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...SENATE. In the old Senate caucus room the ten members of the select Senate committee were questioning CIA officials, including Director William Colby and the deputy director for science and technology, Sayre Stevens, about 11 gm. of shellfish toxin and 8 mg. of cobra venom discovered last May in a CIA storeroom (TIME, Sept. 22). No one could claim that the existence of the poisons as such was all that momentous, but the committee wanted to know why the lethal substances had been preserved. Besides, they made fascinating listening. To dramatize the Senators' concern, Committee Member Walter Mondale...
...months ago, CIA Director William Colby told the White House he had learned that someone had hidden away -presumably for future use-small amounts of the cobra and shellfish toxins at an agency lab in downtown Washington. The White House informed the Church committee, which this week will hold public hearings on the matter. Church hopes to discover whether the toxins were ever used in CIA assassination plots. He is even more concerned with the fact that the agency violated Nixon's command. The episode, he said, points up a "looseness of command and control within the CIA." According...
...earlier imposed restrictions on the use of Mirex, a powerful anti-ant pesticide. Starting in 1962, the Agriculture Department had sprayed Mirex from airplanes two or three times annually on infested areas. But in 1972 tests showed that when Mirex was washed into estuaries and bays, it killed shellfish. Experiments at the National Cancer Institute also indicated that it might cause cancer in humans. So the EPA cut the permissible number of aerial sprayings to only one a year and in 1973 began investigations-which are still continuing -to determine just how dangerous Mirex really might...
Most people associate viral hepatitis, a debilitating and potentially fatal liver disease, with polluted water, contaminated shellfish or unsterilized hypodermic needles. But there is another way that the water-borne hepatitis viruses can find their way into humans: by mosquito. Researchers from the New Jersey Medical School and the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, N.J., report in the A.M.A. Journal that they became suspicious after studying an epidemic of hepatitis that hit New Jersey in 1955. None of the victims was a drug addict, and none had eaten shellfish or come into contact with known hepatitis carriers...
Health Ministry officials blamed the outbreak (at week's end it had not yet reached epidemic proportions) not on contaminated drinking water, but on shellfish. Most of the victims, they explained, had eaten mussels, which were apparently taken from polluted waters around Italy and in North Africa. To prevent the disease from spreading any further, officials banned the sale and importation of shellfish throughout Italy and ordered large mussel beds in the Bay of Naples destroyed...