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Page 10/The BattalionTuesday, October 7, 1986
Stock market
posts slight gain
in slow session
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock prices
rose slightly Monday, helped by
strong demand for International
Business Machines Corp. and a few
other notable issues, but the stock
market drifted in one of the slowest
sessions this year.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in
dustrial stocks, Wall Street’s best-
known barometer, remained margi
nally ahead the entire day and fin
ished at 1,784.45, a gain of 10.27
points. Broader market indicators
showed slight advances.
There were eight gaining issues
for every seven that declined on the
New York Stock Exchange. Volume
totaled only 88.25 million shares, re
flecting the slowest pace since May
19, when 85.84 million shares were
traded. By contrast, the NYSE vol
ume figure on Friday totaled 130.16
million.
Nationwide turnover in NYSE-
listed issues, including trades in
those stocks on regional exchanges
and in the over-the-counter market,
totaled 116.95 million shares.
The NYSE’s composite index rose
0.51 to 135.32.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Poor people run higher
risks of getting cancer and dying from it, accord
ing to an American Cancer Society report and a
new study.
Among the reasons are cigarette smoking and
a tendency for cancers to be caught at later, less
curable stages among the poor, scientists said.
Research had previously found disparities be
tween blacks and whites on the frequency and
deadliness of cancers, but a re-analysis shows that
much of that effect really comes from differences
in socioeconomic status, said Dr. Harold P. Free
man, chairman of the committee that produced
the report.
“You can clearly show that poor people de
velop cancer more and die more from cancer
simply because they’re poor,” said Freeman, di
rector of the surgery department at Harlem Hos
pital Center in New York. “It means you have to
Submarine
reassess how you’re confronting the problem as a
nation and as a cancer society.”
Freeman and his committee called for more
research, consideration of government-provided
insurance for cancer treatment, better cancer ed
ucation for the poor and more cancer screening.
The Pap smear for cervical cancer, mammogra
phy for breast cancer and rectal exams w ith stool
sampling for colorectal cancer are top screening
priorities, Freeman said.
For overall cancer survival. Freeman said,
poor people fare 10 percent to 15 percent worse
than middle-class patients. That gap is very close
to national figures showing overall cancer survi
val for whites at about 50 percent and for blacks
at about 37 percent. Freeman said.
An income-linked disparity also shows up for
surviving specific cancers, such as those of the
colon and breast, he said.
In terms of getting particular cancers, he said,
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ung, cervix and esophagus.
About half the difference in the overall am j! u !
death rate results f rom a tendency of cancerios
diagnosed among the poor at later, lesscimH
stages, he said.
That arises partly because medical cart!? iu
poor people tends to focus on treating an ime
diate prottiem rather than providingserm,
prevention. Freeman said.
Institutional barriers could discourap
woman without insurance from getting a brer * etl
lump diagnosed, for example, he said. Inaii '
lion, poverty breeds a “day-to-day existence’ll! “ e
discourages thinking about preventing futi
problems, he said.
People in the lowest one-fifth income gns
showed a 40 percent higher cancer death rattli
1979-81 than those in the top one-fifth, Fra )ar
man’c study found. ‘Bielil
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The warheads atop one of those
missiles could very well have been
blown into the sea and sunk when
the submarine experienced a fire
and explosion while submerged on
Friday, said Vice Adm. Powell F.
Carter Jr., the staff director for the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The other warheads undoubtedly
have been crushed and rendered
useless by the pressure of the ocean’s
depth, he said, adding that the fuel
inside the reactors is encased in a
heavy metal that likely will deterio-
riate only over thousands of years.
Carter and Ft. Gen. Richard A.
Burpee, the director of operations
for the joint staff, said the sinking
was observed on radar and intermit
tently by the crew of a Navy P-3 re
connaissance plane through the light
provided by flares fired by the Rus
sians at the scene.
A U.S. ocean-going tug also was
near the scene at the time — about
48 nautical miles to the southwest —
and offered assistance. But it was
told to remain clear, the two said.
The two officers, while stressing
that they couldn’t say for sure, said it
appeared the crew of the submarine
never gained control of leaks caused
by the fire and explosion on Friday.
That fire apparently began with the
liquid-fuel propellant for one of the
missiles and “the force of the (result
ing) explosion was enormous,” Car
ter said.
Sonar
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emitted, 2,048 measurements are
made of the echo, he says.
Long-range side-scan sonars are
the newest and most powerful sonar
devices to date, he says, and there
are only two such systems in the
world. One belongs to the University
of Hawaii and the other belongs to a
British system, Hilde says.
The SeaMARC TAMU will pro
vide a more detailed picture of the
sea floor than either of the present
ones, he says.
With the SeaMARC, sound will be
transmitted and received by electro
nic devices housed in a long cylinder
called a “fish,” which is towed be
hind the research ship at shallow
depths, he says.
The information is relayed to the
research vessel and stored on laser
discs — an innovation which allows
data to be stored 100 times more
compactly than magnetic tape, Hilde
says.
He says each one of the thousands
of individual measurements deter
mines two things about one small
point on the ocean floor — the
depth and the acoustical properties
of the rock. The acoustical prop
erties give researchers a good clue of
the type of rock outcrops at that lo
cation, he says.
Two kinds of graphic displays can
be constructed from the data, each
providing a different and useful pic
ture of the sea floor.
One is a “photograph,” which
looks much like a conventional pho
tograph taken from a low-flying air
plane, but made with sound rather
than light. Topographic features
such as volcanoes are easy to pick out
and gradations of light and dark in
dicate changes in rock-type from
one area to another.
The second type of graphic dis
play looks much like a colored map,
with the varying depths of the sea
floor distinguished by a variety of
colors.
British papa
challenges
old dailies
LONDON (AP) — The M
pendent, the first challengertl®
century to Britain’s most
gious newspapers, hits the SM
early today aiming to takeasfa
of territory long held by the fom
eminent dailies.
Even before the initial pm
run of 650,000 on four compute
rized plants around the counlr
The Independent was at war hi
the qualities — The Times mi
The Daily Telegraph, bothrii
of-center, the liberal Guam
and the politically independeit
Financial Times.
The Independent, conceivd
by Editor Andreas Whitiai
Smith, is the first newcomersintt
the Financial Times was found#!
in 1888.
The paper’s 180journalists,ie
eluding some of the most taled
in Fleet Street, have quit good
jobs for what Whittam Smith®
cedes is an uncertain future
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