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■ NEW YORK (AP) — The federal
agency that studies occupational
¥alth and safety is closing seven of
its 10 regional offices, prompting
piotests Monday from labor unions
d two Democratic congressmen.
“This is just one more step in the
jpen, blatant attack of the Reagan
jdministration on organized labor,”
Rep. Major Owens of New York said
pi the decision to close offices of the
ational Institute of Occupational
[afety and Health.
NIOSH, an arm of the federal
enters for Disease Control, con-
■ucts research into hazards in the
Workplace, acting on requests from
■nions, individual workers and man-
|gement.
I Unlike the Occupational Safety
|nd Health Administration, it does
iot take action against employers, al-
ti ough it sometimes refers cases to
ASHA.
NIOSH spokesman Don Berreth
Jonfirmed Monday that the agency
remld close regional offices in New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas
City, Mo., Dallas, San Francisco and
Seattle, effective Oct. 1.
The closures will leave NIOSH
with regional offices in Boston,
Denver and Atlanta, plus its head
quarters in Cincinnati. Berreth in
sisted that the agency’s staff size
would remain the same. He said all
32 workers affected by the closings
have been offered jobs in the re
maining four offices.
“You’re only talking about a
handful of people, and you can su
pervise them better and respond
better, we think, from fewer loca
tions,” Berreth said. “The intention
of this was not to reduce staff.”
Berreth said the move “would
save a little money, but probably not
any major amount.” NIOSH had a
1986 budget of $67 million.
NIOSH workers said they were
told of the decision about six weeks
ago, but the move was never an
nounced publicly.
“I’m not sure if it was in the Fed-
Tuesday, August 5, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
Search for
climbers
delayed
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) —
Workers searching for two moun
tain climbers caught in an avalanche
on Mount Baker were chased from
the slopes Monday as warm temper
atures threatened to unleash new
snow slides.
Two other climbers in the party
were rescued Sunday, hours after
the daybreak avalanche.
Whether the search would be re
sumed was questionable because of
unfavorable weather conditions.
A helicopter removed 13 rescue
workers, three avalanche rescue
dogs and two reporters from a 300-
square-foot search area on the volca
nic peak’s Roman Wall area.
Missing were Steve Raschick, 21,
of Enumclaw, and a guide, Ian Kraa-
bel, son of Seattle City Councilman
Paul Kraabel.
The Roman Wall, rising from
about 8,500 feet to the 10,778-foot
summit, is the last major feature on a
popular climbing route along Cole
man Glacier from 5,200 feet to 7,000
feet and Deming Glacier from 7,000
feet to the base of the wall, Jenkins
said
eral Register,” Berreth said. “But it
certainly hasn’t been a secret.”
At a small demonstration Monday
outside the federal building in Man
hattan, NIOSH workers joined
Owens, Rep. Ted Weiss and several
union officials in protesting the clo
sure of the New York office.
“This decision simply makes no
sense,” said Weiss, also of New York.
“Of the thousands of federal work
ers, why close an office with only
three people who are working to
protect the safety and health of
workers in the entire New York re
gion?”
Weiss charged that the decision
flies “directly in the face” of a con
gressional mandate not to cut per
sonnel in the area of occupational
safety and health.
While NIOSH said there were no
plans to reduce the staff, Weiss said
lie believed the Office of Manage
ment and Budget has ordered such
cuts.
World Briefs
{Bolivian drug raids get mixed reaction
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The
|use of U.S. Army troops to battle
Bolivian cocaine traffickers has
generated mixed opinions, from
fears of future American involve
ment in other Latin American na
tions to support for efforts to de
stroy the drug’s source.
Bolivia’s cocaine exports are es
timated at $2 billion with an esti
mated $600 million returning to
Bolivia. By contrast, legal Boliv
ian exports for this year are esti
mated at $400 million.
In Mexico, the move prompted
the government to say it never
will permit U.S. troops on Mexi
can soil.
Nevertheless, Mexico remains
one of the leading sources of
marijuana and heroin to the
United States and is a major tran
sit point for South American co
caine destined for the United
States, authorities said.
Union workers ratify AT&T contract
AIDS
Program tries to trace route
of infected blood to donors
WASHINGTON (AP) —Mem
bers of the Communications
Workers of America ratified a
new contract with American
Telephone 8c Telegraph Co. by a
3-1 margin, the union said Mon
day.
All unit local bargaining
agreements were also ratified, al
though some by a slimmer mar
gin, the union said.
The new three-year
agreements, covering 155,000
workers, were reached on June
26, ending a nationwide strike
that had started June 1.
Dow Jones rallies with help of oil issues
reenql
■nted
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil issues
turned in a strong showing, help
ing the stock market rally from a
j sharp drop in early trading Mon
day to finish mixed.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, down about 25 points
at its midsession low, closed with a
6.33 gain at 1,769.97
Volume on the New York
Stock Exchange came to 129.99
million shares.
Energy stocks jumped ahead
late in the day on signs that OPEC
ministers were getting close to
agreement on a plan to shore up
world oil prices.
NEW YORK (AP) — A national
E rogram to contact people who may
ave received the AIDS virus in
blood transfusions cannot reach all
of them, so some transfusion recipi
ents should consult a physician, a
blood expert says.
“We know that we’re not going to
reach all the people who we would
like to reach,” said Dr. S. Gerald
Sandler, associate vice president for
medical operations of the American
Red Cross.
Infected donors who stopped giv
ing blood before screening began
“won’t show up as part of our study,”
so their blood can’t be traced, Sand
ler said.
Researchers have no way to count
those donors, said Dr. Joseph O’Mal
ley, Red Cross medital associate. But
like other blood experts, O’Malley
said the risk of getting the virus
through transfusions before screen
ing began was very slight.
Sandler suggested that people
who got transfusions in the early
1980s before screening began and
who are worried about AIDS should
discuss it with their physicians.
Dr. Joseph Bove, chairman of the
American Association of Blood
Banks committee on transfusion-
transmitted diseases, said he agreed
with Sandler’s recommendation.
Transfusions are blamed for 437
of the nation’s 23,1 15 cases of AIDS,
and federal figures show transfu
sion-related cases have shown up in
residents of all but 11 states: Alaska,
Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana,
New Hampshire, New Mexico,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ver
mont and Wyoming.
The virus can lie dormant for
years before symptoms of AIDS or a
less severe condition, AIDS-related
complex, appear. A positive blood
test does not mean the person has
AIDS, but “we make the assumption
that if the test is positive the person
is infectious,” said Bove.
So in addition to health checkups
and tests, such people will be coun
seled about how to avoid infecting
others, he said. The virus can spread
through intimate sexual contact,
sharing of needles among intrave
nous drug abusers, and infection
from mother to infant at or around
the time of birth.
Sandler estimated that 1,000 to
2,000 transfusion recipients will
have to be contacted about blood col
lected by the Red Cross system. Bove
said the Red Cross collects about half
the nation’s blood supply so its num
bers can be doubled for an estimate
of the national picture.
The search is in different stages in
different areas of the country.
Among the areas with concentra
tions of AIDS cases, blood banks in
New York City, Los Angeles and Mi
ami are preparing to notify hospitals
about which units of blood to track.
A blood bank in San Francisco made
that notification several weeks ago.
Robbers loot graves of Nazi massacre victims
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MOSCOW (AP) — Robbers dug
lor two years in a mass grave where
112,000 victims of a Nazi massacre
|are buried, stripping the bodies of
jg'old teeth and jewelry, according to
fin article by a leading poet.
Andrei Voznesensky wrote in the
July issue of the youth magazine Yu-
inost that the robberies apparently
began in 1984 in the cemetery within
| sight of a major highway outside
Simferopol, capital of the Crimea,
i Some grave robbers were tried in
|;1985, but they got off lightly, and
Ihe cemetery still was being looted in
ipril because authorities did not
host guards, Voznesensky said.
Officials estimate that the people
who were tried last year stole gold
and jewelry worth 68,000 rubles, or
$100,000 at the official exchange
rate, the poet said.
“Our militia is busy on the high
way fining drivers a ruble or so, but
our militia would never come here
(to the burial site),” he wrote in the
impassioned article accompanied by
poetry. “They should at least have
arranged for one guard. Only one
for 12,000.”
An editor’s note following the ar
ticle said a government commission
was sent to investigate after Vozne
sensky “raised his voice against this
outrageous blasphemy.” Those
found guilty of robbing the graves
and fencing the loot were given “se
vere punishments,” it said.
Publication of the article, unusual
for its graphic description, appeared
to be part of a hesitant recent trend
toward more openness in the press.
Voznesensky said he heard of the
1985 trial and wrote a poem about
the case, but he did not see the site
until he was traveling with friends
April 7 on the highway leading out
of Simferopol.
His article said the driver, Vasily
Lesnikh, was recalling the massacre
in which Germans shot down 12,000
villagers from the area in 1941 and
offered to show his companions the
mass grave.
“We were walking along the high
way and suddenly . . . amid the
green grass, a black hole appeared
before us,” the poet wrote. “The soil
was still wet. And then another hole,
and another. We saw heaps of bones,
decayed clothing, skulls blackened as
if by smoke.”
It was obvious that robbers had
been working the previous night be
cause a shovel and other tools had
been left in one of the holes, Vozne
sensky said, and “this means they
will come again.”
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