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PAGE 5 THE DANVILLE NEWS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1985 Across the nation Washington Merry-Go-Round Carcinogenic food dyes allowed to stay Wolfe of Public Citizen said theres nothing new in it. He also noted that some sections adopted the cosmetics industrys policy suggestions word for word. Although some Republican members of the Governments Operations Committee want the law modified along the lines of Mrs. Hecklers more permissive interpretation, there is little likelihood that the House will tamper with it. And as recently as 1983, a budget official reminded Mrs.

Heckler that the Cabinet Council had decided that food and drug safety policy should not be changed without congressional action. Yet this is precisely what Mrs. Heckler has since done by allowing the six cancer-causing color additives to remain on the market. THE OMBUDSMAN: The families (Continued on Page 11) into the law. Meanwhile, the six color additives five reds and one orange are still being used, with no easy way for consumers to know what products theyre in.

The House Government Operations Committee urged Mrs. Heckler last June to take the necessary steps to enforce the Delaney anti-cancer ensure that the public will not be exposed to carcinogenic color additives. The department is also being sued by the Public Citizen Health Research Group, which wants the dyes banned. Instead, Mrs. Heckler asked the National Center for Toxicological Research to review all previous research on the color additives and establish just how great a risk they pose.

The center circulated its preliminary report among interested parties for comment. Dr. Sidney By JACK ANDERSON and JOSEPH SPEAR WASHINGTON Certain lipsticks, candies, soft drinks and ice cream may be hazardous to your health. But the government has refused to ban them. And unlike cigarettes, these products bear no warning from the surgeon general that they could make you sick.

Many products contain color additives that have been found to cause cancer. Under a 25-year-old law, these products normally would have been banned from the market. But outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler overruled the recommendations of three recent Food and Drug Administration commissioners and has allowed the six color additives to stay on the market. To do this, she used a radical interpretation of the law, ruling that cancer-causing chemicals must be banned only if their use is shown to be more of a risk than a benefit to society. To support her view, Mrs.

Heckler asked former Sen. Jacob Javits what the legislative intent of Congress was when it passed the law banning cancer-causing food and cosmetic additives in 1960. Javits wrote that his view, then and now, is that the rule of reason is to be applied. In his letter, which was seen by our associate Vicki Warren, Javits explained: This rule would dictate that where the danger to the public is negligible in using products with such color additives, then use should not be prohibited. While this supports Mrs.

Hecklers interpretation, an ex-senator was hardly the one to ask about what Congress intended in 1960. The Senates version of the Color Additives Amendment that year did not contain an absolute ban on cancer-causing chemicals in foods and cosmetics. It was only at the Houses insistence that the ban was written HUNDREDS TO CHOOSE FROM s9i.s29 INCLUDING SOFA SIZE wcs PfllCEO CROM NONE HIGHER THAN 45 THIS SUNDAY ONLY October 20th -1 1 A.M. to 4 P.M. SHERATON INN DANVILLE Route 54 and 1-80 DANVILLE, PA, VISA.

MASTERCARD PERSONAL CHECKS ACCEPTED THIS YEEK'S SPECIALS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 Thru SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 QUILTED Typhoon Dot hits Philippines MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -Typhoon Dot slammed into the northern island of Luzon Saturday with peak Winds of 125 mph, dumping heavy rains that touched off volcanic mudflows and left at least one person dead. Dot veered from a path that had put it on a collision course with the capital and weakened from winds of 150 mph to 125 mph by the time it pounded coastal Aurora province, 90 miles northeast of Manila, early Saturday. Dots fringe winds buffeting the capital caused power outages, and high tide combined with rains that fell Friday triggered waist-deep flooding in the slum district of Tondo. Weather service chief forecaster Amado Pineda said Dots large cloud cover affected weather throughout most of the archipelago after developing from 4 low pressure area in the South Pacific. The state-run Philippine News Agency said one unidentified person was swept away and killed Friday night in mudflows touched off by rains on the slopes of Mayon Volcano, 220 miles southeast of Manila.

It said 165 families in slope villages sought shelter in nearby Legaspi city and that mudflows rendered a main road from Tabaco town impassable. PNA also reported stormy weather in the southern Philippines triggered landslides Tuesday in Davao del Sur province, sweeping away houses and killing 10 people, including six children. At least three people died and 16 others were missing when a cargo ship sank off the northern-Philippines the same day. Dot was forecast to cross Luzon in a northwesterly direction from the Pacific side to the South China Sea, avoiding both U.S. Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base, both of which went on maximum states of readiness.

Air Force planes were either flown to Kadena air base on Okinawa or bundled in hangars. All but two ships at Subic sailed away to evade the typhoon. President Ferdinand Marcos mobilized government agencies to extend assistance to damaged areas. Flooding was expected and police and rescue crews were put on alert. Ship hijack victims in bus crash BRUEHL, West Germany (UPI) -A busload of West Germans returning from the hijacked Achille Lauro where they reclaimed their luggage were involved in a 10-vehicle crash in which three people were killed and more than 20 injured, police said.

The bus driver and a tour guide were among the three people killed in the crash that occurred around 12:01 a.m. Friday about 100 miles southwest of Stuttgart on a super highway, police said. About a dozen of those injured were on the bus, which was returning 44 West Germans from Genoa, Italy, where they had gone to meet the Achille Lauros return trip and claim their luggage. They had previously flown home to West Germany None of the group on the bus had been among the hijack victims, because they had opted to go on an Egyptian tour and rejoin the cruise later. The Oct.

7 hijacking by four Palestinians occurred while they were ashore. The accident closed the highway, a main route between Switzerland and the Frankfurt area, for hours. Military personnel to get AIDS test WASHINGTON (UPI) The Defense Department said Friday it will test all 2.1 million active duty military personnel for an antibody associated with AIDS, expanding a campaign now limited to examining recruits and blood donors. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and the civilian secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force made the decision during consultations Thursday and the newjpoiicy laying out a timetable for th tests is to be announced very soon, one official said. Eventual testing of all 2.1 million uniformed men and women in the military "is the way the department will go," another Pentagon official said.

The secretaries have made this decision, which the individual services will implement, he said. Testing for the Antibody associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, known as the HTLV-III antibody, had been applied since Oct. 1 to all recruits and applicants to the si a program begun July 1 that restricted such examinations only to blood donors at military installations. Anyone on active duty found to have the antibody will be placed on limited service status, said the officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified. FLANNEL SHIRTS By Argus and Mark II Men's Sizes: Sm.

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The Ingham County Library decided to cancel its fall schedule of free films because it could not comply with a school board recommendation that only G-rated movies be shown. Among the films to be shown were PG-rated Return to Oz and R-rated Beverly Hills Cop. The Rev. Nick Crow of the Bible Baptist Church, who led the campaign against PG and movies, told the Lansing State Journal he would not object to another site for the films. A child in the elementary school should be able to think more of his school building than as a place where pornography or a great deal of violence is shown, Crow said.

A school should be a place for building character, Crow said. Library Director Richard Douglass said the program has never raised controversy before and he suspects the motives of Crows group. They use the children as an excuse, he said. Last year, they made it very clear they didnt want anyone seeing the movies) They dont believe in movies, and thats fine. I'm not knocking their belief.

The film program will resume next spring at an American Legion Hall, he said. Autopsy: Gun killed Klinghoffer WASHINGTON (UPI) The State Department said Friday that the preliminary results of the autopsy conducted on the body of Leon Klinghoffer in Rome showed that he was shot to death, sustaining cranial trauma" as the result of a bullet wound. Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said that the body of the New York man is scheduled tojpe returned to the United States on Sunday. Kalb said that the preliminary results of the autopsy conducted in Rome have been received. He said, Mr.

Klinghoffer died as the result of cranial trauma, the result of a bullet wound. The autopsy also showed there was a second wound, in his back. The Palestine Liberation Front, the group which carried out the hijacking, in a broadcast after the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, had claimed that Klinghoffer had died of a heart attack. The body was recovered Wednesday from the Mediterranean near the Syrian port of Tartus, where the body of Klinghoffer was thrown over the side of the ship Americans outspent income WASHINGTON (UPI) Americans spent more quickly than their incomes rose during September particularly on new cars and pushed down the rate of savings to an all-time low for the month, the Commerce Department reported Friday Personal income, minus Social Security taxes, inched up 0.3 percent while spending on both goods and services jumped 2 percent. Disposable income after-tax income rose by an even smaller 0 2 percent.

August's personal income rose by 0 3 percent and spending showed the same 1.2 percent increase, following weak increases of 0 4 percent in July and 0 2 percent in June. Septembers rise in after-tax income actually available to spend amounted to only $9 for every American, bringing per capita annual disposable income to $11,357. Ago Ambre, a Commerce Department economist, said the figures show consumers have been on a spending spree and the spree has been driven by automobiles." With consumers taking advantage of reduced interest-rate financing offered by the automakers to help sell the remainder of its 1985 models, the Commerce Department said a large chunk of thd $30 5 billion increase in spending on goods and services during the month went for new car sales. Purchases of durable goods, mostly cars, rose by $15 2 billion during the month. To pay for the cars, Americans dipped into their savings at unprecedented rate, pushing the annual rate of savings for the month to 1 9 percent the lowest since the government began measuring it on a monthly basis shortly after the end of World War II Personal savings fell by 7.3 billion to 51 9 billion, at an annual rate Slaying ends American dreams UPPER MARLBORO, Md.

(UPI) The American dreams of an Ethiopian couple who fled their famine-stricken homeland for Philadelphia last year were shattered by a lovers quarrel that turned to bloodshed outside the nation's capital. Petro Tekle, 25, charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, was in custody Friday in Buffalo, where he turned himself in to the police a day earlier, authorities said Tekle was held as a fugitive while awaiting extradition to Prince George's County The man was accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Tsegahana Habte, 25. "several times" with a knife Wednesday during an argument between the two in her apartment. Cpl. Bruce Gentile, a county police spokesman, said The victim's body was later found by her roommate at their home, located in the 8200-block of 14th Avenue, police said The man and woman, both natives of Ethiopia, immigrated together to Philadelphia last November, but the woman moved to the Washington.

area to take a job in the hotel industry six months ago. Gentile said Police said the suspect, who is unemployed, remained in Philadelphia, but couple continued to see each other. Tekle was not expected to be sent back to Maryland from New York state before next week, Gentile said The woman's body was taken to the state medical examiner's olfice in Baltimore for an autopsy. Homecoming ends in shooting DETROIT (UPI) As ifiany as four people stepped out of a car and sprayed shotgun pellets into a football stadium Friday, wounding six people attending a homecoming game, police said The six, ranging in age from 14 to 20 years old, were shot when a car carrying up to four people approached the stands during the game between Detroit Murray Wright and Detroit Northwestern high schools, police said. Three guys in a car shot into the stands and everybody ran," said James Carter, who was watching the football game.

"When everybody cleared away, there was a girl laying down on the stands. Everybody surrounded her, trying to protect her. The shooting at Murray Wright High School may have been sparked by an earlier altercation at a pep rally where one of the possible shooting suspects was allegedly assaulted, police said. I thought the pep rally went well, said Murray Wright school principal Eloise Anderson. "I happened to be sitting (at the football game) with some of our police officers.

There was a sound like a firecracker, so we went down closer to the field to see what it was," she said. "Several students told me that some pHe gnt out of a car and started 'hooting-" All six people were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital for treatment of superficial wounds, hospital officials said. Reagan to meet with counterparts WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan will meet with his allied counterparts during a three-day visit to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly next week, but one long-time partner will be absent. Keagan scheuuie iiiCiuue nunn.c Thuisday To? L.c kahis leaders who meet annually in the spring on economic issues Great Britain, West Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy.

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