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FILE NAME: Georgia Pacific (GP) DATE: 1977 Apr 29 DOC#: GP052 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Products Containing Asbestos Banned as Cancer-Cause Suspects - Dallas Morning News r i Products containing asbestos banned as cancer-cause suspects WASHINGTON W Pl) -- The Con- The commission votad 4-0, with oni > sam ar Product Safety Commission commissionar absent. to accept a banned speckling compounds and recommandation (rom the Natural Re- other wall patching mixturas contain- sources Defense Council to ban spack- * H h g 'asbestos Thursday. as possible ,,iiBf poapoo&di i&4 flxiuns csusesof cancer. w ith asbestos. The council said-mil- A qbesw eontalning imitation logs am i aihhsed in gasburning fireplaces alspnpme under the ban and a list of lions of consum ers were being exposed to a needless hasard when such materi als are installed, sanded or removed. other-m aterials, such as vinyl tiles. The commissioners also banned wfUboafd. brake linings and modeling speckling compounds containing a clay was named for tnvestigatiou. form of asbestos called tremolitic talc. "This (asbestos) is probably one of The NRCD followed up by asking the the most well-documented toxic sub commission to consider banning stances around." Commissioner David modeling clay, textured paints, brake PiWe said. "You don't have to look at shoes and wallboard and other the rats, just look at the people." products containing asbestos. The agency left open the question of It also said there was a potential whether consumers will be able to get problem w ith vinyl floor tile because refunds for banned products now in the adhesive used with it contains th eir possession. ^ , asbestos. H A Cif,5aHa C orning Ket Friday, April 29,1977 Expensive dummies Some of tbe 50 test dummies at the General Motors proving grounds in Milford, Mich., are restrained by shoulder belts while being stored on wheelcarts. The dummies cost between $10,000 and S12.000 and are made to government specs by a private contractor. 3 German guei Trio found guilty of Amei STUTTGART, West Germany (API -- Urban guerrilla Andreas Baader and two companions were sentenced to life Imprisonment Thursday for tbe terrorbomb murders of four U.S. soldiers dur ing the Vietnam war, Baader. 33, his girl friend Gudrun Ennslln. 36. and Jan-Carl Raspe. 33. were found guilty of bombing Army posts in Frankfurt and Heidelberg in 1972 and buildings in four other Ger man cities. "Not everyone can declare himself a subject of International law and de clare war on his own," chief Judge Eberhard Foth declared in rejecting defense claims tbe bombings were legimate protests against U5. military ac tions in Vietnam. The three terrorists also were con victed by the 5-Judge tribunal of 34 counts of attempted murder and of ' forming a criminal conspiracy. They are on a hunger strike in their jail cells and refused to come to court to hear the verdict. ' THE 23-MONTH trial In a special se- , curtty courthouse built for the case at Stuttgart's Stammbelm Prison was v punctuated by the same outbreaks of j antistate violence that made the ( Baader-Meinhof gang West Germany's "Public Enemy No. 1" from 1970 to 1972, ; Three weeks ago. chief federal... prosecutor Siegfried Buback. S7. who v led tbe state's case against the terror- f ists. was assassinated In Karlsruhe by a c group calling Itself "Commando Ulnke f Melnhof." ,, Mrs. Meinhof. 41. the gang's accused cochief along with Baader, was found r NANOTAILOREDSUITS HONGKONG TM " M hHIM I UcMM-WMlMf u iS ISAM NJ* UJt - M g g g- b l M M t a l M M 14AM U N W U fN M M M iM hM M U l HN iaiRabTratM RmIM 11AM 8AM inauoiiiowwonouTT SmM*1m4 M 11AM1MM brnnui NODES. INC. CUSTOM T A IL O R S 1111OakLam Call Mr. lodhrani ^ Till. 521-6850 *"<* 6"4 , CO RRECTIO N ! An orroc wot mod in Hw Q w vU t odvoctnomont which ton m *ho Trond MctiM of Tht DoUo* Now* on Thottdoy, April 28. Tho prico of tho KoyFindor should hovoboon $3.50 Ches-Lee, Hillside Village Mockingbird at Abrams OPENING RON BURNETT'S MOTO! RECREATIONAL STORAGE--a ; SERVICE RE! Alio Open Beal (FOR YOU OO-fT-YC WASH BATS EQUIRfED F WASTE M SnSAL SERVICE H T FOR OIL CH AM LMRICATMM CAUL NOW TO STORAGE 214- 238 Products containing asbestos banned as cancer-cause suspects WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Con sumer Product Safety Commission banned spackllng compounds and other wall patching mixtures contain ing asbestos Thursday as possible causes oi cancer. Asbestoscontaining imitation logs and ash used in gas-burning fireplaces also came under the ban and a 1st of other materials, such as vinyl tiles, wallboard. brake linings and modeling clay was named for investigation. "This (asbestos) is probably one of the most well-documented toxic sub stances around," Commissioner David Plttle said. "You don't have to look at the rats. Just look at the people." The agency left open the question of whether consumers will be able to get refunds for banned products now in their possession. The commission voted 4-0. with one commissioner absent, to accept a recommendation from tbe Natural Re sources Defense Council to ban spackling compounds and similar mixtures with asbestos. The council said mil lions of consumers were being exposed to a needless hazard when such materi als are installed, sanded or removed. The commissioners also banned spackling compounds containing a form of asbestos called trcmolitlc talc. The NRCD followed up by asking the commission to consider banning modeling clay, textured paints, brake shoes and linings, wallboard and other products containing asbestos. It also said there was a potential problem wnh vinyl floor tile because the adhesive used with it contains a sb e sto s. r ENJOY TP DELTA'S I TO CALK 12 NON