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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977 Page 3 NS hroat cancer kills thousands Sts CLASSIFIED ADS!" w Its oper. ; o move ir ters in 1 Thurs- ^■3633 Zinc lack tied to cancer United Press International CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—- jearchers say throat cancer, ch claims 6,500 lives a year in United States, may be triggered educed levels of zinc, which is monly found in meat, potatoes, seafood and milk. A study by Massachusetts Insti- e of Technlogy scientists says ratory animals fed a low-zinc are much more susceptible to phageal cancer than those with mal diets. nly small amounts of zinc are d daily in the human body. Zinc died a “trace element and be- i lower South- on rate bounty nt new )mmis- rate ol of the icrease % ay win ’ithout or the 'e the segre- West- ircase dISD) school eaken comes important when it interacts with other chemicals like copper, manganese and iron. Scientists have long known that if the zinc level is reduced, the body’s chemistry bal ance becomes imbalanced. “Our observations of reduced zinc in the tissues of esophageal cancer patients suggest that low levels of zinc sensitize the esophagus, mak ing it more susceptible to cancer, said Dr. Paul M. Newberne, profes sor of nutritional pathology in the MIT nutrition and food science de partment. Initial studies conducted by Newberne showed zinc levels in blood, hair and throat tissue of pa tients with esophageal cancer. Later studies showed samples from pa tients with tumorous tissue con tained less zinc than tumor-free throat cultures. After the first connections be tween zinc deficiency and esophageal cancer was established in humans, MIT scientists began to feed laboratory rats a zinc-deficient diet. Another group of rats was fed a normal diet. The rats then were injected with a chemical known to cause esophageal tumors. The zinc-deficient group developed more tumors than the control animals in a shorter period of time. The scientists also reported the rats collected the cancer-causing substance in the liver. Kidneys, lungs and small intestines did not collect the material. “We don’t know why the chemi cal should seek out the esophagus,’ Newberne said. “Nor do we know exactly how esophageal cancer de velops. But we know that zinc is somehow involved, along with smoking, consumption of alcohol, food contaminants and perhaps other environmental factors in caus ing cancer. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 WANTED! Used Books Lou is buying books now. or giving 20% more in trade. Loupot’s Bookstore Northgate-Across from the Post Office Come by the Super Scoop 317 Patricia Behind Loupot’s Bookstore THE BEST cones, malts, shakes, sundaes HOT FUDGE DINNER THEATRE Presents: “A Christmas Carol by Dickens” Saturday, Dec. 10; Friday, Dec. 16 & Saturday, Dec. 17 at the 105 year old Calvert Hotel Calvert, Texas Reservations or for more information, 364-2641 Tickets: A&M Student $5.95, Others $7.95 loover suspicious iey to ring.” 1. Hie )rkers oreau in its milies eJped 145 in of 10 n ac- f the gler" mdr. who t.” United Press International lASHINGTON-Twenty days erjohn F. Kennedy was killed in lias, J. Edgar Hoover reported FBI had letters written to Lee ivey Oswald from Cuba “refer- Etothe job he was going to do. Hoover said he had not turned I letters over to the Warren ^mission because he was not ■ to prove their veracity. ,ess than four hours after Ken- ly was assassinated on Nov. 22, 13 — and two hours after Os- d s arrest — Hoover told Wash- ton officials that Oswald “very ly” was the killer, loover said he would classify vald “in the category of a nut and extremist pro-Castro crow'd. hese disclosures were contained 10,000 pages of raw FBI internal orts made public Wednesday Ber terms of the Freedom of In flation Act. Hoover’s report did not state who Me the letters from Cuba refer- l to Oswald. In a memo to the s top echelon, dated Dec. 12, 3, Hoover wrote: We have several letters, not in i report to the Warren Commis- D because we were not able to Ive it, written to Oswald from ggie Players offer thriller hursday, Friday, Saturday Cuba referring to the job he was going to do, his good marksmanship and stating when it was all over he would be brought back to Cuba and, presented to the chief. Hoover s memo said, “We do not know if the chief was Castro and cannot make an investigation be cause we have no intelligence oper ation in Cuba.” I personally believe Oswald was the assassin,” he wrote, but he said he was greatly concerned as to “whether he was the only man.” Hoover said this was the reason he “urged strongly” to Lee Bankin, special counsel to the Warren Commission, that no conclusion be reached that Oswald was the only person involved in the assassination. Hoover also challenged specula tion that Oswald could not have acted alone, saying he told Rankin: “He was a marksman and it wasn t anything he could not do; that we have tested it on our rifle range and were able to get shots off even faster than he did; that here is no question in my mind about it; that we also found the fingerprints and the bul lets so conclusively fired from the gun; that we have all this and we have all the photographs. exas A&M students wanting a i-hour break from final exam lies have another entertainment ion Thursday, Friday and Satur- <P€ Her by Anthony Shaffer, will be iented at 8 p.m. in the Memorial dent Center basement. All seats for the Aggie Players student production are $1.50. Aggie Players Gary Wood and Steve King are cast in the play’s two roles. “Sleuth was a smash hit in Lon don and New York. It featured Sir Lawrence Olivier and Michael Cain. AN ENTERTAINING BREAK The Aggie Players’ special extra production of SLeUtu ers, 80, ;ent Te® chisitf!) «■ i credit" 11:1 efein re*' r,r 3f», " he Sophisticated Super-Thriller by ANTHONY SHAFFER IVI.S.C. BASEMENT DEC. S, 9, ID - 8:00 p. Jamie.' Wood* , la¥\ PinlA^ ■ Bird! ^ Belli kr "?£ Dim? ^ ,,, (M* r cm rnW ALL SEATS $ 1.50 Tickets At The Door ★ drive Conspiracy belief still strong after 13 years Student Y Assn. United Press International WASHINGTON — Ever since John F. Kennedy was slain, many Americans have doubted that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. The Warren Commission s conclusion that Oswald acted on his own apparently did little to alter this popular conviction. A Gallup Poll taken in November 1963 — soon after the tragedy in Dallas — showed that of those interviewed, only 29 percent believed one man was responsible; 52 percent believed in a conspiracy and 19 percent held no firm opinion. Gallup found similar results 13 years later. In a January 1976 poll, 36 percent believed one man was the killer, 50 percent believed in a conspiracy and 14 percent had no firm opinion. A new sample late that year showed belief in a conspiracy to be greater than ever; 81 percent believe one man was responsi ble. A Harris Poll in October 1975 was similar: 65 percent believed the tragedy reflected conspiracy and only 20 percent believed one man killed the president. (Ebristma iiwutr? 8:00 for the lady or man in your life . .. A CHRISTMAS GIFT CERTIFICATE FROM C)Glips 11 A facial with Lucia Adams or a hair design with one of our professionals k LOBBY OF THE AGGIELAND INN 693-1893 Open til 8 p.m. Monday Nights pm Thu rs. Dec. 8 Tipdder Tower Tountain (IF INCLEMENT WEATHER, MSC MAIN LOUNGE) freFmBvIe PETER PAN THURS. DEC. 9 FRI. DEC. 10 RUDDER THEATER 8:00 P.M. AGGIE CINEMA m/c Let Technics give you super stereo sound this Christmas! 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