European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 13, 1978 hazards at work cause 20 percent of cancer deaths experts estimate Washington a exposure to cancer causing substances at american work Sites May cause at least 20 percent of All cancer deaths or nearly 80,000 people each year with Asbestos apparently the no. 1 chemical killer government scientists  new estimates Are sharply higher than past figures which placed the cancer toll from occupational exposure at Only 1 percent to 5 percent Joseph a. Califano jr., the Secretary of health education and welfare said  single substance Asbestos May account for 17 percent of All cancer deaths annually. Other culprits include arsenic benzene and Vinyl  from the National cancer Institute and the National Institute of environmental health sciences said 20 percent is a conservative estimate of the cancer toll from work Sites estimating it could Nixon defers world trip due to the deadline for new Book he s writing new York a Richard m. Nixon signed a contract tuesday for a new Book on America s role in the world and said that due to the deadline he will not undertake a world tour until next  said he Hopes to produce a Book that will be read by the opinion makers but said that it in no Way Marks any re entry into the political  former president holding his first full dress news conference since he re signed his office four years ago acknowledged that he got a Cool response fro some Heads of state when he proposed vis iting their  am planning to go overseas but due to the deadline i am unable to plan any travel until next year he said. The former president walked the four blocks from his hotel to the Warner communications building in Rockefeller Cen Ter and was greeted by Well wishers along the Way. Some of them asked for Auto graphs. While he was in the building sign ing a contract with Warner books a Large 24 indicted in massive pot smuggling Trenton . Up new Jersey authorities tuesday announced the indict ment of 24 persons in an alleged multimillion Dollar conspiracy to smuggle marijuana from the Jungles of Colombia to Small air ports on the Eastern  magnitude of the smuggling scheme was extraordinarily Large said state attorney general John Degnan. He said none of the marijuana was intended for use in new Jersey but rather for other states such As Connecticut and  said the alleged conspiracy took place in Pennsylvania Massachusetts Florida Alabama North Carolina Illinois new York Connecticut California Ohio Colombia Jamaica the Bahamas the is land of Aruba and in new Jersey. Mind boggling the amount of Cash that changed hand Sis almost mind boggling said Degnan. He pointed out As an example the operators of the smuggling operation bought air planes for $100,000, paid pilots As Muchas $275,000 a flight and bribed authorities with $120,000 in the Bahamas when two men were  the attorney general said the profits were also  Street value of marijuana is $700 a Pound Here he said while it can be Pur chased for $10 a Pound in  said police in the various states were in the process of making arrests and nine men already involved in the conspiracy were in custody. Lunch hour crowd jammed 51st Street in front of the  Nixon was a secret service entourage that resembled the one he had when still president. There was an armoured limousine which Nixon shunned followed by a station Wagon carrying hidden automatic  his news conference in an auditorium of the Warner building Nixon was no tasked his financial arrangements for the Book and he did t Volunteer. A Warne spokesman said the Nixon work was to be finished next Spring and would be published next  new Book looking toward the . Role in the world the rest of the Century is intended to be a far less ambitious work than the 1,120-Page memoirs Nixon completed in the Spring after working on it for 3l/2 years. Warner books paid Nixon $2 Mil lion for in the memoirs of Richard Nixon now in the third hard cover print  wrote one earlier Book six  former. President answered questions at his news conference on a variety of National and International issues including the Mideast Summit now going on at Camp David  role he said it was important for the unite states to play the role which it can in at tempting to mediate the differences with out imposing of course a  he added that peace is negotiated when the option of War is not one that is acceptable to either of the two  former president had breakfast ear Lier with Henry a. Kissinger who was his Secretary of state. Nixon who flew to new York monday with top aide Jack Brennan apparently decided in route to put off the around the world trip that has evoked antagonistic editorials in some newspapers and a Cool reception from at least one head of govern ment. The proposed itinerary included South Asia Eastern Europe and  monday prime minister Malcolm Eraser of Australia said in a television interview that it would be offensive and wrong to deny Nixon a visa but he said we cannot Stop   scientists based their findings not on new medical research but on new statistical analyses of the number of workers exposed to cancer causing chemicals on the Job and their risk of incurring cancer. Califano told an Al Cio conference on occupational safety and health about the new estimate and released a draft sum Mary of the study. Hew scientists Are put Ting the study into final form to submit tothe labor department s occupational safety and health administration by Fri  is preparing new standards for regulating hundreds of known or suspected cancer causing agents at work places in Hopes of accelerating Federal action to ban or restrict them. Critics of the plan have said it could Cost Industry billions of dollars and some have said the standards Are not needed because the incidence of occupational cancer is . David p. Rail director of the National Institute of environmental health sciences said scientists who made the Low estimates just Haven t looked carefully enough at the  worst offender the study singles out Asbestos the fire resistant chemical used in a Host of Fields from construction to Auto Brake linings As the worst offender. Hew began a Campaign in april to Alert the estimated 8 Mil lion to 11 million americans who have Bee exposed to Asbestos since world War ii about its Long term effects. The hew study said at least 2.15 million of those workers will die from Asbestos re lated diseases or 67,000 a year for the next 30 to 35 years. It blamed Asbestos for 17 percent of All cancer cases. The study says 5.8 million workers were potentially exposed to arsenic benzene Vinyl Chloride Coal tar pitch and Coke oven emissions which could cause 1 percent to 3 percent of All cancers each year. Some 7.5 million workers potentially were exposed to four other substances chromium Iron oxide Nickel and Petroleum distillates which could cause 3 percent to 18 percent of the cancers the study  total for All chemicals would be 38 percent the top Range for the cancer toll estimates. 390,000 deaths a year the National cancer Institute says 390, 000 americans die from cancer  new 20 percent minimum estimate for All worker deaths from chemicals would mean 78,000 deaths. The number of new cancer cases diagnosed each year is 700,000.the study listed a dozen occupations in which it said the workers showed excessive cancer rates but they have not been traced to any single chemical. They included Coal miners chemists foundry work ers textile workers printing Pressman Metal miners Coke byproduct workers cadmium production workers and Lead rubber Wood and leather  Al Cio convention on worker safety was called to rally opposition to proposal that would exempt businesses with fewer than 10 employees in non Hazar Dous industries from inspections by Osha. Anne Hearst Anne Hearst Speaks out in sister s defense san Francisco up Patricia Hearst s sister Anne is speaking out publicly for the first time about the imprison ment of the newspaper heiress convicted of robbing a Bank while in the company of her kidnappers. Anne Hearst 22, told a local television interviewer that people will someday be shocked that after what she went through she could be  sym ionese liberation army members William and Emily Harris pleaded guilty on aug. 31 to charges of kidnapping Patri Cia from her Berkeley apartment in 1974. I m very glad they came out the Way they did As viciously As they did an Esaid on a Pix to newscast. I thought it was Good for some of the people in this country to really take a look at the har rises and see what they re really like. A lot of people thought she kidnapped herself or ran off or  Patricia Hearst s abduction evolved intone of the most bizarre cases in . Crimi Nal history when eight weeks after shews forcibly taken away she announced in tape recorded Public messages that she. Wanted to stay with her Sla captors. Two weeks later april 15, 1974, she took part in the robbery of a san Francisco Bank. Captured with members of the Sla in1975, she a underwent a Long highly publicized trial and was convicted of the Bank robbery in 1976. Cops arrest Spock 10 others in . Seabrook . Up baby doctor Benjamin Spock and 10 other protesters were arrested by state police tuesday noncriminal trespass charges in the fourth illegal demonstration in a month at the $2.3billion Seabrook nuclear Power Plant. Three of the protesters among them Spock s second wife Mary Morgan re fused to walk to waiting police vans an were dragged part of the Way. The protesters were taken to the Hamp ton town jail for arraignment. Spock 75, lives near Rogers Ark. Theother protesters Are from new Hampshire and  s demonstration was the fourth illegal protest at the Plant since construction resumed aug. 14 following a three week pause ordered by the nuclear regulatory commission. Forty six protesters were arrested in the earlier demonstrations. Now that All Legal avenues to halt construction have been exhausted and the government has made a grossly mis guided decision to allow the building to continue we have no recourse other than civil disobedience the protesters said in a statement issued before their Demon stration. We will use every Means at our disposal to dramatize the insanity of the present system they said