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*'*t, 4fu.Moul t-V`.i,|A i\J ^UVlUtt jiV'ftrh ri^'r/I l.'.,ai';o;i"; fchOUt fiQ him with a public'forum. yatfis r&zy and (Hivitly i trout Mr. Javc.rski conceded* ;:pp;ypof thpp'atforml'. 1 v'rC bis letter that.it was p'orsiklS ea Lhivn to, return In^inOnCnts in the .; the ceremony was held on main Watergate ease without KtSjV ijifli the lawn of the. hospital center obtaining further information. ,'j'iing " w..h ' 'Mrrany lit downtown Miami. Mr. Mixon agreed Ip participate In order This case involves the June 17, * 1972, break-in at the Demo- J flawycr, to promote bis proposal for' na cratlc national headquarters at V W. sot/he-. tional health Insurance and to the Watergate complex and the , to swfueivi underscore hi! approval of the subsequent White House cover-, -but did: not method In which the $75-mil- up./' " i' g. Page 2.J lion, fcutmtiated facility ia being However, tie emphasized, '-f secount by built--without Federal grants "The material is important to ir.fs family in but with Federal loan guaran- a complete and thorough Inves on whk, Mr. tees. fl, . tigation and may contain evi- i his wife, in There was a heavy security Continued on Page 12, Column 4 csterday and detail, and the 2,500 Invited Germany--he Guests were cordoned off on jcice whether tire hospital property. Several Liver Cancer Alert rmlsioii, order. hundred others, who formed the 1 know,where bulk of the anti-Nixon demon Declared to Protect taken,' thfese stration,; gathered oh 14th il he locked Street before the Dade County n of the .go-: Public Safety Department build Plastics Workers was landing: ing facing the hospital. airport,;, alga: The! demonstrators, who re By JANE E. BRODY 5m". > vived the, permission of the As physician 1 for the B.F. d belonging mUce to picket, were an as Goodrich chemical plant in from |:ln lti sortment of dissidents--senior Louisville,. Ky., Dr. John L, r 2, Column 1 Continued on Page 13, Column 1 Creech' Jr, examines all em ployes returning to work after an Illness. He was struck re Kidnapping View cently by the large number of serious liver ailments among Ui^iP ' tl, ' w , . the workers, compared with m-dlze. Miss . ''In the first place," he said, patients he saw In his private' "we don't know where she is. surgical practice. areridqht and In the .second place, a state Dr. Creech searched his mem ment like that Is an antagonis ory and worker records and * ^Bcerstood tic one that I .don't think has discovered that in the last five `s yjett-being any* place in the negotiations years four employes had died thajjtinds of we're trying to 'conduct out of - angiosarcoma of the liver, es--including heLy;."' f'y / '* 11 an extremely rare cancer. All u of investl- "And to make a statement the affected workers, he found, Lecn working that .you're going to bust in were directly Involved in the get back his and/shoot -the place up from production of polyvinyl chlo as; abducted Washington I believe is damn ride from vinyl chloride, a ipartrrient, In hear irresponsible/' Mr. Hearst gaseous organic chemical told a news conference on the known to damage the liver at tot think Mr. lawn of his home here. high concentrations. - ition to have A tape recording containing The doctor suspected a rela preliminary ransom demands tionship between this chemical OEX ?'$* wasi received by, the Hearsts and the illnesses he was seeing and Was broadcast Tuesday. In in the workers. His suspicions /W-.'f.A.i nos it,. Miss Hearst, a 19-year-old have led the Government to de twrlw J4 student iat the University of clare an "occupational-health" Pt`/btv*. .ft, California, in a message to her emergency and seek ways to its ether said, "It's really up to protect workers.They have also' rtiu. t'p make sure, that these spurred extensive studies by tni SfUit:. ` t^ntllinod on Page 08, Column 4 Continued on Page 66, Column 6 :i(Ip [TOBMBT. XBN, tttjm mi wit&cox ;i U! II h ( [i efe:i1 is,...... IV., ,i\* -/V'; .1 * a, ff tf Is,"' * r' \ i AS I 0000176G4 1 (' AS1 00001Tfetaa )Ri: tihesJfrway, February is, isu nary, to Mid-March Alert Is Declared for Plastics Workers 'M TTS[.[precipitation] $>% %. ` .1 ' * ' I w '! ' -A'vl'tf, Continued From Page 1, Col. 8 meeting of labor, and manage one of them could turn out to.{',p: ment in Cleveland this week. be the culprit, they explaiped.;-,ffi. ederal, industry and other Accordingly, the Institute, as It is also possible that some*', scientists to the problem define the cause of and how extensive well as Goodrich and the Manu thing peculiar to the LouisyiHg, f` it may be. Vinyl chloride, a facturing Chemists Association, simple, molfe has begun intensive studies of workers the past -- -- either now,,oc,-io.. accounts for^hefj., cule of carbon, hydrogen and thousands of workers -- past susceptibility to this i 7tar, *' chlorine, is the foundation for and present, dead and alive ~ tumor... , - . ' ; / , . much of the modern plastics in and a variety of laboratory ani dustry. Large numbers of vinyl mals to determine tho nature, chloride molecules can be joined extent and cause of Illness Doctor's Prediction However, Dr. Creech,. Jotr''v% to form a polymer, a chemical among vinyl chloride workers. one, does not think so. "I thing* * $ chain resembling a beaded neck Emergency Action when we look we'll find ef)gia-",\' lace. Production Forces sarcoma of the liver airovct $ Although these studies will the world wherever :Vinyl* take many months, and in some chloride is used," he saicUln a- ' * Some 6,500 workers in 51 cases years, to complete, at a telephone interview. He based* $ American plants and many more hearing today In Washington his prediction on a previous, thousands of European workers the institute will recommend experience. i1 are involved in the production emergency corrective action to A decade ago, he said;,he, it lAbov* Jt/umil |--INeir UidNaimal IBtlaw iNornul of vinyl chloride or polyvinyl the Occupational Safety and discovered that pome of;Mthp- chloride, a white powdery Health Administration, which is Louisville workers had a iwu- chemical resembling sugar. considering new regulations to liar condition in their firmer*, i Till Ni YoitTImM/Frt, 15,1S74 died by the National Weather Service, show In addition, tens of thousands protect workers exposed to called acroosteloysis --pjbw.: . f; of American workers partioi vinyl chloride. destruction of the bone at the, i; pate in the conversion of these The current Federal standard fingertips. Industrywide JiM- ( i from normal temperatures and from normal raw materials, vinyl chloride allows workers to breathe as veys disclosed that this was a, , this period for five key cities are as follows: and polyvinyl chloride," into much as 500 parts of vinyl fairly common worldwide ptfiffr. San Francisco, 52.4; Anchorage, 21.5. countless products,' including chloride per million parts of lem, typically occurring in. ipe . paints, construction pipes, furn air, a level that readily causes workers who cleaned the,,hW$ iture, upholstery, draperies, liver damage in animals, ac reactor tanks wnere the <jon*- i fact help prison some grant applications and re wall coverings, floor tiles, table cording to a study published version of vinyl chloride^hd.-* ing prison terms, ports on other projects specifi cloths, toys, clothing, footwear, 13 years ago by a Dow Chemi polyvinyl chloride takes placetj, jys it cannot pro- cally identified by The Times food packages, garden hoses, cal Company scientist.* The Subsequent changes lit,. irnate loney of it either the has ment for L.E.A.A., pinpoint at it was possible to least about $1.5- phonograph reoords, dentures, bottles and pharmaceutical products. In turn, hundreds of Government did not act upon this finding. Several com panies, however, including ing practices have virtually;* eliminated this problem, Df,' Creech said. j ?, ,, * ,*| bor of projects It million spent on projects in millions of consulmers in every Groodrich, stiffened their plant The 5l-year-old Kentucksg*** | m behavior modifi- volving behavior modification. industrialized society art ex standard to 50 parts per mil bom surgeon added1 that the;? .? ' 'I Asked how the agency would posed to thesq products. lion, one-tenth the permitted liver caneer probably showed for'such info ma- halt currently operating proj Thus, when Goodrich officials level. pp* in Louisville first " Hmea two weeks ects covered by the ban when conveyed Dr. Creech's observa However, one study showed we are one of the i " wered by the * gen- it did not know what those tions to the National Institute that at certain points of the --1940--and thp _ ... / with a computer projects were, a spokesman for Occupational Safety and polyvinyl , chloride operation been exposed' longer togpinyC? v ,i some 400 projects said that "some of the details Health three weeks ago, the workers may be temporarily ex chloride;1' He skid recofmitiomj? :-, "might" somehow have to be worked" but that situation wAs regarded as "a posed to vinyl chloride levels of of the problem wqs aided brV >d to behavior re- there would be a "careful serious emergency to be Im up to 1,500 parts per million, the fact that the same physt,`; screening" by agency head mediately and fully investi In Europe, where 75 per cent clan saw all the cases. preliminary review quarters here ana by its re gated," Dr. Marcus M. Key, of the world's supply of vinyl "But had the cancer been pjf * l-out, as weU as of gional offices. rector of the institute, told e chloride is produced, signs of more common one, such [iver disease have been found lung cancer, I probably wou er Reports and Forecast in a large percentage of ex not have realized there wi posed workers,, according to any. problem in the first place, i#5 . foreign language reports dating Dr. Creech said. ` to the early nineteen sixties.. Dr. Selikoff noted that Impact of Italian Report "plastic era--now. aboui But it took a report in 1970 years old--Is just combi] of an Italian laboratory experi age in terms of latent -<f&y//, M*XXONEie OVAfTMtS v nivjtlin A ---- >V~ Hgui* bedd Station. Circle 1temperature. Cold front a boundary between cold air and warmer air, under which the colder air pushes like awedge, uauallyaouthand cast ment to shake up the vinyl for the onset of disease v .. ^ chloride industry. Rats exposed exposed persons. He said-; his to very high levels of the chem interest in the problem extejfldi ical developed cancers of the beyond the workers to the ge.j-^. skin and lungs, eral public, who may This prompted the European posed to vinyl chloride*thalj, Industry to begin its own stud leaches out of finished pro&ii ies, one of which has report nets. rV$*S edly resulted in angiosarcoma The workers are thq ,`caffj of the liver in rats exposed to naries*,'' he remarked. "Theft* low levels of vinyl chloride -- give us hints of what we Wight** lower than the United States find in the population at large.?;* standard of 500 parts per mil Accordingly, Dr, Edward Fe*; rs . CASTS P.M. UARY IB, 1374 eo` of cold air, often causing precipitation. Shaded areaa Indicate precipitation, Deshlines showforecast efternoon maximum tem perature!. Isobars are line* (solid black) of equal barometric' pressure (in inches), form lion. rand of the New York ' City;4 Prof, Cesare Maltbni of the Environmental Protection ~ An** ] University of Bologna, who did ministration has begun to anh.;, the experiment, is expected to lyze hundreds of consumer pro<N> describe his results to the hear ucts for vinyl and polyvinjd'-J ing In Washington today. chloride. - rj* "With this finding, we have "We don't kow if these (inifc- * come full cycle," Dr. Irving J. ings will have any relevance Selikoff remarked st the Cleve the public," Dr. Ferrand cor-* ' rra. tt-QV 54r33i V CASPCfl _____ df~ i,lj tMiVhc&'J ti FORT IvCKV r-M y > if *V* ,ia.7 fTEr.DAY 2P.M. IrU'TtYll, lu74- ti' ing elr-flow patterns.. Winds are counterclock wise toward the center of low-pressure ayiern, clockwise outward from high-pressure a-eas. Pres sure systems usuallymoue east V ... NEWYQRK , VVjfbr/flN&T<OH f :yop&A a,'A7tAfiftS MQ /" HUYRAI ' ' M HAMPTON S*j ctusiuroN T1'^5 0"* GKft4iw w i liaSSP"* f HUBMCAW 0TkWAl.fTClDl -- ....... MefleNWyfcNl' ?K IMWONVUt.* - ; Of$hiOtf* OS? 0%* till' OiviOiflK OaSOa** IjtH Ow 4fO-#M# H05ip \ Oi$ Oim 1 luNorroN U/y- if f 'HC/'i.Y ee land meeting. "We have can mented, "but we don't want \ cer in the vinyl chloride be caught without inform^ttoi workers and apparently the if something turn? up " ` i' Y, i;l,.. Identical tumor has been repro It is this sort of rophyiAcJJp;$ duced in animals exposed to approach that Dr, Solikotf j the chemical," said Dr. Seli would like the institute'1 > t&*5 koff, who is director of environ adopt. "The N.I,O.S..H. budget^ mental medicine at Mount and staff are hot as lafg^ ait? Sinai School of Medicine here. they should be," he toM-itbin Nonetheless, Dr. Se)ikoff and Cleveland meeting; "The^mslir^ . ______ Jinstitute scientists said the; tute has been doing firefigbt*f were keeping an open = mifi aboiib the cause o`f the oprobhlenm.. sorpe'50 or 60 different echemil- n auuuitM A- c_a__ls_e,R_e__s_id_e_s vinyl ch.lorifde are anticipate crises and! Used`In these pilaa nts, and any off before they occur." (;s| ; ; CLASSIFIED Corin:crclal Hoilcci --------------------1+lAf * ADVERTISING JKDEX DRIVERS IMMEDIATE^ fain ; O A?aHm6fiM >. , W Awdlfln Sslgd * a? Aijte Exytiins*; raoa * , < skip-A-car.-;.*^'^ ; ' t Mtrth. Otf'rt 66 Publ Noticw : To Florida,, Calif, {k .All w.ft 7o orrites (tc- wJt' U Poet* fA B'Ji Ordi'Hf* , . K Rms., 8odfd n Shopping Su^9.1,`- 230 W. 41 sr.> A ,12121 354-777?, 5? Bu/ws' - M Siti'dtta-i* Wnfi *; 1 ft"H b FS;ri CriJhI-HJ