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Oct. 2, 1980

Four teams _ New York, Houston, Iowa and Milwaukee...

ST. LOUIS -- Four teams _ New York, Houston, Iowa and Milwaukee _ have dropped out of the Women's Professional Basketball League and will not compete during the 1980-81 season, a spokesman says.

The remaining nine teams all have met strict financial standards set by the league's Board of Governors, the spokesman said Wednesday.

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The board also named Sherwin Fischer of Chicago as interim commissioner, succeeding WBL founder Bill Byrne. Byrne will own and operate the expansion Tampa Bay Sun.

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Study finds genetic link between Parkinson's disease, ALS

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