Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 58-S1 :m ichigan DAIL Friday, August 4, 1978 Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents .Sixteen Pages Two t with PBI the last Wednesd PBB - a toxic] cidental livestock WHEN ownersT animals, ts per bi allowed however lowered PBB-t By MITCH CANTOR With Wire Services housand sheep contaminated B entered into the food chain in two years, it was discovered lay. - polybrominated biphenyl - is fire retardant which was ac- ly mixed with Michigan feed five years ago. THE SHEEP were sold by Myron and Richard Kokx the contained less than the 300 par- illion (ppb) of PBB which was at the time. Since then, r, the standard has been to 20 ppb, a level which the tinted sheep were sold sheep surpassed. Though there is no explained yesterday. After finding con- animals eventually found its way into way to determine exactly where the tamination on over 500 farms in the last the soil and farm machinery. contaminated meat was sent, a large year, the department has since done ex- Though there are several studies on percentage is believed to have been tensive testing on 60 farms, some of the effects of the toxic chemical, in- shipped to New York City super- which include non-dairy animals which cluding one co-sponsored by the markets. had been sold. Of those farms, 12 have University's School of Public Health, At the same time, tests done on over been found to be re-contaminated, 12 there have been no conclusive results of 500 Michigan farms contaminated with have been cleared, 10 didn't restock its effects on human beings. PBB indicates several of these have with animals, and the other 24 are still "It is very cloudy. Nothing concrete been recontaminated, according to being studied. has been determined. There have been Kenneth Van Patten, head of the "EVERY ONE of these farms went two or three reports, but nothing final Michigan Department of Agriculture's through a good cleaning procedure. has come out," Van Patten said. PBB office. Some of them even removed their top- LOCAL MEAT sellers feel there is "These farms lost all their original soil," Van Patten said. The official said definitely a new awareness on the part animals (to PBB). They were disposed the recontamination was probably of their customers since the PBB crisis of. They restocked, and those animals caused by "residues" of the toxic sub- began. became contaminated," Van Patten stance, as waste material from the See PBB-TAINTED, Page 13 s Terrorist bomb spurs Israeli air retaliation TEL AVIV (AP) - Israeli warplanes blasted a Palestinian guerrilla training base deep in southern Lebanon yester- day only hours after a terrorist bomb ripped through a crowded Tel Aviv market, wounding 49 persons, one fatally. The Palestine Liberation Organization, in a communique issued in Beirut, claimed responsibility for planting the homemade bomb that rained nails and ball bearings on shop- pers at the outdoor market. THE POPULAR Front for the Liberation of Palestine, one of the most radical guerrilla factions under the PLO umbrella, later said it was respon- sible for the blast and vowed to "con- tinue to fight against the enemy to liberate the whole of Palestine." The Marxist radical band, headed by Dr. George Habash, is opposed to any negotiated settlement with Israel. A PFLP statement said, "An un- derground squad acting inside occupied Palestine planted the bomb." It said the AP Photo Police search among the rubble for the remains of the bomb which exploded yesterday in Tel Aviv's main outdoor market, wounding 49 people. TWO KILLED IN TERRORIST RAID: blast killed one Israeli and wounded 64. There was no explanation for the discrepancy in casualty tolls reported by Israel and the Palestinians. Israel, reporting the air raid 25 miles north of its border with Lebanon, said, "The murderers will be hit wherever they will be." AN ISRAELI communique said planes attacked a base at Dahar a- Tutah, about 10 miles north of the Mediterranean port city of Tyre in an area inhabited exclusively by guerrillas. It said the outpost was a base for Yasser Arafat's Al Fatah - the largest guerrilla army in the PLO - and described it as a "starting point for murder gangs against targets in Israel." A guerrilla spokesman in Beirut said five civilians were wounded in Israeli air strikes at "several positions" about 36 miles south of the Lebanese capital. "Our air defenses forced the raiding Israeli planes to leave the area without achieving their goals," the spokesman added. GUERRILLA SOURCES said six Israeli planes took part in the 30-minute attack that heavily damaged a training base in the Zifta valley. Israel did not say how many or what type of planes took part in the raid, but the communique said all aircraft retur- ned safely. In Washington, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter condemned See ISRAEL, Page 13 State Senate primary Four Republicans and three Democrats will vie for party nominations in next Tuesday's State Senate primary. For can- didate profiles, see Page12. PLO Pari~s chief assassinated PARIS (AP) - A two-man Arab hit hard-line, anti-Arafat alliance of the "stern reprisals" for a spate of terror squad assassinated the Paris represen- Iraq government and radical attacks on Iraqi diplomats abroad tative of the Palestine Liberation Palestinian guerrillas. blamed on Arafat's guerrillas. Organization and another PLO em- Police sources said the two captured One eyewitness who barricaded him- ployee yesterday in the latest round of a men told investigators they were mem- self in an office when the attack began bloody Arab vendetta being waged in bers of an anti-Arafat group of guerrilla said he heard repeated gunfire and world capitals. dissidents based in the Iraqi capital of scuffles for several minutes. The terrorists, who stormed into the Baghdad and headed by Saleh Bunni, Police grabbed one of the suspects as PLO's downtown offices armed with code-named Abu Nidal. he tried to flee the elegant 19th-century pistols and grenades, were captured af- Police said the pair carried Jor- building on Boulevard Haussmann. A ter pumping more than a dozen bullets danian passports identifying them as squad of flak-jacketed and carbine-ar- into PLO official Izziddin Qalaq and Abdulkadir Hatem, 25, and Assad med police then clustered around the killing the other PLO employee with a Kayed, 21, both said to have been born entry to the building and officers went grenade, police said. The second vic- in Jordan. Police said they had doubts into the courtyard and into other of- tim's legs were blown off. about the authenticity of the passports. fices. THREE other members of the office' IN LEBANON, the PLO accused the A MAN THEN burst out onto a staff were reported wounded. Iraqis of masterminding the " balcony and shouted in Arabic to people It was the second Arab terror raid in assassination of the 40-year-old Qalaq on a balcony above, "Wahad!" - Paris this week and appeared to be the and vowed "swift retaliation from all "One!" --apparently meaning there newest blow an urirgroinmdgtte 'directions." 'The killings came barely was one terrorist left. between Yasser Arafat's PLO a r -a24 hours 'af er the Iraqis threatened i See TERRORISTS Page 13