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Tuesday July 16, 1985
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■ BETHESDA, Md. — Doctors told
■esident Reagan on Monday he
had colon cancer but that they be-
lilve surgeons removed all the ma
lignant tissue before it spread to
oilier areas of his body.
■ Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the Na-
Konal Cancer Institute, said, “The
■ajority of patients in exactly the
president’s situation will certainly
survive five years and beyond; it’s
clrtainly greater than 50 percent.”
■ Rosenberg said he had spoken to
tie president about his condition for
fie minutes, shortly after informing
the first lady. Reagan’s spokesman,
liarry Speakes, said Nancy Reagan
“Iccepted the news in a very calm
fishion.”
■ Navy Capt. Dale Oiler, Reagan’s
c|ief surgeon, quoted the president
ai saying, “Well, I’m glad that that’s
all out,” after being informed that a
Microscopic examination of the tis
sue had determined the tumor was
cancerous.
■ Oiler also said that the president
continued in his superlative recovery
flom the operation Saturday at Be-
jspita
two-inch intestinal tumor and a two-
foot section of the colon surround-
ingit.
Rosenberg told reporters at news
briefing at the hospital, “The presi
dent has cancer.” But asked if Rea
gan now has cancer, the doctor said
there was “a greater than 50 percent
chance that the president now has
no cancer, no cancer cells in his body
and is completely cured.”
“We have no evidence that this
cancer has spread, and I think the
chances are good that no spread will
take place,” he said.
The doctor said there is a “greater
than 50 percent chance” that the sec
ond most deadly form of cancer will
not recur during the 74-year-old
president’s normal lifespan.
Rosenberg said he would advise
the president that after he recovers
from the surgery, “There should be
no change in his activity pattern
whatsoever” and there is no reason
for him to consider retirement.
The findings did show, however,
that the cancer in the tumor discov
ered on Friday had invaded the
muscle wall of the bowel, which
means doctors caught it after it had
begun to spread. That increases the
likelihood the disease will show up
again in the liver or elsewhere.
“The majority of the patients in
exactly the president’s situation will
certainly survive five years and be
yond,” the cancer specialist told re
porters at the military hospital,
where Reagan was admitted Friday.
“However, there is a chance that
the tumor may recur at some time in
the future,” the doctor said. “It’s less
than 50 percent.”
Reagan should have regular colon
examinations — like the one which
uncovered the tumor — as well as
regular examinations of his other
body organs, Rosenberg said.
Because radiation and chemothe
rapy, the most commonly used treat
ments after cancer surgery, have not
been found effective in treating
colon cancer, Reagan probably will
not be given further therapy but will
be closely monitored for any sign of
recurrence, Rosenberg said.
HBrush, forest fires wreak
havoc in South Dakota
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Associated Press
I The governor of South Dakota
■fclared a state of emergency in the
smoking Black Hills on Monday as
stubborn brush and forest blazes
persisted in six Western states and
Canada, where a falling rock killed a
firefighter.
I In many areas, however, firelight
ers headed home as more blazes sub-
?iiided after destroying more than a
million acres in the United States
and hundreds of thousands more in
Canada.
I Dave Lentz, a Bureau of Land
Management dispatcher in Portland,
Ore., said “Basically, we're returning
to business as usual.”
I Flames, some ignited by overnight
lightning in the parched West, con
tinued to rage in California, Ari
zona, Montana, New Mexico, Idaho
and South Dakota.
B Crews struggling to stop fires that
have charred 18,500 acres in the
southern Black Hills of South Da
kota fought a new blaze Monday af
ter containing a 3,000-acre outbreak
the day before.
The fires prompted Gov. Bill Jan-
klow to declare a state of emergency
in the area, allowing him to place the
adjutant general of the state Na
tional Guard, Ron Williamson, in
command of all firefighting efforts.
“The emergency is significant
enough that it can’t be dealt with by
different agencies all trying to coor
dinate together,” Janklow said. “One
person has to be able to make deci
sions and call on the resources in
stantaneously of really the whole
government.”
According to Janklow, one of the
main fires south of Hot Springs was
in “very rugged country ... lots of
crevices, lots of valleys, lots of steep
slopes. It’s very hard to fight.”
A 22-year-old firefighter died
Sunday after being struck by a rock
while battling one of seven major
fires covering 84,500 acres in British
Columbia.
Still, authorities reported pro
gress against the Canadian out
breaks. Six of the seven fires were ei
ther contained or under control
Monday.
In California, the largest fire still
out of control — a 28,780-acre blaze
south of California’s scenic Big Sur
— was 50 percent contained Mon
day, but U.S. Forest Service spokes
man Frank Fetsher said it probably
wouldn’t be contained before Tues
day.
Elsewhere in California, 11 fires
were contained, controlled or extin
guished over the weekend. Among
those contained was the Los Gatos
blaze, which scorched 13,900 acres
in the Santa Cruz mountains, sent
4,500 people fleeing and consumed
20 houses.
Twenty small fires broke out on
state land in Oregon over the week
end, said Jim Fisher, spokesman for
the state Department of Forestry,
who added that all were controlled
Monday.
Life’s Little Ups and Downs
Photo by Anthony S. Casper
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ski-board to the test on Meadow Lake on the Gua-
delupe River near: Seguin over the weekend. Hi
dalgo performed the 360 degree flip in the air
while being strapped to the board. Hidalgo devel
oped the stunt while riding behind a jet ski boat.
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I Geldof: live Aid’
was world’s day
Reversal of 1973 decision sought
Reagan seeks new abortion ruling
Associated Press
Bob
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1 LONDON — Irish singer
Geldof declared he was over
whelmed by the multimillion dollar
response to the Live Aid concert for
African famine relief, and predicted
Monday that the response would stir
world governments.
I “Like it’s overwhelming,” said
Geldof, leader of the Boomtown
Rats, and now a Nobel Prize nomi
nee feted by government leaders for
organizing the two-continent extrav-
itganza. “But it wasn’t just the bands.
It was the world’s day.
“Pop music more than anything
else expressed the emotion of the
day and I think the message is fi
nally, finally getting through (to gov
ernments),”
Geldof, 32, in a telephone inter
view with The Associate Press, said a
final total of the amount raised from
the 16-hour, Saturday-Sunday con
cert by the world’s top rock stars
|jvould not be known until Thursday.
Kevin Jenden, project director for
■and Aid Trust that will decide how
|he funds are spent, estimated in a
british Broadcasting Corp. interview
that the total in pledges and ticket
lales would reach about $55.6 mil-
nce
1878
lion. That is nearly fouf times what
Geldof had hoped to raise.
Organizers had earlier estimated
the total would be about $70 million.
Geldof said that “the amount of
money is just staggering.”
He took the accolades and the
fame calmly. “World fame? It’s a
kind of abstract notion, Geldof said.”
“Nothing like it is going to make any
difference to me. I’m sitting here
with a bunch of papers and a cup of
tea, that’s real.”
Geldof was nominated by Norwe
gian legislator Sissel Roenbeck for
the Nobel Peace Prize, and appeared
delighted at the possibility of joining
the eminent lineup of past winners.
“Of course I’d accept it — I’d even
pay my own fare,” said Geldof, add
ing he would give the prize money to
Live Aid.
Live Aid’s seven trustees will con
fer Thursday about specific projects
the trust will fund in Ethiopia, Su
dan and other drought-ravaged Af
rican nations, Harvey Goldsmith, co-
producer, told reporters.
See Live Aid, page 8
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —The Reagan
administration on Monday urged
the Supreme Court to overturn its
1973 decision legalizing abortions,
arguing that women should not have
a constitutional right to end their
pregnancies.
Justice Department lawyers said
the 1973 ruling in a case known as
Roe vs. Wade “has proved inher
ently unworkable,” and wrongly in
fringes on states’ rights to limit abor
tions.
At Bethesda Naval Hospital,
where President Reagan is recov
ering from intestinal surgery, White
House spokesman Larry Speakes
said the president had approved of
the briefs filing.
Both “pro-life” and “pro-choice”
forces predicted that the bold move
will fail. The court two years ago
strongly reaf firmed — by a 6-3 vote
— the 1973 ruling, and its mem
bership has not changed since that
1983 ruling.
The high court’s 1973 ruling es
tablished that women have a consti
tutional right to end their pregnan
cies, and greatlv limited how states
may interfere with that right.
If the ruling were overturned,
such a constitutional right would no
longer exist. States would be free to
TM Supreme Court's 1973 ridmg. that
women have a constitutional right ■■ to•
nancies, and greatly limited how States may interfere
with that right, if the ruling were overturned, ^ch■
constitutional right would no longer exist.
impose whatever limits they deemed
appropriate — including banning all
abortions except those necessary to
except
save a woman’s life.
Reagan has long complained that
the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in
fringes on states’ rights to limit abor
tions.
Arguments in the cases are not ex
pected before December.
Douglas Johnson, legislative di
rector of the National Right to Life
Committee, said, “We welcome the
Reagan administration brief. We see
this as one more small step in a step-
by-step process in getting rid of a di
sastrous Supreme Court decisiop.”
But he said, “I have no reason to be
lieve that the current Supreme
Court would overturn the deicsion.”
Judy Goldsmith, president of the
National Organization for Women,
said: “It is unconscionable and per
fectly predictable. This is an all-out
assault on women’s rights to make
their own reproductive decisions,
and instead have the government
make those decisions for them. It is a
continuation of the Reagan adminis
tration’s war on women since he took
office.”
The government’s “friend-of-the-
court” brief in two abortion cases to
be studied in the court term begin
ning in October argued that the jus
tices should “return the law to the
condition in which it was” before
Jan. 22, 1973, when the decision in
Roe vs. Wade was announced.
That would leave states free to im
pose whatever limits they deemed
appropriate — including banning all
abortions except those necessary to
save a woman’s life.
In the 1973 ruling, the court said
a woman’s decision to have an abor
tion during the first three months of
her pregnancy must be left to her
and her doctor.
The court said states may inter
fere in the woman’s abortion deci
sion during her pregnancy’s second
trimester only to protect the worn*
an’s health, and may take steps trt
protect fetal life only in the third tri
mester when the fetus has grown “vi
able,” able to live outside the womb.
In the brief filed Monday, govern
ment lawyers said, “The key factors
in the equation — viability, trimes
ters, the right to terminate one’s pre
gnancy — have no moorings in the
text or our Constitution or in famil
iar constitutional doctrine.”
The main thrust of the 30-page
brief was an attack on lower court
rulings that invalidated certain state
abortion regulations in Illinois and
Pennsylvania.
Invalidated provisions of the Illi
nois law required doctors to use
abortion methods least likely td
harm the fetus if there was a possi
bility that it was viable and required
doctors to tell patients, that certain
kinds of birth control cause “fetal
death.”