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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..i.o..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 might send' the Market | | . 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 with It lived with people who Umbo. . The cramng yesr, be salt wtfl be cfW*ial because will show, depending on 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 i was one run in 19&t by Dr. | Irving J. Seltkoff of New Hie Six ifl resigned toasi of progressive dissolution York's Mount Sinai Hospital, ! who began the study to see if whether on the contrary It j cancer in any way affected ; determined to be economic; | 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 I ige and Deadly New Cancer Among Asbestos Workers southeastern part of the State who worked as asbestos insu bestos plant, one that em on it. About all that radiation i Even the nature of the dis they sent a questionnaire, lators in a shipyard. 1 ploys 5000 workers. treatments do, he says. Is ease Is little understood. asking the hospitals to report] DEATHS In the pant three years, no1 remove some of the fluid that While it's generally known all mesotheliomas diagnosed] Of 10 deaths which seemed fewer than 10 cases of me builds up in the lungs from that the disease attacks the , between 1956 and 1963. '`questionable" asbestos ex sothelioma passed through the disease. lining of the chest and abdo posures, two turned, out to be Middlesex General. Only two.] . FATAL men, nobody knows how it I almost bizarre. One wax a of the 19 were not workers at "The disease is 100 percent gets there. Swiss cheesemaker, who the nearby asbestos plant, fatal," Dr. Borow states, worked almost his entire life one a woman who apparently "and usually takes less than around a large boiler cov I inhaled asbestos dust in laun- a year-after diagnosis to run ered with asbestos insulation dertng hr husband's work its course." that flaked off at the touch. clothes, the Second a spinster Nobody knows why It at Another was a worker in a who lived one btyck from the tacks some asbestos workers brewery, where It turned oat plant. / and not others, or why some that beer is filtered through A relatively "new' victims of the disease get it Beck came 42 documented pulp filters made essentially ase, mesothelioma is also after an apparently mild ex cases of the'disease, only 11 of cotton fiber and asbestos. one of the most difficult dis posure to asbestos. The Uni of which could not to traced The most convincing Study eases toconfrout modem veraity of Michigan school of to asbestos exposure. is the most recent one -- con medicine. medicine cites one case of a Ten victims of the disease ducted by a .team of doctors It is almost impossible to man who was exposed to as turned out to to men who working out of Middlesex treat. Middlesex General's bestos for about a month worked in asbestos plants. General Hospital in New Dr. Maxwell Borow says that while to insulated his house. .Eight were people who lived Brunswick, N.J-, a few miles I even the most potent anti- Six years later, he was dead Inear asbestos plants most of from the nation's largest a* Ihetr lives. Three were mem bers of families who had one or more as be s to s worker members -- a three-year-old girl whose father was an as bestos engineer, a nurse whose father has worked for 35 years in an asbestos plant tnd a woman with two sons UCC 024994 WM<? "lace"