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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1985
Page
1
Partly cloudy today with highs in the 20s to low 30s and overnight lows around 10 to 20. Snow is possible in the southwest Monday as a cold front moves through. Highs stay in the 20s across the region. See 15A for details.
The article traces asbestos from ancient uses in sacred lamps to modern industrial applications. It notes friable asbestos as a major health hazard in the last 15 years, linked to asbestosis mesothelioma and lung cancer, while detailing its wide range of products and claimed miracle status.
This first of a four part series outlines asbestos dangers in the United States as scientific evidence links exposure to disease and death. It notes a 70 percent drop from a 1970s peak and EPA school inventories, with warnings and removal driving a growing industry and mounting litigation. local workers from Cedar Rapids have died since 1963 from asbestos related cancers.
Two explosions at Galeries Lafayette and Printemps wounded 39 shoppers in Paris as rescue workers reported 12 with serious burns. Authorities noted anonymous calls claiming responsibility by a Palestine Liberation Front faction linked to Abul Abbas, while police increased security at the National Assembly.
In Moscow a Tass denial contradicts blasphemous hunger strike rumors about Andrei Sakharov. Meanwhile his wife Yelena Bonner arrives in Newton Massachusetts for treatment and reunions, plans phone contact with Sakharov in Gorky, and faces ongoing family concern over his exile and health.
A light joke notes that rapid travel erodes ties with distant relatives, rendering kin connections less common in the era of fast moving transit. The quip plays on speed and distance as social distance in a humorous way.
Retired justice Potter Stewart, a key swing vote on the Supreme Court for 23 years, died Saturday at 3:20 p.m. in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Hanover New Hampshire five days after a stroke. He was 70.
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