European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 4, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7no cancer shipyard link report finds by Keith Schneider the new York times Portsmouth . After 13 years of investigation a team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University has concluded that naval shipyard workers at Portsmouth and at seven other ports were not harmed by Low Levels of radiation while overhauling the Navy s Fleet of nuclear submarines and ships. The $10 million study financed by the department of Energy is based on the work and medical records of More than 70,000 millwrights welders painters electricians pipe fitters machinists and other skilled employees who repaired and refuelled the Navy a nuclear Fleet. It is the largest health study conducted in the United states on the effects of Low Levels of radiation on an Industrial work Force. It is almost certain to be cited by advocates of the nuclear Industry As evidence that minor Levels of radiation Are not dangerous. The Navy made the study Public in mid september but it has received scant attention. Other experts said last week that the study although Well conceived and impressively executed nevertheless had limitations that had to  before definitive conclusions could be drawn. Perhaps the most important weakness they said was that the researchers stopped tracking death records in 1981, which they said was not late enough for cancers associated with radiation to begin to appear in Many workers. A it would not be difficult to update the death records and then we would have a better idea Quot said or. Thomas Najarian. A specialist in internal Medicine from Belmont mass. A some of the cancers have a 15 or 20-year  the Johns Hopkins study was led by or. Genevieve m. Matanoski a professor of epidemiology. A if i d come out and said radiation caused a Large risk of cancer everybody would have come out and listened and this study would have attracted a great Deal of  she said in an interview. A this population right now in t showing a risk and that s Good. It s also Good sometimes to spend a Little Money to make sure we re controlling risks from radiation adequately and it seems we have  in addition to Portsmouth the installations examined in the study were the electric boat division of the general dynamics corp. In Groton. Conn. The Charleston naval shipyard in South Carolina the Mare Island naval shipyard in Vallejo Calif. The Newport news shipbuilding and dry Doek co. In Newport news a. Norfolk naval shipyard in Virginia Pearl Harbor naval shipyard in Hawaii and the puget sound naval shipyard in Bremerton a. The study began in 1978, several months after Najarian concluded that nuclear workers at the Portsmouth naval shipyard might have developed higher rates of leukaemia than would otherwise be expected. Najarian then a 30-year-old physician at the Jamaica Plains veterans administration Hospital in Boston was told by a patient who worked at the Portsmouth shipyard that some employees were concerned about their exposure to radiation. Najarian began a study but before publishing the results in a scientific journal. He brought his work to the Boston Globe which published a front Page article in 1977 that raised a nationwide tempest in the Field of Medicine. Najarian s research later published in the lancet a British medical journal was among the first to link Low Levels of radiation a comparable to what the average american receives in a year from natural sources a to higher incidences of cancer. Several studies conducted since then on workers in the Energy department s nuclear weapons Industry in civilian nuclear Power plants and in nuclear plants overseas have reached similar  disaster film director Irwin Allen Dies by Hugo Martin the los Angeles times Hollywood Irwin Allen the director and producer of such science fic Tion adventures and disaster epics As voyage to the Bottom of the sea the Poseidon adventure and towering inferno died saturday of a heart attack. He was 75. Allen had been in poor health for several months said an associate. A spokeswoman for Santa Monica Hospital medical Center where Allen was taken by his wife Sheila just before 7 . Saturday said he was pronounced dead a Short time later. A the was one of a kind and he contributed a great Deal to the Industry with his talents and creativity and he will be greatly missed by those who loved him a said his wife of 16 years. Allen is Best known As the benevolent King of disaster movies which he popularized in the mid and late 1970s. While some critics called his productions childishly entertaining and his characters shallow his films captivated audiences with their grand scale special effects and top name actors such As Steve Mcqueen and Paul Newman. As , writer and director he was known among colleagues As a soft spoken perfectionist who became boys Fly excited while directing his action sequences. Al Gail Allens Cousin and associate said Allen s greatest trait was loyalty to his actors. A the practically never fired anyone a Gail said. Among those Allen called upon to appear in several of his movies were Newman Ernest Borgnine red buttons Michael Caine and Peter Lorre. Following the filming in 1974 of the towering inferno Allen boasted about keeping his actors protected from harm. A i spent two years and $14,733,000 making the towering inferno. Twelve stars. Daily Calls for 300 stunt people a the biggest Calls for stunt people in history. It was like staging world War a a he said. A and with All those burning buildings not a hair of one of my actors was  while disaster and science fiction films were his Forte he won his Only Oscar for his 1952 directorial debut in the sea around us a documentary about Ocean life. Allen came to Hollywood from new York in 1938 and worked As a Magazine editor a Hollywood newspaper columnist and literary agent before turning to filmmaking in 1951. He produced his first feature film in 1952, a comedy called a girl in every port starring Groucho Marx and William Bendix. In the Early 1960s, he turned to adventure and science fiction films such As the lost world the Story of a professor sent to confirm reports of prehistoric life on a South african plateau and voyage to the Bottom of the sea. The tale of a Navy Admiral who takes scientists in a futuristic atomic submarine to explore a Belt of radiation. As a television producer he was responsible for several popular science fiction series in the late 1960s, including lost in space land of the giants Swiss family Robinson and voyage to the Bottom o f the sea a spin off of the movie. But his biggest hit came in 1974 with the towering inferno a $14 million production that starred Mcqueen Newman William Holden Faye Dunaway Fred Astaire and a 137-Story skyscraper destroyed by fire on the night of its inauguration. The movie grossed More than $400 million and won glowing reviews for its relentless action and spectacular special effects. Funeral services Are scheduled for wednesday. Irwin Allen shown in a 1985 photo. Extras turn out to audition for role in Malcolm x film by new Day new York a a Little fun in hard times a Little nod to old dreams a Chance to dress up in Vintage clothes and veiled hats culled from the inner recesses of momus closet hundreds of people lined up around the Block outside the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem on saturday to sign up As extras for Spike Leeds movie about the life of Malcolm x. A in the shelter they have a wardrobe and in a sure i can find something appropriate a said Carlton Jenkins 42, one of eight residents of the Harlem one menus shelter who came to Volunteer for crowd scenes set in the �?T40s and 60s. A i have a Nice Blazer that a �?T40sish,�?� Jenkins figured. A it s just a matter of being  Tracy Yvonne Young 20, was first in line for the casting Call arriving at 7 . A i always wanted to be an actress but my mom  Atford to Send me to acting school Quot said Young who wore a borrowed circa 1940 fur collared coat and carried a pair of Black pumps purchased especially for the occasion. Once the doors opened a woman in Leeds employ explained the ground rules a men if you re going to work in 1962 you have to be clean shaven a and a every single woman has to have red lipstick a compact nude stockings and a solid coloured  then the hopeful extras rushed to stand in line again in front of tables where they could sign up to appear in one or More scenes. One woman complained that the interviewer had not noted her entire stage name. Another with some experience in the Field noted that Eddie Murphy was paying extras $100 a Day to appear in his upcoming movie compared with Lee s rate of $40 a Day for some scenes and for others a Malcolm x to shirt and a raffle ticket for assorted prizes including a trip to Las  americans polled oppose privacy probes new York up a substantial majority of americans Are worried about businesses and the government prying into their personal lives according to a poll released saturday. But just As Many think companies should be allowed to require employees to take drug tests. The time Magazine can poll on privacy issues found that 76 percent of those surveyed were somewhat or very concerned about the amount of computerized information that business and the government collects and stores about them. The concern was slightly higher a 78 percent a when the question focused specifically on worries about the Federal government Quot credit organizations and credit companies. Drug testing was another question however. Just 19 percent of those polled said employers should not lie allowed to require employees to take drug tests. Seventy six percent said companies should be allowed to insist on such tests. When asked about specific privacy issues the 500 adults polled overwhelmingly supported moves to limit the ability of companies to collect and sell information. The Survey found that 93 percent believed that such companies should be re suited by Law to ask permission from individuals before making information available and that 88 percent believed they also should be required to allow individuals Access it the data so errors could be corrected. Ninety percent said that such companies should he barred entirely from Selling information on their income 86 percent said they should be barred from Selling information on their Bill paying history and 83 percent said the same should apply to Selling information on their medical history. When it came to questions about employers 95 percent said they should not he allowed to Monitor employee phone conversations and 67 percent said companies should not be allowed to Check the credit histories of Job applicants