Word: cancer
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...other respects, however, her memoirs illuminate Pasternak's last years of private miseries and public persecution until his death of cancer in 1960. Historically, the most important piece of information she discloses is that Pasternak was not the author of two famous 1958 letters to Nikita Khrushchev and to Pravda, in which the writer pleaded not to be exiled from Russia and asserted that he had not been coerced into renouncing the Nobel Prize. Both letters were concocted by Ivinskaya. In the case of the letter to Pravda, she "worked" with a Central Committee official: "Like a pair...
...inducing cells to "commit suicide," a Harvard Medical School researcher has stated he may develop a treatment for two, and possibly three, forms of cancer by the end of the year...
Clamshell "intends to keep putting pressure on Boston Edison until we get some kind of meaningful dialogue going. People have to be made aware that nuclear power equals cancer," Garrison said...
...action of these ozone-reducing agents not only leads to increased cases of skin cancer but also intensifies the so-called "greenhouse effect," McElroy said...
DIED. Herbert Kappler, 70, fugitive Nazi war criminal; of intestinal cancer; in Soltau, West Germany. The SS colonel who in 1944 directed the execution of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi occupation police in Rome, Kappler became known as "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves." He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Italian military court in 1948 but was transferred to a Roman hospital in 1976 for cancer treatment. He weighed only 105 Ibs. when his wife smuggled him out of the hospital in a suitcase last August, spiriting him away to West Germany...