European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes june 1985 disability lawsuits accuse cigarette manufacturers Boston a a Harvard professor who cannot speak above a whisper and a cancer victims widow sued tobacco companies for million claiming that the manufacturers were responsible for various disa the District court suits Are similar to about 30 others filed in new Tennessee and West Virginia Over the last 18 an antismoking group working with the plaintiffs said it Hopes the suits will pressure tobacco companies to Stop presenting smoking As sexually attractive and socially a Richard president of the Massachusetts Chap ter of group against smoking said at a news conference his group also Hopes the litigation costs will Force increases in cigarette prices and discourage teens from picking up the gasp finances the tobacco products liability which encourages product liability lawsuits against Tobac co companies and their Alan a spokesman for the tobacco Institute in said wednesday that his organization does not comment on John a 63yearold English instructor at har said at the news conference after almost 50 years of he found a year ago he could speak Only in a my voice is my As a carpenters hands Are bullitt whispered into a microphone at a news Confer ence at northeastern i associated it smoking with with being a he i believe the tobacco companies have Long known that cigarettes Are addictive and cause yet failed to warn of the bullitt and two other Massachusetts plaintiffs have asked for More than million in one of who lost part of his jaw to filed his suit last week and stayed away from wednesdays news conference because he was embarrassed by his disfigure Daynard the other is a 54yearold widow of a lung cancer victim who has three bullitt is suing three tobacco companies Liggett group manufacturer of Chesterfield Phillip Morris maker of Marlboro and american brands maker of Carlton and the tobacco Institute for a total of his 13yearold son also seeking million in damages for the lost guidance and support of his Charlene Viola of Stoughton said she filed her million suit for the to keep the kids from Viola sued american tobacco maker of Lucky and the Reynolds maker of on behalf of her late Lawrence who died in april 1984 of lung they enticed my late husband to use their and he subsequently became she John the disfigured sued Brown and Williamson tobacco maker of for and his wife asked for giant screen gives viewers feeling of being on shuttle Mission Washington a a giant screen film spectacular featuring scenes shot aboard the space shuttle will give the Public the feeling of being there on a space the movies producers said the entitled the dream is will premiere Friday at the smithsonian institutions National air and space museum and later will be seen in More than 40 specially equipped Heaters around the shown on a 75footwide screen with booming stereo the film not Only shows the Prepa launches and landings of space but it gives viewers a sense of living and working inside the orbiting president Reagan led a guest list of dignitaries wednes Day night at a preview of the million feature cosponsored by Washington most popular museum and the Lockheed Reagan and his sat about Halfway Back in the theater with a group of others in the Audi ence included defense Secretary Caspar produced by Max systems of Toronto for the the movie is shot with special camera equipment using film frames 10 times larger than Standard 35mil Limiter this allows the movie to be projected on giant like the one in the museums theater that is five stories the film is the latest in a series of giant screen movies produced by Max for the such As the earlier to have become mainstays at science museums around the Walter the museum said the film initially will be shown 10 times a Day to accommodate the thousands of summer visitors who crowd the museum its really quite and we think it will be very Boyne much of the footage was shot by 14 astronauts on three shuttle missions in with the cooperation of the National aeronautics and space the Astro nauts practice for nine months using the 80pound Max movie cameras that went into the Crews filmed satellite experiments with hundreds of eating meals and moving through the corridors of the astronaut Michael Coats arose Early to film his fellow Crew members in the eerie the astronauts can be seen lying both horizontally and Verti Cally in their sleeping bags with their arms outstretched and floating in these and others shot on the Are Strung together with a narrative by Veteran television correspondent and space Buff Walter backed by an often rousing musical Henry Hartsfield who commanded a september 1984 Mission of the shuttle said the astronauts ended up shooting most of their film with a 40mm nor Mal Lens on the which made the filmed scenes appear much As they were seen by the the Pilot and chief photographer on Hart Fields agreed but said the finished film May have greater Impact than the scenes he when you add Walter Cronkite and music to the its even better than being Coats cancer survival rate May not be higher Boston up some of the improvement in cancer patients survival rate May be an illusion caused by Statis tical quirks not previously Yale University researchers said a study of lung cancer victims treated at three Yale affiliated hospitals Between 1953 and 1977 found no statistically significant improvement in although it appeared at first that a Clear improvement had taken these results Are distressing because they suggest that the contemporary improvement of survival at least among patients with lung is a statistical said the published in the new England journal of Alvan a Yale epidemiologist and the reports primary found a similar phenomenon among All cancer cancer patients Are often put into three categories those with those with nodes and those with Metas each step is More advanced than the As diagnostic equipment has patients first classified in a less serious category Are now being put into More severe the survival rates for the lower categories improves because the sicker people Are taken As do the survival rates in the higher cat ego because less sick people Are put the Overall survival rate does not the Benefit of cancer therapy is exaggerated to some said Daniel one of the reports but exactly How much is the Yale study looked at the records of 100 it found in the least sick the six month survival rate improved from 75 percent to 92 percent Between 1953 and stateside North Carolina confirms 6 cases of legionnaires 1 fatal a six of 33 reports of legionnaires disease have been confirmed locally since novem and at least one person has died in the health officials authorities Are searching for a common Factor among the cases in Union county and neighbouring Chesterfield said Lewis a pathologist and consultant to the Union county health one death last week was caused by the respiratory Dis and a 60yearold Man who died monday May have had the Bartles legionnaires disease takes its name from an outbreak at an american legion convention held at a hotel in Phila Delphia in july thirty four people died the bacterium believed to be responsible is found in soil and grows in such As air conditioning storage tanks and it generally strikes old and Middle aged it can be treated with the Antibiotic the Center for disease control in Atlanta estimates that people a year in the United states get the whose pneumonia like symptoms begin within three Days after Sfa fue of Liberty scaffold Burns work Crew unharmed new York a Sparks from a construction Torch ignited wooden scaffolding on the statue of but the fire was quickly extinguished and caused no dam age to the a National Park service spokesman the fire broke out As a worker was cutting steel on a sixth floor spokesman Manny Strumpf Sparks ignited the wooden construction platform and flames could be seen in nearby parts of new Park rangers and construction workers extinguished the fire with two fire extinguishers and a bucket of Strumpf there were no he the statue is being renovated for its 100th birthday in practice leap will Cost jumper if City can find him a an aspiring stuntman who jumped from a Bridge into the Mississippi River in 1982 for practice must pay the City billed him for its unnecessary attempt to Rescue a judge has Ramsey municipal court judge Margaret Marrinan granted the judgment against Jeff who failed to appear in court despite a notice sent to him at a Bill Board in North where he had been participating in a billboard sitting said assistant City attorney Jane Weinke apparently got the because he recently commented that the cites claim is said she admitted that collecting the judgment May be that the remaining she i have no idea where he i just know Hes off the Weinke jumped from the roof of a car crossing the Lafayette Bridge on july and bystanders called who sent a paramedic a state police helicopter and four squad cars to attempt a Weinke swam to safety and watched the res Cue attempt from Mounds where he and three other Young men were spotted Weinke was picked out As the jumper because he was Hogan Man to defend himself in Case of Gold plated plumbing fixtures Miami a a former school official accused of using county funds to pay for Gold plated plumbing fix Tures in his vacation Home was granted permission to rep resent himself during his retrial because he cant afford a Imas destitute As it former Dade county superintendent Johnny Jones told circuit judge Ellen Morphonios in asking that he be allowed to act As his own lawyer in the set for was convicted in 1980 of second degree grand an appeals court overturned the conviction and or dered the new Jones told the judge he owes Money to several Law he said he knows he would be better off with expert Legal but he Doest think a Public defender could be come familiar with the Case in in about As familiar with the Case As anyone Jones it s been and nobody Ever lets me forget 111 do the Best i can with it and let the cards fall where they