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Pag* 10 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Friday, August 23,1985 Nation - J ' " 11 "" Eating for two UPI photo of the year Wednesday. He lost 378 pounds to win the title. Cancer But over the next two years, Ms. DiSandro showed she cared a great deal. "So what does the cancer patient have to look forward to? You al­ ways have hope for a cure .... no matter how bad It is, you go after the therapy ^ou feel in your gut is going to work for you. I knew che­ motherapy would never cure me. I refused to buy a three-year prognosis." Had she continued chemotherapy, "it's possible I would have gotten another five years, but in what con­ dition? Could I have climbed the Pyramid of Chichen Itza (in Can- cun, Mexico)? Could I have swum in the ocean last August? " Ms. DiSandro wanted nontoxic therapy. ^ On a Sunday morning in August, 1963, Ms. DiSandro watched a talk show debate between an oncologist and a doctor claiming selenium treatments could cure cancer. Ms. DiSandro called the station, then she called the physician. During the next two months, Ms. DiSandro made three trips to Dr. Emanuel Revici in New York City for selenium treatments. Revici has been disciplined by the New York State Health Department Board for Professional Medical Conduct, which charged him with violating federal Food & Drug Ad­ ministration regulations. Selenium is not approved as a medication by the FDA. Revici claims the mineral enhances the body's immune sys­ tem and prevents damage to nor­ mal, healthy tissues. Under Revici's program, Ms. DiS­ andro performed a self-urinalysis four times daily. The degree of acid­ ity determined the amount of seleni­ um she added to the capsule medication. Ms. DiSandro said she felt her tumor shrink during the selenium therapy, "but I never felt in my gut it was going to cure me." In November, Ms. DiSandro visit­ ed her sister, Barbara Hall, in Falls Church, Va. The sisters learned of a woman who claimed complete cure of a breast tumor that had spread to her hips. The woman, Elizabeth Tompkins, interviewed Ms. DiSan­ dro, placed a call to Canada and gave Ms. DiSandro the name and address of a man in the Province of Quebec. Ms. DiSandro and Hall got into Hall's car and drove to a coun­ try inn in Quebec. At the Canadian clinic, a man Ms. DiSandro said is a hematologist ex- Uranium Although large portions of the document are deleted, the witness told investigators "an armed guard ordered him off the loading dock," and the next day, an unidentified NUMEC official "threatened to fire" him if he "did not keep his mouth shut concerning what he had seen on the loading dock the night before." He said he "did not know how or who to contact in authority who would take action." A spokesman at the FBI's field office in Pittsburgh said the federal investigation of the informant's ac­ count "washed out" when authori­ ties "couldn't get evidence to prosecute." Shapiro, who now works for the nuclear fuel division of Westing- house Electric in Pittsburgh, said, "All of this was a bunch of fabrica­ tion. I feel sorry for our country. If they hadn't listened to a few preju­ diced people they would have saved a lot of money." As for the personal intrusion caused by the years of governmen­ tal investigation, he said only: "How would it make you feel?" The FBI spokesman declined to identify who came forward in 1960, but added: "Just because this par­ ticular effort to prosecute someone did not pan out doesn't mean that we are not keeping an eye out," "The length and intensity of the effort over the past 20 years is cer­ tainly reflective of how important we felt it was." In a March 23,1978, report to the FBI, Thomas McTiernan, an NRC official, said a former Atomic Ener­ gy Commission inspector reported "that in his Judgment special nucle­ ar material had been diverted from the NUMEC plant." In another document, a source said if hundreds of pounds of urani­ um was removed from the plant, "it could only have been done through the knowledge of U.S. government officials." amined her, and a physician made daily visits to her room at the inn to inject serum into her lymph nodes. Ms. DiSandro said the tumor shrank, she passed more water, and "there was an air of excitement because it was a clandestine ctlhiaHnn " She was charged $35 per visit, $20 per bottle of serum, which provided 10 shots. Ms. DiSandro had one shot a day. She was shown how to inject the mum herself iat» thergroin area, and after more than a month in Canada, she returned home. Ms. DiSandro said she experi­ enced rapid hair and nail growth in January and February, as she con­ tinued the serum injections herself. She lifted small weights, watched her strength grow daily, reentered the social world, even returned to work briefly. She said her oncolo­ gist told her she was in remission. She attributed the remission to the Canadian serum, but there is no way to verify the cause of remis­ sion. Medical journals say some pa­ tients go into "spontaneous" remis­ sion with no treatment of any sort. Ms. DiSandro refused to divulge the name of the man who treated her in Canada, or to disclose the clinic's location. She said his treat- Tried and tried to v get a loan? Worried about BAD CREDIT or FORECLOSURE? Nood a 2nd or 3rd MORTGAGE? Cal flrst Amorican. Wo GUARANTEE approvals aa tone aa you have en­ ough value In your horns. So gtt a loan. At first. • FREE CONSULTATION • • NO APPLICATION FEES* 789-2260 Ask for Rom Marie Brown F I R S AMERICAN M O R T G A G E LICENSED MORTGAGE BANKER C? Another heavily censored docu­ ment from a second informant on May 9, 1960, gave more details on the unusual late-night shipment. "There was a deviation from usu­ al shipping procedures in this in­ stance in that the shipping contain­ ers were packed and sealed late at night," the document said. He also said there was excess space in the lead casks and "other materials could be placed into the casks ... if someone desired to ship them in this manner." "With this particular shipment he placed a package of cigarettes and nylons in one cask (material de­ leted)," and got a thank you note in reply, the FBI said. In the face of these and other persistent suspicions, the FBI inter­ viewed hundreds more and retraced a trail that in many ways had grown cold. The 2,491 pages of classified docu­ ments, released in response to a FOIA request by the Wall Street Journal, reveal a staggering FBI investigation -- dating from 1966 when the energy agency first re­ quested a probe, and including wire­ taps, dozens of field agents trailing suspects across the country, and scores of interviews. But federal investigators repeat­ edly cleared NUMEC and Shapiro of any conspiracy to divert uranium to Israel or anywhere else, finding "no substantive evidence to indicate that a diversion occurred," and "no evidence to prove the allegation that government officials sought to overlook" any federal violations. Instead the government found scores of rule violations at the Apol­ lo plant, which is a converted ware­ house about 30 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The company had poor security measures and ran a "slop­ py" operation, said one AEC official. A spokesman for the Energy De­ partment's Oak Ridge facility said last week that while his agency had responsibility for NUMEC from 1962 to 1968, auditors determined in each survey conducted that the company had losses "higher than expected for that size facility with that size Continued from Page 7B inventory." The weapons-grade uranium went to NUMEC from the Oak Ridge Na­ tional Laboratory to be made into fue l e l emen t s f o r nuc l ea r submarines. In 1978, the FBI tried to interview Adm. Hyman Rickover, who headed the U.S. nuclear fleet and bestowed lucrative Navy contracts on NU­ MEC. The admiral refused and "be­ came very agitated," a document said. Others show that FBI agents questioned several witnesses about Rickover's dealings with the plant. Rickover, who recently suffered a s t roke , was no t ava i l ab l e f o r comment. men-YOUR NO'S LAnOCST BERRY FARM East of Woodstock on Rt 120 North on Queen Anne Rd ILLINOIS L OPEN TUL,THUR., SAT. & SUN. 8:00-3:00 Concord Grapes Available Sept. 10th FOR PRE-PICKED ORDERS OR MORE INFORMATION . Continued from Page 7B ments were immunotherapeutic -- they worked by building up the pa­ tient's immune system. His patients protect his identity and where­ abouts because of harassment from health officials and police in Que­ bec, Ms. DiSandro said. Dr. Augustin Roy, president of the Professional Corporation of Physi­ cians of Quebec, said there is good reason for the secrecy surrounding the clinic. Gaston Naessens left his native France about 20 years ago when he was sentenced to jail, allegedly for his use of a substance called anab- last as a vaccine for cancer and other diseases, Roy said in a tele­ phone interview. 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