U - MANCHESTER HERALD. Wednesday. Oct. 9, 19«5 M ViNCHESTER U.S./WORLD SPORTS WEATHER Research backs Republicans promise I lActorYul Brynner Whalers fortune Rain likely tonight; to fix walks, parks I I loses cancer bout hinges on defense cloudy, cool Friday Interferon for FREE! SHOP AROUND^ .u. page 3 I I ... page 2 ... page 11 ... page 2 • FREE SAME DAY OR REXT DAY DELIVERY CHECK ALL THE ADVERTISED . FREE removal OF YOUR OLO TV OR OIICORRECTEO APPUARCE SPECIALS IN THIS. DR ANY DTHER certain ailment . FREE WASHER REIRSTALL AT TIME OF DELIVERY PUBLICATIDNI THEN BRING THDSE • FREE PROMPT DELIVERY ADS INTO AL SIEFFERT'S AND • FREE CHOICE OF DECORATOR COLOR to result from a misguided attack By Daniel Q. Haney • TIWH S n ie w Wiuld Cm I SA0400W Hnwhtrt WObOAL SIEFFERT ■ ' WILL BEAT ’EM. The Associated Press by the body’s disease-fighting immune system. Experts estimate CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ^ Injec­ it affects about 6 million Ameri­ tions of the hormone interferon cans, 10 percent to 20 percent of I ffflanrbTfitrr H rralb seem to relieve pain and swelling whom are not helped by traditional ....... * Thuradav.Thursday, Oct. Oct. 10, 1985 — Single copy: 25^ in people afflicted with stubborn therapy such as a n ti­ Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm cases of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory drugs, gold com­ DAYS ONLY ailment that affects about 6 million pounds and penicillamine. Americans, researchers say. Interferon is produced naturally Interferon has been widely in­ by many cells in the body to fight THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY vestigated as a cancer treatment disease. In the latest experiments, and appears to be useful in some doctors tested a form called 9:30-8:00 9:30-5:00 kinds of tumors, but the hormone gamma interferon that is ordinar­ 9:30-9:00 Mubarak: Hijackers has not proved to be the dramatic ily made by white blood cells called breakthrough in cancer therapy T cells. that some had hoped. The hormone’s apparent power “ We’ve been so focused on using against arthritis was first noticed this in cancer that people have about I'/i years ago during a A l fiietot’j ______ cancer study at Bioferon, the are in PLO custody neglected some of the non-cancer uses,” said Dr. Seth Rudnick, vice Biogen subsidiary. president for pharmaceutical de­ "They incidentally noted in a few • ^ flr u io o t By Wadle KIrolos velopment at Biogen, which manu­ patients who had both cancer and / liS S 'S S f f r United Press International factures interferon. rheumatoid arthritis some im­ Manchester man recalls The effects of the gene-spliced provement in the pain from I * ^ a s a k CAIRO, Egypt — President drug on arthritis was noticed arthritis,” said Dr. Rudnick. Hosni Mubarak said today four ! •SHAMir during experiments by Bioferon, a At first, company officials were Palestinian pirates who hijacked cruises on Achllle Lauro / • s o t t r West German subsidiary of Bio­ skeptical of the observation. But SUPER I an Italian luxury liner with 511 gen, a Swiss biotechnology com­ eventually they tested interferon people aboard and killed - an By Susan Vaughn By the time the Kellers took pany with D.S. operations in on 38 patients in Germany and 28 American hostage were released Herald Reporter their second trip in 1971, the ship Cambridge. improved. The pain lessened or I from custody in Egypt and handed had been sold to the Italian A report on the work will be disappeared within a week or two It over to the Palestine Liberation A Manchester man has fond Lauro family and was based in published in the December issue of of the injections, which were given Organization. memories of two round-the- Naples. Biotechnology. five times weekly. Mubarak’s statement came af­ world cruises he and his late It had been completely refur­ Preliminary studies show that Dr. Frederick Wolfe later con­ JT——— ___ ter Italy called for the hijackers’ wife took or. the Achille Lauro — bished and renamed for the the hormone works in about ducted a monthlong comparison II extradition and the White House trips he said today were com­ Lauro family, Keller said. It two-thirds of people who are not study on patients at the Arthritis demanded they be punished se­ pletely free of the terror caused was an excellent ship both helped by conventional treatment, "Center in Wichita, Kan. Half of the PRICES! verely. An Israeli official said PLO by the hijacking of the Italian times, he said. “ We were well researchers said Tuesday. How­ patients took 100-microgram doses Chairman Yasser Arafat knew of cruise ship in the Mediterra­ taken care of,” he recalled. ever, more work will be necessary of the hormone and the rest got JUST A SAMPLE OF HUNDREDS OF BUYS the hijacking in advance and that nean earlier this week. The second cruise, which took to demonstrate interferon’s safety lO-microgram doses. Eleven of 14 the pirates had planned to take the Jack Keller, now a resident of 11 weeks, departed from Sou­ and effectiveness in arthritis, they in the high-dose group had relief of TELEVISIONS 1 VIDEO RECORDERS MICROWAVES WASHER-DRYERS liner to Israel. Holiday House, told the Man­ thampton, England. It wound said. their pain and swelling, compared Arafat said his organization did chester Herald of two cruises he through the Mediterranean Sea, Rheumatoid arthritis is an in­ with seven of 14 who took lower not yet have control of the and his late wife, Alice, took on around the Cape of Good Hope flammatory joint disease thought doses. 8 HOUR MITSUBISHI hijackers. the ship — one in 1959 and the and across the Pacific, with FAMOUS MAKE j^Vhirlpool “ Not yet,” he told an interviewer other in 1971. stops in Australia, New Zealand RCA on ABC’s “ Good Morning, Amer­ When the Kellers took their and other Pacific islands, and RCA XL-100 ica.” “ We asked Egyptian authori­ 13- \:S HEAVY trips, the cruises were a relax­ finally went up the east coast of Consumer group 13” *88 ties ... but they are not yet under ing way to spend a vacation, South America, Keller said. 181b. DUTY our control.’’ In all, the Kellers traveled PO B TA BLE , CipieHy Keller said. There was no V » I O CASSfTTI Automatic Asked how long it would be thought of danger and “ there about 35,000 miles on the two MICROWAVE Washer before he would know where the was no such word ashijacking,” trips on the Achille Lauro, says bread fiber RECORDER hijackers were, he said: “ I can’t Keller said. Keller said. *168“ (1 2 O nly) *329 answer that.” At the time of their first Keller expressed anger at (10 O nly) (9 O nly) ^ 2 0 8 cruise, the Achille Laura was a news reports today that the EGYITIAN OFFICIALS SAID Dutch ship called the Willem Egyptian government freed the E AR LIE R that the Palestinians comes from trees 8 HOUR Ruys. The ship began that four hijackers when the ship POBTBBLB, were held in Port Said, where they cruise in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., docked in Port Said. "The RCA n m n MICROWAVE surrendered to Egyptian authori­ and traveled easterly around Egyptians let us down by letting By Randolph E. Schmid "Our label itself states, flat out, ties Wednesday, ending the 44-hour the world tor nine weeks, Keller those bums go and not incarcer­ ” The Associated Press ‘non-nutritive crude fiber.’ That’s 19 L it t o n SAVE! Mediterranean hijacking odyssey said. ating them,” he said. hardly misleading,” said Bella (9 O nly) n that began Monday when the WASHINGTON - Americans Dwyer, director of technical servi­ H EA VY TE^kl^i vessel was seized off Port Said. who buy certain breads hoping to ces at W.E. Long Co, in Chicago, T — - DUTY Mubarak said Egypt agreed to perpetrators of the hijacking of an David Kimche, the ministry’s increase the fiber in their diets are maker of Vim, one brand of bread 14 Day v » io c a s s it h take charge of the four liijackers Italian luxury liner to justice. director-general, said he did not getting wood pulp instead of grain, cited by the consumer group. e A A RECORDER Electric %OAtk and grant them safe passage from “Again we have murder and know what the suspicious behavior a Washington consumer group Fiber is beneficial to . health, ^2 1 8 ®» *128 Egypt in exchange for the release mistreatment of people that is was. says. whether it comes from wood or ’ Z o o (9 O nly) Dryer ’249 of the 511 passengers and crew, unacceptable. I believe we have to Kimche also told reporters that "Natural furniture fiber would grains, and if there was any hazard provided they were not harmed. insist and continue to insist that Israel had “ absolute and concrete be more accurate” than the claim it would not be allowed by the Mubarak said the pirates were there be no sanctuary for these and irrefutable” information that of natural food fiber on some of the government, said Lewis Ort, presi­ released five hours before authori­ people, that there be no safe haven, Arafat knew about the piracy in bread, asserted Bonnie Liebman, dent of Cumberland, Md.-based ties learned an American, Leon that there be no escape from advance. nutrition director of the Center for Ort’s Inc., which manufacturers Klinghoffer, 69, of New York, a justice,” Shultz told the Senate Details of the pirates’ departure Science in the Public Interest.