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...gunfire heard moments earlier. The trio hopped in a cab, and the car moved through the city of San Salvador, heading for the portion of town known as the "combat zone." The buriy Reed noticed that the rear window had been previously shot out and there was a bullet hole in the roof...
...bizarre case began on Jan. 25. That night, prosecutors contend, Anthony Bruno, the 20-year-old boyfriend of Toto's 17-year-old daughter Elizabeth, crept into Toto's bedroom, located the .25-cal. gun that Toto kept near his bed and fired a bullet into his head. Toto was grievously but not fatally wounded...
...barbiturates, which succeeded only in putting him into a semiconscious state. Two days later, according to police, two friends of Anthony Bruno's, hired by Frances for $500, showed up in the bedroom to finish the job. They were Ronald Barlip, 19, and his cousin Donald, 18. The bullet one of them allegedly fired entered an inch from Toto's heart, but it too proved not to be lethal...
Police arrested Frances, Bruno, the Barlips and the two Toto children, Elizabeth and Anthony. Toto was released from the hospital two weeks later, with the first bullet still lodged in his skull. He says he intends to stand by his family during the coming court proceedings. Said an Allentown police detective: "He loves her." The district attorney's office is said to be worried about the case: Tony Toto promises to be a hostile witness...
Such permissive governmental attitudes towards regulating manmade carcinogens reflects the fundamental misdirection of the fight against cancer. An emphasis on clinical research reflects the hope that research will uncover a cure for cancer--a "magic bullet" which will home in on the cancerous tissue. Cancer, though, is not one disease but many. The wide variety of types of cancer suggests a whole gamut of causes. The philosophical reductionist approach which has characterized medical research--he effort to pinpoint a specific mechanism rather than to look at the whole body--has led to the unrealistic but seductive hope that the cure...