Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 3, 1995 TAG: 9505030064
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - A diet high in saturated fat has a direct role in the cause of prostate cancer, but it does not explain why some ethnic groups have more of the cancer than others, according to a new study.
The research, to be published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, compared the diet and physical activity of 1,655 prostate cancer patients with that of 1,645 men who did not have the disease.
Included in the study groups were black, white, Chinese-American and Japanese-American men. The different ethnic groups were included because black American men are known to have a very high risk of prostate cancer and white American men have a high risk, while Asian-Americans have a low risk.
Fat consumption was highest among blacks, followed by white men, Japanese-Americans and Chinese-Americans. ``Within each of the four ethnic groups, case patients (those with cancer) reported greater consumption of energy, fats and red meats than did control subjects (those without cancer),'' the study said.
- Associated Press
Pentagon funding vets' police training
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is making $15 million available to police departments to train veterans as police officers.
Veterans ``leave the military with the self-discipline, physical fitness and ability to think on their feet necessary to be outstanding police officers,'' Fred Pang, assistant secretary of defense for force management, said in a Pentagon statement Tuesday.
About 7,700 law enforcement agencies may be eligible. The program will provide up to $5,000 to train each veteran hired this year.
- Associated Press
NAACP head decries climate of hate
WASHINGTON - The Oklahoma City bombing has grimly reminded America of what hate can do when mixed with blind anger in those who feel left out of ``participatory democracy,'' NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams said Tuesday.
In her first official visit to Capitol Hill since her election three months ago, Evers-Williams decried what she said was the way race is used by conservative politicians and ``new exclusionists.'' She said they are encouraging the type of hatred that claimed victims of all colors in Oklahoma City.
She specifically cited the social spending cuts urged by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and other Republican leaders.
- Associated Press
Air-space museum chief quits over flap
WASHINGTON - The director of the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum resigned Tuesday, a casualty of protests by World War II veterans over the way the museum had planned to depict the atomic bombing of Japan 50 years ago.
``I believe that nothing less than my stepping down from the directorship will satisfy the museum's critics and allow the museum to move forward with important new projects,'' said Martin Harwit, noting that the controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit had not ended with its cancellation.
The Enola Gay was the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Following a second atomic attack, over Nagasaki, Japan surrendered.
Harwit's critics said the exhibit, as planned, would have depicted the United States as the aggressor and Japan as the victim of World War II.
- Associated Press
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