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December 8,1#
Russian wine rated awful
United Press International
LONDON — The Soviet Un
ion may be the world’s largest
wine producer, but experts at a
tasting session to re-launch Rus
sian wines in Britain had just one
piece of advice for the Soviets —
stick to vodka.
“Awful, unbelievable,” said
Daily Mail wine expert Joseph
Berkmann. “They are amazing
ly badly made wines and most of
the reds are sickly sweet.”
Berkmann had sampled
wines with evocative names like
Ruby of Crimea and Krim
sparkling — which he suggested
should be re-named “Grim.”
The tasting was organized by
the G.B.-U.S.S.R. Association.
“These wines are talking a
different language,” said Pame
la Vandyke Price, president of
the Circle of Wine Writers.
“They are quite uncompromis
ing, but that’s what makes them
different.”
“They’re very good slurping
wines,” said Anthony Martin, di
rector of R.H. and M. Victuals,
the British importers of Soviet
wines. “We think they stand up
very well to other table wines in
the same price bracket — like
those from Spain or Yugos
lavia.”
reportedly under cultivation.
The Ruby of Crimea is a
blended red table wine. Krim
White and Krim Red are
medium sweet sparkling wines.
They are marketed at $4.25 and
about $8 a bottle respectively.
About 10,000 bottles have been
imported.
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1950s. Now re-introducing
three kinds of Soviet wine, the
importer says he can’t get
enough, despite the approxi
mately 3.5 million acres ot vines
Alexander Krivenko, manag
ing director of Soviet wine
agents Plodimex GmbH in
Hamburg, West Germany, said
Soviet wines are doing well in
Europe.
Kenneth Smith, managing
director of the Russian Shop, be-
f an marketing a large range of
oviet wines in 19(>1 but had to
stop in 1966 when supplies
dried up.
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SWAMP on display
photo by Jennifer Carr
Mark Igou looks at the Students
Working Against Many Problems
display located in an MSC kiosk.
The word “redpot” was removed
from the hard hat Tuesday morning
after the MSC Council voted
Monday night to remove it because
of a complaint from senior redpots.
Igou is a junior environmental
design major from Midland.
Cancer doesn’t have
to hurt, magazine says
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A non
profit newsletter for doctors
says control of pain in people
with cancer is one of the few
areas in medicine where patients
may not be receiving enough
drugs.
The Medical Letter said this
is primarily because doctors are
afraid of causing addiction,
although the publication said
dependence on narcotics is rare
in patients with no history of
drug abuse.
Dr. John J. Bonica, a noted
pain specialist from the Univer
sity of Washington, says cancer
pain is often overlooked by doc
tors and nurses and is largely
neglected by cancer researchers.
As a result, he told a recent
meeting in Seattle, many cancer
patients unnecessarily end their
last weeks, months and some
times years of life “in great dis
comfort, suffering and disa
bility.”
Bonica noted that cancer is
usually not painful in its early
stages and that many patients
are cured before the disease has
a chance to progress to the pain
ful stage.
In addition to drugs, doctors
sometimes can treat cancer pain
surgically by interrupting the
nerve pathways that transmit
the message of tissue damage to
the brain.
The Medical Letter, which
primarily deals with drugs in
medicine, said mild to moderate
pain from cancer can often be
controlled with acetaminophen,
aspirin or one of the new non
steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs such as ibuprofen.
The biweekly newsletter said
that when a single analgesic is
not effective for moderate pain,
acetaminophen with codeine or
oxycodone may be effective.
The newsletter said some doc
tors report that the use of prop-
roxyphene with acetaminophen
is effective without causing the
constipation that sometimes
occurs with acetaminophen and
codeine.
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