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1			A. Heart      CHICAGO (UPI)—Some smokers think that after they have been diagnosed with heart disease, it's too late to give up the cigarettes that caused their disease.      "It's never too late," counters Dr. Ronald Vliestra, author of a study published today in a special anti-smoking issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Vliestra, a cardiologist with the Mayo Clinic, reported that heart disease patients who refuse to quit smoking are nearly twice as likely to die of heart attacks as those who kick the habit. He said the study should have a major impact on how much emphasis physicians place on quitting smoking as part of the treatment of heart disease.      "The issue for physicians is made a lot more clear," he said in a telephone interview. "This is in contrast to the situation with lung cancer, where once the cancer which is related to the cigarette smoking has been caused, it's too late to give up (smoking). The same is not true for coronary heart disease—it's not too late."      Vliestra and his colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle studied the smoking behavior and survival of 4,165 smokers who had been diagnosed as having coronary heart disease, a blockage of arteries to the heart. The five-year survival rate for the 1,490 patients who quit smoking was 85 percent, compared to a 78 percent survival rate for smokers. Patients who never smoked had an 87 percent survival rate.      The difference in mortality was almost entirely attributable to differences in the heart attack rates between the two groups, the researchers said, with 7.9 percent of the smokers dying from heart attacks compared to only 4.4 percent of the quitters.      But despite this finding and earlier similar studies, 57 percent of the smokers in the study continued to smoke even after being diagnosed with heart disease.      "A consistently effective method of enabling patients with coronary artery disease to quit smoking would have a major impact on health care," the researchers concluded.
2			B. Cyanide      NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Tests revealed cyanide in a Tylenol capsule found near the body of a man who died from the poison, but the cyanide was different than the kind that killed a New York woman this month, officials said today.      "Nothing was found that indicates any connection between the Nashville death and that of Diane Elsroth," who died Feb. 8 after swallowing a cyanide-laced Tylenol, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Frank E. Young said.      Young said the FDA's Cincinnati lab had determined that the lone Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule found Sunday under the deathbed of Timothy Green, 32, contained 91 percent sodium cyanide.      "This is a different kind of cyanide from the potassium cyanide found in the capsules associated" with Elsroth's death or the deaths of seven people in the Chicago area in 1982, he said. Young also said the cyanide in the Nashville capsule is different from any used in the laboratories of Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of Tylenol, and that the FDA has "no evidence that this is not an isolated incident."      The capsule and a Tylenol container were found Sunday under the bed where Green's body lay. The FDA tested the capsule, and the container was released to the FBI and sent to Washington for analysis.      Green, a bachelor who moved to Nashville about a year ago to become a songwriter and join a Jehovah's Witness congregation, was poisoned by cyanide. Police said they don't know if his death was suicide, murder or an accident.      Medical Examiner Charles Harlan said Green ingested 20 times a lethal dose of cyanide, and an autopsy found no evidence of the active ingredient in Extra-Strength Tylenol—acetaminophen—in Green's body.      That could mean Green "did not take a Tylenol, or the Tylenol could have been removed from the capsule and replaced with cyanide," Harlan said.      Green had been dead for four or five days, police said.
3			C. Children      HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP)—Six of ten children in a family for whom police had started a Christmas collection died in a fire that engulfed their home in this Chicago suburb, authorities said Sunday. A teen-age brother of the victims escaped the blaze and had to be restrained by firefighters when he tried to re-enter the house to help his brother and sisters.      (In Southfield, Mich., a brief, smoky fire killed six elderly residents of a hospice and rehabilitation center Sunday and forced the evacuation of about 30 people, some of them bedridden, according to authorities in that Detroit suburb.)      The house here was engulfed in flames and smoke when firefighters and police arrived late Saturday, police Sgt. Robert Syre said.      "From what I understand, when they got there, the heat was so intense that they couldn't do anything and everything just started to break apart," he said. "This is the worst fire in our history. I've been here 15 years and I would have heard of something worse."      "There was fire coming out of the living room window. Smoke was coming out of everywhere," said neighbor Charles Durec.      The victims, five sisters and a brother ranging in age from 8 to 15, were among 10 children living in the home with their divorced mother, Patricia Krawczuk, who had recently suffered a heart attack, Syre said.      "They were having a hard time. You know how it is with 10 kids," Syre said. Officers in the police department, where one of the Krawczyk youngsters had worked for two summers, had recently begun a Christmas collection for the family.      The mother and three children were not home at the time of the blaze, police and a neighbor said.      The eldest son, Kevin, 18, was awakened by a smoke detector and yelled "Fire!" then kicked his way out a window to escape, Syre said. Police had to restrain him from trying to get back into the burning house, he said.      "They were good kids," said Durec, who added that the family had lived in the house for about six years.      Syre said it appeared the blaze may have started near a fireplace adjacent to a garage. He said it had not been determined if the fireplace had been used in Saturday night's freezing temperatures.
4			D. Sting      WASHINGTON (AP)—Using free Washington Redskins tickets as bait, authorities arrested 100 fugitives who showed up Sunday at a pregame brunch where police and federal marshals posed as waiters and served warrants.      U.S. marshals called it the largest mass arrest of fugitives in recent memory.      "It was like an assembly line," said Herbert M. Rutherford III, U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia. "It was party time, and they fell for it, hook, line and sinker."      "This ain't fair, this just ain't fair," said one prisoner who was led in handcuffs from one of two large buses that carried the prisoners to a local jail.      "They said they was takin' us to a football game, and that's wrong," said another man. "That's false advertising."      U.S. marshals, working with the Metropolitan Police Department, sent out invitations to 3,000 wanted persons. The invitations said that as a promotion for a new sports television station, Flagship International Sports Television, they were winners of two free tickets to the National Football League game Sunday between the Redskins and the Bengals.      The invitation said 10 of the "lucky winners" would receive season tickets to the Redskins' games and that a grand prize drawing would be held for an all-expenses paid trip to the upcoming Super Bowl.      The initials for the TV enterprise, F.I.S.T., also stand for the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team, a special U.S. Marshals force.      About 100 fugitives responded to the invitation and appeared at the D.C. Convention Center for the special brunch. The building was decorated with signs saying, "Let's party" and "Let's all be there."      Some of the fugitives showed up wearing the bright burgundy and gold wool Redskins hats as well as Redskins buttons, while others were attired in suits and ties for the pregame feast.      One marshal was dressed in a large yellow chicken suit with oversized red boots while another turned up as an Indian chief complete with large headdress.      Other marshals wearing tuxedos handed small name stickers to each of the fugitives.      Buses that were to take them to the game, however, took them to the police department's central cellblock several blocks away instead.      "When we verified their identity, we escorted them in small groups to a party room, where officers moved in from concealed positions and placed them under arrest," said Stanley Morris, head of the U.S. Marshals Service.      The sting netted 100 fugitives by 11 a.m., marshals said.      Arrested were two people wanted for murder, five for robbery, 15 for assault, six for burglary, 19 for bond or bail violations, 18 for narcotics violations, officials said. Others were arrested on charges of rape, arson and forgery. Two of those arrested were on the D.C. police department's 10 most wanted list.      A similar scam in Hartford, Conn., last November invited people to attend a luncheon with pop singer Boy George. Fifteen were picked up by a limousine and arrested. Marshals said they used job offers as the bait to arrest about 90 people in Brooklyn last year.      "Redskin tickets are valuable. And when you're trying to get a person, you play on their greed," said Toby Roche, chief deputy U.S. marshal for Washington, who coordinated the operation. The cost of the project was estimated to be $22,100, or about $225 dollars per arrest.      One man who got into the Convention Center before apparently being spooked by the circumstances was arrested on the street, still wearing his "Hello, my name is ..." sticker.