Heart Transplant Draws Donors
From Many Lands to Cape Town

JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa —
Louis Washkansky lies in a simple
grave near a memorial to the Six
Million; the heart 'which made
medical history is stilled.

His widow asked that, in place
of flowers, donations be sent for
heart research.

Mr. Washkansky died Dec. 21
after contracting double pneumo-
nia. Dr. Christian N. Barnard, who
headed the surgical team that made
the first human heart transplant,
stressed that Mr. Washkansky, 53,
had died not from failure of the
transplanted heart but from a lung
infection, which "can be controlled
in future operations."

Other heart transplants will
take place in Cape Town early
next year, said Dr. Barnard. He
said he had received offers from
all over the world from persons
willing to donate organs for
transplants.

Several hundred persons, includ-
ing the mayor of Cape Town, at-
tended the funeral at the Jewish
cemetery in the -suburb of Pine-
lands. Cape Town's chief rabbi,

Custodian Plan

Governor Romney, Sen. Percy Get Glimpses of Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel last Administration leaders when be "nothing encouraging and nothing
discouraging concerning the Mid-
week got a glimpse of two potential return to Washington. 41
dle East" in his talks with Soviet
Republican candidates for the Unit-
Gov. Romney, on the other hand, leaders.
ed States Presidency in 1968 — rejected all questions on arms sup-
Governor George Romney of Mich- plies for Israel, telling newsmen
igan and Senator Charles Percy of at the airport that he came only
Illinois.
"to listen, look and learn." He re-
WHEN YOU A - A COCI\TAIL
Gov. Romney arrived here from fused to comment on his talks in
Moscow, where he talked with Moscow as they concerned the Mid-
Kremlin leaders. He met in Jeru- dle East because "I agreed with
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salem with Prime Minister Eshkol, my hosts that details of our dis-
Foreign Minister Eban and Israel's cussions are to be kept secret" He
Chief of Staff, Gen. Yitzhak Rabin. did say, however, that there was
Then he went to Amman, Jordan,
by way of the Allenby Bridge, and
conferred with King Hussein.
Sen. Percy met with Eshkol and
Gen. Rabin and was supposed to
meets with Israel's air force com-
mander but time did not permit it.
He promised, nevertheless, that
he would raise the question of
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Prof. Israel Abraham, who offi-
ciated at Mr. Washkansky's wed-
ding 21 years ago, conducted the
service. The widow was accom-
panied by her only child, Michael,
15.
Said Rabbi Abraham in his eu-
logy, "The heart, to the rhythm
of which the whole world listened,
has been stilled.
"One man's life and will to live
assumed global proportions and
the heart transplant showed the
way of life to the world in the
cause of human survival."
Dr. Barnard said on Face the
Nation Sunday that Mr. Washkan-
sky knew the risks when the op-
eration was performed. He under-
stood that the heart transplant
was the only possible hope of sav-
ing his life and also that no such
operation had ever been done be-
fore.
Dr. Barnard also emphasized
that the donor, a 25-year-old
auto accident victim, had died
and her heart had stopped beat-
ing before it was removed from
her body.

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LA Jews Plan Memorial

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Sites for
a proposed memorial to the more
than 6,000,000 Jewish victims of
Nazi genocide and other victims of
World War H are being surveyed
here by a special committee of
the Jewish Federation-Council of
Mr. Washkansky was buried Greater Los Angeles.

without his second heart because
examination of the organ was con-
sidered so important.

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Dies in Assembly

UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (JTA)
—A resolution calling for the ap-
pointment of a UN custodian of
absentee Arab property in Israel,
adopted by the General Assembly's
special political committee, was
killed in the assembly when that
body decided not to put the meas-
ure to a vote. Thus, what had been
a victory for the Arab bloc, turned
into a move favoring Israel. Israel
had stated earlier that she would
not accept a custodianship of Arab
property in her territory.
The resolution, sponsored in the
special political committee by five
Asian and African countries, ex-
pired in the assembly when Chief
Adebo, representative of Nigeria,
suggested that it be put aside for
lack of time to consider it.
The resolution, in any event,
was considered unlikely to muster
the required two-thirds majority
in the General Assembly or even
a simple majority. For that rea-
son, the Arab bloc voiced no ob-
jection when the assembly decided
against a vote.

The 22nd session of the General
Assembly recessed Dec. 20 with
the Middle East situation still on
its agenda. At the closing, the as-
sembly president, Romanian For-
eign Minister Corneliu Manescu,
called "on the countries directly
concerned" to "concentrate their
efforts to find through negotiations,
a solution" that would lay the
foundations for a lasting peace in
such a
- the region. Manescu added
solution must safeguard the ligiti-
mate rights of all peoples of the
region "through the renunciation
of all claims to territorial annex-
ations as a result of military oper-
ations."
Manescu's remarks were made
in a summation of the General As-
sembley's work relative to the
Middle East during the current
session. He said that the session
could be resumed at any time that
"member states and the secretary-
general decide that appropriate
conditions exist for the study of
any of the three items remaining
on the agenda."

Manescu referred to the
Security Council's Nov. 22 resolu-
tion on the Middle East as an

"eloquent illustration" of the ap-
plication of means provided by
the UN Charter for the pacific
settlement of international dis-
putes. Ambassador Shabtal Ro-
senne, acting permanent represen-
tative of Israel at the UN, praised
Manescu's direction of the Gen-
eral Assembly during its current
sssion.

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