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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, August 6,1979

Outlawing nuclear arms urged

Hiroshima recalled

By DEBORAH WOOD Associated Press Writer Americans recalled the grim memory of the first nuclear bomb attack with protests and arrests as relatives of victims paused in silence in Hiroshima, Japan, today the 34th anniversary of the city’s destruction during World War 11. lyjany of the U.S. protests were aimed at ending commercial, peacetime uses of nuclear power, but in Hiroshima

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Crisis at Chrysler United Auto Workers joins company's plea for $1 billion in federal support

By JONATHAN WOLMAN Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The United Auto Workers, assuming an active role in efforts to help the financially troubled Chrysler Corp., is backing the automaker’s request for federal aid while indicating the company may get a break in upcoming contract negotations. /,‘We are afraid for Chrysler; specifically we are afraid for thfi 135,000 families that depend on a Chrysler paycheck to buy groceries and pay the rent,” says a top UAW official. “It is too callous to kiss off one-third of the Big Three.” fThus, union President Douglas Fraser is informally lobbying in support of Chryslerr’s bid for $1 billion in federal aid. For those to whom such a rtiove might seem a federal “bail-out” and therefore be un-

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delegates from 22 nations marked the anniversary with a call to outlaw all nuclear arms. More than 30,000 persons attended ceremonies in Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb was first used in wartime on Aug. 6, 1945. In drizzling rain, they observed a minute of silence at 8:15 a m., the time the bomb was dropped. Then Mayor Takeshi Araki told the crowd, “We are faced with the urgent need to solve the

palatable, he proposes there be public representation on the Chrysler board of directors in exchange for federal help. “It is after all the citizens’ money, so it seems to me that the citizens ought to have representatives on the Chrysler board of directors,” he said. Fraser suggests that the government, the union and public interests ought to be represented on the board. And he suggests that the UAW may not hold Chrysler to the contract pattern that will be set this fall at either Ford Motor Co. or General Motors Corp. “There’s no point in blinding ourselves to the reality that this company (Chrysler) cannot now afford to compete on even terms with GM and Ford. It may mean a temperance in our Chrysler contract,” Fraser said Sunday following a speech at

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problems of atomic-bomb victims and those exposed to atomic radiation as an issue of international proportions.” The names of 2,090 more victims of the U.S. bombing, including 24 Koreans, were added to a scroll on the cenotaph in Peace Park, built as a memorial to the disaster. The scroll lists 95,685 known victims. The western Japanese seaport city was virtually wiped

the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies. “Chrysler workers understand the situation; we understand that we have responsibilities and obligations.” Many conference members, local activists who generally have an anti-corporate political outlook, are skeptical that Chrysler deserves government help. Fraser met the issue directly, contending that Chrysler “is in difficulty, in some measure, because of government regulations (emission and gasoline mileage) regulations that our union and I myself support.” He said Chrysler cannot meet upcoming emission and gasoline mileage requirements without shaving hundreds of pounds off its cars. This requires massive redesign and retooling and costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

out. Another 36,000 persons were killed in an attack on Nagasaki three days later, and thousands more died in the following months from the effects of radiation. The 1979 World Conference Against Hydrogen and Atomic Bombs opened Sunday, and the 12,000 delegates called for a total ban on nuclear arms and relief measures for an estimated 400,000 survivors of the 1945

U.S. farm exports to Eastern Europe rising, but insecure

By BRIAN B. KING Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Ex ports of U.S. farm products to Eastern Europe rebounded by about 31 percent last year to $1.17 billion, but an Agriculture Department trade economist is warning that the market is not yet secure. On the surface, the jump from S9OO million in shipments in 1977 to almost $1.2 billion last year, six times the level of 1970, seems encouraging, Thomas A. Vankai writes in today’s edition of Foreign Agriculture magazine. So does the recent weather damage to crops in the sevennation region. But, Vankai says, farmers and food exporters should look at these other developments, too: —Exports in 1976 were $1.45 billion, so last year’s level amounts to only a partial recovery. —Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia have plans to increase self-suf-ficiency in grains and oilseed products, which together comprise about 80 percent of the region’s imports from the United States. —ln the early 19705, improve-

bombings. Most of the U.S. demonstrations on Sunday were peaceful. But more than 200 persons were arrested at the Indian Point nuclear facility in Buchanan, N.Y., 40 miles north of New York City. There were also demonstrations in California, New Hampshire, Kentucky, lowa, Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado.

ment of their citizens’ diets was a top priority for these countries, as it was in the Soviet Union. But, Vankai wrote, “growth in livestock production appears unlikely to maintain (that) rapid pace. —The governments’ efforts to hold down food prices, which stimulate demand for more food, “may prove difficult to maintain in light of budgetary contraints and balance-of-pay-ments problems,” he said. Overall, he said, there has been “a general lowering of sights regarding import plans” throughout Eastern Europe. At the same time Vankai noted that “the overriding question ... is whether production goals in the region can be achieved. So far, performance has consistently fallen short of expectations, and there is good reason to believe this will be the case again.” But the juggling of retail food prices, import costs, domestic livestock herds and consumer demand is causing so many dislocations in Poland and East Germany, that imports of .feedgrains could be depressed in the near future, he wrote. Poland is the single most important customer, taking $516 million worth of U.S. farm products last year, followed by East Germany, with more than S2OO million. In a separate article, Judith G. Goldich, an international economist in another USDA agency, says that many of the products in the other 20 percent of the volume have “considerable growth potential.” Citrus, cotton, cattle hides, livestock and sunflower seed are among them. Her article pointed out that changes in government policies in Hungary and Bulgaria, the two smallest customers now, could mean more exports there. “The road to increasing or even maintaining sales of U.S. farm products could be bumpy,” Vankai concluded. “But with perserverance, inventiveness and competitiveness, the task can succeed, despite a possible decline in Eastern Europe’s total imports of agricultural products.” PERFECT TRUCKER PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - For the past 43 years, Frank Waldron, a trucker, has logged 3.5 million miles behind the wheel the equivalent of 140 times around the earth and has not been involved in an accident. Waldron, 67, who now drives for a Dallas transportation company, was honored recently as the national driver of the year by the American Trucking Association, Inc.

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U.S. overtures toward PLO spark bitter Israeli reaction

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli government sent the Carter administration a strong prptest against its overtures to the Palestine Liberation Organization as the Israeli-Egyptian talks on Palestinian autonomy resumed. Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s Cabinet at its weekly meeting Sunday ordered Ambassador Ephraim Evron to tell the U.S. government of Israel’s objections to the subtle U.S. feelers that have gone out to the PLO. President Carter has invited Evron to meet with him soon to discuss the latest Is-raeli-U.S dispute. In a bid to keep the tussle private, the Cabinet refused to release the contents of its message to Washington. Briefing reporters, Cabinet Secretary Arieh Noar would say only that Evron’s assignment “concerned diplomatic activities between Israel and

Researchers say 'cocoons' may block cancer defenses

BOSTON (AP) Cancerous tumors may be using the body’s own defense mechanisms in an elaborate camouflage to evade detection by the body’s natural guardians, a study shows. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital hope that by learning how to control the camouflage, they may find the key to controlling the growth of malignant tumors in humans. Their three-year study of tumors in animals shows that gelatinous cocoons produced by the tumors’ fluids may protect such growths from the body’s defenses against disease. Medical researchers had theorized that the body’s defenses could destroy tumors after identifying them as foreign matter. “I think most objective observers have to concede that this approach just hasn’t worked all that well,” said Dr. Harold F. Dvorak, chief of the hospital's immunopathology unit. Instead, his research team found, tumors turn the body’s defense mechanisms to the advantage of the disease. Normally, the body’s immune system finds proteins called antigens on the surface of tumor cells and treats them as foreign invaders. However, inside the cocoons, the tumors are safe from detection. Dvorak said the tumor se-

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the United States.” He was less reticent about reviewing Israel’s policy toward thePLO., _ “This syndicate of murderers was not, is not and never will be a partner for negotiations” with Israel, he said. A bomb Sunday near the Jerusalem City Hall injured two municipal gardeners, both Arabs. In Beirut, the Marxist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said it set off the bomb and claimed it injured “several Israelis.” Apparently trying to attract Palestinian support to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the Carter administration seems to be signaling that it would recognize the PLO if Yasser Arafat’s organization abandoned its declared goal of the destruction of the Jewish state and publicly recognized Israel’s right to exist. The administration also seems to hope

cretes an agent that causes blood vessels to leak. The blood contains two proteins: fibrinogen, which helps blood clot, and plasminogen, which dissolves clots. A substance secreted by the tumor converts the fibrinogen to fibrin gel, forming the cocoon. “If the tumor only laid down the gel around it, it would trap itself and be unable to grow,” Dvorak said. “So the tumor also produces material to convert the plasminogen into a very active enzyme which dissolves fibrin. The result is that as more gel collects on the outer fringe of the cocoon, fibrin closest to the tumor itself is eliminated, thus allowing the tumor to expand.” In this way, the doctor said, the tumor turns the body’s own mechanisms to the advantage of the disease. “I think the latest studies may ultimately open the door to

Airlines dominate

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scheduled airlines now account for 84 percent of intercity public passenger miles in the United States, with more than 300 million passengers expected to fly this year, according to the Air Transport Association. ATA President Paul R. Ignatius says, “The 1978 air traf-

it can soften Israel’s opposition to the PLO, which has been designated by the Arabs as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Despite Israeli objections, the United States has been trying to amend U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 to include a call for a Palestinian homeland and recognition of the Palestinians’ “legitimate rights.” Observers believe PLO recognition of such an amended resolution would be considered by the United States as acceptance of Israel’s right to exist since the resolution calls for the peaceful existence of all Mideast states. Israel opposes any tampering with Resolution 242, which wasadopted after the 1967 war andhas served as the basis for all-Arab-Israeli peace negotiations since then.

a whole new approach to tumor treatment,” Dvorak said. “At* present, using surgery, chemotherapy, of; radiotherapy, you have to kill every last tumor cell. If you miss one, then sooner or later it will grow and spread. “If we could just control these fibrin gel cocoons, we wouldn’t have to kill every last tumor cell. We could arrest the growth of the tumor cells instead and prevent them from causing harm.” Dvorak said it may be possible to prevent formation of the tumor-protecting gel by giving patients anti-clotting drugs. . • The researchers found the gelin two kinds of cancer in guinea pigs. They said they are not certain whether this phe-_ nomenon works exactly the same way in human beings. Results of the work were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

sic surge has continued through the winter and spring of 1979. There is the prospect that the airlines this year will carry more than 300 million passengers, continuing their predominant role in intercity public passenger service cent domestically and 95 percent to overseas points.