Word: emphysema
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...last week. In a federal courtroom in Kansas City, Roy Williams, the ailing former president of the Teamsters Union, admitted something that many investigators have claimed for years: the Teamsters' central states pension fund was long tapped by gangsters for huge loans to conduct their shadowy business. Suffering from emphysema and clutching an oxygen bottle, Williams, 70, was testifying in the trial of nine alleged Mafia leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City. They are charged with a conspiracy to skim some $2 million in profits from the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas. Prosecutors contend they used...
...study, funded by a grant from the Upjohn Company, began by extracting a portion of live tumor in a patient suffering from adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer common to emphysema patients. The doctors mixed the removed tumor with a protein called Interleukin 2, which stimulates the growth of the lymphocytes normally present in the extracted tumor...
...those who abstain. Even for older women the benefit is as evanescent as, well, smoke. Any protection against uterine cancer that smoking offers, scientists say, is far outweighed by the enhanced risk of developing cancers of the throat, stomach, bladder, pancreas and lungs, as well as heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis. Comments Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health: "To smoke cigarettes in order to reduce your risk of uterine cancer is like looking for a gas leak with a lighted match...
...opposing a trucking deregulation bill. Washington sources say that Presser was the Teamsters informant who first tipped the FBI to Williams' bribe offer. Last week Williams, 70, had his original prison sentence of 55 years reduced to ten years. He had pleaded for leniency because he suffers from severe emphysema and heart trouble...
DIED. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, 84, Dutch clergyman, theologian and ecumenicist who was the founding general secretary of the World Council of Churches from its formation in 1948 until 1966; of emphysema; in Geneva. The lifelong crusader for Christian unity saw the W.C.C. go from 135 denominations in 44 countries to 300 in 90 countries. A crusty, rather worldly theologian, Visser 't Hooft insisted that the council include churches in Communist countries, increased the role and influence of African and Asian churches in the organization and pioneered an ecumenical rapprochement with Rome, though his goal of bringing Roman Catholicism...