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Alabama 35 Miss State 14 lorida 31 Auburn 7 Penn State 27 Maryland 3 Oklahoma 28 Colorado 7 Notre Dame 27 Navy 7 Kentucky 28 Virginia Tech 0 Georgia 41 VMI 3 use 13 Stanford 7 LSU 30 Ole Miss 8 Michigan 34 Iowa 0 Nebraska 63 Kansas 21 Tennessee 34 Duke 0 Memphis St 35 Vandy 14 Texas AM 20 SMU 17 UCLA 23 Oregon 21 The Dothan Eagle Volume 72 Number 38 Dothan Alabama Sunday Morning November 5 1 978 1 1 8 Pages 8 Sections 50 Cents dXl Zsk): ih 'S WSWWfi W': ZM Ss 'WwSiBSs SsZ ZSWZS si 'SZZ iip z'zzt z' 'z i' 's A 5 rWvuL Osl pt vjZ AJrfW MMr Wes fs' it ife (ZzSzk AP Laserphoto Summit Gets Under ay With Syrian President Assad At Center NAS Scores Saccharin WASHINGTON (AP) The prestigious National Academy of Sciences con cluded Saturday that sac charin be viewed as a potential cause of cancer in humans" not only becauseit is a weak cancer causing agent itself but because it promotes the cancer causing activity of other substances The scientific body which undertook its review of the popular sugar substitute at the request of Congress expressed concern that one third of children under 10 are saccharin users and may be subjected to the greatest risk "The committee concludes that further laboratory studies to establish the carcinogenicity cancer causing potential of sac charin are not needed under existing law" the panel said But it added that scientists have not yet learned how to accurately predict on the basis of animal studies just how dangerious specific carcinogens are to humans And none of Ute studies of human bladder cancer victims has been good enough to detect the effect of the artificial sweetener the panel said Studies with laboratory rats show that saccharin is a carcinogen of "low potency" when compared to other" known cancer causing agents it said But the academy added hough the direct car cinogenic potential of sac charin in humans may be weak its possible action as a promoter of cancer may be more important" The panel did not make any recommendations about what action the government should take regarding sac charin the last artificial sweetener allowed on the US market But its findings tended to bolster the ood and Drug Administration which sought to ban sac charin in the spring of 1977 before Congress stepped in and declared an 18 month moratorium pending further study Donald Kennedy' com missioner of the ood and Drug Administration called the report "a comprehensive objective and thoughtful whose main conclusion reinforces that reached earlier bv Representatives of the Calorie Control Council a creation of the diet soft drink industry and its advertising agency were among the first' in line when the findings were released at its headquarters here And they deplored the report seems incredible that the conclusions would go so strongly against the ex tensive and growing body of scientific evidence sup porting said a statement from the Atlanta based council that organized the principle op position to proposed saccharin ban expect common sense and the best interest of Americans will prevail when the evidence is fully examined" the council said Before the congressional moratorium expires on May 23 1979 the academy is expected to complete another report that will evaluate the food safety policies generally! That document the academy said also will make some recommendations regarding the future of saccharin The panel had been asked to examine both the risks and benefits of the sugar sub stitute but it said it could find studies that permit objective assessment of the asserted health benefits of saccharin It conceded that between 50 and 70 million people use the substance and many rely on it for help in dieting A of private physicians believe saccharin is for their diabetic patients for patients being treated for weight problems and for patients with other the panel said But it said what people generally believe doesn't constitute scientific evidence and study that meets the current criteria for an adequate clinical trial has been conducted explicitly to examine the effectiveness of saccharin in the control of weight or blood sugar levels studies on the use of non nutritive sweeteners to manage obesity and those pertaining to diabetes were considered by the committee to be inadequate to either prove or disprove the alleged benefits of saccharin And finally the panel noted the most conclusive studies show that saccharin most often causes cancer in the bladders of male rats and especially those males born to females who were exposed through their lifetimes and pregnancies Sadat oils Arab League Says It Buy Egypt BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) Leaders of 20 Arab nations sent a delegation to Cairo Saturday in a last ditch bid to talk Anwar Sadat out of making a separate peace with Israel but the Egyptian president responded with a swift and angry rebuff The four man delegation carried with it an implicit offer of massive Arab financial aid if Egypt abandons its go it alone peace drive But Sadat declared to the Egyptian Parliament the millions in the world will not buy the will of Egypt!" The reconciliation mission dispatched by the Arab summit meeting here was headed by Lebanese Prime Minister Salim el Hoss Sadat went before the Parliament in Cairo a short time after word reached the Egyptian capital that the Hoss group was headed there coming to this rostrum" he told the legislators were informed by foreign news agencies that those meeting in Baghdad had sent a delegation which was already on its way They did not ask permission They shall not meet with me or any Egyptian official" Sadat told a news conference later however that he would be willing to meet with Arab heads of state they choose to come to Egypt they are welcome and am ready to sit with them and discuss The official Iraqi news agency said delegation' carried a message from President Hassan al Bakr of Iraq chairman of the Arab League summit saying that if Sadat agreed to return to the Arab fold summit conference promises to guarantee the steadfastness of Egypt and its That was a clear reference to an Iraqi proposal at the conference that the Arab countries give Egypt up to $5 billion to draw Sadat away from his growing dependence on the West for bolstering his sagging economy The delegation was instructed to deliver the message report on the results of the summit so far and receive the Egyptian leader's reply before returning to Baghdad But they were met by only a junior official at Cairo airport were driven to a Cairo hotel and were expected to return to Bagh dad later Saturday With Hoss were Syrian Information Minister Ahmed Iskandar Irqi Baath Party official Tariq Aziz and oreign Minister Ahmed al Suedy of the United Arab Emirates Hoss and Suedy represent governments with relatively moderate positions on Egypt's peace moves But Syrian and Iraq are leading hard line states in the opposition to the US sponsored Egyptian Israeli negotiations Egypt was the only member of the 21 nation Arab League not represented at the summit which was called by Iraq specifically to reach a united Arab stand against the bilateral peace But it appeared the participants in the Baghdad meeting probably would not reach a concensus on how to react to the impending peace treaty Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Yasser Abed Rabbou told reporters after Sadat's snub of the delegation that illusions some people had about Sadat were short lived This means we should return to the summit and lake a resolute stand against the Egyptian regime We must decide on military and political confrontation from a united The hard line states and the PLO want to isolate Sadat politically and economically but the con servative governments led by Saudi Arabia have resisted (the conservatives) argue that isolating Sadat will merely push him closer to Israel" said one summit delegate who declined to be identified Iraq Syria Algeria and the PLO are pressing for sanctions against Sadat on the grounds that he has already sold out the Arab cause by agreeing to a separate peace treaty with Israel refused to consult with other Arab leaders and has spoken for the Palestinians without authority Conference sources reported the summit has approved an $11 billion fund to beef up Arab military capability for the confronation with Israel in the event Egypt abandons the southern front with the Jewish state Crucial to the hard campaign is to win over King Hussein from his neutral stance tjbe drier A neighbor called ire Department paramedics and an ambulance company and told them someone was having a heart attack on his lawn The subject awakened by the sirens said he does have a heart problem But at that time he was just taking a nap Lord Chesterfield said it: wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them Ancient Chinese MW Mrs Kathlene Thompson of Midland City Rt told the Town Crier this cutie about her four year old granddaughter Laura Lee of Ozark Rt 4: Laura mother Mrs Judy Woodham was about to administer some punishment when in desperation Laura Lee looked at her and proverb: man without a smiling face must not open a said you just pray for me and not spank Computerized Robbery LA Bank Loses $102 Million LOS ANGELES (AP) The BI searched on Saturday for the alleged mastermind of a sophisticated $102 million theft of transfer funds but investigators said whoever took the money probably has fled the country with most of it The BI issued an arrest warrant for Stanley Mark Rifkin 32 a resident of the San ernando Valley in the theft from Security Pacific Bank Investigators released only sketchy information about Rifkin who has no known police record The BI said he worked as a consultant but did not specify where or in what capacity The manager of the apartment complex where Rifkin lived alone said he moved a couple of weeks ago leaving no forwarding ad dress Neighbors said Rifkin ran a computer consulting service for small businesses in the San ernando Valley area a few miles north of Los Angeles Douglas Ball supervisor of the office here said the theft discovered Thur sday may have been the largest ever involving fund transfers He said it was a Rifkin has fled the country Tom Coll an BI spokesman in Washington said the case is one of the largest bank swindles the agency has ever handled Officials of Security Pacific the 10th largest commercial bank were keeping a close guard on details of their in vestigation for security reasons Election Turnout Unpredictable By VIC BUBBETT Eagle Staff Writer Tuesday will be General Election day for Alabama and it is a toss up as to whether activity will be light moderate or heavy Bill Hause chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee for Houston County said he's heard little talk about it But what he has heard he says the candidates fear it might be light And for Democratic nominees with opposition that could be trouble think the candidates with opposition are out Hause said or Houston County there are three races which may draw heavy interest the Bill Dickinson Wendell Mitchell race for the Second Congressional District seat the Chip Bailey Richard Britt campaign for State Senate seat for the 24th District and the A Clark Walter Lucas race for the sheriff's post Clark will be seeking an unprecedented fourth term Lucas owner of a music store here is making his first political bid A retired ser viceman with 20 years ser vice during World War II (Navy) and Korean and Vietnam (Air orce) he came to Dothan in 1937 to live with an uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Bob Sealy Married to the former Mamie Ruth Rutherford of Geneva County they have seven children State Level At state level there is serious opposition for the governorship with the Republicans' riding on Guy Hunt against the Democrats ob James Jim Martin an erstwhile GOP hopeful is out to gun down Donald Stewart for the unexpired term of the late Jim Allen The winner will be junior senator There is opposition in seven other races but it stems mainly from the minor parties There will be more for the voters to do than elect a number of candidates At the top of the voting machine will be nine constitutional amendments to be decided The parties to be found on the ballot include Alabama Libertarian Party (ALP) Alabama Prohibition Party (APP) Alabama Republican Governor Jim Partain (APP) Guy Hunt (GOP) ob James (Dem) Richard Dare (DP) Lieutenant governor Edna Bowling (APP) Virginia Walser (GOP) George McMillan (Dem) Senate full term Jerome Crouch (APP) Howell Heflin (Dem) Senate unexpired term Michael A Erdey (ALP) A Killingsworth (APP) James (Jimi Martin (GOP) Donald Stewart (Dem) Joseph Thomas Robino Jr (PP) More Races NG Called Out To ight ire By The Associated Press irefighting crews aided by at least 40 National Guardsmen continued Saturday to combat an outbreak of forest fires in Alabama that already has consumed more than 70 000 acres luresiry rank Sego be the orestrv The entire state remained under a no burn edict '3 uardsmen will be fighting fires and assisting in our law enforcement ac tivibes in Shelbv said state forestrv spokesman assisting Commission Childersburg were employed riday in Shelby County I south of Birmingham har dest hit by fires And another 20 guardsmen from the 252nd Tran sportation Division of the Air National Guard were on duty in northeast Jefferson County where a fire was threatening a Boy Scout camp ires also were burning Saturday in Macon County in southeast Alabama and the extreme northeast in mountainous Jackson County Nothing other than timber was threatened Sego said our firefighters have been injured since Oct 1 Sego said The Eagle Today Glances A Daleville woman reflects on her thrte month trip to the land of oil and sand Saudi Arabia See Page 1 Auburn fell to lorida's Gators but Alabama survived 429 yards in the air to defeat Mississippi Bulldogs Page 1 The Eagle opposes Amendment One on Page 6 A An old fashioned country wedding was held in Houston County 64 years ago See Page for the details A Pennsylvania man injects a little humor into politics See his account on Page 8 A Weather Sunny and warm today with fair skies tonight and tomorrow High today and Monday in low 80s with the low tonight in the upper 40s Winds variable at less than six miles per hour today Inside Ann Landers 6 Astro graph 2 1) Business News 11 15 Church News 15 16 Classified 6 14 1) Crossw ord Puzzle 15 1) Daily Comics 15 Deaths 5 Dr Lamb II Dress Pattern 6 Editorials 6 A amily Living 1 11 Rucker Events 13 Jacoby On Bridge 15 Jumble 7 Meetings of Week 11 Movies 12 Moving in 2 School Lunch Menu 9 Sports 1 13 Today In History 15 TV Log 1 1 Who When Where 10 "or I Heard Them Say 'Let Us Go To Genesis 37:1 7 Party (GOP) Democratic Party (Dem) Determination Party (DP) and the Peace Party (PP) The candidates and their parties include the following: Congress Second District Bill Dickinson (GOP) Wendell Mitchell (Dem) State (Turn! 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