Cancer progress lifts hopes from coast to coast
Scientists report major gains against many cancers and rising cure rates in children and young adults. Treatments, drugs, and dedicated cancer centers are expanding, while landmark survival figures for leukemia Hodgkin’s disease bone cancers and testicular cancer show substantial progress despite lung cancer still driving deaths. The piece frames decades of research, policy funding, and the need for continued innovation.
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Alton Blakeslee
Carter reports on summit with Brezhnev and SALT II
President Carter, back from Vienna after signing the SALT II pact with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, plans to address Congress at 8 p m CDT urging Senate ratification. The treaty limits missiles and bombers through 1985 and draws Senate criticism as it seeks a two thirds vote to take effect.
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Fingers reattached after accident Goreville youth regaining use
Scott Reynolds, 17, of Goreville, regains use of fingers after a March shop class accident nearly severed his left hand. Treatments and patient effort have restored sensation and some movement while he continues healing with brace therapy and ongoing checkups.
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Springfield
Weather outlook and headlines from a busy day
The National Weather Service forecasts a warm humid night with lows in the 60s to lower 70s and a mostly warm, very humid Tuesday with highs in the upper 80s to lower 90s. Chance of showers mid week and fair conditions later. A single engine plane crashed in a Chicago intersection, damaging two cars but leaving the pilot uninjured. The Supreme Court ruled the federal government can ban Laetrile. John Wayne is profiled in a tribute by a film writer and a 160 page life book is offered by The Associated Press.
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