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A Light Sculpture titled "Night Light" by James Pelletier forms geometric patterns on buildings in Lower Manhattan Sunday night. People on the promenade in Brooklyn
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Is the Shah a cancer patient?
NEW YORK (AP) - Guarded by his private security force and a veil of secrecy, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ousted ruler of Iran, faced more tests and possibly surgery today at New York Hospital amid reports he has been treated for cancer for years. A spokesman, Robert Armao, described the shah as in good spirits, saying he was “happy to be in the United States.” Armao said reports of the shah’s condition had been exaggerated. “He is far from breathing his last breath, but obviously he is an ill man,” the American spokesman said. Armao said the shah had received “thousands of telegrams from Iranians” wishing him well.
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A hospital administrator said reports on the shah’s condition would be updated today, but declined to say what information, if any, had been obtained through various tests already completed. A State Department source, who asked not to be identified, said the shah had a blocked bile duct and was suffering from cancer. He did not specify the type of cancer. The New York Daily News today quoted unidentified sources as saying the shah had lymphoma, cancer of the lymph system, and had been receiving chemotherapy treament for years. It said the chemotherapy recently had become less effec-
Advertising rules reviewed
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is deciding whether the American Medical Association may prevent its member physicians from advertising. At issue is whether the AMA has fostered a pricefixing conspiracy that has inflated doctors’bills. In advance of today’s Federal Trade Commission decision, the AMA said it would appeal any unfavorable ruling on the question of whether it must rescind rules keeping physicians from soliciting patients, especially through advertising. In a preliminary ruling almost a year ago, FTC Administrative Law Judge Ernest G.
Heights have a good view of the art work celebrating the 100th anniversary of Edison's invention of the light bulb. (AP Wirephoto).
tive and the shah had developed a high fever and lost weight. CBS and the Daily News, meanwhile, reported the shah would undergo gallbladder surgery today. Blockage of the ducts through which bile leaves the liver can be caused by tumors, inflammation and gallstones. The newspaper said Dr. Benjamin Kean, the shah’s personal physician, would oversee a team of surgeons including Dr. Burton Lee, a noted lymphoma specialist, in the operation. The shah, who will be 60 on Friday, received visits Tuesday from his wife, the Empress Farah, and other relatives in the S3OO-a-day room at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center where his own bod-
Barnes said the AMA’s prohibition against its members soliciting patients has developed into a device for insuring physicians’ profits. Barnes said the AMA’s rules for its 200,000 members prevent customers from being told what health services are available. “The costs to the public in terms of less expensive or even, perhaps, more improved forms of medical services, are great,” he said. State and local medical societies can take disciplinary steps against violators that can make it very difficult to practice medicine. The AMA, which
Lampkin found guilty
KANKAKEE, 111. (AP) - A jury has been sequestered, awaiting further hearings on the fate of Monroe Lampkin, convicted of the Interstate 57 shootout murders of two policemen and a third man. The Circuit Court jury deliberated two hours Tuesday night before finding Lampkin, 43, Un-
yguards were joined by private agents. The luxurious Beekman Place townhouse owned by his sister, where the Empress Farah is staying, also is under heavy guard. City police were not assigned to protect the shah but they reportedly beefed up their patrols around the hospital. The new government of Iran, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has put a $135,000 price on the shah’s head and promised asylum to the person who assassinates him. A Tehran newspaper has offered a free trip to Mecca, the burial place of the prophet Mohammad and Islam’s holiest shrine, for anyone who kills the ruler deposed in a January revolution.
represents about 60 percent of the nation’s physicians, is the parent for many of the state and local medical associations that enforce the AMA codes. Association lawyer Newton Minow, in urging the commissioners to overrule the law judge, said doctors’ advertising has led to instances of patients being lured to doctors who cause them physical harm. “Patients (who testified at hearings) were begging to be protected from quacks who butchered and mutilated them after luring them to come through advertisements,” he said.
death penalty and a second to determine whether the defendant should be electrocuted. The prosecution has not yet disclosed whether it will ask that Lampkin be executed. After the verdict was returned, Judge Luther Dearborn ordered the jury sequestered
Congress gives nod to gasoline rationing plan
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite predictions from congressmen that gasoline rationing could be needed at any time, an Energy Department analyst says it could take a couple of years to whip a workable plan into shape. Under a compromise given final congressional approval Tuesday, the president can order rationing any time there is a shortage of 20 percent in gasoline or diesel fuel supplies in the United States. The House and Senate will get a crack at rejecting whatever detailed rationing plan the Carter administration concocts before the standby plan goes “on the shelf” for possible future use. Moreover, either house would have the option of blocking actual implementation of rationing at the time the president tried to put it into effect. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., a principal author of the com-
Begin wins first test
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Menachem Begin won his first test in the winter session of the Israeli Parliament as predicted, defeating a parcel of five no-confidence motions by a 12-vote margin. The 120-seat Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, voted 59-47 Tuesday to reject the opposition Labor Party motions charging Begin’s government with blundering in its handling of the economy and its policies toward Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Knesset voted only once, on all five motions as a package. Begin recalled Defense Minister Ezer Weizman from Egypt and four other members of his Likud Bloc traveling abroad to bolster his forces, which normally include 41 members of Likud, 12 from the National Religious Party, 7 from the Democratic Movement, and 4 from Agudat Israel. Moshe Dayan, who resigned
Senators seek plan's okay
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Three U.S. senators flew to Phnom Penh today in a bid to win approval of their plan to deliver food to the starving Cambodians by truck convoys
Indiana congressmen divide on issue WASHINGTON (AP) was divided Tuesday when the House voted 301-112 for legislation giving the president standby authority to ration gasoline. Democrats Dave Evans and Andy Jacobs joined Republicans Joel Deckard, Elwood Hillis, John Myers and Dan Quayle in opposing the legislation. Democrats Adam Benjamin, John Brademas, Floyd Fithian, Lee Hamilton and Phil Sharp voted for the measure, which now goes to the White House. Altogether, 230 Democrats and 71 Republicans voted for the bill; 30 Democrats and 82 Republicans voted against it.
promise bill approved 301-112 by the House Tuesday, said conditions requiring gasoline rationing “could occur at any time.” And Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, said the fragile U.S. oil supply line from the Middle East could be cut off
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as foreign minister Sunday because of his inability to modify the government’s hard line on Palestinian autonomy, voted with the government as he said he would. No-confidence motions are a routine occurrence at the opening of Knesset terms, and the Labor Party did not make a major effort to rally support. But opposition leader Shimon Peres asserted in presenting the motions that even though Begin would defeat them, his government had lost the confidence of the people. “The Labor alignment believes there is no choice but immediate elections,” Peres said. The voting attracted more attention than usual because of two government setbacks at the start of the week, Dayan’s resignation and a Supreme Court ruling that the seizure of pri-vately-owned Arab land for the Jewish settlement of Elon
the prospect of going to Phnom Penh” but had no assurance Cambodian officials would meet with them. To expedite distribution of food to the estimated 2 million
at any time. “Without contingency planning, the country would be brought to its knees,” Jackson said. It is that contingency planning which Energy Department analyst Andy Fang says will take time. There is no standby plan at the moment because the Ener-
Moreh in the West Bank was illegal. The court ordered Elon Moreh dismantled within 30 days. It said private lands could be confiscated only for purposes of defense, but that Elon Moreh had been established for political purposes, not for the defense of Israel. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, the cabinet minister in charge of settlements and a leading advocate of expanding them, visited Elon Moreh Tuesday and was told by the settlers they would resist the court order. “This village is here to stay,” said Avraham Shut. “No Jewish army will remove a Jewish settlement from its homeland only a foreign army.” A spokesman for Sharon denied reports that he had threatened to resign if the settlement were uprooted.
other countries are beginning to send to Southeast Asia for the relief of the Cambodians. The Red Cross is flying 15 tons of food and medicine from Bang-
gy Department could not s&£ pare one until Congress spelled out what it would insist on ing in it. And Fang said it cddd be two years or more rationing plan is ready for practical operation. » “Gasoline rationing is oof here tomorrow,” he said in interview. Fang, a program analysCm the Office of Regulations and Energy Planning, said it msry take several weeks to draft 3? plan, which then would -bo opened up for public comment, That process could meah~lt will be months before a FinS plan is sent to Congress for what could be a time-coS* suming review. Fang said planners belief that, practically speaking, it would take 18 to 24 months front the time a plan gets -{he congressional go-ahead to have it ready to work.
Oil profits double NEW YORK (AP) - The Carter administration says the recent profits of oil companies demonstrate the need for a “windfall-profits tax.” But analysts say the president’s proposal would have had little impact on those earnings. With several oil companies reporting their profits at least doubled in the third quartetover last year, the administration has renewed efforts fb push the controversial tax through Congress. Conoco Inc., the nation’s nin-th-largest oil company, said Tuesday its third-quarter eariiings were 134 percent above laqfr year’s third quarter morfei than double. Gulf Oil Corp ranked fifth, reported a 97 percent increase. ~ Earlier, Exxon, the world’s largest oil company, had posted a 118 percent gain for the quarter; Standard Oil Co. a 49 percent increase; and Atlantic Richfield Co., 45 percent ' - “The third-quarter earnings reports of major U.S. oil companies dramatize the merits •of > our proposed windfall-profits-tax, which is fair both to theojlcompanies and to the America/* people,” Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said Tuesday, echoing a statement the presi~ dent made Monday. ~J S, Miller said the tax is needed to develop alternate energy' sources and assist poor families’ overburdened with high file! costs. President Carter proposed the tax earlier this year to dampen the profits oil companies earn from the decontrol of, AUUiiUifiiiiiLriiifiH