Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 08, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 40 nut Teot weekend May be killing you cocaine Worth by Earl Lane new Day 5 the executive who drinks at then adds a scotch of two before and enjoys a round of drinks at a weekend party May be a candidate for an elusive ail ment that Simmy Bank Calls the three Martini syn the condition affects the provoking Abdom Inal pain that May readily be confused with symptoms of other while the syndrome is not it appears often enough to present doctor and patient alike with a the condition can take youre bound to find a 25 not a two but High fashion col our Toutt anywhere from five to 15 years of routine drinking to when it it is most easily recognized in persons who add a weekend dose of rather heavy drink ing to their regular the pain in the Abdomen occurs within 24 to 48 hours after such weekend Bank said the pain tends to last for Days rather than the Guy May go to work on monday but by monday he is starting to feet a lot of he May go to a doctor seeking the pain usually is Felt in the upper Abdomen and radiates to the Side and it is usually persistent and does not respond to antacids or after the attack subs the patient will return to his usual drinking most sufferers experience two to four such attacks a Bank since the pain occurs a Day or two after the drinking Epi it can be difficult for doctors to spot the actual cause of the pain unless they inquire carefully about the persons Bank the condition can be mis diagnosed As peptic nervous hepatitis or other conditions associated with abdominal he Bank is a gastroenterologist recently joined the staff at Long Island jewish Hillside medical he had previously been at groote Schuur Hospital in Cape South where he and his colleagues helped describe the three Martini syndrome during the late 1950s and Early the ailment is known medically As alcohol induced an inflammation of the while it occurs primarily among Bank said doctors have been finding an increasing number of cases among women for reasons not entirely As women enter the business they May be falling victim to same occupational Haz Ards As and women who drink regularly at Home during the afternoons also be susceptible to the the alcohol induced form is the most common Type of chronic Bank doctors have been Alert to its presence in Lon term such As bowery but it is Clear heavy social drinkers also run a risk of contracting the one researcher found that 50 Grams of the equivalent of five or six drinks a was enough to do doctors do not know Why one person Falls victim to the ail ment while Many with the same drinking Are the pancreas is the Organ most responsible for the proper digestion of to secretes enzymes essential in the breakdown of fats and it also is the site of the product Ion of insulin and which control the amount of sugar stored in the once the chronic form of alcohol induced pancreatitis sets there can be a num Ber of Bank the alcohol often dam Ages the insulin secreting cells in the leading to the development of Dia since the alcohol also causes an Over secretion of digestive it can provoke obstructions and calcification in the ducts of the the formation of cysts is not the pancreatitis eventually provokes severe the clinical picture we often see is abdominal pains in the diabetes in the 30s and diarrhoea in the Bank once the disease is Stab some patients require Only a relatively Small amount of liquor to provoke an Bank it is these persons who also Are the most susceptible to com no Nuner How you slice i you save heres a terrific Patricks Day offer from try our delicious Swift corned beef for oven and still save take your Choice of our garlic and spice or our then just Send in the Label along with the Coupon below and Well Send you its that Swift Premium corned beef is ready for oven with tasty cooking directions right on the so pick up your Patricks Day treat Send in the and save offer expires july Send to Swift Premium corned beef offer 60x8117 Ontario m5w1s8 million left at Airport a a traveller from a weekend Over seas flight lost More than a Small Carryon suitcase at Miami International customs agents the visitor left behind million Worth of customs spokesman Jim Dingfelder said an agent decided to open a suitcase that had gone unclaimed and found it filled with 10 plastic wrapped packages of the 22 pounds were Worth approximately million on the he we had customs agents placed sunday out on the ramps where the baggage comes off the planes arriving on International Dingfelder we think that upset whoever was responsible for it so that or had to leave it to go the route of regular inspection in Side the Dingfelder said the smuggler apparently intended to Pluck the Carryall off a baggage cart before it reached the he refused to release the name of the airline that had carried the but he said a flight ticket stub was being checked in an Effort to Trace the ticket satellite spots polluted diseased crops by George Alexander the los Angeles times Vandenberg air Force a Lali sat de signed to cast a critical instrumented Eye on Urban sprawl As Well As on crop blight and Oil has been launched into near Earth orbit from the third in a series of satellites whose function is the Moni Toring of the earths varied was launched sunday and was driven into a nearly circular orbit ranging from 556 Miles to 566 Miles that loops the Earth around its North and South sometime this after National aeronautics and space administration Engi neers have tested the Satel landsat3 and its Bat Tery of sensors will be put to in the landsat also carried a data collection a sort of electronic mail it picks up data radioed from As Many As 000 Remote sensors on the ground and delivers them to any of three receiving stations in the United the kinds of data collected by this system include measurements on volcanic Active Stream water and Snow or water tem three sensors include a Brace of High Resolution Tele vision capable of spotting any object on the ground that extends 131 feet or More along any Side pre Vious landsat could see objects Only if they were big Ger than 262 and a mul to Spectra the scanner is basically an infrared imaging it can distinguish Between dry or wet healthy or Dis eased clean or polluted by Means of the infrared fingerprints which characterize each of these diverse landsats1 and 2 orbited in and carried four bands of infrared sen sors which could operate Only when the ground below was in in has a fifth Infra red band which can detect Thermal radiation or infrared Given off by objects either in Daylight or in diseased said Stanley landsat project scientist at nasal Goddard space flight Center near run a temperature just like peo ple do when there the hundreds of thousands of images taken of the Earth and its Agricula Hydro logical and environmental resources by landsats1 and 2 already have proved a Boon to both governments and Pri vate firms around the the images have been for by the department of agriculture to estimate the production of one of the worlds key in an Experiment dubbed Lacie for Large area crop inventory the government of mex Ico to create a map showing the various uses being made of 197 million hectares one hectare equals about 2 the map is being used for water resource Pennsylvania state University to measure the extent and intensity of tree damage caused by the Gypsy the government of Pakistan to identify a previously unsuspected Region Rich in Copper the City of Detroit to keep track of the spread of suburban areas at a fraction of the Cost and time such tracking could be done either by Aerial or ground an increasing number of foreign governments Are interested in erecting ground stations to share in the Bountiful and varied data Gath ered by the stations Are now operating in Italy and and one is under construction in India and Zaire Are planning landsat ground terminals and aus Japan and Sweden Are considering joining the pro it costs the countries Between million and million to build a million to million annually to operate and per year to the government for making the data Avail Able from the within the United the landsat imagery is for warded to the Interior departments Earth resources observation systems data Center at Sioux the data is in the pub Lic Domain and copies May be purchased by that does not necessarily mean that anyone would automatically understand the blooded or deep purple images taken of the Earth in single frames covering Square to help a would be whether a foreign govern ment like Mexico or a Pri vate company like the Regis paper interpret the the general elec tric manufacturer of the landsat offers a service for fees ranging from to per As the usefulness of the landsat data has become More said Archibald manager of Ges Earth resources applications we have seen a shift in users from 100 percent govern ment to a mix today of 70 percent government on All Federal and and 30 percent private Oil exploration and min Era exploitation firms Are the principal Industrial users of landsat if often bizarrely along with architectural and engineering firms engaged in Large scale land development Park ;