Friday, October, 11,1985/The Battalion/Page 11
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by Jeff MacNelly
Yul Brynner
dead from
cancer at 65
Associated Press
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man who was king fora record 4,625
K jrformances in the Rodgers and
animerstein musical “The King
and I,” died Thursday after a two-
year battle with lung cancer. He was
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Buried alive
Puerto Rican mudslide site maybe mass grave
Associated Press
PONCE, Puerto Rico — The Na
tional Guard ordered everyone out
■of Mameyes shantytown Thursday
;;after Puerto Rico said it was consid-
jering making a common grave of the
1 mudslide that was believed to have
iiburied up to 500 people this week.
Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon
ysaid a decision will be made soon
I whether to seal off the disaster site
(outside Ponce to avoid an outbreak
of disease.
“We don’t have much time,” Her-
Inandez Colon said.
| The governor’s of fice said the ac
tion could be taken by this weekend.
Dr. Giodano San Antonio, the
(Ponce region’s health department
(director, said decomposing bodies,
(covered by mud, rocks and splin-
(tered homes, were creating a threat
(of water contamination, typhoid
fever, mosquito-borne diseases, tet
anus and diphtheria.
A 30-hour tropical deluge trig
gered the avalanche Monday morn
ing that toppled some 400 wood and
tin shacks in the hillside shantytown
outside Ponce.
he was convinced at least 500
>0 people
remain buried under the avalanche.
He said he based his estimate on ae
rial photographs taken of Mameyes
before the emergency.
“You can see the area was dense!
The tropical depression, subse
quently upgraded to Tropical Storm
Isabel, hit the Florida coast on
Thursday after crossing the Baha-
populated, although you can’t te
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exactly how many Homes there were
because trees blocked the view,” he
said.
Puerto Rican authorities said
Thursday that 75 bodies had been
recovered from flooded commu
nities and landslide debris on this
U.S. commonwealth island of 3.2
million people in the Caribbean.
Thirty-two of the bodies were un
covered in Mameyes.
Col. Jose Luis Carrillo, the Na
tional Guard officer in charge of the
rescue operation in Mameyes, said
Carrillo said the stricken commu
nity had been declared off limits to
everyone but rescue workers and re
porters.
The Puerto Rican government be
gan distributing $1 million in $300
checks Thursday to survivors who
lost their homes.
Authorities estimated that more
than 5,000 homeless people were
put up in Red Cross shelters and
schools.
With him at The New York Hos-
pital-Cornell Medical Center were
nis fourth wife, Kathy Lee, and his
four children, said Josh Ellis, a fam
ily spokesman.
“He faced death with a dignity
and strength that astounded his doc
tors,” Ellis said. "He fought like a
lion.”
Lights on marquees and theaters
along Broadway were to be dimmed
at 8 p.m. Thursday “in the king’s
memory,” Ellis said.
In his thousands of performances
as the king of Siam, Brynner was
lord and master over 189 wives, 447
children and 12 Annas during 34
years of stage performances that
ended in June.
The role brought him a Tony in
1952, an Oscar in 1957 for the film
version, and a special Tony in June
which actress Mary Martin pre
sented.
Family and friends held a private
service Thursday, and a memorial
service will be scheduled later, Ellis
said. The family has asked that do
nations be sent to the Yul Brynner
Cancer Fund for Children at Memo
rial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
in New York.
Updated
will state
cigarette labels
specific dangers
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — New and
specific health warnings are ap
pearing on cigarette packages
and advertising, a change medical
experts hope will help persuade
Americans to quit — or never
start — smoking.
“The public needs to know the
danger, since this is the single
most preventable source of heart
disease, cancer and lung disease.
I think that f reedom of choice . . .
demands that this be an informed
choice,” says Dr. John A. Oates,
chairman of the department of
medicine at Vanderbilt Univer-
health problems is low birth
weight babies, and this is some
thing that can turn that around.”
sity
The new labels state specific
dangers, including cancer, heart
and lung disease and hazards to
women and their ba-
pregnant
bies.
Surgeon General C. Everett
Koop says he is most pleased
about the pregnancy warning.
“Most people understand
about cancer and heart disease,”
he says. “If you have lung disease
it’s pretty obvious you shouldn’t
be smoking. But one of our big
Dr. Kenneth Warner, chair
man of department of health
planning and administration at
the University of Michigan, says
“There is little question in my
mind that they will be an im
provement over the old label.
“I particularly like the rotatio
nal feature ... I think it will make
smokers take a little bit closer
look and give some thought to the
issue,” he says.
Oates added, “To hide from
them (young people) the fact that
if they do experiment there is a
high probability of becoming ad
dicted is leaving teen-agers con
siderably in the dark.”
The tobacco industry has not
been enthusiastic about the new
labels.
“We feel that no scientific
study has been done that demon
strates, for example, that smok
ing is a cause of coronary heart
disease,” says Anne Browder of
the Tobacco Institute.
She calls the new labels a
“prime example of wishful think
ing” that will not change people’s
smoking behavior.
Koop disagreed. The old warn
ing label “has been around for
years, it’s old hat. After these
things start to rotate ... it be
comes sort of like a game, people
wonder what the message is this
time, and they look for it,” he
says.
A series of four different warn
ings is coming into use, to be ro
tated quarterly under a plan de
veloped by cigarette makers and
the Federal Trade Commission.
The new warnings are:
• Surgeon general’s warning:
Smoking causes fang cancer,
heart disease, emphysema, and
may complicate pregnancy.
• Surgeon general’s warning:
quitting smoking now greatly re
duces serious risks to your health.
• Surgeon general’s warning:
cigarette smoke contains carbon
monoxide.
• Surgeon general’s warning:
smoking hy pregnant women may
result in fetal injury, premature
birth and low birth yveight.
Orson Welles
found dead
in his home
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Orson Welles,
who created the film classic “Citizen
Kane” and a radio tale about a Mar
tian invasion that terrified millions
of listeners, died Thursday at his
home, authorities said. He was 70.
“The cause of death appears to be
natural in origin,” said Donald Mes-
serle, assistant chief of coroner’s in
vestigations.
The portly actor’s death was re
ported to the coroner’s office at 11
a.m. by Hollywood Division police,
he said.
“He was found this morning by
his driver at his residence,” said po
lice Sgt. Russell Kuster. “He’d been
suffering from diabetes and a heart
ailment, nis doctor said.
Welles panicked America in 1938
with his Mercury Theater of the Air
radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’
“War of the Worlds.” Listeners be
lieved the nation really was being in
vaded by Martians.
He also stunned the film world in
1941 with his first venture in film,
“Citizen Kane,” based on the life of
publisher William Randolph Hearst.
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