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Muskie cautions about hostage release
From onr wire services
WASHINGTON Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie cautioned Monday
against raising hopes of an end soon to
the Iranian crisis in light of recent
statements by the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini and other Tehran leaders.
Speaking at a news conference, Mus- M- e
reflected the sentiments of admin-istration
experts that the political fer-ment
in Iran has not ended and that it
was premature to anticipate the 52
American hostages would be released
soon.
" I think it is very important to be
cautious in our reaction to statements
coming out of Iran," Muskie said. " We
hare read them before; as a matter of
fact, we've been reading them over a
period of weeks and months. It would
be a mistake to raise expectations
based on any specific statements."
Wearing a yellow " free the hos-tages"
emblem on bis lapel, Muskie
said the United States has been unable
to establish a direct channel for nego-tiations
to end the 318- da- y crisis.
" We have a number of channels open
to try and communicate messages of
one kind or another," be said. " One
never knows when one of those sugges-tions
takes root and blossoms out in the
kind of contact that results in negotia-tions.
But that link has not yet been
made."
His caution appeared to contradict a
remark made by President Carter in
Corpus Christi, Texas, earlier Monday.
Carter noted that the Iranians now had
a new government and " are making
statements that might very well lead to
resolution of this problem in the fu-ture."
Muskie denied, however, that he was
in disagreement with Carter. He said
statements from Iran might or might
not help resolve the situation, but be
added mat they amounted to " a totali-ty
of ideas" that bad not changed
much.
Muskie's statement referred to Kho-meini's
message last Friday, which
did not include the need for a formal
American apology as a condition for
the release of the hostages. Other Ira-nian
authorities have said an apology
would be included in the demands,
along with unfreezing Iranian assets,
handing over of the late Shah Moham
mad Reza Pahlavi's property, a non- intervent- ion
pledge and a renunciation
of all claims.
" The Majlis ( parliament) cannot
disregard condemnation of previous
policy by the present VS. govern-ment,"
said AyatoQah Hashemi Raf- sanja- ni,
Iran's parliamentary speaker.
Saturday night, Ronald Reagan, the
Republican presidential candidate,
said that he could support Carter if he
met the economic claims, except re-turning
the shah's property, which was
a matter for the courts. And he warned
Iran that it would not get a better deal
if he were elected president
Muskie said he did not find Reagan's
comment harmful
However, Carter criticized Reagan
for his comments.
" The last thing that any political
candidate ought to do is to get into ne-gotiations
with the Iranian authorities
through public statements or through
the news media," he said. " I think it
would be a serious mistake for me to
make public statements about what I
accept or do not accept. It's just not a
good way to negotiate."
Reagan continued Monday to stress
Iran by departing from his earlier
pledge not to make the Iranian crisis a
partisan political issue. He said " the
continued suffering of our hostages in
Iran for nearly a year bears stark tes- omo- ny
to the decline of American pre-stige."
Muskie said a story in the Montreal
French language newspaper La
Presse, which reported the State De
partment had been negotiating for
three months on a document with the
Iranians, was inaccurate.
Meanwhile, the families of the hos-tages
made public a letter to the Irani-an
parliament that proposed that the
families " participate personally and
directly in the solution of the problem
which now divides the Iranian and
American people."
" We understand that the people of
Iran have suffered untold indignities
and wrongs in the past," the letter
stated.
Rep. Benjamin A. Gfinvm, R- N.- Y-,
said that he and his congressional col-leagues
had sent a second letter to the
parliament, proposing direct talks be-tween
delegations on the hostage cri-sis.
Insight
Religious prejudice
among M. U. Greeks
ByDanWflinsky
Missourian staff writer
It's college rush time, and you are
one of 944 University coeds trying to
join a sorority. Yon had your heart set
on joining one house because some
friends live there. But during rush
week you notice the sorority members
are different: They are predominantly
Christian . Yoa are Jewish.
As yoa step out of the sorority, a
hostess asks, " Do yoa have any more
questions aboat onr hoase?"
Yoa are feeling uncomfortable, and
it's bothering you, so you ask if they
accept Jewish members.
This question really throws her. As
she answers, she folds your name tag
in half. The next day yoa are " cut" as
a potential member of thatsorority.
According to one woman, now a
member of a predominantly Jewish so-rority,
that happened to her, and sce- nariossuchasmatocccrever- yfalL
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" At first the hostess was friendly and
warm, but when she found out my reli-gion
was different, she suddenly
tamed cold," the rasbee said. " I was
upset, and Fm suH upset, because I
really didhke that sorority."
The prejudice she describes may be
exaggerated, and it is possible that re-ligious
discrimination is not as wide-spread
as she contends. Panheflenic
Council and Inter- fraterni- ty Council
roles state that, during rush, religion is
not supposed to be mentioned and no
statistics are to be kept on the religious
preferences of rushees or pledges.
Even so, many Greeks say privately
mat the possibility for religious dis-crimination
on campus is reaL
Since many of the Greek- tette- r orga
nizations in Columbia were formed at
the turn of the century, most have been
separated along religious lines.
In the University's Greek system,
several bouses are isolated from the
rest because their members tradition-ally
are members of a particular reli-gion.
There are Lutheran and Chris-tian
fraternities. Three fraternities
and two sororities are predominantly
Jewish.
Traditional values loom over the re-cruiting
processes in these bouses. The
organizations' alumni, members and
parents want the fraternity's or sorori-ty's
religious identity to remain dis-tinct
Most fraternity and sorority mem-bers
agree it's cot necessarily bad that
members have a common religion.
Many say a religious bond is the major
factor mat keeps most houses together
and might work toward positive ends.
But whether they think religious: dis--
crimination exists ornot, most hesitate"
to discuss the problem publicly for fear
of exacerbating whatever conflict does
exist.
" Religion goes deep into the history
of our fraternity- - It's the big thing we
have and something we can call our
own," says a member of the predomi-nantly
Lutheran Beta Sigma Psi fra-ternity.
A Jewish member of Alpha Epsllon
Pi agrees: " If everyone is the same re-ligion,
it does provide the fraternity
with a certain character."
But religious barriers between fra- tencti- es
and sororities also tend to iso-late
groups and may produce hostility,
especially when students think they
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Cell extract may be cancer key
By Fred Walters
Missourian staff writer
Despite all the optimistic attention
that interferon has received recently,
the real sleeper in cancer research
could turn oat to be a little known
white blood cell extract called lym-phokines.
Research appears to indicate that
while interferon may be taxk to ha- irm- s,
lymphokines may not
Three researchers at the Cancer
Research Center in Columbia recent-ly
lectured on their six years lympho-kines
study at the International Con-ference
on Junmnnopharmacology in
" We were very well accepted; this
is the most exciting thing in cancer
research," John McEntire, one of fee
scientists, said. " It has tremendous
potential."
Lymphokines may be able to trick
the body of a cancer victim into trig-gering
its immune system to heal it-self
of mad tumors and the remnants
of cancer.
In studies with humans at ' FTK Fjs- efa- el
State Cancer Hospital, lympho-kines
are foreseen as a supplement to
conventional treatments such as sur-gery,
chemotherapy ' and radiation.
But Lymphokines are not the long
awaited " silver bullet" that will
eradicate all cancer.
" The body normally rejects most
tumor cells mat arise. But for some
reason, the body doesn't always work
properly, and the cancer may get
started," McEntire said.
The researchers' work is in the
field of immszutberapy stimulat-ing
the body's immune system to kffl
an infection or ccs& rsi cancer growth.
Immunotherapy got its start when it
was discovered that lung cancer pa-tients
who developed post- operati- ve
infection after surgery lived longer.
Scientists speculated that the body
" geared up" for the infection and the
ftnmonp system was better able to
fight any remaining cancer.
Lymphokines are protein mole-cules,
similar to interferon, produced
by certain white blood cells called
lymphocytes. They act as the trigger
for the body's irrminne system to re-spond
and attack infections in the
body.
Lymphokines do not work well
when there is a large tumor load
too much tumor for the body to dis-solve
away. Tests have shown they
are most effective when used in com-bination
with surgery or chemothera-py
that have eliminated most of the
tumor. The body men has to loll only
the few remaining cells, preventing
mem from regenerating.
" We thought mat ifwe could isolate
these moleroles, inject them in the
skin at the point of the tumor and
cause a response, we might be on the
path to treating some cancers," Mc-
Entire said.
" For about six- - years we've have
been working every day and most of
the mghts. We are flaaBy starting to
get somewhere; but lympfaokmes are
still research substances and are a
long way from routine, clinical use."
Seme results have been promising,
though. Tests by Dean Gfllilanri, an-other
researcher, on mice with wide-spread
cancer showed a higher survi-val
rate after treatment with
lymphokines.
A program of tests have began on
basal cell tumors, a non- fat- al type of
skin cancer. " It is a slow- growin- g tu-mor,
so if the treatment is not suc-cessful
the patient can still be treated
by conventional methods," McEntire
said.
" We've had some good results with
basal cell tumors." However, he
added, " We've had patients with no
reaction to lymphokines, too."
McEntire said, from a scientific
viewpoint, there have not been
enough trials to draw any concfa- aoo- s.
lyrnphokine treatment is not nec-essarily
-- limited to skin cancer. It
stimulates the patient's overall de-fense
system and could have an ef-fect
oa cancer inany part of the body.
Safety tests on rymphekmes have
been going on in the lah for the past
five years. Preliminary tests on to-mans
have shown so toxicity. In con-trast,
interferon has some severe
problems with toxicity.
" A big problem for most cancer pa-tients
is secondary infections when
their bodies are weak. If we can beef
up the patient's defense system at a
critical time, we could potentially
help tremendously," McEntire said.
The biggest problem in the stntfire
has been getting enough lympho-kines.
In the past it had to be ex-tracted
out of human white blood
cells.
Now cells are grown in the labo-ratory
and the lymphokines are ex-tracted
from them. Out of about three
gallons of culture grown each day,
only a small viaL not even a pinch, of
lymphokines can be extracted.
The cost of treatment for a patient
is estimated at about $ 12, C00. He be-lieves
that tins cost can be decreased
to about 120 with continued ad-vances
in extraction techniques.
" Only one other group is research-ing
this field, in England. What we're
debg, no one has done before," Mc-
Entire said.
He says any hope lays 19 years
down the road at best But if these
stabes prove to be valuable in can-cer,
they wul probably also pay off
for other diseases..
Vitamin A may enhance interferon
NEW YORK ( UPI) A govern-ment
scientist exploring the potential
of interferon reported Monday a syn-thetic
form of vitamin A seems to en-hance
the anti- canc- er effects of the
drug.
Another report presented at an in-ternational
cancer symposium said
tests on advanced cancer patients
treated with interferon have shown
mixed results.
Dr. Michael B. Sporn said experi-ments
during the past few weeks at
the National Cancer Institute show
that tiny amounts of the vitamin A
derivative combined with small
amounts of interferon retard the pro-liferation
of malignant mouse cells.
Sporn said the findings are very
preliminary and must move to labo-ratory
animals before they could
even be considered for use in hu-mans.
The first animal results ccmld
be available in sixmouths.
Dr. Susan E. Krown of the Memori-al
Stoan- Ketterin- g Cancer Center in
New York said most interferon stud-ies
to date with the possible excep-tion
of those in breast cancer, hsng
cancer and a form of bone cancer
have included too few patients to
make any realistic estimate of the
drug's benefits. But initial tests have
been promising enough to prompt
several drug companies to invest
many miTlions of dollars in interferon '
production processes.
Sporn reported earlier that only
synthetic varieties of vitamin A have
appeared effective when used alone
as a cancer preventer, and then only
before the cancer gets started. He
warned that large doses of natural vi- tam- in
A will damage the liver.
New emblem
MFA shield facelift
linked to proxy tussle
By Keith PhMps
Missourian staff writer
Threats by MFA Inc., formerly the
Missouri Farmers Association, to keep
the MFA Insurance Cos. from using
the MFA Inc. erohlpm " definitely had
an influence" on the new insurance
logo unveiled Monday, said a spokes-man
for the insurance company.
The new fmhlem, which bears little
resemblance to the one the association
used for 34 years, was created " to
avoid any legal conflict with MFA"
said Gene Baumann, director of publi-cations
forMFA Insurance.
The conflict betwen MFA Inc. and
MFA Insurance started last Septem-ber,
when MFA Insurance board mem-bers
derided to remove the proxy vot-ing
power of MFA Inc. board
members. The votes that formerly
went to MFA Inc. were given to five
top officials of the insurance company.
Proxy power, which permits absent
policy holders to let others cast their
votes, is important because only about
200 out of about L25 miTlinn policyhold-ers
attend annual meetings. Ihe deci-sion
cost MFA Inc. considerable influ-ence
over the insurance company's
decisions.
MFA Inc. President Eric Thompson,
who did not learn of the proxy change
until six months later, sent a letter to
MFA Inc. members saying that his
management team wouM seek board
approval to remove the use of the em-blem
and name from the insurance
firm.
But on April 8, MFA Inc's board of
directors voted to stop trying to sever
ties with the insurance firm until Aug.
20. Since that date, MFA Inc. has taken
no further action concerning insurance
company rights to the name and em-blem.
MFA Insurance President Howard
Lang said in a statement issued Mon-day
the company adopted the new
symbol because it ' more clearly iden-tifies
the company function of provid-ing
shelter for policyholders. We have
been known for some frfr" p as ' The
Shield of Shelter Company,' and this
change reflects that perception." The
statement said that " the new shield
will be used in conjuction with the
name ' MFA Insurance' which has been
and will continue to be the company
name."
Lang could not be reached for fur-ther
comment.
Charhe Hedberg, MFA Inc. public
relations director, said that MFA Inc.
was aware that the insurance company
had plans to change its emhtem but did
not know the company's reason for the
change- - He also said MFAInc. was not
in a position to object to the change nor
had any reason to do so.
Kaiimann said another reason for the
change was that MFA Insurance oper-ates
in 12 states other titan Missouri,
and customers in these states do not
associate the MFA shield with the Mis-souri
cooperative.
The new shield was introduced Mon-day
to the 233 agents and employees
throughout the company's operating
territory as part of an extensive adver-tising
campaign.
Ruling clears way
for Bonnchi trial
By Kevin KQbane
Misscorian staff writer
Johnson County Circuit Judge Rob-ert
G. Russell Monday ruled admissi-ble
as evidence a murder victim's body
in the trial of 18- year-- old Shawn Bona--
The Columbia man faces capital
murder, first- degr- ee robbery and
armed criminal action charges for his
alleged involvement in the November
1S78 slaying of Colombia auto
salesman Gregory Bond, The case has
bees moved to Johnson County on a
change of venue from Boone Qjuiay.
According to Boone County Prosecu-tor
Joe Moseley, who is conducting the
case against Bosuchi, the defendant
probably cannot be convicted on both
the murder and robbery charges. The
Missouri Supreme Court ruled Jan. 15
that conviction of both a felony murder
and a related felony would be double
jeopardy.
in Monday's pretrial hearing, Rus-sell
overruled a motion ffkd by Bonn- chi-' s
attorney, Boone County Public
Defender David Strauss, to suppress
the body as evidence. The trial is
scheduled for SepL2SmWarrersburg.
But the judge did rule, Strauss said,
that any evidence connecting his client
with the bodywas not admissible.
Strauss said he argued the informa-tion
leading to the discovery of the
body was obtained from statements by
Bonnchi that were suppressed in pre-trial
hearings.
No lawyer, guardian or friendhr
adrift was present during ifiltrugation
of then- juvenil- es Bonnchi and Ms
friend, Mitchell Dean Oahum, 18, of
1701 Oakwood Court, as required by
Missouri and Oklahoma law. The
youths were apprehended Nov. 3D,
1S78, by EI Reno, Okia., police on sus-picion
of auto theft.
Russell also overruled a defense mo-tion
for the suppression as evidence of
shotgun shells, as well as a driver's li-cense
and credit cards mat allegedly
belonged to the victim. However, the
judge also ruled no statements mate
by Bonnchi leading to the items' dis-covery
would be admissible, Strauss
said.
Bond was last seen Nov. 29, 1978. He
was found shot to death along a gravel
road about four miles ( 6.4 kilometers)
north of the Cbhanhia. Columbia police
had been led there by information
givenby BonuchL
Qsharn pleaded guflry Oct 11, 1979,
to a reduced charge of first- degr- ee
murder in St. Charles County Circuit
Court. At the plea proceeding, Qsosm
testifed he shot Bond. He was sen-tenced
to life imprisonment and is in
the MissouriDivision ofCorrections. -
Bonuchi remained in the Johnson
County Ja2 Monday night.
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