Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, October 16, 1971 BLAMES CIA IN JET CRASH: Castro ends hijacking FDA announces phase-out for aerosol flourocarbons pact By AP and Router HAVANA - Cuban Premier Fidel Castro yesterday called off the three-year-old anti-hi- jacking agreement between Cuba and the United States af- ter blaming the CIA for the crash of a Cuban airliner off Barbados last week which killed 73 people. Castrb, addressing a huge rally here in honor of the crash victims, said the agreement could not survive "this act of For college students preparing for careers in the visual and performing arts Iris Rpprmmdushlps YnN unkYur opportunity to ea 12 credits while gaini practical work experience as an apprentice to a disti guished New York professional Apprentiteships are available in a variety of areas PAINTING CINEMA SCULPTURE MUSEUM & PRINTMAKING GALLERY WORK COMMERCIAL ART EDUCATION DESIGN THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY DANCE VIDEO MUSIC terrorism." However, he left the door open for a resumption of the agreement. HE SAID CUBA WAS willing to discuss the agreement with whatever U. S. government is elected next month, but "This was to be on the basis of the definite end of all acts of ag gression and hostility against our homeland." The Cuban leader also dis- closed that he suspected the CIA was still trying to assassi- nate him. He said the CIA had been directly involved in the sabotage of the airliner carried out through "mercenaries" by anti-Castro groups based in the United States. Castro told hundreds of thou- sands mourning the 73 victims of the crash -- among them S7 Cubans - that collaboration be- tween an aggressive country and an attacked country was 'impossible and that Cuba would never again sign such an agree- ment with the U. S. until what rn ing in- WASHINGTON () The Food ' he called "the campaign of ag- ' Other officials said they could and Drug Administration an-: 1 gression" ends definitely. not rule out the possibility that nounced yesterday it plans to RESPONDING PROMPTLY Cuban exiles may have been phase out uses of flourocarbons to Castro's announcement, the responsible in this case. in aerosol sprays to protect the i State Department said it re- earth's protective ozone shield. s grets and deplores the Cuban ON THE NIGHT OF the The FDA said it will require s action. It categorically denied , crash, an anonymous telephone' warning labels on flourocarbon A any American responsibility for caller told the Miami Herald in spray cans in the meantime, un- - the crash. Spanish that "El Condor," a til non-essential uses of the pro- t Spokesman Robert Funseth name used by anti-Castro Cu- pellant in foods, drugs and cos- said the Cuban government will ban exiles, had planted a bomb metics are eliminated. be held strictly responsible for aboard the plane. T H E A G E N C Y regulates any hijackings which result Authorities in Venezuela an- about 80 percent of the 3 billion from suspension of the agree- nounced yesterday the arrest aerosol cans produced annually yesteday he arestin the United States. About half ment. of Cuban exile leader OrlandoI contain fluorocarbons. Castro noted that the agree- Bosch and several other per- A National Academy of Sci- ment includes a six-month can- sons in connection with the cellation clause and that, ac- crash. Bosch is a resident of; ence panel reported last month r celaton laue ad tatac-that fluorocarbons from aerosol~ cordingly, Cuba would adhere to the United States and U. S. of-hdaarnrtheooe its provisions only until next ficials are seeking his return sprays are damaging the ozone April 15. from Venezuela. shield, which protects against harmful ultraviolet radiation, The accord, signed on Feb. 15, They said Bosch has been and will have to be selectively 1973, was aimed principally at convicted for bombings in the;i rglae o be. putting an end to the rash of Miami area and has violated the r The panel said selective regu- hijackings involving Cuba terms of his parole. lation or a ban could be delayed since.ltoorabncudbdeyd TRINIDAD and Barbados al- up to two years while new stu- QUESTIONED BY reporters, so are questioning suspects dies are conducted, but it sug- Secretary of State Henry Kis- about the crash. gested government agencies be- singer called the Cuban action ss gin now by ordering labeling on c "unfriendly and irresponsible." Last April, Castro threatened spray cans which contain fluo- The United States, Kissinger to repudiate the antihijacking rocarbons.1 said, "condemns terrorism as agreement after several Cuban FOOD AND DRUG Commis-i an instrument of foreign policy fishing vessels were sunk when sioner Alexander Schmidt saidi and does not engage in it." fired on byeane u ente es he could not justify further de- _ sel in water between Cuba and lays until new research is com- Florida.pltd pleted. WATCH THE The hijacking agreement "A narrowing of the probable; commits the two countries to; range of ozone depletion caused WO RIDprosecute or extradite persons by continued use of fluorocar-t engaging in the hijacking of air- bons won't change the ultimatec SERIES planes or ships. t'egulatory situation . . .," he< V ADVENT TV COMPLETION PROCEED at the Blue Frogge BEER AT REDUCED PRICES DURING THE GAME said. "Given the effects on hu- made this recommendation be- man health, even a 2 per cent cause the ozone theory is un- ozone depletion from "unessen- certain and there is no risk in tial" uses of fluorocarbons is waiting to reduce the uncertain- undesirable." ty before making regulatory "The known fact is that fluo- decisions." rocarbon propellants primarily The academy report said the used to dispense cosmetics are United States accounted to breaking down the ozone layer. about half the 1.5 billion pound Without remedy, the result t of fluorocarbons released world could be profound adverse im- wide last year. td r pact on our weather and on the; incidence of skin cancer in peo- Seventy-four per cent of the ple. It's a simple case of negli- fluorocarbons originated in aer- gible benefit measured against osol sprays, the report said, and catastrophic risk, both for indi- 58 per cent came from antipers- vidual citizens and for society. pirant, deodorant and hair Our course of action seems sprays. Those products are reg- clear beyond doubt," the com- ulated by the FDA as cosme- misioner said. tics. SCHMIDT SAID details of the OTHER PROPELLANTS such phase-out and labeling plans re- as hydrocarbons and carbon di- main to be worked out. No time oxide gas which havecnot been figure was mentioned. The first linked to ozone damage, have documentdealing with labeling been substituted for fluorocar- is expected by-mid-November. bons by some manufacturers. The second proposal dealing with the phaseout will follow a{ The aerosol industry contends few weeks later. that there is no substitute for The FDA said the phase-out fluorocarbons in some products, of fluorocarbon sprays will not I however. Until it was determ- require product recalls, and will ined to be a cancer-causing sub- be "developed on the basis oflstance, some aerosol spray reasonable regulation and mini- manufacturers used vinyl chlor- mum cost to consumers." ide as a cheap substitute for The DuPont Co., the largest fluorocarbon propellants. producer of fluorocarbons in the Johnson Wax removed al flu- world, called the FDA's deci- orocarbon propellants from its sion "astonishing." U.S. spray products in mid-1975 A SPOKESPERSON claimed and now affixes labels reading: the academy had "clearly re- "Use with confidence. Contains commended against the kind of 'no fluorocarbons claimed to action the FDA is planning. 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SYRIAN GUNS shelled the port of Sidon yesterday after- noon, driving freighters in the harbor out to sea, and opened a drive to besiege leftist-held west Beirut, In the isolated leftist enclave at the northern port of Tripoli, Syrian gunners poured rockets and artillery shells into a crowded Palestinian refugee camp, acording to Beirut Radio, which is controlled by the left- ist-Palestinian alliance. Peace talks have been forgot-' ten since the Syrians hurled their tanks and troops against the resort town of Bhamdoun on Wednesday, driving to reopen the main highway from eastern Lebanon to rightist-held east Beirut. PALESTINIAN spokespersons said last night that commando forces were still holding out in the desperate battle for Bham- doun, now nearly encircled. 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