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DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death...
...kick against the coal companies," says 59-year-old disabled miner Herbert Charles. His hands are covered with scars from bouts with the timbers he used to place to shore up the mines' roofs, and he has black lung. His father and four brothers died of the disease but as he says. "If it weren't for the coal companies I would have had a real hard time finding...
...researchers found that the game that produces lung cancer is different from the gene that causes leukemia, showing that no one type of gene causes all kinds of cancer, Goubin said...
...researchers also discovered that more than one kind of gene can produce a single type of cancer, he added, noting that leukemia, lung cancer and bladder cancer on be caused by at least two genes...
DIED. Clifford Case, 77, liberal Republican from New Jersey who served for nine years in the House and 24 years in the Senate before being unseated in his party's primary in 1978; of lung cancer; in Washington...