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THE BATTALION Page 7
THURSDAY, DEC. 4. 1975
Coffee pact
lifts quotas
on exports
Associated Press
LONDON — The 63-nation In
ternational Coffee Organization ap
proved on Wednesday a world coffee
pact that for the first time includes
concern about the price of a cup of
coffee to the consumer in times of
shortage and high prices.
Two previous world agreements
were mainly aimed at shoring up the
price of coffee beans to give export
ing nations, all developing countries,
higher income and assistance in de
veloping their emerging economies.
The new International Coffee
Agreement suspends the price sup
porting export quotas every time a
crop failure or other production
crisis creates a shortage and causes
prices to spiral. With quotas lifted,
producing countries would compete
without restrictions and eventually
this would presumably bring prices
down again, to the benefit of the cof
fee drinker.
When it becomes effective on Oct.
1 next year, the pact will operate
without the quotas as long as the pre
sent world coffee shortage lasts.
Once the shortage is over, the
quotas become effective to insure
that prices don’t fall low enough to
threaten the jobs of millions of coffee
workers and push exporters and gov
ernments to bankruptcy.
The agreement, hammered out in
negotiations that opened in London
on Nov. 3, does not try to lower now
or within the next three years the
present high level of coffee prices.
Experts said it is not possible before
three years to make up the shortage
caused last July by a frost that killed
90 per cent of the coffee trees in
Parana State in Brazil and reduced
that country’s export capacity to a
trickle.
As the Brazilian shortage is felt
more and more in the coming two
years, prices may even rise higher.
It is expected that the higher
prices will encourage the planting of
new trees and after three to four
years growing time coffee could
again be plentiful and prices would
fall. Then the agreement’s quota sys
tem becomes effective to keep prices
from plummeting.
Estrogens
could raise
cancer risk
Associated Press
BOSTON — Using estrogens to
relieve the symptoms of menopause
may increase the risk of cancer of the
uterus by five to seven times, accord
ing to two independent studies to be
published Thursday.
The statistical studies give added
weight to a growing concern about
the popular practice of giving women
estrogen, the primary female hor
mone, to slow the signs of
menopausal aging.
While the studies do not establish
a definite cause-effect relationship
between the use of estrogen and
cancer, the researchers said the re
sults strongly indicate a link. And the
scientists called for more followup
studies to pin down the relationship.
Because of the two new studies
published in the New England Jour
nal of Medicine and a larger, yet un
published, one being compiled on
the West Coast, the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration’s Obstetrics
and Gynecology Committee has
scheduled a meeting for later this
month.
That panel will discuss the studies
and make recommendations, possi
bly calling for more restrictions on
prescribing estrogen.
Medical authorities say millions of
American women are taking estro
gen daily to counteract the
symptoms of menopause. Some au
thorities say the drugs may be over
prescribed.
During menopause, which nor
mally occurs between the ages of 40
and 50, the ovaries stop producing
eggs and estrogen and degenerate.
Symptoms frequently reported are
nervousness, menstrual distur
bances, flushes and chills, excitabil
ity and depression.
Replacing decreased natural es
trogen with estrogen pills helps de
crease these symptoms, but the new
studies say this may increase the risk
of cancer of the lining of the uterus.
There were 27,000 new cases of this
disease in 1974 in this country.
A research group at the University
of Washington in Seattle compared
the records of 317 patients with such
cancers with an equal number who
had other types of cancer.
The study found that women ex
posed to estrogen therapy had about
a five times greater risk of the cancer
in the uterus lining.
However, Drs. Donald C. Smith,
Ross Prentice, Donovan J.
Thompson, and Walter L. Herrman
said their study of these women — 48
years of age or older — did not ad
dress dosage, type of estrogen used
or how long the woman used the
hormone. They said these variables
could affect the ultimate risk.
Drs. Harry K. Ziel and William D.
Finkle of the Kaiser Permanente
Medical Center in Los Angeles
studied the records of 94 women.
They found a five to seven times
increased risk factor of the cancer in
middle-aged women on estrogen
therapy.