FBI's attempts sto deport Lennon disclosed LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A professor *led suit yesterday to obtain censored rtions of FBI documents detailing persistent efforts to arrest and deport rock star John Lennon because officials feared he planned to lead an anti-Nixon demonstration. Documents revealed the FBI inten- sely monitored the former Beatle's public and private life for a nine-month period leading up the 1972 Republican convention, and strongly suggested at one point that Lennon "be arrested if at Mll :possible on possession of narcotics charges" so he would become more "deportable." ONE DOCUMENT revealed that South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond suggested to Attorney General John Mitchell in February 1972 that Lennon's deportation would be a "strategic coun- ter. measure." Lennon was gunned down outside his Manhattan apartment Dec. 8, 1980 by Mark David Chapman. Jon Wiener, associate professor of history at the University of California at Irvine, obtained 26 pounds of FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Ser- vice documents under the Freedom of Information Act for a book he is writing on Lennon and the politics of the 1960s. "THE MOST striking thing is how voluminous the files are," Wiener said in an interview. "They reveal that the effort to monitor and harass John Len- non because of his peace activities were greater than anyone had previously believed." Wiener said efforts to spy on and deport Lennon stemmed from fears that Lennon planned to lead an anti-war demonstration that would embarrass Nixon before the convention, although there was no evidence that Lennon lanned to disrupt or attend the conven- ,ion. Entire passages of the FBI documen- ts are blocked out with heavy black ink for what the FBI calls national security reasons. Government officials said releasing the documents would reveal the identities of informants. The suit filed by Wiener and the American Civil Liberties Union asks the court to review the classified documents and determine if they threaten national security. I ?4 r~ Unlike those of us whose break came in February, thousands of college students are spending their spring breaks in Florida this week. This photo from a Daytona Beach hotel balcony shows there is more going on next to the pooi than in the water. Paorlp The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, March 23, 1983 -Page 5 New cancer studies offer possible cures MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The live bir- ths of six babies whose mothers had abortions at Madison hospitalsin the past 10 months have shocked residents, become a rallying point for abortion foes, and prompted one hospital to drastically curtail the procedure. All six babies died within 27 hours of birth, four at Madison General Hospital and two at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. The pregnancies were all in the second trimester - the second three months of development in the womb - a point when few infants have survived delivery broght on my natural causes. "IT'S NOT A one-in-a-million fluke, but a risk of the procedure," counters Timothy Warner, a spokesman for Madison General, where four babies were born alive during 20 second- trimester abortions since May. "I wish it were a one-in-a-million complication, but... it is not." Other experts say live births are rare after abortions, but disagree on how of- ten they follow the 1.6 million pregnan- cies terminated in the United States each year. Dr. Christopher Tietze, a consultant with the Population Council, a New York-based research group, said that according to a 1976 study, about 200 live births follow abortons, in the United States each year. He said the figure is still valid, and is not declining. HOWEVER, Dr. David Grimes, chief of abortion surveillance for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, says the number of live births has "diminished considerably" since the mid-1970s as more women seek abortins earlier in pregnancy. He declined to estimate the number of such births now occurring. The Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood Inc., said that in 1980 - the last year for which complete figures are available - 1.6 million abortions were done nationwide, about 10 percent of them in the second trimester. A total of 12,860 abortons were done after the 21st week of pregnancy, the insitute said. SINCE THE last live abortion birth here in late February, Madison General has barred all abortions after 18 weeks' gestatin unless the pregnancy threatens the woman's health, Warner said. The hospital never did first trimester abortions. Warner said a combination of urea and the hormone prostaglandin was used to induce labor and kill the fetus in the abortions at Madison General. That combination is less likely to harm the woman than the saline solutin previously used, he said, and could be responsible for more live births. Madison General formerly did only "genetic" abortins - those done after the 20th week because tests have shown the fetus has a genetic defect which can cause death or severe retardation niocentesis and other tests for genetic defects can only be done in the second trimester. GRIMES, however, said urea and prostaglandin are widely and suc- cessfully used in second trimester abor- tions nationwide. Wisconsin's hospital now requires that all women pregnant longer than 20 weeks and wishing abortions to have ultrasound, a test that is the most ac- curate way to determine the gestation of the fetus. The policy was instituted after the aborted babies which survived were found to be more advanced in their development than had been diagnosed. In one case, the pregnancy was deter- mined to have been 26 weeks' duration instead of the 21 weeks that had been believed. LAST YEAR, the births following abortions prompted some Wisconsin lawmakers to try to ban abortions in public hospitals, a measure that passed in the Assembly but died without a Senate vote. The births also prompted a day of picketing outside UW hospital and let- ters to newspaper editors and legislators. . State Rep. Wayne Wood said the bir- ths "certainly added fuel to the fire and directed some attention to the problem," but he would have called for restrictions anyway. he said second trimester abortions are a "heart- wrenching" problem for doctors who first try to kill the fetus and then must work to save it. SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Recent research raises the "real possibility" that a vac- cine may be developed to prevent some herpes viruses and certain cancers, a scientist reported yesterday. Dr. Gary Pearson, head of the Section of Microbiology and consultant in the Department of Cell Biology at the Mayo Clinic, said recent studies have iden- tified the specific viral antigens that stimulate the immune system to defend against Epstein-Barr Virus, a herpes virus. Antigens are substances foreign to an individual system that cause the im- mune system to produce antibodies to fight off disease. PEARSON'S TEAM succeeded in purifying the necessary antigens and preliminary results indicate that owl monkeys immunized with the preparatin are protected against EBV, he said. Scientists now are trying to deter- mine whether it would be possible to produce these proteins in large quan- tities needed for immunizing large populatins at a reasonable cost. Among those possibly standing to benefit from the vaccine are men suf- fering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a mysterious disease that strikes mostly homosexual men and has killed nearly half its vic- tims. PEARSON SAID the idea is controversial because of concern about what might happen if the vaccination simply delays, rather than eliminates, the in- fection. A new procedure is also being developed to surgically treat uterine cancer and possibly lung tumors. Scientists have killed some cancers in animals with heat from tiny magnets implanted in tumors and warmed by magnetic fields, and now they are ready to try the therapy on humans, a doctor said yesterday. "OUR STUDIES in the future will be towards cancer of the uterus in women," said Dr. Robert Rand- of UCLA Medical School. "We will destroy the malignant tissue with this technique and then do a hysterectomy." The advantage of killing the tumor before surgery, he said, is to remove the possibility that stray cells, perhaps stirred by the surgeon's knife, will spread the cancer to other parts of the body. Rand said his procedure, which can produce temperatures around 126- degrees Fahrenheit, "totally destroys" cancer cells while leaving normal tissue mostly undamaged. The procedure takes about 15 minutes and is done with a general anesthetic. He said few side effects have surfaced in animals, mostly rabbits, and "all of the animals survived the various operating procedures and exposure in the magnetic field without evidence of illef- fects." In women, he said, the magnets would have to be inserted into the uterus and the tumor through laproscopy, in which a slim tube is in-, serted through a small incision in the stomach. The procedure might work on a few other cancers, perhaps including some lung tumors, he said. 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But Monday the city council passed a resolution which would create such an ordinance only if Proposal A fails. Councilmember Joyce Chesbrough (R-Fifth Ward) said she hoped the resolution would discourage people from voting for Proposal A. "A charter amendment is not the Police notes *Shovelers robbed Two teenagers robbed a pair of boys of the money they' earned shoveling snow early Monday evening. The two boys, one 10, the other 11, had stopped at. Where House Records at 2000 W. Stadium to play pinball after they had spent most of the afternoon shoveling snow. As they left, they allegedly were followed by two youngsters in their early teens, who forcefully took a small amount of cash from both boys. Ann Arbor Police have no suspects. -Halle Czechowski right vehicle for energy conservation," she said. Councilmember Raphael Ezekiel (D- Third Ward) said he had wanted the resolution to provide additional weatherization legislation, rather than becoming effective only if Proposal A fails. 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