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•liveswit NKW YORK — A Columbia
e why Idl'I'-rsiry scientist says the most
shetooltiw e an d widespread lead
ming in the history of man
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Lead-dust emissions from a
Itering plant in southeastern
aslavia, resulted in several
I of lead poisoning among
jig children, said Dr. Joseph
iano of Columbia Universi-
:o-author of a study pub-
, Tuesday in the Archives
will staying E nv j ronmenta i Health.
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■he study found that 12 per-
■ofchildren under 3 years of
■in Kosovka Mitrovica hatl
bre than twice the level of lead
I thierblood than is considered
ife. The study was conducted
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r Bordeaul
by Graziano and Dr. Dusan
Popovac of the Kosovska Mitro
vica Medical Center.
About 60,000 people live in
the vicinity of the Kosovka Mit
rovica lead smelter, one of the
largest in Europe, which spewed
six tons of lead dust into the air
daily in 1979.
The children, particularly
sensitive to lead poisoning, risk
convulsions, severe neurological
damage, coma and even death,
Graziano said.
“Yugoslavia has air quality
standards and laws similar to
those in the United States, but
there is no enforcement — thus
the current tragic situation,”
Graziano said.
“If current policies continue
in the United States, enforce
ment could virtually disappear
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■ United Press International
jbday is Thursday, Feb. 18,
j9th day of 1982 with 316 to
gw.
he moon is moving toward
few phase.
[he morning stars are Mer-
I, Venus. Mars, Jupiter and
iturn.
■here is no evening star,
■hose born on this date are
gei the. sign of Aquarius.
I American philanthropist
Trge Peabody was born Feb.
795.
n this date in history:
—i. ■ r ll n 1861, Jefferson Davis was
n the into! y n] j nto 0 pf- lce as president of
let onfederate States of Amer-
Houston Montgomery, Ala.
lt b enia l l In 1930, the planet Pluto was
said thejjBjverecl by astronomer Clyde
:d a nori; |>ni Baugh at the I .ovell Obser-
ise thecotKp^. j n Flagstaff, Ariz.
Deen ok & 1967, nuclear phvsicist
e was re'®! • ‘
a new t» I
In 1980, Pierre Elliot
Trudeau and the Liberal party
to power in
were returned
Canada.
A thought for the day: Tho
mas Jefferson said: “I hold that a
little rebellion now and then is a
good thing, and as necessary in
the political world as storms in
the physical.”
as it has in Yugoslavia.”
Children in Kosovska Mitro
vica were examined in February
and August 1978 and in Decem
ber 1980 for the study by Popo
vac and Graziano, an associate
professor of pharmacology jo
pediatrics at Columbia Univerd-
ty’s College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
The level of lead in the bbod
had increased each time and
more than one child in 1* had
severe poisoning.
Twelve percent of the chil
dren had levels of 70 micro
grams per deciliter, and the rest
had lower levels. The levels con
sidered safe is 29 mcrograms
per deciliter.
Children are extrenely sensi
tive to lead poisoning because of
undeveloped nervous systems
and hand-to-mouth activity
which virtually guarantees the
ingestion of lead dust.
Kosova’s rich coal and miner
al resources have brought major
industry to the poor farming
area. As a result of the lead smel
ter, an overwhelming majority
of the 60,000 people living near
by have dangerously high levels
of lead in their blood.
The enormous lead emissions
probably contribute to the high
rates of infant mortality, miscar
riage and other serious health
By Scott McCvllar Bystander
helps nab
suspect
United Press International
BAYTOWN — A witness to a
robbery of the First American
Bank on Tuesday ran to a police
car stopped on the street,
jumped in and helped an officer
chase down a suspect.
Police charged Baytown con
struction worker Mark Cepani-
ca, 31, with robbing the bank of
more than $12,000, and they
held him in lieu of $20,000
bond. Officers praised the work
of eyewitness Ismael Cano, 34.
“Cano is the hero of the day,”
a police spokesman said. Cano, a
garage mechanic, said a five-
mile chase to catch the suspect
did not scare him because he
had done high-speed road tests.
“It was just one of those
things,” he said. “I think any
citizen should help. I just did my
duty and didn’t think about my
safety.”
The money from the bank
was found in Capanica’s car af
ter he crashed into a parked car.
Capanica had painted himself
black and was wearing an Afro
wig. Police said he forced a bank
drive-in teller to give him a
strong box with the money by
threatening her with a .357
Magnum pistol.
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»roblems in the Yugoslav com-
inunity, he said.
The study was done for the
World Bank, which is funding
redevelopment in the Yugoslav
city. As a part of the funding
arrangement, facilities built can
not be detrimental to health of
people in the surrounding area.
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