 93930 Dato March 4, 1968 Orlgbutiap 0pi. AaMMlog U*r < SalM Enclosed la an article given to us by a local doctor. If seen it, I thought you night interested. J. A. Riddle JAR/j cb Enc: A07324 UCC 024992 > 'iet Duty How Than Views Hai No 'Security' for HHI Statemen Cnlted Nation* | Lynda's Husband Secretaiy-Genert Thant said yesterd ja statement last S tfhingtoa : Os other matters, the 54- \larine Captain Charles ^ar-eid general said: Robb may be President * Retired General David prison's new son-in-law, M. Shoup, who was Marine by North Vietnam) elgn Minister, Ngi4 1-Trinh, reinforces ^ ioften-stated view, halt to the United i r his more immediate Commandant in i,953^3, >s said yesterday that not speaking for the Marine bb "will get the same j Corps'" when he discusses ithe North will i peace talks. ; : 1 Thant made bis; -atment as any other of- j the Vietnam war. through a Unit* er of his rank and sped-; Shoup a Wortd War n tyr* in Vietnam. j qj Honor winner, has sssssa *SiSlgeneral Leonadr F. Chap* \ Sp0^en out against U.S- in- mJx' ^'ca?ne om' j valvenwnt in Vientnam on Je^+in ia Mlong-beW wirj antat ri the Mum Carps aeveP8l rKent occasions. Monday, broke into a i ctiaomm said S-boun spoke no major changes ir- d7w^1 a cessation of the j or direction under Chap*|North Vietnam U 1 oad gnu at a news confer- ,,as a nrivaCe citiwB and j man's d..i.r.e..c..io..n'. ^genital_stefl ..A eras reporters astat! ca,,.t conlmetlt t*yond 1ha[.- ; +.C*"******** )0t securrtv arra^gpmgnta (,,..* - _____ UCC 024993 14 JaN JfoariffP (Qjreiiidr _^ Jair-4, 1968 A Strar Europeans raahlngton A. fatal cancer of the Fear Split chest and abdominal cavi ties is cropping up among the nation's asbestos work- In Unity era- So rare that 2D years ago it i wasn't even in the medical Paris textbooks the cancer is called mesothelioma, and Premiers and foreii seems almost peculiar to ministers of five Euro; __ people exposed to asbestos. countries last week e; Those stricken with the pressed or. implied deadly disease include a degrees of fear that nurse whose father worked in French veto of BriUsjh an asbestos plant' and a man membership may have se- who handled asbestos for no: ' riously weakened the Coip- more than a month while hei mon Market insulated the plumbing in his i ' The views of the premiers own house. of France, Belgium and Luk* Mesothelioma was *irst embourg and the foreign spotlighted in I960, when a minister* of Italy and Tie J Afr[can doctor found 32 j 2*TM| Xfff*Netherlands were quoted an j separate mtervwwsby U fi- amon^ ^ T^P1* Uv' garo, tin respected plo- ` *" * " government newspaper. Alerted to the problem, this N ChxneeElor Kurt- Gedrg same doctor turned up .571 Ee*ig*r!f West Germ* iy,, more cases in the next two aa well-as FwdghMlnis er years.' Wily Brandt refused to DOCTORS answer its questions, I* fi Nobody knows how many garo said. ' Americans have had mesoth CRinCAI* t** elioma. Even today doctors L h*v* trouble spotting- it -- t)S!IS7r$t'X SE25L TF. tryi^.to. ; gave comments as being TtteSy and sometimes bitted- - diagnose it ^alive or pin in a person still it down at an au- ' ly critical of tbe French posi- tt* j ' - j French Premier George! Pompidou etanchly defend) ed French opposition to Britj bfc Mhr tat he appeared t betray appretanBiM) that ii artatiatfon against Franc the other member countTM | . jJ*three separate studies in the last three years, doctors in three states have turned up 71 cases. Oddly, 11 of them appeared to have had no real'exposure to asbestos. The other 60 could all be. traced to 'asbestos contact, | either because they worked might send' the Market Umbo. . The cramng yesr, be salt wtfl be cfW*ial because will show, depending on | with It lived with people who jdid or lived in neighborhoods where the air was heavily j laden -with asbestos dust. I The'tffsr American study attitudes of toe member toms, whether tbe Europe Hie Six ifl resigned toasi i was one run in 19&t by Dr. | Irving J. Seltkoff of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, of progressive dissolution ! who began the study to see if whether on the contrary It ; determined to be economic; j cancer in any way affected | tbe lives of the asbestos insu ]y and politically united, lation workers in toe New AGRICULTURE York metropolitan area, He expressed the hope to-. France's partners will 1 spect toe commitments ready entered . , . that Agricultural Common fcet will be completed (a: . that the Customs Union be realized by the first i Tracing the lives of 632 members of the Asbestos Workers Union who were on I tbe union rolls before Jan, 1, 1943, Dr, Setikoff found that 235 of them had died by Jan. j1,1963. I ^ SURPRISE Jttlvl96flT Some of what he found did France, being the foremiwt !not surprise him -- that 12 of agricultural country in toe the 255 died of asbestosis, a] Market, has long manifested ] loftg-known but decreasingly a greater interest in agricitf- j total fdue to antibiotics'! dis-! tural unification than Its -ease brought on by years of I partners. f breathing asbestos dust. j Belgium Premier pkul i Ur. Selikoff also found that| Vanden Boeynants charged!^ of the men had died of that m "blocking" negotia-i *unS cancer, a rate 6.fi times! tiotis with Britain against the j higher than that in the nor- will of tbe five other member 1adult male population., c oun tries and the market tven surprising, hej commission, France had re- tound five deaths due to me-j versed normal procedures istheUorna. "This incidence! that, he said, require Ovat iof mo:re ttiar\ 1 percent^' said! "all possible efforts be made IPr- Selikoff, "is strikingly! to avoid" an unbridgeable tor a tumor which is j disagreement. ; i generally considered to be roin ' ^tremeiy rare." \ J'lLA* Ur. Selikoff then launched! 'The Trench) examjileja fcIJow-on study of 307 con-, unfortunately may prdveisecutive deaths among as-! contagious." he said, "This , bestos insulation workers! is why we fear that 'the {throughout the whole north-j progress of toe Community 1 east. Again, to his surprise.! will remain hobbled as long j he turned up 10 deaths due to! as the problem (of new ntem- j mesothelioma. j bersi is not solved." . About the same time. I Itai ian Foreign Minister | the Pennsylvania State De- Amintore Fanfani said Presi-Apartment of Health began! dent de Gaulle's news confer- ] a blind study to find how me-1 ence ot November 27;?otoelioma might be affect-' "darkened the- horizon" for ing the more toan 500D asbes-j the foreign ministers' council I tos workers scattered about of the Common-Market. ( j toe state. 1 P>#' Toi62hospitalsin toe ] A0732b ige and Deadly Hew Cancer Among Asbestos Workers UCC 024994