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World and Nation
Lawyer says companies polluted water
8 firms sued for children’s deaths
Associated Press
BOSTON — An attorney for
eight families asked a federal jury
Monday to find two major corpora
tions guilty of polluting public
drinking water wells, causing an out
break of childhood leukemia and the
deaths of Five children.
But attorneys for W.R. Grace and
Beatrice Foods said chemicals from
their plants in Woburn did not get
into the water. And they said that
even if they did, there was no credi
ble scientific evidence that the chem
icals could have caused the cancer
outbreak.
The opening arguments in fed
eral court marked the start of an ex
pected seven months of testimony in
the case, which has attracted na-
A federal Environmental Protection Agency study
found that three “plumes” of contamination affected
the (public drinking water) wells, two coming from
Grace and Beatrice.
Schlictman said.
of leukemia cases and other healtli
problems were re|M>i ied. The wells
were shut down in 1979 after high
levels of contamination were found.
tional attention for its potential in
defining what recourse citizens have
from companies they accuse of pol
luting their neighborood.
A state health study found the
cancer mortality rate in Woburn be
tween 1969 and 1978 was 13 percent
higher than the statewide rate. The
U.S. Centers for Disease Control re
ported the incidence of childhood
leukemia was seven times higher
than expected in the East Woburn
neighborhood.
Attorney Jan Richard Schlictman
said the companies were negligent in
allowing chemicals to be dumped on
their property in the Boston suburb,
which has experienced toxic waste
problems for more than 100 years.
He said the waste eventually mi
grated to two city wells that served
the neighborhood where the cluster
A federal Environmental Protec
tion Agency study found that three
“plumes” of contamination affected
the wells, two coming from Grace
and Beatrice, Schlictman said. The
other was said to come f rom the Uni-
first Corp., which operated a dry
cleaning plant in the area and settled
out of court with the eight families.
W.R. Grace attorney Michael
Keating said the firm used practices I
that were generally accepted in the
1960s and early 1970s for disposing I
of trichloroethylene, or TCE, oneof
the main pollutants found in the
wells.
Shiite group issues photos
to prove hostage’s death
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Shiite Mos
lem kidnappers issued photographs
Monday purporting to show the
body of French hostage Michel Seu
rat, with a statement saying the pho
tos proved their claim to have killed
him last week.
Islamic Jihad, a pro-Iranian fun
damentalist group, denied in the
statement that it had abducted a
four-man French television crew
Saturday. The photos and statement
were delivered to a Western news
agency in Beirut.
It said the three black-and-white
pictures were intended to counter
“skepticism about the seriousness of
our earlier claim” that Seurat was
slain last Wednesday.
One showed the hostage’s chest
and face, as he lay bare-chested with
his eyes half closed. The second
showed a body in a coffin, wrapped
in a blanket, and the third a closed
coffin with a crucifix on the lid.
There was no evidence of wounds
or blood in the one photo that
showed the man clearly, and no way
to confirm he had been killed.
Friends of Seurat confirmed that the
man in the photo was the 37-year-
old Frenchman.
- The typewritten statement was in
Arabic and signed, “the Islamic Ji
had (Islamic Holy War) organiza
tion.”
In Paris, the French Foreign Min
istry issued a statement saying it was
“seeking to verify the authenticity of
this abominable claim.”
The photos and statement were
made public during a French diplo
matic effort in Lebanon and Syria to
free the eight Frenchmen, including
Seurat, kidnapped in Lebanon.
Monday’s statement denied a
claim made Sunday by an anony
mous telephone caller that the tele
vision crew members from France’s
Channel 2 were in the hands of Is
lamic Holy War.
The Arabic-language statement
called Seurat “an experienced spy.”
It did not say what had been done
with the body.
Seurat, an employee of the
French Center for Studies and Re
search of the Contemporary Middle
East, was kidnapped last May 22 in
Moslem west Beirut. Islamic Jihad
also holds a two French diplomats
and a journalist.
Islamic Jihad has demanded that
France stop supplying arms to Iraq,
which has been at war with Iran
since September 1980.
The pro-Iranian group also has
claimed to have kidnapped six
Americans missing in Lebanon, but
the statement did not mention them.
Coastal Corp. setting record in earnings
Associated Press
HOUSTON — The $2.4 billion
merger last year between the Coastal
Corp. and American Natural Re
sources Co. has enabled Coastal to
set records in both earnings and rev
enues for 1985, company officials
say.
Officials say the record earnings
are even more significant consid
ering the oil and gas industry’s cur
rent condition.
According to Coastal Chairman
Oscar S. Wyatt Jr.,“To be profitable
in this environment, you have to op
erate more economically than your
competitors, and I think we can be
cause our people work harder.”
Coastal President James R. Paul
said operating economically means
spending money when and where it
is needed, but doing so wisely.
Wyatt and Paul head up a work
force of about 13,000 who operate
an 18,500-mile natural gas pipeline
network, oil and gas exploration and
production projects, coal mines, refi
neries and marketing outlets.
“We started planning for a rever
sal in prices in 1981,” Paul said. “We
cut back our work force and made
substantial investments in upgrading
our refineries. Those moves have
paid real dividends for our stock
holders and employees today.”
Coastal lost money in 1981 for the
first time in its 30-year history, since
then a profit has been recorded each
year.
Tower resigns
post on arms
committee
WASHINGTON — John G.
Tower, the former chairman of
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee, has submitted his resigna
tion as a U.S. arms control nego
tiator “for personal reasons," it
was learned Monday.
Tower has handled negotia
tions with the Soviet Union in Ge
neva on reducing long-range nu
clear weapons. He was appointed
to the post 14 months ago. by
President Reagan after announc
ing he would not seek re-election
to the Senate front Texas.
Three U.S. officials, who in
sisted on anonymity, said Tower
had submitted his resignation to
the president. They said he gave
personal reasons. Two of the offi
cials said he would he replaced by
Ron Lehman, a weapons special
ist who has worked at the Penta
gon and the National Security
Council.
Tower, a conservative Republi
can, had served in the Senate
nearly 24 years and was an ardent
champion of U.S. weapons
strength and a foe of the 1979
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
with the Soviet Union.
He had argued the accord was
not in the security interests of the
United States. The SALT II pact,
which never has been ratified by
the Senate, imposed ceilings on
various nuclear weapons on both
sides. But Tower argued that it
did not limit capabilities.
Authorities say police killed 7 in South Africa
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police
killed seven blacks in the remote tribal homeland
of Lebowa, north of Johannesburg, and nine
blacks died elsewhere in tribal faction fights, au
thorities said Monday.
In the eastern Cape Province, at least three
more blacks were killed in the daily anti-apart
heid rioting that has left more than 1,200 dead in
the past 18 months.
Meanwhile, thousands of miners at two major
gold mines staged strikes and go-slow actions in
new labor flare-ups.
In Cape Town, a delegation from CBS News
met government officials to appeal a decision to
expel three CBS staff members because the net
work aired footage of a funeral from which cam
eras were banned. No decision emerged, and the
two sides will meet again Tuesday.
An introduction to the funeral footage when it
was broadcast in the United States said it was
filmed by an amateur and obtained outside
South Africa.
in unrest that has swept South Africa. Detailson
incidents in the homelands are often dif ficult to
obtain.
Violence broke out Saturday in two districts of
the Lebowa homeland for the North Sotho tribe,
police and residents said.
In one clash, busloads of youths from sur
rounding townships tried to get past a police cor
don to attend a funeral in Motetema outside
Groblersdal, about 125 miles northeast of Johan
nesburg, resident Lazarus Palo said. Running
battles followed in which police shot and killed
six youths and wounded five.
Brigadier W.G. Beetge, Lebowa homeland po
lice commissioner, said the six died attacking a
police station with fire bombs. He said another
youth was killed in Mahwelering township near
Potgietersrus when rioters attacked police.
The 10 tribal homelands, with varying degrees
of autonomy, have increasingly been caught up
National police headquarters said a riot patrol
killed a black man Sunday who hurled a gasoline
bomb at police in the Cookhouse area of Cape
Province. The hacked body of a 15-year-old
black was found in the same area, but it was not
clear if his death was related to unrest over the
race segregation system.
Elsewhere in the eastern Cape, police found
two black men burned to death. Such slayings of
ten are the work of blacks against blacks sus
pected of collaborating with the white govern
ment.
Tribal in-fighting that has wracked Natal
Province for decades broke out anew Sunday in
Umbumbulu, a rural district inland from the In
dian Ocean port of Durban.
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