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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978
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to dispel 6 chemophobm
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In an un
usual move, a major chemical
company and an environmental
group that is one of its severest
critics are considering collaborat
ing on an advertisement about
the hazards of chemicals.
Involved in the project are
Monsanto Co., a large producer
of paints, plastics and other
products, and the Environment
al Defense Fund, a group that
has spotlighted hazardous issues
ranging from chemically treated
children’s sleepwear to hair dyes,
sleepwear to hair dyes.
The ad would state that the
country seems beset by
"chemophobia, ” an irrational
fear that all chemicals are bad,
and cancer is an inevitable re
sult. The ad would seek to dispel
that notion, and say that while
some chemicals are bad, most
are safe when properly handled.
It would also say the
environmental group and the
company agree that hazardous
chemicals should be removed
from the market, and that prog
ress along that line is being
made.
Existence of the project,
which EDF has circulated to its
members for a sampling of opin
ion before proceeding, was dis
closed by the Environmental
Health Letter, a Washington-
based publication.
Monsanto has been almost as
outspoken as EDF on the chemi
cal issue, particularly since the
Food and Drug Administration
proposed a ban on a plastic soft
drink bottle the firm was about to
introduce, causing it to close
plants and leaving it with a stock
of useless containers.
EDF, a year ago, criticized the
company’s resulting “Chemical
Facts of Life” advertising cam
paign as distorted, and the com
pany made some changes in it.
But EDF maintains the company
is still running ads that “extol the
benefits of chemicals in a mis
leading way.”
The idea for the joint ad grew
out of the discussions between
Monsanto and EDF.
A Monsanto spokesman said
the joint Monsanto-EDF ad has
already been test marketed in
magazines in a number of cities.
The test market results have
now been turned over to EDF
which is studying them and the
results of its own poll. If EDF
and Monsanto agree on the
project, the company would pay
for the ad.
Soviets ahead, specialist says
Space arms crucial to defense
Blumenthal says tighter controls,
import cuts may reduce inflation
United Press, International
TULSA, Okla.— An increase in
non-agricultural exports and a cut in
oil imports accompanied by tighter
spending controls should strengthen
the dollar and reduce inflation.
Treasury Secretary W. Michael
Blumenthal said.
Blumenthal, speaking Tuesday to
the Tulsa U, gave a favorable as
sessment of recent economic de
velopments and the efforts of Presi
dent Carter to control the nation’s
economy.
"Just looking at the trade figures,
_ we see a strong trend in favor of a
ec nmic ox j U |j S t an tj a j reduction in the trade
R deficit,” Blumenthal said.
"Over the last three months,
there has been a 30 percent increase
in United States non-agricultural
exports compared with the prior
period. At the same time, over the
same three months, there has been
an increase of only 8 percent in the
non-petroleum imports into the
United States as compared with a 40
percent increase in the prior six-
month period.
The deficit and the federal
budget is coming down substantially
again in 1980, as we move toward a
balance in the subsequent period,”
Blumenthal said. “There will be a
real attack is being made on this
problem of inflationary regulations.
The energy bill has passed and that
will mean an immediate reduction
in imports of oil. Imports of oil have
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already come down.”
Blumenthal said such develop
ments should have a favorable effect
on the nation’s economy.
United Pr^ss International
HOUSTON -^The Soviet Union,
with powerful rocket boosters, is
better equipped for “space warfare’
than the United States, a aerospace
critic says.
James E. Oberg, a Johnson Space
Center computer specialist and lay
lecturer for the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Tuesday said the United States has
further to go ip developing similar
capability.
Oberg said space warfare would
involve weapons that could destroy
communications and missile
monitoring satellites that are crucial
to U.S. defense.
He emphasized his opinions were
based on an informed reading of ma
terial available to the public and
were strictly hfs own views, not
those of NASA or the federal gov- -
eminent.
“Once you develop the hardware,
it implies intentions or at least po
tential of using it, he
The United States
been slow to develop
satellite capability, Oberg said
“It’s something the U.S. has re
frained from developing,” he said.
“They re now being developed. The
president has developed a com
prehensive and very well thought-
out military space policy which is
now being implemented.”
Oberg said the Soviets apparently
have demonstrated anti-satellite
capability in lower Earth orbit and
they could he even more effective if
developed for geosynchronous or
bit.
Geosynchronous orbit exists
23,000 miles Out, where a satellite is
stationary in relation to a point on
Earth. Oberg said it is used for key
communications satellites, includ
ing those that would give early
warning of missile attack.
Oberg said it appears the Soviets
have large enough rocket boosters
and a tested mechanism that would
work in deep space. The weapon
goes into orbit behind its target and
fires shrapnel into it.
The question I would raise is
what capabilities must they have in
addition to what they have now to
be able to do that. I would suggest
there aren’t that many things they
have left to do, speaking as a
layman.”
Oberg criticized members of the
aerospace industry for failing to in
form the public of the negative as
well as the positive possibilities of
space.
" The major concern I have is that
I ve seen that the concept of war in
space is a poorly understood one by
the public. I think it’s the responsi
bility of the aerospace professionals
to get the facts out and dispel the
fictions.”
Oberg participated in the 25th
annual conference of the American
Astronautical Society in Houston.
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