European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 23. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 cigarette cancer link debated in court Santa Barbara Calif. A the Issue of who Lucr cigarette smoking causes cancer was hotly debated during the opening statements in a landmark wrong Ful death suit on the Day of the great american smok cout. Attorney Mclvin Belli representing the family of a Man who died of lung cancer and other ailments said thursday he would prove that cigarettes arc lethal. A lawyer for . Reynolds tobacco cd. Said there is no scientific proof of a direct link Between smoking and cancer and said smoking May have actually benefited the late John Mark Galbraith. The evidence will show that John Galbraith smoked because he wanted to smoke and. He enjoyed smoking said . Reynolds chief attorn by Thomas Workman. To him there must have been a Benefit from it. The evidence will show that science has yet to establish cigarette smoking As a cause of cancer said Workman. The arguments came on the Day of the great american smok cout during which the american cancer society urged people not to smoke and in a jammed courtroom where Superior court judge Bruce Dodds docs not allow smoking. After the trial was recessed until Mon Day the stale s 2nd District court of a peal ordered that it not resume until a hear ing on Dodds refusal to let Belli mention during his opening statement the . Sur Geon general s reports on smoking. A jury of mostly non smokers was sworn in wednesday to hear the first of 35 similar suits against Reynolds. Before Belli spoke Dodds announced that the plaintiffs agreed to dismiss As defendants two local markets where Galbraith regularly purchased his cigarettes. Belli said he did so because jurors who shopped there might be offended. The tobacco company s attorneys said they might consider seeking a Transfer of the Case to Federal court since the local markets were dismissed. Dodds insisted they let him know by monday or he said he would recess the Case for 30 Days until they decide. He said he did t want to Start the trial if it was going to be aborted. Workman spoke after Belli told the jury that they must decide whether cigarettes cause cancer and whether Galbraith died from his cigarette habit. The family is seek ing is million in damages. Belli said Galbraith s widow would be the first witness when court resumes. He said she would testify about her husband s illness Ridden life. The Man should never have been smok ing and the evidence will be that he was never adequately warned because he started smoking at 15 when there were no warnings on packages Belli said. Workman denied that cigarettes Are addictive and said he would prove that Galbraith was not addicted because he was Able to give up smoking for eight months in the 1960s. He focused on Galbraith s poor health because he was intelligent and Well read. Listening to Cour argument Are the plaintiffs from left Moll  Wornor. John Mark Calbraith Iii and their to incr Elayne d. Galbraith. 3 american authors win $10,000 awards new York a three writers a former correspondent for the new York times the author of seven novels and a newcomer to fiction were Given the 1985 american Book awards on thursday night. J. Anthony Lukas the Winner of a pulitzer prize and a former correspondent for the times won in the non fiction category for common ground a turbulent dec Ide in the lives of three american Fame  the fiction category award went to Don Delillo who wrote while  the third category for the author s first work of fiction was captured by Bob Sha Cochis who wrote easy in the  prizes of $10,000 each were Given in the three categories at a ceremony at the new York Public Library. The honors have been presented for six years before i hat they were called National Book awards. Lukas common ground is a study of the lives of three families coming to terms with the issues of race and class during the school integration crises in Boston during the late 1960s and 1970s. Lukas 52, of new York also is the recipient of the George Polk memorial award Mike Berger award and the Nie Man Kennedy and Guggenheim fellowships. His previous books include Don t shoot we Are your children and Nightmare the underside of the Nixon  Delillo s White noise is a Story of a professor in a Small College town. There were three nominees in each category. The others were declared runners up and each received $1,000. The runners up were fiction always coming Home by Ursula k. Be Guin about an imaginary society on the Pacific coast and the tree of life by Hugh Nissenson set on the Ohio Frontier. Non fiction in the name of eugenics genetics and the uses of human heredity by Daniel j. Kevles and the heavens and the Earth a political history of the space age by Walter a. Mcdougall. First Book slow dancing by Elizabeth Benedict face by Cecile Pineda. Meese announces 3 indictments in Twa Airliner hijacking Case san Diego a attorn by general Edwin Meese says a Federal grand jury in Washington has indicted three men believed responsible for the hijacking of trans world airlines flight 847 last summer. Meese s disclosure in a thursday address to a convention of airline Security personnel was the first Public word on the outcome of the grand jury proceedings. Just recently a Federal grand jury in Washington returned indictments against All of the identified perpetrators in the Twa hijacking Meese said. We will continue to pursue this Case in every Way  warrants and criminal complaints against the hijackers were issued by a fed eral court in Washington on july 3, and the United states publicly identified the three suspects for the first time last month. The three individuals All charged with air piracy and murder were identified in court documents As Mohammad Hamadi Ali Atwa and Hasan Liz Ai Din. Attorney general Meese Brigham Young Szuc fens support coach Revea ers Provo Utah a chanting save the Roach rave Aires More than 50 students marched on the Brigham Young University cafeteria where a dozen student custodians had been punished for blowing the whistle on a cockroach infestation. Forty five Law students including one dressed As a yellow Bug. Marched a few Hundred Yards from the Law school building to he Cougar Al cafeteria wednesday an3 were joined by others on the Way. Jeff Peatross who wore the Bug outfit ordered Rocky Roach ice Cream from the cafeteria s ice Cream bar. Mary Alice Campbell the  of the daily universe the student newspaper said the paper has received 27 letters about the Case 23 of them supporting the students. In also has had a steady flow of Calls and visitors siding with the student workers she said. The workers were reprimanded and placed on Job probation after the universe printed a letter describing How they killed 67 cockroaches in the dining area in 15 minutes. A spokesman for the mormon Church owned University said wednesday that reprimands were removed from the files of five students who later apologized to by officials. He said the others would have an Opportunity to have the left cars removed if they too apologize. There will be no permanent Mark on their careers said Brent Marker assistant communications director. I did t think anybody s Job was going to be lost Over la the fact that we have cockroaches it not unusual. We re inspected three times a year and we have a clean Bill of health. Employees Are reprimanded every Day. That s not unusual. The students first told their immediate supervisor also a student about the cock Roaches and pesticide was sprayed Harker said. That drove the cockroaches out of their hiding places and the next night they saw More he said the students then drafted their letter to the editor without showing it to University officials. The supervisors Felt that going to the universe and making this Public was an act of insubordination he said. Harker said the University plans no action against the marchers. I think it s time for everybody to Sil Back and have a laugh and Chalk it up to some students having fun he said. Bob Dillenbeck the assistant supervisor of the City county environmental health department said Roaches occasionally turn up in dining areas no matter How  he said Roaches pose no health threat at the nation s largest private University