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cANCER INCIDÉNCE BY SITE AND SEX*
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Religious
Tensionsin
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Israel
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V
andals smeared
swastikas on walls,
ransacked two religious
schools, then torched a
Jewish synagogue. The
work of some isolated
•exéludíng
non-me1anoma.
skin cancer
and
~noma
in
situ.
Cancer Update
cancers (4oo.ooo new
cases annually) are
D
uring an eight-hour
workday in the U.S.,
cancer will claim 431 lives–
one every 67 seconds.
Cancer strikes al any
age-it kills more children 3
lo 14 !han does any other
disease, and oc9-fJrs more
frequently with aélvancing
age, according l o the
American Cancer Society.
According lo the
1982-1984 World Health
Statistics Annual , !he highest
incidence of cancer in men
occurs in Hungary, Scotland,
the Netherlands,
Luxembourg and France. In
women, highest incidence
takes place in Denmark,
Scotland, Luxembourg,
Hungary and lreland.
The leading cancer killer
in women is now lung
cancer, surpassing breas!
cancer, which for more !han
50 years was the No. 1
cancer killer of women.
This reflects the rising
number of women,
especially working women,
who have succumbed lo
smoking.
Most cancer cases in
the United States are
believed lo be
environmentally related,
that is, associated with
physical surroundings,
personal habits or
life-styles. Cigarette
smoking contributes to
lung cancer in 83 percent
of cases and most skin
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triggered by frequent
overexposure to direct
sunl ight, said the cancer
society.
The American Cancer
Society publishes Cancer 's
Seven Warning Signals. They
are ( 1) a change in bowel or
_bladder habits, (2) a sore
that does not heal, (3)
unusual bleeding or
discharge, (4) thickening or
lump in breas! or elsewhere,
(5) indigestion or difficulty in
swallowing,
(6)
obvious
change in .wart or mole and
(7)
nagging cough or
hoarseness.
For !hose without cancer
symptoms the American
Cancer Society recommends
a cancer-related checkup
every three years for !hose
ages 20 to 40, every year
for !hose 40 and over. •
Melting the
lron Curtain
L
inks between Eastern
and Western Europe are
growing stronger.
In Budapest, Hungary, in
June, the Soviets called for
mutual cuts in land and
tactical torces by 25 percent
' · in the early 1990s with
further cuts later.
Earlier, on a visit to East
Germany, Mr. Gol'bachev
said that the proposed cuts
in conventional armaments
should cover a territory
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anti-Semitics?
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No, these incidents
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involved recen! actions of
secular Jews against
ultra-Orthodox Jews within
Israel.
The former were reacting,
they claim, to actions by a
vocal minority of the
ultra-Orthodox who had
burned or vandalized more
than 100 bus shelters
displaying ads they consider
offensive (pictures of women
models wearing swimsuits or
standing together with men).
Presiden! Chaim Herzog
described the incidents of
both groups as " violen! and
ugly. "
Sorne experts on religious
affairs go so far as to
describe the violence as the
opening skirmish in a
"cultural war" between
religious and secular Jews.
The two communities
- the secular and the highly
"stretching from the Atlantic
l o the Urals." In choosing
such words, the Soviet
leader was appealing to a
sense of continental
solidarity, employing a
theme raised by the late
General Charles de Gaulle
of France.
Soviet efforts on the
ecooomic front are equally_
impressive. The Kremlirí
appears ready finally to
normalize relations with the
12-member European
Community, the world's
largest trading bloc
comprising 320 million
people. Until now, Moscow
has· refused to deal with the
EC as a unit, only its
religious-hardly mix at all.
The ultra-Orthodox consider
the secular Zionists as
godless Jews, or heretics
who have attempted to
resurrect the state of Israel
through their own human
efforts. The Zionists, in turn,
look upon the ultra-Orthodox
as backward, or fanatics.
For years each generally
left the other alone. They
tolerated each other by
mutually adhering to a loose
understanding known as the
Status Quo. Under its terms
Israel was designed as a
nation based on traditional
Orthodox values, but with
safeguards for the rights of
the non-Orthodox.
Sorne lsraelis fear a
polarized society.
Polarization potentially poses
a grave threat to the interna!
stability and unity of
Israel. •
individual member states.
But the EC, which expanded
in Janúary to include Spain
and Portugal, is simply foo
formidable a power for the
Kremlin to ignore any longer.
In turn, the European
Commission, heading the
EC, has expressed definite
intere~
in closer bilateral
relations between it , the
Soviet Union and the
individual members of
Comecon, the Eastern
European equivalen! of the
EC.
In fact, the Commlssion
has hammered out a trade ,
proposal between the EC
and Romanía. A similar·
relationship between
Brussels and another
Comecon country is
expected soon. •