European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday december 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 sponsors cancel to Salute to Reagan new York a 60-Minutc historical program that traced Reagan s career from movies k presiden tial inauguration was cleared to air feb. 6 Reagan s birthday in 95 percent of the United slates including the lop so television markets and Alaska and Hawaii. Love said. Most of those major Market stations had scheduled it in prime Lime he added. The him was a joint production of Daniel Selznick son of David o. Sci Zmock and a Friend of first lady Nancy Reagan and French television. It was shown on French to in 1984, but has never been broadcast in the United states when inc Iran scandal broke the National Advertis ers began calling to Bow out of inc project. Love said. He refused to name the advertisers but said they arc major corporations that you see in network commercials All inc then Scal a letter to stations that had arranged to air the special to announce it would be cancelled. Due to circumstances beyond our control resulting in major sponsor withdrawals we regret to inform you that Reagan s Way must be cancelled. It cannot be aired As planned without the necessary advertising White House decoration eight year old Byron White threw a switch thursday to set red and Blue lights twinkling on the National Christmas tree on the White House Lawn. A crowd of 6,500 cheered. Actor Jim Nabors the is. Coast guard band and the Philadelphia boys choir provided music. Abc to Weatherman h Illard Scott dressed As Santa Claus was the master of ceremonies. Porss be smoking risks downplayed by report new York up a study commissioned by inc tobacco Industry says that it would take 550 continuous hours in an office or 400 hours in a restaurant for a non smoker to be exposed to the nicotine equivalent of one cigarette. The tobacco Insl Itule s study was presented in reaction to attempts by City slate and Federal governments to forbid smoking in Public places. The general services administration last week ordered reasonably smoke free areas set aside in its 7,500 build Ings. Ami smoking Laws Are pending in new York cily and state and several cities have already passed such Laws. This study clearly shows that environmental tobacco smoke should not be an environmental concern to persons who work and Eal in new York said Scott Stapf an Institute spokesman. An american cancer society spokes Man however said other studies on inc effect of passive smoking in the work place and restaurants show that non smokers risk health problems. Involuntary smoking increased the risk of cancer by about 30 percent said acs spokesman Larry Garkinkle. State and municipal health officials Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1946 in a dinner at new York s hotel Aslor the . Commemorated he 50th anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel the inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel prize funds. 30 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1956 Yugoslavia s former vice president and leading communist Milovan Djilas was sentenced in Belgrade to three years hard labor for spreading propaganda hostile to the state radio Belgrade announced. 20 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1966 Francis chichi scr 65, landed in Sydney Australia after com letting the longest non Stop recorded voyage Ever made by a solitary Sailor. Theri Tish Mariner spent 107 Days at sea and sailed 13,750 Miles ? 0 years ago today. Dec. 13, 1976 Federal aviation administration officials flunked the supersonic French British concorde Jel in its midterm noise tests at Dulles International Airport. The 1,300-Mph Jet was twice As loud on Takeoff As conventional jets. Denied staffs accusation that they pro posed the bans to reach a political goal of a smoke free environment by 1990. As urged by surgeon general Everett Koop. We Are not part of a nationwide lock step in that direction said Peter Slocum of inc stale health department. The tobacco Industry study was car ried out by undercover researchers in new York City each carrying an air Quality testing device hidden in a Brief Case. They reported that smoking causes minimal health risks to non smoking workers and diners. Samples collected at 48 eating places of both the luxurious and fast food variety where smoking is permitted showed it would take More than 400 continuous hours for ii diner to be exposed to the nicotine equivalent of a single cigarette said Gray Robertson president Olava Atlantic inc., a Fairfax va., air testing company researchers said thai after studying 47 offices icy had determined that it would require More than 550 uninterrupted hours for a non smoking worker to face the risk posed by a one cigarette. Robertson said the study concentrated on Large corporations with air circulation systems a zip a Dee Doo Dah Christma Sinstead of a White Christmas it s Senna be a red hot Christmas when i
