European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August 12, 1978 top health officials upset Low far tobacco study whips of High Washington up top govern ment health officials Are angry and Wor ried Over a private report by one of Josep Galliano s own cancer experts suggesting limited puffing of Low tar and nicotine cigarettes May not be bad or you. Califano is the Secretary of health Edu cation and welfare the Man who warns almost weekly that cigarettes give you lung cancer heart disease shortness of breath and shortness of storm of reaction erupted thursday Over a report issued wednesday by assist ant director Gio Batta Gori of the National cancer Institute. It indicates your average healthy american might safely smoke 23 Low tar Carlton menthol cigarettes a Day without exceeding a tolerable risk level of lung cancer or other whole Flap May have been inspired by a remark of president Carter s to democratic rally a week ago in tobacco country of North Carolina. Saying he is interested in the welfare Otto Bacco Farmers As Well As in the health of americans the president noted. Al citizens want to have an accurate and an enlightened education program and re search program to make the smoking of to Bacco even More Safe loan it is today and we will continue these giant programs within which i Don t see any of report lists 27 Low tar and nicotine brands with possible daily toleration Lim its. Including in now menthol 17 now 17stride and 16 Carlton. Right Down to three smokes a Day for King Sana King san menthol Merit Merit menthol. Real and Tempo. But other Califano health aides say the report is misleading to a very unsophisticated Public and they Are afraid it will Tad people to switch brands instead of give tag up smoking the implications of precision in the Gori paper that one May safety smoke 22cigarettes a Day of this Brand or eight a Day of that Are simply surgeon general Julius Richmond in an angry statement thursday. No one should be misled by or. Gori study into the belief that there is some Way that one can adjust one s smoking habit sad the cigarette one smokes and thus avoid All health in a joint attack. National cancer Institute director Arthur Upton Cork s Boss and National heart lung and blood Institute chief Robert i. Levy issued a state ment saying we reject any inference that scientists now believe the use of less hazardous cigarettes May be considered Tol Erable or Levy said the report is especially mis leading for potential heart attack victims because it is conservatively estimate that smoking causes 130,000 cardiovascular deaths a year compared to 100,000 from lung the causes of heart trouble from smok ing do not necessarily involve Tan and Otine to any great degree said Levy. Weare talking about something very different from he said heart researchers have been j Ujj would be heedless of the heart and other problems they might tobacco Institute which watches out for the interests of cigarette Compa Nies had a different View. Desires of its Consumers for different types of cigarettes it said in a statement. We will be watching with interest what the scientific Community will have to say about this fairness to Gori. Who was out of town thursday he pointed oui carefully he was in no Way advocating Smoka Jing Low tar and nicotine d safer than others. We can now begin to talk ble Levels of smoking from to. Lie health standpoint Srisai i i am not calling any cigarette that is Safe & 4 that is not i Talmadge reportedly got $7,000 refund despite free office space Atlanta a sen. Herman Tal Madge. D-ga., was reimbursed $7.000 by. The Senate for six months of Atlanta office expenses even though he received free of fice space and supplies in Atlanta from the general services administration records amount is 10 times greater than Many other senators the Atlanta Constitution reported . In a statement from his Washington office Friday said this snot news. It was reported Back in july in the Washington newspapers and in the at Lanta any discrepancies that of sex mobster offers tips to fight organized crime Washington up former Miami mobster Gary Bordach concluding his testimony at Senate hearings offered these suggestions thursday for fighting organized crime More successfully revive unflinching use of the death penalty for murder. He said professional criminals would commit much fewer murders if they considered the death pen Alty a real threat instead of something they can stall of f through appeals. Give convicted criminals Only one shot Appeal rights. He said repeated a peal possibilities delay punishment to the 6th Fleet Boss train Given High nato Post Brussels a vice adm. Harry ii has been appointed nato s new supreme Allied commander Atlantic Anat spokesman announced Friday. On oct. 1 he will replace adm. Isaac jr., who u retiring from naval serv ice after three years As Atlantic commander. Train who will be promoted to Admiral has been commander of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean the spokesman Atlantic commander he will oversee a standing nato naval Force that is con stantly on patrol and would be responsible in wartime for protecting Atlantic sealants and assisting nato s european ground commands the spokesman said. Point where it is no real deterrent. Give the Federal government jurisdiction Over prosecuting corrupt local Public officials. He said the underworld assumes state and local authorities cannot handle the corruption problem and added with out Public officials on the organized crime payroll the problem would be Cut in have the state department Stop the traffic in smuggled drugs at its source by putting diplomatic pressure directly on the countries of origin. He said the department could greatly reduce the narcotics Trade if it worked As hard on that Field As it did Roget House ethics committee witness tone Sun Park returned from South Korea. Increase the number of Federal drug enforcement agents and streamline their efforts. He said . Agents Are not touch ing the up of the iceberg because they Are. Drastically outnumbered by sophisticated smugglers and because Law enforcement agencies compete instead of cooperating. Army identifies Soldier killed in two ear crash Nurnberg the Soldier killed lat wednesday night in a two car collision a Here has seen identified As sgt. . Frida an army spa Man said ,. The 6hth Maint Maint in is survived by his wife mrs. P. Adkins of Millers Creek . Dollar at new lows Gold hits highs i Rewt Ortw / a t \ to run liar Aiu fowl a h in can but a. A to tit m Salon Don a Sastros week on Europe s foreign exchanges Friday hitting record lows against the Swiss franc and German Markand pushing the Gold Price to All time cited a general Lack of Confidence in the . Currency and the snowballing effect of the slide which has seen a succession of record lows against major currencies in recent Days. The Dollar is just sick commented Zurich dealer As the . Currency Plum meted to yet another All time Tow of 1 a Swiss francs at the end of trading. In Frankfurt the Dollar fell at the closet the record Low of 1.867j German Marks Down from 1.9783 Marks at the end of Busi Ness thursday and below the previous All time Low of 1.9710 in trading wednesday the Dollar s slide pushed Gold prices yet higher. The Metal closed in London at$211.875 a Troy ounce an All time High for the Metal on any mar i. After climbing More than $4 throughout the Day from Day s close of 2.875. Curved apparently serement on the part of by when the Senate ethics n by Hinam n Ahmo m h . M n Csc of u n cd Tamu � h Cux Lind i ii column n 91 01u�-fi. We thu n Diw u u omm Oiom n Moran u h dululll0 u Ford nos 19 ii Hurt Tolu Hunt n a Honor Sun m Tutti of � a Lawaun Pfann n Jaklen him m u Junta m
