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oxin new fighter
n cancer battle
Wrecked train spills deadly acid
K United Press International
WALLAS — A research team
tithe Southwestern Medical
chool reports it has discovered
poison successful in treating
tukemia cells in mice and thinks
it same treatment may be used
ir humans.
■ The researchers said the
pjisnn ricin, chemically
tfethed to a cancer seeking
nitibody, has killed 99.9 percent
f the tumor cells in mice with
tukemia.
■rWe found a mouse antibody
tat would react with tumor
ells, but not the stem cells that
tanufacture the white blood
ells, which are part of the im-
*ne system,” Dr. Ellen Vitetta
lid
I “To that antibody, we
gched a form of the plant tox-
Jciri. The antibody killed only
'cancer cells and not the nor-
stem cells in bone marrow.
'V SumanahjjBWe know that we killed 99.9
Bcent of the tumor cells be
nd table di use none of the mice had de-
The discui ' 0 i )e< ^ tumors several months
’avelo Pad
later. It may work in cancer ther
apy because the human and
mouse leukemias are similar.”
Vitetta worked with Drs.
Jonahton Uhr and Keith Krolic.
The three reported on the proc
edure in the scientific journal
Nature, released Thursday.
“This is a major step forward”
in the use of bone marrow trans
plants in cancer patients, Vitetta
said. “It could prove to be a large
improvement in the existing
techniques,” she said.
The risk in bone marrow
transplants has been the inabil
ity to detect all cancer cells in a
patient. Cancer cells left in the
patient after the transplant can
begin mulitiplying, spreading
the leukemia again.
But Vitetta said the ricin com
pound developed at Southwest
ern could be an effective treat
ment for attacking the unde
tected cancer cells.
Ricin, derived from the castor
bean, is a deadly poison. One
droplet can kill a man, the re
searchers said.
iporarily
tales wouldj
nane:
threats to inmates
■
;ause trial delay
J
s are both
tes puzzled I
the Reagar.»
vlov said, an United Press International
will leadthe«ALVESTON — Nine Texas
feels that m} 5011 inmates reportedly have
res follows P 1 threatened not to testify
ut payingarjP ul prison conditions during
s involved if? tr i a l °f an inmate who con-
JnitedStatelKh he killed his warden and
;ondoneit>-J ot i ier official in self-defense.
^Although they have been
ecallwhosaidfered protective orders, it was
d that in jiknown whether the first of
o not have ip 41 subpoenaed inmates
th alone, tc:Puld testify Thursday in the
w how tolpital murder trial of inmate
he said/.tfoy Brown.
roblemintkgiiBrown, 31, of Waco, is on
g for the April 4 drowning of
remain cowps Department of Correc-
te and thelgs Ellis unit Warden Wallace
t (approacwk 54. Ellis unit Farm Mana-
nd will bertp Billy Max Moore, 49, also
ive and con# 5 killed that day, but Brown
specially a' as : not been scheduled for trial
•relations *4 that slaying,
j » ^Defense attorneys have sub-
■naed 41 inmates to testify ab
ut conditions at the Ellis Unit
nd hopefully shore up Brown’s
Kns he killed the prison offi-
|s because he feared they
YOU K# ned to drown him at a sec-
ilecl area of the' unit called
file Bottoms.”
ress intern* A sna g developed in defense
:st coma or ^ Wednesay afternoon
111 days- p r dy before Defense Attorney
78, when pjg Washington planned to
it Elaine tj| ^ fj rst 0 p ,.j ie i nma t es t Q
osed into IB |jfy
z Aug. 6,15 Neither Washington, Walker
pnty District Attorney Mark
d nor Judge Henry Dalehite
lid disclose why the judge
led the nine inmates into his
tibers for individual meet-
and sent home the jury.
However, a source close to the
said the inmates were un-
jng to testify because they
been threatened by TDC
ifficials or other inmates.
The judge reportedly offered
protective orders — to hold
TDC in contempt if anything
happened to the witnesses.
Some reportedly accepted, but
others requested transfer to fed
eral custody — which Dalehite
said he could not guarantee.
During testimony Wednes
day, Brown appeared to sob
while blaming Pack for the
struggle leading to the warden’s
drowning in a drainage ditch.
“He kept on wanting to fight,”
Brown told the seven-man, five-
woman jury. “I begged and
pleaded witn him. He just kept
on.”
Brown seemed to withstand
cross-examination by Ward.
Brown stuck to his self-
defense explanation, although
Ward managed to reiterate his
argument Brown committed the
slayings in a rage over a denied
furlough and planned to try to
escape in Pack’s car.
Brown has testified Pack and
Moore threatened him with
drowning at “The Bottoms” on
the Trinity River and Pack held
a cocked .38-caliber pistol to
Brown’s head, threatening to
“Spatter your brains.”
Brown, dramatically acting
out his testimony under the
leadership of Washington, said
he tried to talk his way out of
trouble, but struggled with the
prison officials when that failed.
Brown said the whole inci
dent began because Moore
apparently feared Brown might
reveal Moore’s theft of tires and
fuel from TDC. Prison officials
deny such thefts occurred.
Brown testifed both Moore
and Pack had a reputation for
violence against inmates.
TDC officials deny the claims.
Dlyiiipic Academy
11 may pick Lubbock
United Press International
LUBBOCK — Texas Tech
University is one of four schools
being considered to host the
1983 meeting of the United
States Olympic Academy, uni
versity officials report.
■ A three-member selection
bmmittee will inspect Texas
Tech facilities Monday as part of
i four-school inspection tour,
officials said Wednesday.
Other schools under con
sideration are Georgia State
University in Atlanta, Ga., Frost-
burg State College in Frostburg,
Md., and James Madison Uni
versity in Harrisonburg, Va.
The Olympic Academy pro
vides a forum for ideas and
knowledge about the Olympics
and to further the international
event’s ideals of fair play and
sportsmanship.
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United Press International
SHREVEPORT, La. — More
than 10,000 gallons of deadly
sulfuric acid leaked from five
tank cars in a 26-car train derail
ment and forced the shutdown
of gas pipelines to three indust
rial plants, officials said
Thursday.
A fire department spokes
men said workers toiled through
the night to right two of the tank
cars that slipped off the track
Wednesday, spilling the toxic
chemical into a nearby ravine.
The spokesman said pipe
lines leading to the General
Motors plant, the Atlas Proces
sing complex and the Libbey
Glass facility were shut down.
Plant spokesmen said, however,
the curtailment would not affect
their operations.
Five tank cars of a Missouri
Pacific freight train started leak
ing sulfuric acid after they de
railed in the southeast part of
the city, Fire Chief Dallas Green
said.
One of the cars was carrying
20,000 gallons of the toxic subst
ance and about half that load
poured out after the train de- accident.
railed, he said. Approximately Crews worked to upright the
100 gallons of the chemical downed freight cars and offi-
leakea from the other four tank cials on the scene predicted the
cars. cleanup would last through
No one was injured in the today.
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