I NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 12, 1996 - 9A I follution linked to intelligence level Swiss banks to disclose Nazi grold hold ings The Washington Post Eleven-year-old children who were exposed to modest levels of a common llutant while in their mother's wombs score lower on intelligence tests and are lagging behind their less-exposed peers in reading comprehension skills, a new study has found. Previous research had shown that pre- natal exposures to the same class of chemicals - polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs - could cause subtle neuro- logical and memory problems in infants and preschool children. But the new work, published in today's issue of the ew England Journal of Medicine, suggests those early cognitive deficits do not go away with time. Publication of the PCB study coin- cided with the release by the Clinton administration of a comprehensive report on the risks that environmental pollutants pose to children, and a pledge to update federal environmental regulations to assure that they better pro- tect the health of infants and children. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner distrib- uted the report at a news conference yesterday, and promised an expedited review of five key health standards to make sure they reflect the growing recognition that children are more sen- sitive than adults to many environmen- tal contaminants. PCBs, which were produced primar- ily as electrical insulation, will not be among the pollutants reviewed because they have been banned in the United States since 1977. Nonetheless, they are still widely found in older appli- ances, landfills, and in the fatty tissues of fish and other animals - including the fat and breast milk of people who eat those animals. Most of the children in the latest study were born to women who ate PCB-contaminated fish from Lake Michigan in the 1980s. AP PHOTO Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity founders Millard and Linda Fuller lift a piece of siding for one of five houses that volunteers built yesterday in Pensacola, Fla. The Washington Post GENEVA - Swiss banks, one of the most secretive clubs in the world, faced new pressure yesterday to dis- close the extent to which they hold gold and other assets formerly belonging to Nazis and not turned over to the Allies after World War 11. The latest development was a report by the British Foreign Office released Tuesday that said Swiss banks could be holding billions of dollars worth of German gold, presumably stolen from nations and individuals and transferred to Switzerland during the war. The report, based on research through British government archives, was not the first to contend Swiss banks still hold Nazi wealth. The Jewish Chronicle, a British pub- lication, reported last week that Adolf Hitler had deposited the royalties from his book "Mein Kampf" into the Union Bank of Switzerland. It cited "declassi- fied U.S. intelligence reports" and did not indicate whether the account was still extant. The bank said at the time that there was no way to determine if such an account ever existed. Spokespeople for the Swiss foreign affairs department and the association of bankers responded to the new gold report in almost identical terms. Jean-Paul Chapuis, secretary-general of the Swiss Bankers Association, said, "We have already wanted to shed all the light possible on these issues." However he said, his organization had found no new clues in the British report that would allow them to find these assets, if they are indeed in Swiss banks. Jean-Phillippe Tissieres, spokesper- son for the Swiss department of foreign affairs, said. "We are ready to get to the bottom of this affair and shed light on anything we can. They promised no new actions. But in the last year or so, Swiss banks, famous for their vast assets and their anonymous numbered accounts, have taken several steps to respond to criti- cism that their secrecy masks a lack of interest in returning stolen or seized assets. Last year, the banks announced that their own internal investigations had found some $34 million - including interest and after bank fees were sub- tracted -in dormant deposits had been identified as possibly belonging to Holocaust victims or their families. A few months later, they agreed to the formation of a joint committee of Swiss and Jewish experts to investigate claims to those assets on a case-by-case basis. Jewish organizations contend the amount of money and other assets seized by the Nazis and transferred to Switzerland is much larger than $34 million. eed costs prompt soaring milk prces WASHINGTON (AP)- Milk short- ages that have pushed supermarket prices past $3 a gallon will continue through next year, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.. Although dairy farmers who have weathered high feed costs and low Wturns finally have reason to celebrate, some worry whether shoppers' new- found enthusiasm for dairy products might dampen. Even before yesterday's production report, the department was forecasting food prices to increase 3 percertt to 4 percent next year. That's on top of an expected increase of as much as 3 per- cent in 1996. In recent years, food prices have stayed below 3 percent. Some private economists have fore- cast higher rates as shortages of animal feed work their way through prices for meat and other goods. "The food price story is not over by any means," said private economist Paul Prentice, president of Farm Sector Economics Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colo. High costs for corn, soybeans, hay and other feed have put a damper on milk production all year. Yesterday's forecast for an 8.8 billion bushel corn crop and 2.27 bushel soybean crop did little to ease supply worries, especially since early frosts could threaten harvests. Dairy farmers couldn't earn enough from milk to justify the high cost of feed, brought on by poor weather in farm country. They cut back on herd size and fed their cows less. Now production has fallen back so much that the prices farmers get for their milk will more than offset costs. As a result, department economists yesterday raised the forecast for farm- level prices in the marketing year that begins Oct. 1 to nearly $15 per hundred pounds of milk - about $1.29 a gallon. This follows a decade of prices in the $12.50 to $13 range. 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