Friday, lose 30, 1918 23 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sga0 POOL DOCTORS Cancer Research Is Topic of Tel Aviv University. Pane TEL AVIV— A panel dis- cussion on new develop- ments in cancer research, which took place at the 10th annual meeting of the board of governors of Tel Aviv University, was a platform for medical discussion of in- ternational experts, due to the unusual composition of the TAU board of governors, which includes several world famous scientists, among them Prof. Albert Sabin, who developed the polio vaccine, and Prof. Sol Spiegelman, a molecular biologist and cancer re- searcher from Columbia University. The three panel members were Prof. Ronald Herber- man, head of the Im- munodiagnosis Laboratory at the National Cancer In- stitute in Bethesda, Md., Prof. Bracha Ramot, of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Iranian Invited the Israelis to Asian Games Meeting By HASKELL COHEN (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) Chaim Glovinsky, execu- tive secretary of the Israeli Olympic Committee, has stated that recent wire ser- vice stories emanating from Bangkok and Tel Aviv stat- ing that the representatives of the Israeli Olympic Committee appeared "un- invited to the Asian Federa- tion Games Committee meeting in Bangkok" were untrue. Glovinsky said he, Yit- zhak Caspi and Yitzhak Ofek were invited to attend the meeting by Asghar Paryravi of Iran, first vice chairman of the Games Committee and a secretary of the International Olym- pic Committee. The invita- tion was extended to the Is- raelis at the International Olympic Committee meet- ing which was held in May in Athens. According to Glovinsky, the Japanese supported the Arab delegation in insisting that Israel be excluded from the 1978 Games. However, the Japanese made it clear to every fellow member that the Israelis were not to be excluded from future Asian Games, and definitely were not to be dropped from the roster of countries compris- ing the Asian Sports Feder- ation. It was finally resolved that the Israelis would not participate in the var- ious competitions in De- cember, but would be ex- tended an invitation to the next set of Games, four years hence. The reason for the 1978 exclu- sion, supposedly, is the inability of Thailand to provide the necessary security. Upon learning of the deci- sion of the Asian Games Federation, via wire service reports, Col. Don Miller, executive director of the United States Olympic " Committee, called Glovinsky at his home and received a verbatim report about what had transpired at the Bangkok conference. Miller promised that the U.S. Olympic Committee would do everything in its power to try to get the Asian group to reconsider. Miller said he was con- vinced that Lord Killanin, of Ireland, the Interna- tional Olympic Committee chairman, would remove the International Olympic Committee's sanction from the Games until such time as the Israelis are permitted to participate. School of Medicine and head of the Hematology Dept. of Sheba Medical Center, an affiliate of TAU, and Prof. Isaac Witz, TAU cancer immunologist. While. presenting an overview of the field of cancer immunology, Prof. Herberman issued a stern warning against the dan- gers of smoking. He said that it is estimated that within two or three years, lung cancer is likely to be- come the leading killer in the world, but that if everyone would stop smok- ing, it may be significantly reduced. Prof. Spiegelman ob- The Israelis, however, served that medical cir- are moving forward suc- cles alone cannot solve cessfully on another the problem of cancer by front in international revealing environmental sports competition. The hazards if society finds Swimming Federation is these solutions unac- sponsoring an eight- ceptable. He cited the nation swimming com- strong tobacco lobby in petition which will run the U.S. which has suc- July 2-4 in Tel Aviv. Some ceeded in retaining a to- of the best swimmers in bacco subsidy despite the the world will participate known health hazard of in the various events. tobacco. In order to make certain the meet is conducted prop- erly, the Israeli Sports Fed- eration has invited Jack Abramson, vice president of the United States Commit- tee Sports for Israel, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Committee and chairman of the U.S. Mac- cabia Swimming Commit- tee, to serve as director of the meet. English Jews to Aid Israel Poor LONDON (JTA) — Anglo-Jewry will contri- bute 2.5 million Pounds Sterling ($4.5 million) this year to Premier Menahem Begin's special fund to re- house 45,000 slum families in Israel, the Joint Israel Appeal announced. It promised to raise the money, following an appeal by Leon Dulzin, Action chairman of the Jewish Agency, in addition to its normal appeal for the next 12 months. The target represents Anglo-Jewry's share of the $47 million already budgeted by the agency for the poor families spe- cial resettlement project this year. American Jewry is to raise $36 mill- ion this year and other communities, including Anglo-Jewry, $16 million. The entire project will cost $1.2 billion over the next five years, half the sum being provided by the Israel government and half by the Diaspora. Economic Revival JERUSALEM (ZINS) — The Bank of Israel is pre- dicting an economic revival based on the fact that hous- ing starts in January and February were up 33 per- cent over the last quarter of 1977. Retail sales were up 9.4 percent, unemployment was down 2 percent, exports were up 24 percent and im- ports up 14 percent. Prof. Arye Szeinberg, dean of Tel Aviv Universi- ty's Sackler School of Medicine, commented, while puffing on a cigarette, that recently published ob- servations suggest a possi- bility of genetic differences in susceptibility to lung cancer due to differences in activity of an enzyme which converts material in the cigarette smoke into car- cinogenic substances. By measuring the activ- ity of the enzyme it thus might be possible to identify people particularly suscep- tible to these substances and to thus issue a particu- lar warning to them. The results relating to the activ- ity of the enzyme are rather controversial, but research conducted by Prof. Szein- berg's group in Israel tends to support the existence of different levels of suscepti- bility. More research should be done before final conclu- sions are drawn, he felt. Prof. Sabin commented that in addition to environ- mental factors which are hazardous to the health, there are environmental factors which appear to be protective, such as eating citrus fruits and raw veget- ables, which appear to have a protective capacity against certain types of car- cinogenic stimuli. He re- commends that more re- search be done on such en- vironmental factors. Prof. Ramot discussed research presently being done in Israel on intesti- nal lympathic cancer, which afflicts Arabs and other non-Ashkenazis and is prevalent in cer- tain under-developed countries. Prof. Witz discussed the importance of cancer im- munology research which concentrates directly on the site of the tumor, as an un- derstanding of the immune reaction can be crucial in diagnosis, treatment, and one day perhaps even pre- vention of cancer. 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