European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 6. 1980 the stars and stripes Page 5 $10 million expenditure Lead poisoning study draws employee rebuke Washington a the govern Mem has spent $10 million since 1972 Stu dying what to do about slum children who Poison themselves by eating the Lead in peeling paint and the latest report Calls for still More research. I am at a loss for words to describe my nausea said , Gray of the environmental rur Ards research division of the depart ment of housing and Urban development in an unusually candid memo to his superiors after he read the 88-Page report. He said that maybe the Best thing about the report is that it was so poorly done that few people would read it. The report was prepared at a com of $253.916 Over 20 months by the National Academy of sciences which was chartered by Congress and docs most of its research under government contract. I once thought that the 1972 Nas re port was not very Good and did not cast much Light on the subject of Lead poisoning but compared to this latest document the 1972 report was a Lighthouse and the recent report a firefly Gray wrote. This report is a Good example of the intellectual masturbatory activities engaged in by Nas at Federal Agency expense he added contending it merely reviewed Previ Ous research. The government has been worried about Lead in the air. Water food and paint since the Early 1970s, when it was estimated that Lead in paint eaten by children killed hundreds and caused irreversible brain damage permanently lowering is. Raphael g. Kasper the Nas official . Abandoning policy of even handedness for soviet Union and China who supervised the Lead Peinl study de fended it As a worthwhile expenditure of government Money. He said two do in outsiders commented on the study at length and Only officials Al Hud found fault. As for Gray s complaint that the study merely reviewed old research. Kasper said thai s exactly what people come to the Academy for. The value of gelling together a group of experts is to evaluate the state of knowledge to synthesize what s  the report s conclusions were sweeping and predictable. Says one efforts to control exposure to Lead should proceed with full acknowledge ment of the necessary imprecision of Esti mates of the costs risks and  another says control strategies should be based on coordinated integrated Mea sures to reduce exposures from All significant  and a third improved institutional mechanisms should be developed o permit a More systematic consistent approach to the management of Lead hazards. Washington a the United Stales formally abandoned is even handed policy toward China and the soviet Union wednesday slating instead that we will develop our relations with Chin i on their own  those developing relations will include transfers of sophisticated technology including technology with military  said Richard Holbrooke assist am Secretary of state for East asian affairs. Holbrooke delivered the policy statement in a speech to the National Council on .-China Trade. Eighteen months ago just after the normalisation of .-chinese diplomatic relations former Secretary of slate Cyrus Vance said the United states would try to be Wen handed in developing Trade and other relations with the soviets and the chinese. That policy was stillborn because of inc deterioration in .-soviet relations. Late last year the United states decided to extend most favored nation Trade Stalus to he chinese but nol to the soviets. A few months later in the Wake of the soviet inva Sion of Afghanistan the United states announced it would sell to China bul not the soviets technology with possible military applications. Holbrooke said thai the .-China Urcla Tran ship can no longer be viewed primarily As a whip both countries held against the soviets. In 1972. The impetus for . Chinese rapprochement was both sides de sire to count or soviet Power. Even in 1978. National Security adviser Zbigniew Urminski spoke of playing the China card against he soviets. While strategic factors remain a Central consideration in our relationship the famous triangular diplomacy of the Early 1970s is no longer an adequate conceptual framework in which to View relations with China Holbrooke said. Relations with China Are not a simple function of our relations with the soviet Union although the Pace of their Advance has been and will continue to be influenced by changes in the International Environ ment Holbrooke said. And of time in the stars and stripes. 30 years ago today june 6. I9so a prisoner so trusted he cooked the Warden s meals escaped from sing sine prison and authorities pressed a seaplane into the search for him. 20 years ago foday june 6, 1960 Santa Cru. Bank officials reported that a grocery clerk accepted a $20 Check signed by a. Ben f tad."10 years ago today june 6, 1970 an air Force recruit ing sergeant was relieved of duly because he was sending letters to Young men urging them to join the air Force m they would not become Cannon fodder in the army. Cad cos from Lehrl ski Tun. Sup Ruwis of the  s intelligence unit she runs inc place just like in other business and. As far As we can Tell she keeps accurate records. Claxton said the illegality of the business is strictly a police problem. As Long As she s operating we cup eco her to pay taxes on her Gross income. Whether she s in business tomorrow is up o someone  Saull sle. Marie police chief Edward  said the House remain open be cause in lakes a lol of manpower and a Long Lime to prove in court that prostitution Laws hate been broken. He described Brand As a Friendly and  Middle aped Woun the slate has filed a $23.000 tax claim against another area Broth cd which refused to pay taxes voluntarily. Both cases sle Mcd from a i97x raid on four brothels Between lakes Superior and Huron in inc upper Peninsula. Treasury officials estimate Brand s Gross annual income at $60.000 to $75.000. She pays monthly taxes of $120 to $150, based on an average daily wage of $50 for each of her employees. Officials said Brand left Blank the occupation space on inc Treasury forms. The stale officially considers her self pm  Celebration of Boston s Solh birthday. The cadets were guts is of Hull. I l world War ii hero Rosborough Dies Philadelphia a Brig Gen James c. Rosborough. A hero of the Baltic of inc bulge in world War ii. Has died Al his Home in suburban new town Square. Rosborough was 85. A Veteran of world War i Rosborough returned to Europe in world War ii As a lieutenant colonel in the 2hth div. During the Bailie of inc bulge the germans final big offensive on the Western from Kobo rough led a successful attack to Rescue a group of american troop w to had been Cut off by a Surprise attack. After the War. Rosborough served in the army Rescue. Attaining the rank of Briga Dier general. He retired in 1965