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WINAMAC, Ind. — Michael A.
Cosentino wants to return to his job,
his family and his fishing boat when
his pressure-packed role ends as pro
secutor in the reckless homicide trial
involving Ford Motor Co.’s Pinto
automobile.
Consentino, the 45-year-old
Elkhart County prosecutor, may
need some rest when his court battle
against the powerful Detroit auto-
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maker is over. Testimony began
Monday in the trial of Ford. The
highly complex case could drag on
for weeks or months.
Ford was indicted by an Elkhart
County grand jury on charges that
certain models of its Pinto auto
mobile were of falty design. The
charges resulted from a fiery acci
dent involving a Pinto in which three
young women were killed near
Goshen, Ind. in 1978.
The battle between Cosentino and
Ford has been called a David vs.
Goliath confrontation — a small
town prosecutor vs. the powerful
corporate attorneys.
Cosentino said that it’s not easy
taking on the case with only a
$20,000 budget from the Elkhart
Countys commissioners.
“If it hadn’t been for volunteers
including a deputy prosecutor and
two law school professors, I would
have been over (budget) a long time
ago,” he said.
“Ford has the best of everything
money can buy. I’m not saying they
shouldn’t do it, but it’s just that every
time I turn around I run into the top
legal people on legal briefs, op&
ions, everything,” he said.
But despite lack of funds, Consen-
tino said that he is enjoying tl»
chance to do trial work, sometliiig
he doesn ’t do a lot of in his civil pi*
tice.
Whether he wins or loses, Cot.
sentino says he has no ambitions li
remain in the spotlight after a settle,
ment in the landmark ease.
“My ambitions are to return ti
Elkhart County, my good civil pi*,
tice and (to) remain prosecutor, ke
said.
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CHICAGO — Despite years of
medical warnings, the fireproofing
material asbestos is still widely used
in America and could account for half
a million deaths by the end of the
century, a researcher warns.
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount
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caused by asbestos since its introduc
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now beginning to show up.
Selikoff predicts that 20,000 asbes
tos-related deaths will occur each
year by the end of the century unless
there is a massive public health cam
paign to eliminate its use.
“In the period between World
War II and the end of this century,
well over half a million Americans
will have died of asbestos-related
diseases, ” Selikoff said in this week ’s
edition of the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association.
He said 700,000 tons of asbestos is
still being used each year in the Un
ited States, chiefly in products such
as cement pipe, brake linings, paper
products and textiles.
threat.
Aside from “meager attempts lo
regulate new asbestos use and to
monitor occupational exposure, vii-
tually nothing is being done to re
medy the public health failure and
turn back the legacy of death iron
asbestos,” he said.
Most recently, its use in home hair
dryers touched off a public health
scare that resulted in the manufac
turers’ voluntary recall of many of
the dryers.
Selikoff said an epidemic of asbes
tos-related diseases is a public heal
failure rather than a failure of the
medical profession.
Research linking asbestos with
cancer and other noncurable illnes
ses began surfacing more than a de
cade ago. Because it often takes 25 to
30 years from the time of asbestos
exposure until the disease symptoms
occur, Selikoff said Americans are
already facing a major public health
“We have made an unconscious
decision to accept some level of mot-
tality as the price we must payforis
usefulness,” he said.
Selikoff said he does not believ
there is any “safe” level of exposun
to asbestos and the only way tod
minate its diseases is to eliminatetlit
material.
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COLUMBUS — Almost any col
lege student can figure out how to
divide three pizzas among four
people.
But on a mathematics placement
test, half of Ohio State University’s
8,000 freshmen couldn’t figure it out
mathematically.
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need some kind of remedial math
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