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19 Cubans jailed
after hospital riot
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Nineteen Cuban refugees, labeled as hard-core
troublemakers for their part in two days of rioting at a Washington
mental hospital, are headed for a federal prison in Springfield, Mo.
Immigration and Naturalization Service officers bused the 17 Cuban
men and two Cuban women to Andrews Air Force Base and herded
them onto an Air Force plane Monday night after restoring order at St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital.
About 70 other Cuban refugees remained behind at the hospital for
additional psychiatric evaluation.
A group of about 90 Cubans who seized the hospital’s “B” ward left
the building peacefully after a task force of 300 district police, federal
officers and mental health authorities persuaded them to surrender
earlier Monday.
Sunday, the refugees went on a rampage, throwing furniture, set
ting fires and breaking windows. After an uneasy night, trouble con
tinued Monday and hospital staff members evacuated the building at
about noon when refugees threatened them with makeshift weapons.
“I feel relieved it was settled without violence. Some were very
cooperative. Some were retarded and some were very frightened,”
said Dr. Larry Silver, a psychiatrist for the federal public health
service, who helped coordinate the surrender.
The immigration service brought the Cubans from federal prisons
and refugee camps last week for mental evaluation at St. Elizabeth’s.
The refugees were suspected of having come directly from Cuban
mental hospitals. Silver said he doubted if many of those under mental
observation came to the United States voluntarily.
Silver speculated the Cubans revolted out of rage and frustration.
The disturbance was touched off Sunday when contractors at the
hospital tried to install grates on the windows and two refugees tried to
escape, hospital authorities said.
After the takeover, a few refugees wandered in the hospital ward,
firing fire extinguishers at police through a barbed-wire fence.
The district public defender’s office has filed a petition for release of
23 of the Cubans, maintaining they were placed in an institution
illegally. Silver, however, said the refugees aren’t patients or prisoners
they are just under evaluation.
Lifestyle may promote cancer
Negligible risk for pill users
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The final
word is not yet in, but a 10-year Cali
fornia study says the risks of taking
birth control pills appear negligible.
Furthermore, the report said the
study of 16,000 young, white, mid
dle class women provided “further
assurance” that users of oral con
traceptives are not more susceptible
to cancers of the breast, ovary and
uterus.
“Oral contraceptive users have no
increased risk of death from all
causes combined,” the report said.
The report, submitted to the Na
tional Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, said in
creased risks that appeared in pill
users for heart disease, lung cancer,
melanoma skin cancer and early
stages of cervical cancer appeared re
lated more to lifestyle than pill use.
It said, however, that a combined,
interactive effect of heavy smoking
and oral contraceptive use might be
responsible for an increased —
though still low — risk of heart dis
ease. The report said the question of
the pill and smoking and lung can
cer needs further clarification.
A strong association between
melanoma, a serious form of skin
cancer, and the pill was seen, but the
report said heavy exposure to the sun
may be the cause instead of the pill.
Multiple sexual partners have been
linked to cervical cancer.
“Since information is currently
lacking about the precise relation
ship of oral contraceptive use to
these diseases in the absence of their
known or suspected risk factors, it
seems prudent that women who
have any of these risk factors should
not take oral contraceptives, ” the re
port said.
It said women considering the use
of oral contraceptives and their
advisers “must weigh the pros and
cons among uncertainties. ”
The study, which began with re
cruitment of 18,000 women volun
teers between 1968 and 1972, was
conducted by the Kaiser-
Permanente Medical Center at Wal
nut Creek, Calif. The final report,
including many findings published
separately earlier, is now being pre
pared for publication.
The Kaiser-Permanente Medical
Center is a health maintenance orga
nization that asked for volunteers
among women enrolled in its health
plan. Most of the women were white
and middle class because most of the
women in the health plan live in or
near Walnut Creek, Calif., a pre
dominantly white, middle class area.
“The main conclusion from this
study is that in a population of young,
adult, white, middle class women,
the risks of oral contraceptive use
appears to be negligible,” the report
said.
Although the report said the study
could still be valuable for watching
for long-term effects of pill use, the
institute has canceled the study be
cause of a lack of funds. The study
cost $4.34 million.
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Iran—Iraq war
hampers OPEC
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Leading oil analysts say OPEC is “out of
business” until the Iraq-Iran war ends and even then will be hampered
in moves to raise prices for two or three years.
The analysts say the fighting between two of the cartel’s founding
members could not have come at a worse time for the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
It broke out only weeks before a planned 20th anniversary summit
which was to ratify a long-term pricing strategy designed to provide
some much-needed “predictability” to the world oil market and guide
OPEC through the 1980s. The meeting was canceled.
But now, said Dr. Marwan Iskandar, publisher of the weekly An
Nahar Arab Report and Memo, “OPEC is a dead duck.”
It is out of business until the Iran-Iraq war ends, and even then its
ability to raise prices will be hampered for two or three years.”
“The war has frozen everything,” said oil economist Robert Mabro,
an Oxford University professor.
The long-term pricing strategy called for steady but gradual in
creases in the real price of OPEC oil based on a formula combining
Western economic growth rates, inflation and currency fluctuations.
It cannot be applied now, Iskandar said, “unless OPEC can control
its production and keep the market in a rough equilibrium to maintain
its price.”
But when the war ends,” he said, “both Iran and Iraq are going to
have to expand their production to pay for the fighting and the billions
of dollars of reconstruction.”
As the war drags on, both countries are expected to make deals for
raising capital they will pay off in crude oil when the fighting ends.
Iskandar said the best case scenario would be for Iran and Iraq to
patch up their differences and eventually enable OPEC to function as
before.
In the worst case, he said, the bitterness will continue indefinitely,
hampering OPEC’s ability to respond as a cartel to market conditions
and encouraging Baghdad and Tehran to try to recoup their market
shares and raise capital by bringing their oil prices down.
lao song criticized
U n ' te d Press International
PEKING - “The East is Red,”
e song once sung by millions of
ainese praising Mao Tse-tung as
eir savior, has been officially criti-
sed.
An article in the Shanghai news
ier Wen Hui Bao distributed
lesday in Peking said people have
typed singing the song because
fy rea |ize it glorified Mao, which
las not in keeping with Marxism,
the song likened Mao to a red sun
Communist Party chairman “the
great savior of the people.” It was
sung daily in what probably was the
world’s largest chorus for decades.
The article said the mass singing
had muddled the minds of the
people.
At one point the people were sing
ing the “Internationale” — the re
volutionary socialist hymn — which
denied any such thing as a savior, the
newspaper said, and in the next
breath they sang “The East Is Red.
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