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Eerie Drive. The following day, after taking the Kissinger shuttle to Damascus, we were driven by the Syrians in the direction of Mount Hermon, along a completely unprotected road. There were few houses. Once in a while we spotted an antiaircraft site or Soviet rocket installations. The drive was eerie. We felt as if we were standing absolutely naked in a town square. Anyone could look down at us from Mount Hermon and even from the smaller hills below it. There was no place to hide...
...Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Environmental Health has suggested that the persistence of the fiber once it comes into contact with lung tissue may result not only in asbestosis but in other sarcomas and cancers besides mesothelioma. Selikoff, the leading authority in this area of asbestos research, subsequently examined mortality figures for 18,000 American and Canadian asbestos workers. He found that the death rate among them from lung cancer was six times that found in the general population. Deaths from gastro-intestinal cancer or cancer of the esophagus were respectively four and six times more...
...stories that surround the forging of America's great men. In 1904 Douglas' minister father died after having moved the family to a tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment. His first teen-age encounter with...
...other uncertain elements figure in Kissinger's negotiations. One is the fighting around Mount Hermon, now in its third month. The battles on the mountain began as a Syrian "fight and talk" ploy to keep pressure on the negotiations by showing the Israelis that disengagement would be cheaper than continued occupation. But the Mount Hermon fighting is building in intensity and could get out of control. Israel last week lost five men; the week before, 14 were killed in one day. Kissinger this time also has to consider the Soviet Union, which played no significant part in the Israeli...
...risks to plastics workers are real. A research team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoffof New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine has found that workers at one plant are exposed to VC levels of 400 to 500 parts per million of the gas, more than enough to cause liver disease in rats. Workers involved in cleaning the reactors in which VC is converted to PVC are exposed to even higher concentrations of the gas. One study showed that VC levels in these cookers range from 600 to a whopping 1,000 parts per million...