OCR Text |
Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, H2 ;Page ;lvana Trump is a.survivor who has overcome SUTTONS BAY. Mich. (AP) For years, scientists and health officials have warned women not to eat Great Lakes fish lest they damage their fetuses. The alert belies a debate among uncertain scientists, alarmed environmentalists and corporate lobbyists. None of them can tell Great Lakes mothers with certainty what risk their children may face. "We recognize that none of these studies are perfect," says June Fesseden MacDonald, a Cornell University toxicologist who chairs an international committee pushing for even greater Great Lakes warnings. "When one is worrying about human health, we're suggesting it is better to be wrong than subject people to harm and say nothing. " For Cindi John, the uncertainty is part of her life. In she drops baby Ruby off at the sitter's and goes out on Lake Michigan to fish with her husband and other members of the Ottawa tribe. The nets come back full with whitefish and salmon and trout and perch and walleye, and the giant ancient lake sturgeon. Amid the abundance, she witnesses the imbalance of the lake. She finds sea lampreys with their circle saw mouths sucking the life from trout. She sees island rookeries with cormorants impaled on fishing lures or strangled in plastic beer can rings. After a day on the inland sea, Cindi returns to bright-eye- d Ruby, who in her blood carries a deeper imprint of the lake. Ruby was born Nov. 23, 1990, her body carry ing the toxins from her mother's lifetime in the catch basin of the industrial Midwest. Though Cindi stopped eating Lake Michigan fish when she learned she was pregnant, her fetus already had a toxic legacy of By HARPER'S BAZAAR Hearst Magazine A Features Ivana Trump can drive a truck, run a hotel and overcome the divorce scandal of the decade in other words, she's a survivor. ''Life is not a dress rehearsal," she said in an interview in the cur- nay-sayi- fish-eati- rent issue of Harper's Bazaar. "You must enjoy it. You have to stop and smell the roses. But you must also have faith in yourself. I think I have this from sports." Trump is a world class skier who holds a Master's degree in physical education from the Charles University in ."I still Prague. ski and ride the bike and walk. And I have a personal trainer four days a week. I do 100 sit-uin the morning and 100 at night. More important, though, is the fact that I learned to be competitive. V With sports, you must set your ; goals and go after them. I have always been competitive, an achiever. These qualities with a strong will and a sense of fairness have carried me through every- good-weathe- '. thing." What she has gone through the day after Christmas 1989, when an encounter in Aspen with ;Marla Maples eventually led to the notorious divorce from Donald Trump. She remains adament in Refusing to discuss her former husband, but she finds gratification in the support she has received. be-jga- rt ; "You cannot imagine. I have received millions of letters. Even from nuns, from the Royal family, from women who never wrote a letter in their lives. I think I give courage. It all happened to tJkCoii such a large scale," she J$mC1 "But I handled the situation "wjtii grace. I proved you can sur-fye- ." Trump was once described by $oje friend Kenneth Jay Lane as r'Stit like Bambi," but this Bambi jJrjves a Mack truck. one year's Christmas rather than jewelry or tatever, I did receive a Mack track," she said. "Not the you know, just the I love to drive it in Connecticut on my weekends." "She also has conquered foreign English is her fifth languages as well as resurrecting New York City's Plaza Hotel, managing Trump's Castle in Atlantic City and mothering three children (Donny, Ivanka and Eric). Far from the grieving divorcee and hardly alone she relies on a retinue of help that includes two d nannies, a publicist, and a Yugoslavian housekeeper named Zorka Trump now is in the midst of recreating an entire empire in her own image. It will be launched in March jpvjth the publication of the first of ftvoiiovels she is writing for Pocket" Books. "It is called 'For Love Alone.' I !ariiso excited. It draws on all my my modeling, experience sports, my social life here and in Europe, my love for fashion, my business career. You will definitely see me in it, you will hear my voice. But it is fiction." -- Her publishers are betting the fiction will be based on real life enough to appeal to those nuns and mysterious members of the Royal family who rallied behind her, not ;7;For gFent, full-1z- nuclear-powere- curious socialite tjfcnds, loyal fans, maybe even nelwork miniseries moguls. I There also is a perfume, a line of bath products and a clothing collection to come. "J am help a hard worker. it," she said. I can't There's no fear that all work and nv'play will make for a dull Ivana - there is still the m in Palm Beach Mar-a-Lag- ttvI 118-roo- have it to myself every as well as the mansion IVJarch" in Greenwich, Conn." 5, 1992 Scientists have no answers to Great Lakes women scandal of decade For AP Special Sunday, February 16, PCBs and DDT stretching back 32 years. The alphabet soup of g industrial compounds known as PCBs was banned in the 1970s. In large doses, PCBs deform babies and cause cancers. But what happens when a fetus is exposed to tiny doses of the industrial fluid in the womb? Researchers Sandy and Joseph cancer-causin- know if it makes a difference," Jacobson said recently from his office at Wayne State University. Jacobson says his findings are not conclusive. But he says there is enough to suggest a cause and an effect, to warn of a diminished potential in children. "It's enough to tell companies we're worried about adding new PCBs to the environment," he "It's really frightening. Really an entire generation of Great Lakes kids doesn't have the intelligence potential they should have. They're subtle problems, but how ' do you put a price tag?" Tim Eder of the Michigan National Wildlife Federation PCB-anim- al The advisory board also wants the commission to begin monitoring PCB levels in breast milk. Yet the Jacobsons cannot yet say if Ruby John pays a real price for her mother's fish diet. "It's interesting, but I don't cobsons revisited the children four years later, they were an average 4 pounds lighter than their peers. At that time, the babies had slightly reduced short-termemories compared to other babies. Other researchers have found links between PCBs and other Great Lakes toxins and birth defects, low birth weights, wasting, internal organ damage, abnormal sexual development and behavior changes in the offspring of animals. "It's really frightening. Really an entire generation of Great Lakes kids doesn't have the intelligence potential they should have," said Tim Eder with the National Wildlife Federation in PCB-ex-pos- said. Though banned for nearly two decades, PCBs continue to recycle in the Great Lakes basin through landfills, dredging, soil erosion and other means. After playing host to heavy industry for a century, the lakes are awash fish-eate- wedding, I was hit with this same annoyance a dozen times. Here is a sampling of what I've had to listen to from all of you: "I hardly recognized your hus- at me." "After Bob's heart attack, for orders." "Does Bob take medicine? He looks so blown up." "Bob ought to run or work out and lift weights like my husband does. He'll feel terrific." "Maybe Bob needs to see a psychiatrist. His overeating could be caused by an unresolved emotional problem." Yes, Bob had a heart attack. No, he isn't on medication. He is "blown up" from eating too much. Yes, his doctor DID tell him to exercise and lose some weight. Yes, he knows it's unhealthy to be so fat. He also knows how embarrassed, frightened and angered I am by his weight gain. None of the above seems to matter so I've tried to put it out of my mind and enjoy whatever time we have left together. Your comments don't help. They just remind me -V !' '1111111 ' that I'm living with a time bomb and I can't do anything about it. before they express concern about the weight of a family member to a wife, husband, sister, uncle, cousin or anyone else. Thank you on behalf of them all. Dear Ann Landers: I am a working woman. I have been contemplating getting married soon and have decided not to change my name. Several friends have said they hate hyphenated names. I tell them I have no intention of having a hyphenated name. I'm keeping my own. mgfo OFF 10-2- 5 Why can't people emerge from the Dark Ages, Ann? Why should I take my future husband's family name? That is not who I am and I don't feel that I need to change my name because of tradition. I'd like the men who are reading this to get the message straight. I am not some crazed activist taking up a "cause." I am a woman who feels very strongly that marriage need not eclipse a woman's total person-hoo- -- children. Humphrey said the state began' ,' advising women about lake fish in the early 1970s, when there was""' mercury in Lake St. Clair. The later discovery of DDT and PCBs in fish cemented the warnings," now basin wide. Some people say the advisories are not protecting those most at-ri- sk: people in Quebec who rely on fish for subsistence and immigrant families in Ontario who gather on the shore of the Lower Niagara River each weekend to ". eat fish. 1 -- LT y.liftJHHrt'lHlVUli)l MONDAY TUESDAY FEB. 17 18 & ENTIRE STOCK BY THE YARD MFG. SUGG. THESE COUPONS GOOD M0N. TO WED., FEB. 17-1- 9 FEB. GOOD COUPON 1 ALL IN STOCK SIZES 45" PURCHASE 60" COUPON OOOO MON.WED., FEB. WHITE BLACK COATS CLARK t I 5.37m 1 SCIBBLES FABRIC FAINTS SHEETING COTTON SOLID COLORS 100 POLYCOTTON' CUT TO ORDER ALL ON A BOLT 2.67m 2.97 YD. COUPON YD. 0000 aaa McCALLS ' ' B THUW 4AT., FEB ALL IN STOCK SIZES ALL ON A BOLT , BOTTOMWEIGHT 1.77m 1.97 m FABRIC 0000 THUDS PURCHASE AT.. Kl K-- CONE THREAD CUT TO ORDER Q CONES COUPON F0R$ 0000 FEB. BMI BY THE SPOOL 0AKHILL TRIMS SOLID COLORS CUT TO ORDER COUPON , RUFFLE & FLAT SPORTSWEAR I WITH 3000 YD. CONES COTTON 2.07m 2.27 m yd. ALL ON A BOLT LIMIT SOLID COLORS CUT TO ORDER 3i57yd. 3.97 60" 1 PRINTED BOTTLE SHEETING S 3.97m- THESE COUPONS GOOD THUR. TO SAT. FEB. 20-2- 2 OZ. SIZE " 100 JOHNSONS CREATIVE ARTS 5.97 - JERSEY ORDER 60" COTTON Harold A. Frost, PhD. 60" CUT TO 90" COTTON A Lecture by 3.57m YD. PRINTED ALL ON A BOLT . ORDER- POLYCOTTON FEB. YARDS FOR 45" WIDE POLYCOTTON CUT TO ALkJ?,ti INTERLOCKS JUMBO THREAD Q 3.97 -- APPLE PRINTS' WIDE 3.57m FABRIC POLISHED 100H COTTON ALL ON CUT TO A BQLT ORDER SIMPLICITY AAA I WITH on sale now CALIFORNIA . PRINTS EYELET TRIMS Clark Auditorium (East side) RETAIL MAILER IN PROGRESS... BM ! SHEARS 330FF SO0FF 19.95 LIMIT atUVRMCs GINGHER PRODUCTS MYOB. Gem of the Day (Credit the late Malcolm Forbes): The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. 8" OR PACKAGED CUT TO ORDER PRICE Dear Oak: This is between your future husband and you. Nobody else gets a vote. If he has no objections, all others should 2 DAYS ONLY! ENTIRE STOCK QUiLT BATTING d. Let me also make it clear that I would want my children to have my husband's last name to avoid confusion. OK? Independent in Oak Park, 111. & 2 DAYS ONLY! 2 DAYS ONLY! RUFFLED SPOOL 0' RIBBON AiC if 3"oT$1 SPOOL J Feb. 18, 1992, 7 p.m. JCA BABY COLLECTION. FEB. 15TH THRU FEB. 29TH J'rfuomoN of quality since effects of eating contaminated fish on Mohawk women and their Siftf Hill PfflLlllinrarA ill ISSLXf R KlSUumlJaiL 1 A EE COUPON OOOO FEATURING KITS FROM In August, flie Paper Instituted ' presented its case to the Interna- tional Joint Commission. The press for answers continj";' ues. The Jacobsons are again test-- '. ' ' ing the Michigan study children,' now 10 years old. Health and Welfare Canada is collaborating -on a study of native people. An- other researcher is examining the mrme BLANKETS, BIBS, QUILTS, 1 nt FABRIC warehouse SPOOL AND CROSS STITCH BOOKS point-by-poi- ' finmunt AM YARD OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF Health Department researcher1' Hal Humphrey. "You can try to crucify an individual researcher, ' but almost every epidemiological '.' siuay mat nas Deen aone can oe ba- attacked on a sis." rs' ALL ON A BOLT. LM- . s, SYNDICATE BABY KIT SALE ' r As fast as the environmental- CREATORS didn't his doctor tell him to diet and exercise? You really should insist that he follow the doctor's heavy." , Other researchers say the criti- cism is unfair, that the Jacobsons' ' work is solid. "It's a field observational study. Those studies have those iiawa in uiciu, saiu iviiiiugau tag?" Landers Dear St. Louis: You've written a letter that many readers will identify with. It's sure to make them think a second time it , ay To Save..: help if I told 'Bob,' for his own good, he should do something about his weight?" "Why don't you put Bob on a low-fdiet? It certainly worked "Would ed Ann Why do you keep bringing this subject up? There is nothing I can do about Bob's weight. Only BOB can do something about it. If you feel that you must comment, talk to C. him and leave me alone. from St. Louis, Mo. band. He's gotten so nothing-known- ," Paneth said. "If you're not on solid ground, if you start to scream and yell, you just lose your ability to deal with the really important issues. And there just hasn t been that much good epidemiology in these areas." m His weight is his problem alone Dear Ann Landers: I have a problem that is driving me crazy and I have no idea how to solve it. I am hoping a letter in your column will help not only me but others who are similarly plagued. Dear Family, Friends and Acquaintances: I was able to handle this when it occurred once or twice a month, but recently at a family nes when there is ists seized upon the studies, a counterattack was launched by the pulp and paper industry, which also prompted the recent rethinking of dioxins' dangers. with 373 such identified persistThe American Paper Institute ent chemicals. Small doses are a this year paid two Johns Hopkins concern because they build up in researchers to critique University the body over a lifetime. the Jacobson studies. Most of the The Jacobsons surveyed 8,482 criticism centers on uncontrolled new mothers at four western lowfactors such as mothers' smoking er Michigan hospitals in 1981 and and drinking habits. from there found a core of Rather than balance the num236 women who each ate bers of smokers and drinkers in an average of two to three fish the test and control groups, the meals a month. Jacobsons checked for mathematThe two child psychologists ical correlations to rule out those tested the women's blood and and 22 other possible factors. found PCBs. And they tested It is a fatal flaw, says Jacquetheir children. line Agnew, assistant professor of At birth, the babies environmental health sciences at were about 160 to 250 grams Johns Hopkins and one of the critlighter than other infants in the ics hired by the Paper Institute. about the same lightness study Nigel Paneth, a Michigan State fish-eater- - i. rs' Michigan. "They're subtle problems, but how do you put a price 'Understanding Anorexia & Bulimia" - fish-eate- University researcher, independ-- ( ently critiqued the Jacobsons' work. He cited the same flaws and said he sees a greater danger.,- -. . .l. J' are useaJ to write ii ine studies pubhc policy. "It's crazy to put out adviso-- fish-eati- r, Jacobson have spent a decade trying to answer the riddle by tracking children like Ruby. Their preliminary studies found effects as subtle as the dosages slightly stunted growth and slightly diminished memory. Environmentalists cite their work and other studies to warn that the brilliance of generations of children has been dimmed. And because of the Jacobsons, the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board for which Fesseden MacDonald works is asking the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada to declare the Great Lakes a human health threat. as babies of mothers who smoke tobacco during pregnancy. Jacobson said tobacco babies catch up to the rest of the population in five months. The babies did not. When the Ja- m SJ IP Department of Behavioral Medicine Utah Valley Regional Medical Center pTORE HOURS! An Intermountain Health Care Facility I 1 I J0- - CLOSED SUNDAY " 1 H p, 22M425 2S6 M. STATE, 633 E. 3300 SOUTH, SALT . 0K1 1 ' 4050 RWERDALE Ton OREM PKT tlMfW SO, ' V LAKE (OJUK RJVERDALE ' 1 |