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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1977
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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-
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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