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eara, i .,. ashington.: £~J ' ' .. AO Eyeing' _ `-DieadVine Deals ` r~- s a ,' :. Xewa and views gathered from authoritat{ve aources by ~~ the 8crippe-Soward' Waantngton atalh • . - .:' ~' ~•;,~ #„~ :`!= t, WA:SIdINGrOhI, June 30: FYantic federal spend+ 188t 1P' `teys (t~ `°at flscPt •rear dP ~teD ..spoe6 t~ecrr -7 Blbkotf quits, .ccord[ns w Cap[tb1' Htll ruir rr. m itaelE unethicalJ" but added that 16ca1 dmeriean+Medicai darn. +ui21'esplora poaaib2e benefits 1 1J tr~3 ~~:~ ~odical societies have "a positive obli, - of amwking, as weil'aa hazarda. Its special atudy, "the reJA EWARK EVMhG NEWS gation° to investigate complaints and put tionahip between tobaoco and diaeaae,°'wi2i check: Whethar an end to chiseling ../ 44:., anwkixg helpa praple relas, oalms nervous tenaion; whetisen Newazkr NeM' Jersey gefore concluding the business side ofl it yivea some people a beneficial "Iijt , whether people who June 28, 19~i2 the annual meeting, the A\'fA agreed, quit smoking suffer ^psycholo,gical'trauna"; whether quitters ~ somewhaL reluctantly, to become in- /ain so much weight that obaaity becomes an even yteater 1l~Da~ Sending healtk hazard (~j volxed in the question of smoking and Dh'e House oE Delegates rejected health. . . S~Sltion deligt Caiettes'are~ ~ ', . . . •~IIlOIC~~'_~L ~M ~ar a resoucarn.g tha b~~.. ~~U1L(l an outright health,hazard. Hbwever„the ..AMA's councillon drugs will study the Stafi'Correspondent. role of smoking in long;rancer and'heart CHICAGo_Wantqd: Three or disease and present a report within four men from Mam who are eighteen months. J highly skilled at analyziang'ausses Nl'hile the AN'tA's leaders grappled 'oE research data and have never with political problems in Loop hotels, hmard ot' tobacco, the majority of the doctors explored new ~e ~ the H~ qtca scientific frontiers and exhibits at the sprawling \EcCo~ick Pla• ^ncentir tions for the people being sougbtt' ha11 nn the I:,' aoday by the American Medical' ~' . Assootation's camxil on dtvgs to :eaduct an intensi.e, ahudy into the relationship between smok- ing and disesse. "St6ce we can't get people from another planet," declared Dr. WtlEtiam C. Spiing Jr., counr eil secretarr;,'"we are trying to rtnd people, who: aren't deeply comniltted to: etther aide In this highly emotional area." Dr. Spring. who was medical' director of Pruer l.aboratories in New York and a resident ot' Tmafty. N:J. before taking the:. ,1MA,past 18 months ago.,wlll be administrator cE' a newly an-, nounced project aimed at reach- ing eoncluslons on the tmpact of smok-ibg on health.. Most people with special talentE in the field have taken at, stand on ane side or the other.' be said. "What we want Is those who will start out with 'reason- ably open mindi' to analyze and aitiaze the work done by both sldea.' ' Statement on C.ii~aret~ Stand A move to force the American' Meet kat AsaociaUon Ilnmedlately to atate Its position on whether,tLere are health haaarda 1n smoking was defeated at thg. A1JIA's annual meeting in Chtcago.,8ut the nation's largest' medtcal body prom- laed , a report on the subject' in , a year' or so. The delegat.es approved~ a report, ~nnouncing that ttte, AMA's counctl on drugs wtlll undertake a, major' study oi lobacco and health. Closed Ramke . . Therei an old folk's home above Sitting high on a, beautiful h'ill;' -+ Itis fpr all the,old men and,old ladies Who supported the medicare bill. The lament being sung by a satirisit at a smoky Chicago nightclub last , week could scarcely have been more timely. Most of the 14aQ00 physicians in town for x;, the 111th annual meetmg, of the Ameri- `>' can Medical Association i Eound them- selves in hearty agneement with the diagnosis that the King-Anderson bill was dead. It I-l,been % a. ar -ding t, ra -ued . -worst . these t -a macies. The council concluded that phy- sician ownership of pharmacies is not' !~!....~