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Emory researchers report
on treatment of M-dystrophy
ATLANTA (UPI) - Emory
University medical researchers
have reported on new experi
mental methods of treating
muscular dystrophy patients
and ways to detect genetic dis
orders in unborn children.
The muscular dystrophy re
search has centered on the use
cf human growth hormone
(HGH), which has been found
to increase the weight of mus
de tissue in patients, according
to Emory’s School of Medicine.
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However, HGH has thus far
produced no additional muscle
strength, and the researchers
said a long-term treatment pro
gram has begun to determine
if use of the hormone can
strengthen muscle tissue as
well.
For patients with the most
common, Duchenne type of
muscular dystrophy, which
strikes only males, a synethetic
female hormone (DES) has
been found to build muscles.
Dr. Louis J. Elsas, a genetic
ist at the school, reported on a
method to detect carriers of the
mutant gene causing phenylke
tonuria or Pku and on research
to monitor unborn infants for
the disease commonly known as
maple syrup urine.
Dr. Elsas said these diseases
are characterized by faulty
metabolism of amino acids in
children and often cause mental
retardation and other severe
clinical problems.
He said with the new methods
parents of children with PKU
will be able to receive “precise
genetic counseling in planning
their families.”
In the second project, Dr.
Elsas said that amniotic fluid
from the expectant mother’s
womb was studied for evidence
cf maple syrup disease in the
unborn child. By this method,
he said, the parents of a child
who previously died of the
disease, could be assured if
their next child was unaffected.
He said his team of re
searchers is working on ways to
find disorders of amino acid
metabolism before the child is
conceived or born and immedi
ately after the child is born.
Berlin families
reunited at Yule
By JOSEPH FLEMING
BERLIN (UPI) -The old
lady traveled by subway to the
Friedrich Strasse station,
moved swiftly through Commu
nist border controls and then
walked out into East Berlin.
“Here we are,” a young
woman cried. “Here we are.”
The old lady’s eyes glistened
with tears as she kissed a
grandchild, cuddling her in one
arm while holding a toy
elephant in the other.
It was no isolated reunion.
It was a scene repeated in one
way or another hundreds of
thousands of times in East
Berlin and other East German
cities and towns as West
Berliners spent their first
Christmas since 1965 with
relatives living in the East.
Parents embraced their
children. Brothers greeted
sisters.
Visitors Pour In
Under the provisions of a Big
Four agreement to ease tension
between the East and West,
visitors from West Berlin
poured into the East by
automobile, train, subway, even
on foot.
The Christmas traffic started
Saturday and continued today,
another holiday for Germans.
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Christmas 1972; that’s how it was
By United Press International
The joyous pealing of bells
echoed through the Judean hills
surrounding Bethlehem, spread
ing Christmas magic of peace
and goodwill around the world.
An old lady traveled by
subway to the Friedrich Strasse
station in Berlin, moved swiftly
through Communist border
controls, then walked out into
East Berlin. The old lady’s eyes
glistened as she kissed her
granddaughter, cuddling the
child in one arm while holding
a toy elephant in the other. The
scene was repeated hundreds of
thousands of times in East
Berlin and other East German
cities and towns as West
Berliners spent their first
Christmas since 1965 with
relatives in the East.
Pope Paul VI celebrated
Christmas mass under the
soaring dome of St. Peter’s
Basilica in Rome, saying his
thoughts were with peoples and
lands where “there is still war,
lunger, suffering and distress—
MWjgjßTjfe
JACK’S BEANSTALK didn’t have much on these
plants the visitor is examining on Sakhalin Island off
the east coast of Siberia. Nettles “as tall as trees,”
grasses “in which a horseman can hide,” it is said.
Scientists say the temperate climate, high humidity
and volcanic soils probably are responsible.
West Berlin police kept no
count, but they estimated that
at least 500,000 persons would
cross into the East by Jan. 2.
This would make it about two
million West Berliners to cross
since foreign ministers of the
United States, Britain, the
Soviet Union and France signed
the Berlin agreement on June 3.
The Wall built by the East
Germans in 1961 has been open
to Western visitors since June.
But for the last six Christmases,
the East Germans refused to
issue Wall passes to West
Berliners.
Together Again
In no other country is
Christmas more of a family
feast than in Germany and East
and West Berliners rejoiced
that they were together again
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wherever the coming of justice
and peace is still awaited.”
Curfew Lifted
In Manila, thousands of
celebrants jammed parks and
night spots Christmas Day
after Phillipines President Fer
dinand E. Marcos lifted his
martial law curfew for Christ
mas. Martial law was imposed
Sept. 23 and a nationwide
midnight to 4 a.m. curfew was
clamped on the country.
The curfew was suspended
for one night only to allow the
people to celebrate Christmas,
a government spokesman said.
In Vietnam, Christmas was
just another day.
“I hate to say it about
Christmas,” said Capt. Edwin
Wootton, 26, Monahans, Tex.,
“but it’s just another work day
over here.” Wootton spent part
cf the day on aerial guard duty,
flying a flare-dropping helicop
ter in the silent darkness as
Christmas came to Vietnam.
President and Mrs. Nixon
celebrated a quiet Christmas,
over the holidays.
“This almost makes up for
the years of separation,” said
Michael Ritter, who was
visiting his daughter and her
family in East Berlin. “The last
Christmases were sad for me.”
Ritter carried a wash-and
wear shirt as a present for his
son-in-law and panty hose for
his daughter. Both were wel
come gifts in East Germany
although it has the highest
standard of living of any
country in the Soviet bloc.
Chocolate, coffee, citrus
fruits, canned fruit, raisins,
fresh vegetables and some
textiles also are expensive or
scarce. But there was a
plentiful supply of turkey,
geese, fowl, milk, eggs, butter,
bread and other staples.
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exchanging gifts around an
eight-foot tree in the living
room of their Key Biscayne,
Fla., home and talking by
telephone to their vacationing
children. Informed sources said
the President had ordered an
extension of the bombing pause
over North Vietnam. Reports
from Saigon said the letup had
been extended as an encourage
ment to Hanoi to resume
meaningful peace negotiations
in Paris.
Salvation Army Brings Cheer
The Salvation Army mixed a
score of volunteers, a ton of
turkey and a generous helping
of warmth and good cheer to
bring Christmas to New York’s
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homeless and down-and-out.
A telephone call to the Glens
Falls, N.Y., police station
Christmas Day brought, instead
of a desk sergeant, the voice of
a member of the city’s largest
synagogue. The congregation of
Temple Beth-El voted to work
for the police during the holiday
to allow them time off.
Four hundred orphans in
Mooseheart, 111., received a
giant, 15-by-20-foot HO-scale
train layout, complete with
more than 100 feet of track, 40
buildings ranging from skyscra
pers to power plants, plus
mountains, two lakes, a tunnel
and waterfall. The train set
was donated by the Burlington
Northern Railroad. The railroad
has used the set for a series of
national television commer
cials.
John Goforth spent Christmas
Day with his grandchildren,
thanks to a 3-cent pill that
possibly prolonged his life.
Goforth’s neighbors in Wichita,
Kan., chipped in Thanksgiving
Day to send him to San
Francisco to see a specialist,
who provided the experimental
pills. Goforth suffers from a
rare nerve disease—the same
disease that killed baseball
great Lou Gherig.
Worst Defeat
Alfred Landon of Kansas
in 1936, suffered the worst
defeat in recent times as the
Republican presidential can
didate. He carried only two
states, Maine and Vermont.