European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 americans Are ignoring the experts continued fro Page i Demic the reason for this apparent Public con tra riness is not precisely Buta suggests that the cause May be a in Par while disaffection with Public institutions and authorities is not new it was a Force upon which Jimmy Carter capitalized to the 1976 presidential Campaign the willingness of americans to ignore Sun advice is a wider tation of the this reaction is a statement by the people since they dont Trust the Why should they perform for the system by buying smaller cars or taking flu shots As there told to said Arthur who directs research into political attitudes at the University of statistics compiled by the University Institute for social research As Well As polling of americans by the George Louis Harris and Daniel Yankelovich organizations have demonstrated a prolonged erosion in Public Confidence in government Over the last 20 a sampling of attitudes made by the Michigan group in 1958 found about 20 per cent of those questioned had expressed their distrust of political but by last year the size of the group expressing such feelings had risen to lightly More than polls taken by the Harris organization in 1966 and again Early this year found that Public Confidence in the executive Branch of the Federal government had slipped from 41 per cent to 23 per cent Confidence of patients to the advice of their said the Public has come to realize that the experts Are wrong and that some issues produce divided opinions from those supposedly most knowledgeable about specific technical issues such As Sac charin and the Federal governments at tempt to limit the size of Vitamin i dont think its ignorant to question the saccharin since the evidence of harm is so far away from the threat to ones own he it makes the Public wonder if the government is so interested in Public it Doest ban cigarettes and they wonder about this Fluke of regulation which adds to their general scepticism about As an the consumer response in new York surveyed Consumers after the announcement of the saccharin proposal and found that respondents rejected a ban by a margin of 2 to the reason for according to Paul Slovic of the decision research in is that when risks Are we our attention elsewhere to More pressing and the risk of cancer from saccharin is not seen As being enor Slovic said that the same situation applied to the failure of the program to immunize children against such common diseases As rubella German measles mumps and a Federal Survey in 1975 found that two thirds of american preschool children had not been immunized against these preventable yet during the preceding year there were at least cases of these ailments in the United which led to at least 100 people feel that the risks Are close to so Why bother to go through the Effort such As travelling and waiting in Slovic but As the probability goes such As by a local then More people think its Worth the Chauncey the president of the electric Power research Institute in Palo also is a member of a Small group of scholars who have studied the Eso Teric Field of individual Ris Benefit Analy Sis that How and Why a person decides to do something that May be either Good or bad for there is a substantial difference be tween tha perception of risk by an individual and the perception of risk by Over viewing he he continued the individual decides that the system is intervening for Bureau cratic that it is grind ing him Down and he becomes paranoid about Bow the system is abusing he cited the growing interest in a substance extracted from Apricot pits that is being used increasingly As treat ment for despite a ban by the food and drug which considers it Starr said that it was understandable for terminal cancer sufferers to in effect what have i got to lose by taking it if its what difference does it since we gel swindled All the Angus the director of the Institute for social research in Ann said that the refusal of Large numbers of people to do whats Best for them is nothing but he said that the Vietnam the watergate corporate bribery and crookedness in labor unions All had contributed to the decline of the prestige of authority figures in the last few question him for 3 hours Russ seize times newsman per cent and Confidence in organized medi Cine had ebbed from 73 per cent to 43 per All of our surveys Over the last decade show that every More and More people Are coming to believe that the part of their lives that they Are Able to control is said the new Yor based poll showed that As an individuals realm of autonomy was shrunk by the actions of government and he becomes More determined to control the people Are hanging on for dear life to diminishing sphere of autonomy that they he according to David a pro Fessor of sociology at the University of people have Good reason to be growing sceptical about expert pronounce ments from the government and the scientific co the he is More sophisticated i Nan Ever but it is getting conflicting who has studied the reaction Moscow a los Angeles times correspondent Robert Toth was detained saturday by soviet police alleged he bad received state secrets from a russian Toth said he was questioned for three hours by police and an agent of the Kab Security he was then allowed to go but was not told what would happen the embassy had no immediate comment on the who is due to leave for Home next weekend after three years in he was seized by five men just after 9 when he met parapsychology specialist Valery Petukhov on a Moscow he said a Laboratory chief at the Moscow Institute of medical and Bio logical was also Toth has written widely on soviet Sci and said he had been introduced to Petukhov six months ago by other Scien at their meeting saturday Toth he gave me an article he had told me before he was writing which proved that parapsychology was As i put it in my two men jumped out of a car and grabbed three More at the police a Man identified As a senior researcher for the Academy of sciences leafed through the article and then said it contained secret material and showed the sort of work being done in some closed soviet Toth he said a soviet interpreter read him a protocol of ids which said he had been detained when receiving state secrets from a soviet he declined to sign the and was allowed to leave with a embassy consular i asked them what was going to happen now and they Well Call Toth he said Petukhov was brought in As he was leaving the police station and that he looked pretty shaken but it could have been China quake site visitor sees utter destruction London up a British correspondent who Rode a train through the scene of last years earthquake at said saturday the area is still a scene of utter destruction which the Chi Nese do not want foreigners to Nigel Wade of the daily Telegraph said the predawn quake july 28 last year killed an estimated persons and destroyed Tangshan mining and Industrial City 100 Miles West of the scene of devastation left no doubt that the Tangshan quake must rank As could Rule out underground blasts total Afef ban of be discussed Washington a the and Russia will begin preliminary talks this week to ban underground tests of nuclear a move that could effectively end All testing of atomic weapons by the two administration officials said Friday that delegates of the two superpowers will meet monday in Washington to begin the they also will discuss aspects of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty designed to Stop the spread of nuclear officials implications of a total ban on All weapons testing would be highly signify it would mean the superpowers now feel they have enough warheads in their arsenals to make the testing of new weapons arrangements for the meeting devel oped from Secretary of state Cyrus Vances talks with soviet leaders during a visit to Moscow last officials three of the worlds six countries pos Sessing nuclear weapons Are treat bound not to conduct tests in the atmosphere or at but they can do so provided the shots do not have a yield exceed ing Iso Kilotons equal to tons of the three countries Are the soviet Union and if the and Russia at the Washington talks set the stage for full scale Neotia Britain will be asked to participate in the formal officials the other three nuclear France and have not signed the test ban in addition to the prohibition on under ground the Russia and Britain have limited underground nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes if they exceed a yield of 150 one of the big problems facing the and soviet delegations will be determining a Way to verify that each nation is comply ing with any the two nations have disagreed for years Over the possibility of distinguishing Between underground nuclear test shots and earthquakes on the basis of seismic the has taken the View in the past that some form of onsite inspection must be provided for in Case of suspicious Cir the have insisted that instrumentation has been developed to a Point that earthquakes and nuclear shots can be distinguished even at great the discussion of nonproliferation officials reflects developing cooperation Between the superpowers on what has become one of their major neither Washington nor Moscow want Small nations to develop nuclear both believe this could destabilize International one of the worlds worst natural disasters for Wade Wade said he and three other correspondents went through area aboard the seasons first tourist train to Pei Taho resort in North chinese authorities have refused permission for correspondents to visit the area since the a City which once had a million inhabit ants has become a horrors Cape of shattered leaps of Brick and twisted he wreckage is almost All there powerful after quakes continuing since the major Shock have prevented major re hundreds of new Graves along the rail Way line from peking testify that the quakes Are still he a policeman stopped photographs during the trains i minute halt at Tang Shan station which itself is strewn with crushed and burned out railway car Wade towns near the City Are almost As badly damaged As Tangshan he a few factory still stand but most were broken the remains of a big factory near the Railroad station took like a chemical Plant after a disastrous Wade said chinese officials recently told mexican seismologists that the on minute quake tossed some people up against Ceil Ings in Tangshan As it Cut a swathe four Miles by five Miles through the new envoy to Luxembourg Washington up career Diplo mat James Gordon former Deputy assistant Secretary of state for european has been sworn in As the new ambassador to