European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 scientist says cigarette firm hid findings Newark no not a former research scientist for Ligg cil &. Myers testified in Federal District court last Weed thai the cigarette manufacturer Tola him in the mid-1950s and Early 60s not to publish the results of experiments that corroborated findings link ing cigarette smoke and cancer. The testimony came in the second week of a trial in which the lawyer far the estate Ofa lung cancer victim Rose Cipollino h contending that inc tobacco Indus try suppressed information about the hazards of smok ing Anthal in was motivated by greed. The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages from three tobacco companies Liggett group inc. Philip Morris inc. And Lorillard inc. Which manufactured the brands thai were smoked by Cipollino. Who was 58 years old when she died in 1954. The damages arc being sought for Cipollino s Hus band Antonio 64, of Lakehurst whom she married in 1947. If the suit is successful it could open the $22 billion tobacco Industry to litigation by smokers who have developed lung cancer. You will Sec that this is an Industry thai sacrificed the lives of people like Rose Cipollino for one thing Money dollars the estate s lawyer. Marc z. Edell told the jury in his opening remarks. Ionics i attorneys representing the three tobacco Compani argued that the companies had acted responsibly ii marketing their products and had provided information to the Public. They said Cipollo had continued to smoke for is Yean after warning labels were placed on cigarette packs. In videotaped testimony the research scientist or. Lames Mold said he had isolated specific materials in concentrates of cigarette smoke that produced cancer Ous tutors on the skin of mice Mold said he was told not to publish his finding. The information Wai later provided to the surgeon general who was preparing a report on the risks of cigarette smoking in he Hope that it would influence sales of Lark cigarettes which were made by Liggett and had Niters that reduced some of the Gates in Cigar Rulle smoke. Mold said. Mold who worked for Lugge a from 1955 to 1984, said the company developed a cigarette in the 70s that eliminated Many of the cancer causing elements in cig a Etc smoke but that it was never marketed. Another witness for the plaintiff of. Jeffrey e. Har Ris said documents showed Liggett had feared that by marketing a safer cigarette in might open itself to charges that it bad been Selling dangerous cigarettes. Harris an economist and medical doctor at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of technology Testi fied that during he Yean Cipollino had i miked the tobacco companies had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and about is million on re March. He said if the safer cigarette had been produced in tiie Early 70s, Asil could have been Cipollino s risk of catching cancer would have been reduced tub Stan  in hit opening statement Edell said he would show int the Industry did not Market the safer cigarette in the 70s because it would be an admission that All the other cigarettes that they sold. In fact caused lung  but the attorneys for the tobacco companies argued that when Cipollino began smoking in 1942 there was information available about the possible danger of smoking and thai she had made a free personal Choice to smoke. She knew All the Lime she smoked there was a risk involved in smoking Peter k. Bleakley the attorney for Philip Morris told the jury. Poll claims Many in . Rate Japan goods better new York a forty percent of americans believe japanese products Art better than those made in inc United Stales and half favor tougher Trade barriers against imports to protect american jobs a Newsweek poll released saturday said. The products of other asian countries did t fire As Well among the people surveyed with just 3 percent describing Tai wanese products As better than . Products and s3 percent describing them As worse. By comparison the just 19 per cent rated japanese goods As worse. The Survey was conducted by Tele phone on feb. 3 and 4. Pluralities also rated . Goods belter than those from Hong Kong 47 per cent. South Korea 42 percent and China 40 percent. While 50 percent fell the United Stales needs tougher Trade barriers 54 percent fell japanese Trade barriers were already unfair to the United Silies. And 39 percent though in was at least some what Likely thai Japan will become a . Enemy in the future. Fifty four percent said China could become a . Enemy and 53 percent said South Korea could As Well. Asked which asian country could become dominant by 2050, 49 percent chose Japan and 42 percent chose China. Sixty nine percent of those polled also said asian allies of the United slates such As the Philippines. Japan and Sutti Trade surplus with . $5.5 3.5 3 � a m j j a s o n 0 1987  Chart Goffer s Hoe none was strictly product of emergency situation Tulsa. Okla. A golfer Steve Wells will Lake a Hole intone any Way he can get it even if in Means sharing the Golf course with & private plane forced to make an Emer gency Landing. Well approached the eighth Hole of the Mohawk Golf course on Fri Day shortly after the two seater plane had landed. The Pilot and his Paten Ger walked away uninjured. Wells and his partner Doug Smith were determined to finish their round despite the winged obstacle that remained on the 382-Yard, Par-4 Hole. But the Way in which police had cordoned off the area around the damaged plane put the tee Boi out of reach. Wells and Smith improvised nuking their own tee Box on the other Side of the plane resulting in the pin being considerably closer. The next thing you know Wells had his Sec Ond Ever Hole in on. I hit it about at Good As 1 could Wells said. Emergency personnel attending to the plane witnessed the feat. Bruce Gardner the chopper Pilot for the police is the one who told me it went in Wells said. Computer crash delays airline arrivals takeoffs Korea pay Loo Little of their defense Bud get. The poll of 613 adults was conducted by the Gallup organization and the margin of error is plus or minus 6 percentage Points. A tcsonv1ll.e, fat. A nearly �50 airline flights to and from Florida and the Southeast were delayed when a flight data computer system failed for three hours Federal officials said. The malfunction Friday night affected flights in airspace bordered by Central Florida Alabama and North Carolina said Paul pascut supervisor at the Feder Al aviation administration s Jackson Ville air route traffic control Center. You could Call in a major problem but not a safety problem said Faa spokesman Jack Barker in Atlanta. It slowed Down flights at any Airport within the Center or through the Center  a severed Cable left the Jacksonville Center Idle Between 5 09 and 8 14 . Friday Barker said. Orlando International Airport and Tampa International Airport both reported 25 flights delayed As much us an hour he said. Family that kept Mummy in Home linked to cult Chicago api a family that score Fly Kepi a mummified body in their Home for More than eight years has been linked 10 a cull that preaches use of nutrients and exorcism in place of traditional medi Cine investigators said. I think we Are touching on something  that has t been known before a group that is almost a secret society Knox county sheriff Mark Shearer said in a Story published in sunday s Chicago Tribune. Shearer said those involved in the group known As the holistic society included several suburban Chi Cage dentists but he would not identify them because 01 pending investigations. Carl Sievens the Man whose withered Corpse was found in bed Lasi month in his Rural Knoxville 111., Home was a diabetic who was persuaded to rely on Yii Arlins and powdered mixes in place of his daily insulin injections according 10 investigators and family members. His body was found More than eight years after he died May 12, 1979, at age 40. His brother also died at a relatively Young age and investigators were told that his death May also be related to unorthodox health practices. The holistic society disdains traditional health methods and relies instead on an extreme form of holistic health care in which the mind and body Are treated with Only natural vitamins herbs and nutrients. Shearer said. Treatments Are administered in a quasi religious fashion thai involve the use of Healing crystals the exorcism of Black souls or satan and changeling to communicate with spirits Shearer said. There is no evidence that the health cult i violent or guilty of anything other than encouraging bizarre health practices for the unwary Shearer said. In the weeks before his death Stevens had Cut his daily insulin intake in half and was taking up to 20 Vitamin pills a Day according 10 an aunt Frances Kennelly of Lamb to. Stevens who had been a member of the Knoxville High school Board of education died after vomiting a Black substance i 42-year-old wife Carole told investigate is the Only criminal charges in the Case were lodged against mrs. Stevens a former nurse and former Aurora dentist Richard g. Kunce 56. Both Are charged with forging the dead Man s name on Legal and Bank documents and with cruelty to children. The sle Venses teen age son and daughter lived in the House with the mummified Corpse. Kunce who is in custody and mrs. Stevens who is out on Bond have already pleaded guilty to a Mise Meanor charge of failing to report Stevens death. In another twist to the Case investigators say they found a travel permit from the right Wing posse com talus anti tax group in the Wallet of Kuncic who moved in with the Stevens family 18 months ago As their spiritual  Kunce was introduced to the Stevens family by Carl Stevens brother Roger a St. Charles lawyer who was apparent the first family member to become involved in the health cult. Shearer said. Investigators and family members said Roger persuaded his brother to ase the vitamins and powdered mixes in place of his daily insulin injections and said Carl even began Selling the substances from his office. Roger Stevens died at age 43 in 1985 at a Chicago Hospital. His death was attributed to gastrointestinal Haemorrhage and hepatic cirrhosis. But a nurse who cared for him told investigators i think it was his diet that killed him according to the Tribune