European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and Stampes monday March 14,1988 lung diseases declared top Job related Hazard new York a some 65.000 americans each year develop lung diseases from on the Job causes making lung disease the most common preventable cause of Job related illness and death in the country the american lung association said saturday. Long term exposure to cancer causing substances in the work place for example is blamed for about 16.000 lung cancer deaths a year the association said in its 1987 annual report. That is about 12 percent of the Nalion s local lung cancer deaths last year the association said. Among the work place substances that cause lung cancer Are arsenic a Hazard in the Oil refining smell ing and mining industries Asbestos in Asbestos milling and manufacture insulation and shipyard work chromium used in Glass making potting and Bat cry Mak ing Nickel in Nickel refining and Petroleum products and oils the association said. Not everyone in those industries is exposed to those substances however the association noted. Other Job related lung diseases include chronic bronchitis a stiffening of lung tissue called pulmonary fibrosis and Industrial asthma the association said. On other topics the annual report said smokers who kick the habit have to wait 10 Yean or More before their risk of lung cancer Falls to about that of people who have never smoked. But that should not discourage smokers from quil Ting because squirting causes an immediate and dra Matic plunge in the risk of other diseases especially emphysema and chronic bronchitis the report says. The report also Calls lung cancer statistics on Blacks horrendous resulting from higher percentages of smokers among Black men and women than among Whites. In 1985, about 41 percent of Black men age 20 and older smoked compared with about 32 percent for White men while about 32 percent of Black women smoked compared with 28 percent of White women the association said. From 1973-84, the lung cancer death rate among Black men Rose 25 percent from 64.3 deaths per 100,000 population to 80.3, three limes faster than the rate among White men the association said in a Sepa rate statement. For Black women the death rate nearly doubled from 11.9 per 100,000 population to 20.4, the association said. Firefighters work along the Edge of a Brush fire line about 10 Miles Northeast of Baird Texas on saturday. Texas Brush fire under control Albany Texas a a major Brush fire thai destroyed tens of thousands of acres of West Texas Prairie land appeared under control late saturday afternoon. For parts of Friday and saturday the fire threatened the towns of Albany and Moran in Shackelford county and Baird in Northern Callahan county but three Tanker air planes helped contain the Blaze by dropping firc retardant  least 265,000 acres were burned and officials said the dry Windy weather continued to pose a danger that the fire could rekindle. Sam Logan Public information officer for the Texas Forest service said the grass fires that ravaged much of Shackelford county and pans of Callahan and Throckmorton counties since thursday were under control and the Forest service was beginning its mop up operation. That la take about two Days Logan said. But headed. Well continue to keep an Eye on it because with the Strong winds and Low humidity just a spar could Start it up All Over  most of the fires appeared to be Interior ones thai Likely would Burn themselves out where they were officials  guardsmen and other military personnel used heavy equipment such As bulldozers and scrapers to build  idea is to get the grass Down real Short so that if a fire jumps a Street it does t ignite said . William Cross from Dyess fab in Abilene. The fire killed livestock burned trailer Homes an oilfield equipment and closed roads across parts of an area 60 Miles Long and 25 Miles  265,000 acres of rang Cland had burned in Shackelford county alone or roughly half the county said Joe Fox of the Texas Forcel service. Albany a town of about 2,500, is the county scat. Smaller acre Ages were bumped in the other two affected counties officials  officials at the request of Texas emergency management officials approved Aid to help reimburse the state for expenses in fighting the Blaze which began thursday from a trash  Fly a spokesman for the Texas Forest serv ice in Lufkin said Crews arriving from around the stale gave tired Forest service Crews volunteers and National guardsmen the Chance to res numerous firefighters among hundreds battling the Blaze have suffered injuries from minor bums an smoke inhalation said Tom of twee of the division of emergency , another Range fire in Val verde county about 300 Miles to the Southwest consumed about60,000 acres before it was brought under control. Stateside Greenspan says . Must Cut budget deficit san Francisco. Calif. A the United states must take bold controversial actions to control Federal spending in order to reduce the huge budget deficit. Federal Reserve chair Man Alan Greenspan  also indicated that the fed will continue making the Battle against High inflation the Cornerstone of its Long term monetary policy. Greenspan at a luncheon held by the Federal Reserve s 12th District Banks emphasized that future Federal budget cuts not tax increases would be a major Factor in bringing Down the massive deficit former japanese Leader wants closer ties with . San Francisco up ii former Japa Nese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has called for a closer relationship Between the United Stales and Japan in solving problems facing China Vietnam the Philippines and North an South Korea. Through a Pacific initiative an Exchange of ideas anal cooperative efforts Nakasone said the two nations could transform the Pacific truly into an Ocean of peace and  by working together the . And Japan could help China and other asian countries achieve economic and democratic advances he said in prepared i Marks to the Asia foundation in san Francisco. Scientology group files medical malpractice suits Boston a a group formed by the Church of scientology has filed five medical malpractice lawsuits m Massachusetts against physicians who prescribed the drug ritalin to children to control supposed  citizens commission for human rights claims ritalin is dangerous and  maker of the drug not named in any of the suits denied All the group s  Clarke president of the commission that was formed in 1969, read aloud from medi Cal and psychiatric journals to Back up the group s claims when the group announced the suits with attorneys and two mothers who Are plaintiffs. The suits do not request specific dam Ages. . Board of regents to investigate Guidebook Albany . A the state Board of regents has begun an investigation of a Board member and a state education department employee who wrote a Guidebook designed to help students pass a new regents required Examina Tion. A statement issued by Board vice chancellors. Carlos Carballada said a four member regents committee would investigate circumstances sur rounding publication of the Book and any possibility of a conflict of  Guidebook designed to improve student performance on the new social studies evaluation test required of All sixth graders was writ ten by Regent Louise Matteoni and Renic Levitt an education department employee. Universities gave freebies to politicians paper says Philadelphia a Pennsylvania three major Public universities up Cal More than $185,000 to entertain politicians and guests a football games during toe past five years a Newt paper has  state Pittsburgh and Temple universities gave free tickets food and drinks to legislators and other government officials Many of whom regularly vote on the schools program Sand appropriations take the Philadelphia in  three schools have banded together to ask slate legislators to add $66 million to a $25 Mil lion increase Over last year s appropriation of $421.5 million proposed by gov. Robert Casey