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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Apr 24 DOC NMA143 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Radio News Transcript - Asbestos at World Trade Center a RADIO TV REPORTS INC ! - 41 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY 10017. 097-5106 - FOR MANVILLE CORPORATION PROGRAM DATE News April 24 1970 - 10:00 A.M. STATION WINS CITY New York ASBESTOS AT WORLD TRADE CENTER ,, .cedures COMMENTATOR The contractor at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan is being accused of continuing to spray asbestos on the frame of the building without complying to the stringent handling of clean ,, .ceduresordered last week Asbestos is a dangerous material when sprayed it gets into one's lungs and according to tests made at Mt. Sinai Hospital the particles are indestructible and death is inevitable A cause order has been issued the contractor and a hearing is scheduled at this bour in the office of Air Resources Commissioner Robert Michic Medical research has not as vet determined safe levels of to asbestos however there is evidence that short exposure exposure at relatively low levels has caused cancer to develop many years after the actual exposure OFFICES f. SEW wom ' BerTeT ' Loe vd Tar. & ' RAN FRANCISC * Pew ERELAND * CenAse