S Thursday, September 18, 1975 THE MiCHsvAN DAILY Page Three Thursday, September 18, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three ... Damage heavy in hirricane British judge gives no go to young girl's sterilization From Wire Service Reports SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Eloise slammed tor- rential rain and winds of up to 80 miles an hour on the Domini- can Republic yesterday after wreaking widespread death and destruction in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Initial reports from the Do- minican Report yesterday said rain and screaming winds were battering the north coast. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, although officials said they expected dam- age in the lush Cibao agricul- ture area to be in the millions of dollars. PUERTO RICAN civil defense authorities counted at least 25 dead, most victims of drowning or electrocution. Fifty persons were reported injured and dam- age was estimated between $40 and $50 million by authorities. Officials in Puerto Rico said 21 towns were without commun- ication, six without electricity, and 14 without drinking water. Heaviest rainfall was in the island's central and southern re- gions where ten inches of rain had fallen since Saturday. Weather reports expect more rain the next few days, although the worst of the storm is over. DESPITE reports of receding flood waters, some 5,500 per- sons, mostly from the mountain- ous interior, are still homeless- housed in schools, churches, and public buildings after a massive rescue effort conducted by po- lice, Red Cross, and other re- lief workers. San Juan, on the north coast, escaped serious damage. But police said most government offices, businesses and all schools were closed. Col. Antonio V. Munera, the deputy Civil Defense director of Puerto Rico, said the death toll and damage were the highest of any of the 16tropical storms that have hit the nation in the past decade. THE PUERTO Rican gover- nor, Rafael Hernandez Colon was flying back from Washing- ton for a survey of the damage and said he would seek federal aid. The storm, about 125 miles e long and 50 miles wide, was ex-s pected by the National Hurri- cane Center in Miami to bring heavy rains and floods to Haiti and Cuba. A hurricane alert was also issued for the Bahamas. Dominican Republic author- ities fear a high loss of life. All communications between Santo Domingo, on the south coast, and the northeast coast were cut off. The state electric com- pany cut all power on the is- land of four million because of numerous fallen wires and the danger of electrocution. Tele- phone service was sporadic. In Santo Domingo, police and Civil Defense workers evacuat- ed low lying suburbs and areas along river banks. Waves were breaking along the palm-lined coast road from the airport into! the city. In Haiti, Red Cross Director Dr. Victor Larouche said he was especially concerned about what Eloise might do to the country's northwest, which is suffering from prolonged drought. LONDON (P) - An English judge yesterday ordered doctors not to sterilize an 11-year-old girl they say is mentally back- ward, declaring that it would de- prive her of the basic right of a woman to reproduce. The doc- tors felt the operation was nec- essary because the girl was mentally backward while her "physical development had ad- vanced at an exceptional rate," according to Judge Rose Heil- bron. The girl's mother, a 51-year-' old widow and cleaning woman with two other children, had consented to the operation. But an educational psychologist, Margaret Dubberley, who works at a special school attended by the girl, brought legal proceed- ings to stop it. The girl never has been named and Judge Heilbron or- dered that no hint be given of her identity. At the end of a five-day pri- vate hearing in high court, Judge Heilbron said she was an- nouncing her decision in open court because of the controver- sy the case has provoked over whether English law adequately protects the rights of children. SHE SAID the operation was ''neither medically indicated nor necessary, and it would not be in the girl's best interests for it to be performed." The girl's be- havioral condition had im- proved, and the operation would' "deprive her of a basic human right - that of a woman to re- produce," Judge Heilbron said. The judge praised the "cour- age, persistence and humane concern for this young, girl"' shown by Dubberley and her colleagues and described the girl's mother as "excellent, car- ing and devoted." The mother had "courageously faced vari- ous problems over her daugh- ter" and had consented to the operation on medical advice, the judge said. Doctors said the girl suffers from a rare condition, "Soto's Syndrome," which results in large bone growth, behavioral problems and often some degree of mental retardation. However, Dubberley had said she did not consider the girl retarded, though she is somewhat clumsy and of below-average intelli- gence. The operation was originally proposed by Dr. Ronald Gordon. He said it seemed sensible to prevent having babies persons who could not look after them, and the benefit to the commun- ity in reducing congenital ab- normalities was obvious. THE CASE HAS similar par- alels to one in the United States two years ago. The U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity re- ported two years ago that 11 minors may have been involun- I tarily sterilized by a federally funded birth control clinic in Montgomery, Ala., after an in- vestigation prompted by a law- suit filed on behalf of two ster- ilized girls. There was no indication that mental retardation was involved in those cases, but a U.S. fed- eral judge issued guidelines ear- ly last year prohibiting the ster- ilzation of any institutionalized mental patient in Alabama un- der 21 year old except in cases of "medical necessity." Earlier, a three-judge federal panel had declared unconstitutional an Alabama law which provided for the sterilization of residents of mental institutions. NEXT WEEK ot the UNION THURS.-4&8 p.m. Jim Rempe POCKET BILLIARD EXHIBITION FREE AP Photo Those were the good old days? With autumn's chill around the corner, a sea lion takes a last lingering look at the sun and rehashes old memories from the stern of a sailboat anchored In Washington's Puget Sound. I THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVI, No. 13 Thursday, September 18, 1975 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 964-0562. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. 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