European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 4, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3multiple treatments found to curb cancer London up a the lives of about 1,000 women a year in Britain and 10,000 worldwide could be saved if those with Early breast cancer received hormonal or cell killing drug treatment As Well As surgery research showed Friday. The results published in the medical journal lancet were described by scientists As a massively significant and will end two decades of debate among doctors Over which women will Benefit from being Given extra treatment after breast lumps have been removed. The results were the work of a seven year International project a an analysis of 133 breast cancel treatments involving 75.000 women a comparing those who received backup therapies with those who received surgery or radiation alone. A if just 1 million of them get the extra treatments that we have studied then there will be an extra 100,000 10-year survivors. This collaboration will save 1.000 lives a year in Britain alone and about 10,000 a year worldwide a said Richard Peto head of the Imperial can cer research funds cancer studies unit in Oxford. A the number of deaths avoided by these treatments for Early breast cancer is actually bigger than can be reliably promised by any other drug treatment for any other Type of the research has also disclosed that ovarian ablation which stops the ovaries from producing oestrogen was effective in reducing deaths in younger women. The three beneficial treatments identified by the research Are the hormonal drug tamoxifen which blocks oestrogen a mix of cytotoxic drugs chemotherapy and ovarian ablation to Stop the oestrogen Supply. Around 25,000 women develop breast cancer each year in Britain a which has the highest rates of breast cancer in the world a and More than 15,000 die. About 20,000 cases will be Early cancer which Means cancer that is confined to a single breast or cancer that has spread to the Lymph nodes in the reportedly frees american others from jail Kansas City to. A the wife of an american businessman released along with two other foreigners from an iraqi jail said Shell relax after she talks to him. A i just want him to get Back to where he can Call me a Yvonne Martin said thursday from her songs Home in Blue Springs a suburb of Kansas City. A a in a going to wait until i can hear his her husband David fellow american businessman Jim Aduddell and filipino Engineer Joe Ducat were captured dec. 6 near Kuwait a Border with Iraq Ducat said in a thursday interview with Cable news network from Baghdad. Martin the owner of an explosives company was attempting to make a bid on a demolition Job in Kuwait his wife said. He left Home in october. Ducat said they were held incommunicado for 20 Days in an 8-by-16-foot Concrete cell with no windows and Only a Blanket to keep the three of them warm. On dec 30, the iraqis acquitted the men of charges of illegally entering the country Ducat said. The United states was not notified of their arrest until dec. 25, according to the state department. Later they were visited three times by a polish consular official and by a doctor. Richard Boucher Deputy spokesman of the state department said it had no confirmation thursday that the men were free. The . Government has released Little information on them citing Federal privacy Law. At the time of their arrest the . Embassy in Kuwait said two americans and a filipino Man had disappeared while conducting a mine Survey for a private company near the poorly demarcated demilitarized Teresa suffers Chest pain la Jolla Calif. Apr Mother Teresa a doctors say it could be a month before they know How serious her heart condition is. The 81-year-old roman Catholic nun who won the 1979 Nobel peace prize for her work with the poor suffered More Chest pain wednesday night doctors said thursday. A a she a not getting worse a or. Paul Teirstein said. A she has some Good moments. She has some worse she remained in serious condition Early Friday at Scripps clinic and research foundation. She has been hospitalized since dec. 26 for treatment of pneumonia that led to congestive heart failure. Doctors said the pain wednesday night was caused by a spasm or tightening in a Small coronary artery after a period of elevated blood pressure. The angina was treated with Medicine the Hospital said in a statement. Angina is caused by an inadequate blood Supply to the heart. The doctors said the arterial spasm was to be expected in a patient of Mother Teresa Sage who has undergone an angioplasty in which a Small balloon is used to undo arteries. Her doctors performed the procedure on sunday after pneumonia triggered an episode of congestive heart failure. Doctors said the next two to four weeks will be critical in watching for possible heart complications. Teirstein quoted his patient As saying a the whole world is praying so i have to get eighty Ford minivans powered by electricity like the one shown Here will take to the Road in California in 1993 As part of a Tough statewide anti smog program. Ford and other car makers Are showcasing emission free vehicles at the los Angeles Auto show. Driven by California program Bow Rolls out electric car los Angeles up Bow joined the drive to produce an electric car thursday unveiling the e2 prototype designed to meet California rules requiring manufacturers to Start making smog free cars Over the next decade. A clearly this is a test of engineering and marketing know How for All manufacturers but Bow is ready to meet this Challenge in a highly competitive Way a said Klaus Faust president of by we Selec tric car research Arm. Faust spoke at a news conference prior to the opening of the greater los Angeles Auto show. California is requiring major automakers to make at least 2 percent of the new cars they sell in California emission free by 1998. Smaller manufacturers such As Bow will have a deadline of 2003, but Faust said the company is Likely to Start Selling an electric car Long before then. A if you get into the electric car Market late you re not going to do Well in that Market a Faust said. A a we la probably be in the Market Faust said the question of when Bow will Start production has not yet been decided and depends largely on the development of an effective Battery to Power the car. The German automakers prototype is powered by sodium Fulfur batteries. The Battery question has been under study for a year by a consortium that includes the big three . Automakers leading Battery producers and the . Department of Energy. Sodium Fulfur Nickel cadmium and conventional Lead acid batteries Are under study. Bow which introduced a european style electric car prototype in september in Munich said the four seater e2 has been designed for freeway driving in California with a top Speed of 75 Miles per hour and a Range of 150 to 160 Miles Between charges. Bow did not disclose what Price it would charge for the e2. The los Angeles Auto show saw the debut two years ago of general motors prototype car the Impact that uses Lead acid batteries. Pm has subsequently announced production goals for the Impact and several other car makers have rolled out prototypes since then. Georgia Man indicted in judge s death Montgomery Ala. Apr a state grand jury has indicted Walter Leroy Moody or. On capital murder charges in the 1989 mail bomb slaying of a Federal judge. Moody 58, of Rex ga., could be sentenced to death if convicted. He is already serv ing seven life terms plus 400 years on Federal convictions last year in the december 1989 slayings of . Circuit judge Robert Vance and Robert e. Robinson a civil rights lawyer in Savannah a. A Jefferson county Ala., grand jury indicted Moody on one state count of capital murder by Means of an explosive and a second of killing a Federal official said David Vickers an assistant state attorney general. Alabama will try to extradite Moody from the Federal prison in Illinois where he is now held Vickers said. He a d Moody could be brought to Alabama for arraignment within 60 Days. Vickers said thursday that the grand jury also indicted Moody on a charge of assaulting the judge s wife Helen Vance. She was injured when the package exploded As Vance opened it in their suburban Birmingham Home. Prosecutors said Moody had a vendetta against the court system because of his 1972 conviction Tor possessing a pipe bomb
