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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1968 Jan 4 DOC#: NMA011 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: The San Francisco Chronicle - A Strange and Deadly New Cancer Among Asbestos Workers ei Duty How Than Views Hai 4o 'Security' tor Statemen; Lynda's Husband United Nation I Secretary-Genri Thant said vesterd a statement last S ilngtnn 0 other mailers, the Myear-old general said: by N orth VletMOT elgn Minister, N p4 Trinh, reinforce* ( .rine Captain Charles Retired Genenl David Ioften-stated view., )bb may be Preaidant Im Sboup, ho ** Mari , e halt to the United ; son's n e Commandant In 1 M ^ | his more brimedlate not speaking for tb* Marino the N o T t h willj ipeace talka. - ; Slid yesterday th at ' c o r p r b ln he dim u. , "will get the same Thant road b* m em tasatiyoU veroi- tUbWs VTIiVetnam war. t h r o u g h a Units of his rank and speci Sboup, a World War n Medal rf Honor winner tuu general chapm an s p o k e s m a n . 1 statement a u t h o " In Vietnam, nsrtl Leonadr F. ChP-' spoken out against U.S- Ho plans h e Cat*. R*>k iThant December i Jr , who became com-' volvement In Vlentn.ro several recent occasion. on , j L n d l * "long-held com no ma)or changes In doettrae j ^ ert the lsnt of the Mario Corpa Hooday. broke Into a 1 Chawnan ffcld Shouo or d i r e c t i o n under t-h*?-t North Vietnam Is i grin at a ne-* >>{; "a* a nrivat* citizen and b roan's direcion. 1sonhaljltp.. 3aj r e p o r t e r s asked can't comment beyond that ; c -- * a*--* s--*-- **' " 1 jftcurttv arra i^ m e n u UCC 024993 .14 ,$* JVaarisea Cjreatdr Thuagt, Jan, 4, 1966 A Strar Europeans fuM ngton A fatal cancer of the Fear Split In UltitV w ,lll7 chest and abdominal cavi ties la cropping up among \ the nation's asbestos workSo rare that 20 years aga It \ wasn't even in the medicel t e x t b o o k s the cancer U Park c a l l e d mesothelioma, and ' P r e m i e r and forei; seems almost p e c u l i a r to mirixten of five Euro] people exposed to asbestos. c o u n t r i e s last Thoee stricken with the pretted or. implied deadly d i s e a s e include a .degrees of fear that nurse whose father wotked In French veto of B r i t l an asbestos plant'and a man membership may have . who bandied asbestos for no; Hously weakened the Coi more than a month while hel mon M arket insulated tbe plumbing in hisi Tb* vtrwi of tbe prem ier own house. of France, Belgium and Mesothelioma was M r s : tmbourg the iOTtii spotlighted In 1960. when a . miniate* of Italy and ISouth African doctor found 32 Netherlands wr quoted cases among the people Uv- separate interviews by Le ling and working in the Cape giro, the r e s p e c t e d pi 'of Good Nope asbestos fields. ' imrenonent newspaper. Alerted to the problem, this, N . Cbaneeilor Kurt same doctor turned up .57 S etinger of West more `cases In the next two years.' -a wefi:cs Foetigh v WTUy Brandt, . r t f o DOCTORS annrer Its queetkx*, La Nobody know how many giro said. Americana have had mesoth CRITICAL elioma. Even today doctor The newspaper quoted: have trouble spotting- It -- whether they're t r y i n g to ; fgeaavre pcamrtnnmerfsstosf uFrabneciengw*tW- diagnoae it in a person still ; vereiy -and anaett&M Utte alive or pin It down at an au ' ly critical of tbe JFreach pc* topsy. ' In threw s e p a r a t e studies In French .Premier George the last to* years, doctors in three states have' turned! Pompidou etsinchiy defend up 71 cases. Oddiy, 11 ot ed Freuds oppoettion to Brit them appeared to have had . Isi Ktrx but ha appeared t no real-exposure to asbestos. - betray apprehension that i . The other 60 could all be netallatinc t f a i n a t Franc; traced to -asbestos contact, the ether member countrie i either because they worked might eead the Market i d ) with It, lived with people who Umbo. did or Hred. In neighborhoods T b e`coming, !year. h r salt where the sdr was heavily `wtS b* cvucUi because " t laden with asbextoc dust. ,ViU show, depending on tor T h ffly it American'study attitudet of tbe member n; was one run in 1964 %y Dr. does, whether tbe Eoropt <C Irving J. Selikott of New The 51a is' resigned to a soi t York's Mount Sinai Hospital, ef-.progmdv* dissolution <r who began tbe study to see if whether on the contrary It 'cancer in any way attested determined to be economics) the lives of the asbestos insu ' ly tod politically united. lation workers in the New AGRICULTURE York metropolitan area. H . greased the hop tb * f Tr*TM* u1VMv f F r a n c , partners wifl "r, . p n ` n>l*rs ol th A s b e s t o s sped tb e^ o im ltro en tj a - 1**1**? 0ni?n * ho wf r* " r*adv entered thmt iY *** roUs before Jin. 1. Agricultural Common M n- k o t wf l l b . m phtod (iso) | f 5 f, th,ra 111(1 ^ Jln- that th Cuetamt Union w il 1963' be realized by the first ! . !>UKFi' ,SK Julv I96g." . ( i Some of what he found did France; being the forejncAt (hot surprise him -- that 12 of avricultural country In the . the 255 died of asbestosls, a Market, has long uiani/eatW ilong-known but decreaslngly a greater interest in agrlctil- Mhtsl Idue to antibiotics) di- tural u n i f i c a t i o n than its brought on by years of partners. F breathingasbestos dust. B e l g i u m Premier Fkul I Dr. Setikott also found that Vanden Botynants charged the .men had died of that in "blocking" negofci i',un? cancer, a rate 6.0 times tioru with Britain against the higher than that in the nor will ol tbe five other member mal adult male population. c o u n t r i e s and tiie market Even more surprising, he commission, France had ra- ^our^ deaths due to me- v e r s e d normal procedures iiotheUoma. "This Incidence thet, h Id, require tht mori th,n 1 P n t," said "aU possible fiqrt be msda IP.r' Sellkoff, "U strikingly ,o avoid" an unbridgeable, of 1 tumor which is disagreement. 1generally considered to be ' w , i :extremely rare." ' , Dr. SeUkoff then launched "The 'Freachl ex am p ie ia follow-on study of 30? con- anfortunafely may prdveisecutive deaths among w- contagious." he said. "This. bstos insulation w o r k e r s is why We /ear that ' t he)throughout the whole north- progress of the Community east Again, to hj$ surprise, will remain hobbled as long jhe turned up 10 deaths due to a the problem tof new mem-1 mesothelioma, bersl is notsolved.'' ; A b o u t the same time, I t a l i a n Foreign Minister the Pennsylvania State De- Amiatore Fanfanl said Presl* Ipartmeut of Health began dent de Gaulle's news confer-1 a blind itudy to find how me- ence of November : 27|<otheliom* might be affect- i "darkened the horizon" ^or 'ng the more than 5009 asbes- toe foreign minlstera' council l tos workers scattered about of the Common-Market, / | the state. ^rf ' T o l 62h o s p l t a l j i n i h e ige and Deadly New Cancer Among Asbestos Workers southeastern part of the State who Worked as asbestos tru*l they seat' a questionnaire, lators in a shipyard. j asking tbe hospitals to report,1 DEATHS ; an mesothelioma* diagnosed Of 10 deaths which seemed between IMS and 1963. "questionable" asbestos ex-! Back cam* 43 documented! pom es, two turned out to be; leases of the'disease, only 11 almost Swiss bizarre. One was aj cbeetemaker, who of which could not be traced worked almost his entire fifei to asbestos exposure. Around a large boiler cov Tea victim of the disease ered nth asbestos Insulation turned out to be men who that flaked off at the touch. worked to asbestos plants. Another was a worker to a Eight were people who lived brewery, where It turned oet jne&r asbestos plants most of that beer Is filtered through their live*. Three were mem potp fitters made essentially bers of families who had one of edtfcm fiber and asbestos. ar more a s b e s t o s worker, The most convincing study members -- a three-year-okl U the most recent one --con- girl .whose father was an as dnched by a .team of doCtort bestos engineer, a n u r s e working out of Mta<Be*rx whose father has worked for General R a s p l l a l to New 35 year* in an asbestos plant Brunswick, N.J-, a few jnfl and a woman with two tons from the nation's largest i bestos plant, one that em on If. About at! that radiation ploys 5000 workers. treatments do, he says. I* In the past three years, no remove some of the fluid that fewer than 19 cases of me builds up in the lungs from sothelioma p a s s e d through the disease. Middlesex General. Only two} . FATAL of the 19were not workers at The disease Is 100 percent the nearby asbestos plant, fatal,'' Dr. Borow s t a t e s , one' a woman wbe apparently "and usually takes less than, totaled asbestos dust to laun a year-after diagnosis to nm| dering N r husband'* work Its course." clothes, the tecoqd a iptnster Nobody knows why It at-i who bred one btyck hvm the tacks some asbesto* workers and not others, or why some! A relatively ."n e w " dis victims of the disease get it ease, mesothelioma is also after an apparently miH ex one pf toe most dUTicalt dis posure to asbestos. The Uni eases to c o n f r o n t modern versity af Michigan school of medicine.-. medicine cites one case of a It is almost Impossible to, man who was exposed to as t r e a t . Middlesex General's bestos for about a month Dr. Maxwell Borow says that while he insulated his house. een th e most potent anti- Stic years later, be was dead cancer drugs have no effect o[ mesothelioma. Even the nature of the dis r)ng some xerJons social and ease It little u n d e r s t o o d . 'economic problems. While It' s generally known No State lists the dlseas* that the disease attacks the {In its workmen'* compensa- lining of the chest and abdo tiou laws, so nobody afflicted men, nobody knows how It with It can bs paid damages gets tiier*. for his affliction. Even now, When asbesto* dust is to-1the first test cases are to toe haled, the fibers get trapped coarto, where they msy con in the lungs, where they form,ceivably stay tor th* next gummy deposit*. This ex five to 10 years. plains how asbestosi* gets The fact that nobody knows started, and perhaps even how much exposure to asbes lung cancer. One theory tv tos can bring on the diseas* that the gummy substance `has created controversy, too. builds tip 3round the asbestos Most laws stipulate that as fiber lodged .in the Jung can bestos worker* be In an envi cause canper elsewhere in ronment where there Is no the body. But how docs it do more than five million parti it? Nobody know*. cele* of asbestos dust per one cubic loot of air -- a regula Because it is such a new tion that many In the asbes and tittle understood disease, tos Industry fought years to mesothelioma hi also creat- |get approved. Pin % UCC 024994 tOAPS CONTEMPORARY BIRD HOUSING & FEEDING **,*?* Ef**N**yy*rfvnisbiltyorn**tawn*s!awnoaowd(A-f*rv*of9t sbtifrtdtnW*fteC)Hf4tg.- Chtrl* y * K T 1.69 Fooding Stfcxt T x to* 149 BRASS * WOOD S6CTTON IS PAPER LANTERNS l fcrtM ct>lo*d *b*e* jT * W A*!** of V. ] 2 *h#p*S * 3 rnollfs.