Controversy Over Laetrile Continues
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Tide, Sun, Temp . Weather Forecast .AA 7 OA pmA.-Mostly clear Lowtde 11:35am Possible showers 2 Swvce--- 6: 9am 3 -sods SE 14-i8 S unmet -- he-- "4 on y h 't -b4a d ikm'kt .Bay con- July 12, 1977 Vol. 32 No. 133 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Postal rates may increase Controversy over laetrile continues (UPI)--The Postal Service Board of delivery. (UPI)--A National Cancer Institute But the Battelle test results will Governors yesterday endorsed plans But the new concept called "cit- Official says a new study testing add new fuel to the nationwide con- to increase rates on postal services izen mail" also was approved. the controversial substance laetrile troversy over the value of the drug but keep the cost of mailing a per- First Class business mail would shows it had no effect on human tu- that the Food and Drug Administration in- sonal letter at 13 cents. cost 16 cents.but a private, mors implanted in mice. has called worthless and advocates The new rates include increases dividual letter would still cost Doctor John Venditti says laetrile claim is beneficial against cancer. private for second, third and fourth-class 13 cents. To qualify the was tested against the cancers in The issue will come up today at a to have the prop- mail.and for services like special letter would have mice at the Battelle Memorial Insti- Senate Subcommitte hearing with 19 to er zip codes. .and would have tute in Columbus, Ohio. He says the witnesses scheduled to appear. Both or return have either the address laetrile produced no reduction in sides of the controversy were to hand-written. address tumor size. testify, including the directors of the Post- The proposals now go to Venditti is Chief of the Drug E- the FDA and National Cancer Insti- will Both Carters in the news al Rate Commission.which valuation Branch of the National tute and laetrile pioneer Ernst Krebs. have 10 months to hold hearings Cancer Institute. He says his per- and refer the recommendations back sonal opinion is that someone ought (UPI)--President Carter has agreed to the Board of Governors. to evaluate the case histories of to support the AFL-CIO's proposal to Postmaster General Benjamin those humans treated with laetrile. cut bureaucratic red tape inhibiting Bailer said he did not expect any He says when something has been test- Senate rejects efforts union organizing.but only if the of the changes to take place before ed in a substantial number of well- new compromise bill does not include the 10 months are up. documented human cases, the animal repeal of so-called "right to work" experiments become irrelevant. laws. That word came today from labor spokesmen. Attorney General Griffin Bell says Carter has a sixth person "in Japanese Liberal Democratic Party retains majority the back of his mind" to replace re- tiring FBI Chief Clarence Kelley. 122 of the 126 The person would only become a can- (UPI) --The ruling Liberal Demo- With ballots for counted, tabulations didate, according to Bell, if he and cratic Party Monday appeared to seats at stake gave the LDP 63 seats. The party, Carter decide to extend the search have retained a majority in the conservative despite its name, beyond the five candidates already Upper House of Parliament in a cru- needs 65 seats to maintain a major- being considered. cial electoral test for the govern- ity. Carter's spokesman, asked if Budg- ment of Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. The Socialist Party, the leading et Secretary Burt Lance might resign The unexpectedly strong showing opposition, captured 24 seats. (UPI)--The Senate yesterday re- because of financial problems, says came despite newspaper polls pre- The Buddhist-Oriented Komeito had jected President Carter's effort to "absolutely not." News Secretary dicting the party would lose its 14; the Moderate Democratic Social- discontinue the Clinch River Nuclear Jody Powell said a White House majority in the 252-seat upper 6; the Japan Communist Breeder Reactor Project. Counsel is looking into getting an house for the first time in 22 ist Party, governed Ja- Party, 4; and the Conservative New Carter wanted to limit new funds extension of the date by which Lance years. The party has Liberal Club, 3. for the plutonium, producing reactor must devest himself of stock in pan since World War II. Three members of minor parties at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.as part of the beleaguered Georgia bank he once and 5 independents also were elec- his effort to call a worldwide halt headed. ted. to plutonium production. He wanted One of the five independents said to spend 33 million, just enough to HOUSE NEWS out IN OTHER WHITE Hostages escape he would join the LDP and another complete design work and phase two unofficially said they would the project. Rosalynn Carter hosted a luncheon support the party. Project supporters, led by Idaho in honor of Empress Farah yesterday at Helsinki's "Election results clearly show Senator Frank Church, promoted a of Iran while Iranian students (UPI)--Authorities Airport say one of the two hijack- that the Japanese people want a compromise authorization of 75 mil- staged a noisy demonstration out- ers holding a Russian jetliner has stable government led by the Liber- lion dollars, which was accepted. side the White House. The demon- to surrendered. The second hijacker al Democratic Party," a jubilant The funds would allow the project stration was the largest outside is still aboard the plane, and Fin- Fukuda told a news conference. "I remain in its current status, and the White House since the Carters nish officials are trying to per- also see them as a sign on the part keep key scientific staff members. moved in. suade him to give up. Authorities of the electorate for a sounder It's about half the amount con- The picketers did not interfere have already said that, if the hi- LDP." tained in the original authorization with other guests.who included jackers surrender, they will be im- bill. The Church Compromise is an men for the first time. Mrs Carter returned to the Soviet effort to persuade Carter not to Only" luncheon mediately broke the "Ladies veto the bill. tradition for visiting female Union. the hijackers' last three guests of honor by asking not only Earlier, hostages escaped, leaving them alone distinguished women, but men from NBC wins first on the plane. The jet was comman- the worlds of politics and the arts deered while on a domestic Russian as well. flight Sunday. Since landing in Demonstrators to disobey Helsinki, the hostages have either part of charges been released or escaped from under the hijackers' guard. OPEC members meet (UPI)--Slander and invasion of (UPI)--Demonstrators occupying privacy charges against NBC were part of the campus at Kent State Japan to wait for dismissed by a Federal District University in Ohio have decided to disobey a court order that they end (UPI)--Members of the World's Court Judge in Winchester, Tennessee their occupation this morning. A Richest Club gathered Monday at an yesterday. county court on Monday ordered the elegantly agirg hotel on the shores A libel charge remains in connec- technical report protesters to end their 61-day oc- of a peaceful Swedish peninsula to tion with the airing of the TV film cupation, and at the same time told talk over oil police that could "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Department said the university to hold off on plans have a decisive effect on the (UPI)--The State Boys." damage to build an athletic annex near the world's well-being. Monday Japan should await a spe- In a six million-dollar Street accused site of the 1970 Kent State shoot- The 13-nation Organization of cial technical report on alterna- suit, Victoria Price by sug- ings. Countries is tives before starting operations at the network of defaming her Petroleum Exporting The court's ruling was intended to opening a two-day meeting today with a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. gesting that she lied in testimony move to the courts the conflict over its most immediate problem - what But Janan has said it olans to during the trials of nine black an- the annex location. The protesters price to charge for the remainder of put into operation the Tokai-Mura youths accused of raping her and want the location made into a memo- 1977 - settled in advance. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant, other white woman 46 years ago. The the rial for the four students shot-to- The ministers asked for privacy which will use U. S. supplied ma- defendants, who became known as death by National Guardsmen at an and got it. A fleet of well-guarded terial, as scheduled. Scottsboro Boys, were convicted and anti-war rally on May 4, 1970. helicopters ferried them from Stock- "We have had technical negoti- eventually sentenced to a total of University President Glenn Olds holm Airport to the luxurious Grand ations with the Japanese on vari- 130 years in prison. has said he would use campus police Hotel, in a remote suburb of the ous alternatives which would permit According to records filed in the and not outside officers to enforce capital. Troops and police with the operation of the facility while court clerk's office last night the court order. He says that stu- guard dogs stood guard at the hotel. still meeting our global nuclear Judge Charles Neese dismissed the dents' familiarity with campus po- Two of the ministers, Libya's nonproliferation concerns," State slander and invasion of privacy lice would ease the potential for Izzedin Al Mabrouk and Iraq's Pyeh Department Spokesman Hodding Carter charges during a session in his violence.