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M - MANCHESTER HERALD, Monday, July 22, 19B5 MANCHESTER U.S./WORLD SPORTS WEATHER BUSINESS Buckland history Big gamble pays off Little League stars Clear, cool tonight; is long and tangled for treasure hunter sent to the sidelines sunny Wednesday Beware the quacks in the cancer business ... page 3| ... page 5 1 ... page 151 .., page 2 operators of well-run clinics with sophisticated fear their competition. • Although some are highly educated, if misguided Our increasing sophistication on health matters and equipment to the back-alley, snake-oil salesmen of scientists, many are uneducated or with degrees from cancer treatment is creating a new breed of cynical legend. Some even may be accredited members of the entrepreneurs to capitalize on these attitudes. These Your medical profession; physicians, nurses and medical obscure colleges. are cancer quacks who market worthless products • Their treatment methods are often secret, and social workers. and use scientific language that fools the most Money's How much is spent on phony cancer cures and they refuse consultation with reputable physicians or educated among us, treatments? No one knows exactly. But health cancer specialists, "The promotion of quack remedies for cancer is Worth quackery is now a $10 billion-a-year business, said a • Their records are scanty or non-existent, and MnmhmttY Mrralft hardly a new phenomenon," notes Dr. Irving J. they depend on stories about "cures" of various Sylvia Porter recent study by a House subcommittee on aging. The ____^1_________ I TiiAsHTuesday, flv/ .liilviJuly 23, 1985 — Single copy: 254 Lerner of the University of Minnesota in the American main targets of the frauds are cancer victims, individuals. Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Cancer Society's publication, Cancer News. But arthritics, food faddists and the elderly who aren't ill • They claim outside evaluation (if any) is today's "cancer underground" no longer touts single prejudiced against them, and their chief supporters but seek to halt the aging process. cure-all remedies — such as phony lotions, potions, But no dollar figure could possibly be placed on the are not medical cancer specialists, but rather powders, pills, serums and salves, as well as anguish of the cancer victims — nor could any be medically naive politicians, entertainers, etc. treatments from machines emitting mysterious rays. add up to a positive, upbeat, reassuring message for placed on the lives lost because of useless care. One To curb cancer quackery, the American Cancer the vulnerable patient. Also no longer promoted as in the past is that woman entrusted her husband, afflicted with cancer Society is spearheading efforts to strengthen and Kelly seen controversial phenomenon of the 1970s, laetrile, the "These remedies are not as frightening as surgery, of the colon, to a couple who ran a clinic. The couple enact federal and state laws, and it urges you to heed discredited apricot pit derivative which, according to chemotherapy or radiation,"^ays Cancer News. All Police brace had doctorates, one in engineering, the other in are based on appealing ideas. this advice; Dr. Lerner, holds the distinction of being "the most English, The couple warned the woman to keep her thoroughly studied failure in the history of medicine." There are no secrets, mysterious, miracle cures for Among the positive ideas are vitamins, vaccines or husband away from regular doctors and put him on a as straight cancer The only effective treatments remain special diet (including home-grown wheat grass), Instead, pushed today are various "total" ap­ drugs meant to bolster something good in the body surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and drugs^ For promising remission of the cancer in two months. proaches, such as diet therapy, megavitamins and rather than attack something awful; foods that are more guidelines to protect yourself, get the ACS s 2 "natural" or in some way free of the taint of Instead, the husband died within the span. for riots at others emphasizing nutrition, the immune response, booklet "Unproven Methods of Cancer Treatment. 2 How can you spot cancer quack's? the mind-body relationship, metabolic therapy and technology; cleansing enemas and other procedures It's available free from ACS offices across tbe United trial lawyer • They are usually isolated from established faith healing. Most often, two or three of these to purge foul toxins. scientifi'' claiming mainstream physicians States. See your phone book for addresses. therapies are combined, and then all these therapies Those marketing the phony cures may range from By Kevin Flood — Manchester at Work- Herald Reporter mass funeral Steel strikers John J. Kelly doesn't evoke many strong words or Business colorful stories from his fellow prosecutors at Bv Brendan Boyle Police briefly detained prominent 2 Manchester Superior Court — and the state Criminal black lawyer Priscilla Jana when she United Press International 3 In Brief Justice Commission may have considered that one of returned from a human rights confer­ belong at table, his blessings last week when they appointed him the JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - ence in Washington. An aide said she new chief state's attorney. was picked up at the airport by police In interviews Monday and today, the Manchester Thousands gathered for a mass funeral • r of black riot victims today and police who searched her home and then took NYNEX earnings rise 9.6% senator says prosecutors were careful not to say anything that her to police offices forquestioning. She might be regarded as critical of their new boss. But announced that 441 people had been NEW YORK — NYNEX Corp., one the regional • arrested in three days of emergency was released Monday night. they were in agreement on kelly's chief asset; that he telephone companies created by the breakup of PITTSBURGH (UPI) - The bankrupt Wheeling- rule imposed to curb protests against In Washington, President Reagan is a good, straight-forward trial attorney. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., reported Pittshurgh Steel Corp and striking United Steel­ the white minority government. denounced South Africa’s system of Kelly, formerly the state's attorney for the its second-quarter earnings rose 9,6 percent. workers are "not that far apart " in a wage dispute racial segregation known as apartheid Ansonla-Milford Judicial District, succeeds Austin J. In the April-June quarter, NYNEX earned that triggered the industry's first major walkout in Thousands of black mourners con­ and said Pretoria “ bears a considera­ McGuigan, who generated a great deal of controversy $262.5 million, or $2.60 a share, compared with more than 25 years. Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West verged on Kwa-thema, a black town­ ble responsibility" for the current $2.39.6 million, or $2.46 a share, in the same Virginia says. in the past year during his feud with State Police. ship about 25 miles east of Johannes­ violence. quarter last year. Operating revenues for the Picket lines sprang up at nine plants employing Manchester Assistant State's Attorney Jorge burg. for the mass funeral of between 14 The latest report on arrests updated Simone said Monday that Kelly showed him the value quarter rose to $2.5 billion vs. $2.4 billion a year 8,200 workers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and and 22 blacks killed by police in recent an announcement made Sunday listing of pre-trial preparation when he served in Kelly's earlier. Ohio at 12: 01 a m Sunday, marking the first time the rioting. the number of detainees at 113. A police office in Ansonia for four months in 1982. "He sort of NYNEX Chairman D.C. Staley said the USW has struck a major steelmaker since 19,59. V i ' Shops were closed and police units spokesman said information from helped me cut my teeth," Simone said. "He's just a company has continued to enhance New York Federal mediators Robert Householder and Car­ patrolled the area, witnesses said. areas covered by the emergency very good trial attorney. He always went into a Telephone's and New England Telephone's local men Newell recessed negotiations after saying the Buses and taxis would not enter the measures would be given "from time to network with more digital switching and more two sides were too far apart on vital issues. The two courtroom well-prepared, knowing what to expect." township and dropped passengers at its time." "Jack is the kind of guy who, when he says optical fiber. said they would attempt to bring both sides back to the edge. Police did, however, continue to issue Staley said these moves are the "foundation of table "but not at least for .several days." something, sticks behind it," Simone said. "And he'll At nearby Tsakane. white troops routine reports on countrywide unrest stick behind you if you need him." our transition to a high-speed, digital network But Rockefeller, who played a role in the survival of carrying automatic rifles patrolled the not related to the emergency measures. Assistant State's Attorney Neil Shea, the chief capable of meeting the needs of information-age Weirton Steel Co, as an employee-owned firm when he streets on foot. The report said two men and a youth prosecutor at the Manchester court, said this morning businnesses by exchange voice, state and images was governor of West Virginia, disagreed with the A police spokesman in Pretoria said were shot and killed in a major clash in .ini' that he has known Kelly for 15 or 20 years. Shea would economically over the same circuits." mediators' assessment. the names of the 441 people arrested by Tsakane, east of Johannesburg, where only describe Kelly as "a good prosecutor, a NYNEX Business Information Systems is "As both sides know, my office has stayed close to police under the state of emergency about 4,000 blacks surrounded and well-prepared prosecutor." expanding its Datego Stores, which sell compu­ the negotiations on a daily basis for the past few proclaimed Sunday by President Pieter stoned the home of a black policeman When asked if he thought Kelly’s appointment will J ters and other telecommunications devices, and months, " Rockefeller, a Democrat, said Sunday.

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