0 Page 2 - The Michigan'Daily - Wednesday, February 15, 1984 Girl gets new heart and liver From AP and UPI PITTSBURGH - A young Texas girl was recovering yesterday in a Pit- tsburgh hospital from a 16-hour operation doctors said was "her only hope" - the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplants. Six-year-old Stormie Jones, from Cumby, Texas, was listed in critical condition in the intesive care unit of Children's Hospital following the surgery in which doctors replaced first her heart, then her liver. THE unprecedented multiple tran- splant was necessary because Stor- mie's heart, weak from earlier double Tonem N-Tan Sun Tan Salon Open on Campus TROPICAL TAN for as little as $40.00 FIRST VISIT FREE * Don't burn in Florida * Keep that Florida tan * Come ask about our Monthly Specials 613 Church 2nd Floor 665-8885 bypass surgery, could not withstand the critically necessary liver transplant, the hospital said. Stormie was born with a rare disease causing her blood cholesterol levels to be "extraordinarily high" and damaging both her heart and liver, ac- cording to hospital officials. Physicians decided in late December to replace Stormie's heart and liver in hopes of stabilizing her cholesterol level. She would have died without the operation, according to hospital of- ficials. SHE WAS in a very tenuous situation," said Starzl, who headed the operation along with Dr. Henry Bahn- son. Stormie had suffered two heart at- tacks and undergone two triple coronary artery bypasses in the past few months, according, to Starzl. A valve in her heart also had been replaced. "There's been evidence.. . that if you replace the liver, the metabolism would be made correct. But the child's heart was too damaged from the underlying disease to be able to do that with any hope that the heart would be able to carry the load," Starzl said. "WE HAD TO replace both, the liver the correct the biochemical abnor- mality and the heart to replace the target of the problem," he said. Unlike most other seriously ill children awaiting transplants, Stormie had passed the time in the hospital playing with her mother and other youngsters, hospital spokesman Dick Riebling said. Her mother, Lois Jones, said, "Stor- mie knows that this has never been done before and this is a special attem- pt. Without the operation she wouldn't have lived another year."' The hospital said Jones, who is in her early 20s, was apartment hunting in Pittsburgh Monday when she learned the necessary organs were available. Hospital officials declined to identify the donor, from a city somewhere in the Northeast, whose kidneys were tran- splanted later yesterday into another youngster. Stormie and her mother went to Pittsburgh more than a month ago to await a compatible donor. i Phone 764.-0558 r. I W~ f' Women In Communications, Inc., Chicago Chapter presents WINNING THE NEW JOB GAME: HOW TO BECOME A PLAYER 20th Annual College Career Conference CAREER PANELS, WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS BY WORKING PROFESSIONALS IN } Resumes IN BRIEF' Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Voter bill wins conmittee backing LANSING - Majority Democrats yesterday won House Elections Com- mittee Approval of a bill allowing people to register to vote by mail at the same time they renew their drivers' licenses. The action sending the measure to the full House came on an 8-1 vote - with all the "yes" votes being cast by Democrats and the lone negative vote coming from Republican Rep. Colleen Engler of Mount Pleasant. Other Republicans members on the committee did not vote. "With the advent of mail driver's license renewals, this is a logical exten- sion," said Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Richard Wiener. Wiener predicted the mail-in registration procedure will be particularly helpful for people whose names have been taken off county registration lists - an action that occurs when a voter has not participated in an election for a number of years. Weiner said anyone who moves to a new residence faces that possibility. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Michael Bennane, (D-Detroit), said the "only possible" arguments against the measure concern voter fraud. However, he said it would be no easier for voters who register by mail to cheat than it would in present circumstances, where most voters appear in person to register at Secretary of State offices. Spring weather causes flooding Rivers swollen by ice jams and runoff from a spring-like thaw surged as high as 8 feet over flood level yesterday in the Midwest, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, while a windy Pacific storm blew up to a foot of snow across the Rockies. Hundreds of people fled their homes in Illinois and Michigan as rain spread from coastal Georgia to the Great Lakes during the night. Ice jamming against a bridge in downtown Monroe, Mich., on Lake Erie pushed the Raisin River to a record 13.4 feet, 4.4 feet over its flood stage. Some families were forced to flee. Gary Charson, a weather service hydrologist in Ann Arbor, said a Coast Guard cutter would try to break up the ice jam at Monroe, about halfway between Detroit and Toledo, Ohio. Flood warnings also were issued for some river valleys.,in northern and western Indiana, where the Wabash River was nearly 8/2 feet above flood stage at Lafayette, and in Ohio and western New York, with watches issued in parts of the Carolinas and eastern Pennsylvania. Retail sales jump since 1983 WASHINGTON - Sales by U.S. retailers rose a strong 2.2 percent in January, the biggest increase since May, the Commerce Department repor- ted today. Total sales, spurred by good showings for cars and food, reached a one- month record of $104.4 billion. The 2.2 percent rise from December sales was the biggest since a 3.1 percent jump in May 1983. Then the nation's economic recovery was being spurred by a strong surge in consumer buying. In recent months, however, the surge in consumer spending has slowed somewhat, including a tiny 0.1 percent December increase in retail sales. That figure surprised a lot of analysts who were expecting the December selling season to be at a .record pace. However, the strong upturn in January sales bolstered the belief by many analysts that Pecember sales were held down by unusually severe weather. Reagan consults Mideast leaders WASHINGTON - President Reagan consulted Jordan's King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterady on new .approaches to stabilize the situation in Lebanon and establish peace in the Middle East. Reagan began a second day of intensive discussions on the Middle East by meeting for an hour with Mubarak. The two were joined later by Hussein, who met privately with Reagan Monday. The crisis in Lebanon was a central point in the White House meetings with the two moderate Arab leaders. But Mubarak and Hussein, who had dinner together Sunday night, also had concerns about the lingering question of Palestinian self-government. Egyptian press reports said Mubarak would urge Reagan to begin "a direct dialogue" with the Palestine Liberation Organization and exert pressure on Israel to stop building. additional Jewish settlements on the West Bank. In his private talks with Reagan, Hussein described the Palestinian question as the fundamental obstacle to Middle East peace and said it was getting too little attention from Reagan because of the problems in Lebanon. NASA cancels July shuttle flight SPACE CENTER, Houstaon - NASA announced yesterday that a July space shuttle mission has been canceled because the Department of Defense has withdrawn a secret payload. It was the second time such a mission has been cancelled. Air Force spokesman Maj. Ron Rand and other Air Force officials declined to identify the secret payload or to give reasons for the decision. But National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials had said the mission was in jeopardy because of a problem with a powerful booster rocket called the Inertial Upper Stage. The IUS is used to move 5,000 pounds or more from the low orbit of the shutle to a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles high. The rocket booster failed last April while attempting to boost into place the $100 million-Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. Engineers were able to salvage the satellite by commanding it to fire small rocekt thrusters over several months. This moved the satellite to the proper orbit. 0 !" 0 Daily Photo by REBECCA KNIGHT Visiting nuclear physics Prof. Michio Kaku tells an audience at the Rackham Amphitheater last night that the U.S. is engaged in first-strike nuclear war- fare. Pof. criticizes arms race 0 0 Advertising " Cable 0 Public relations " Broadcasting * Marketing communications " Print writing (Continued from Page 1) MARCH 10 and 11 ACCORDING to Kaku, a presidential Cost: Registration deadline: advisor to the Nixon, Ford, and Carter $50.0WICIsemersRegrua dd19n4administrations once said that within $50.00 WCI members Fe raryoorm84 the military there is a minority of hard- $60.00 non-members For registration forms liners that say we should have "nuked Location: KAREN KLAGES the Soviet Union in the 40s when we had Loyola University of Chicago 747 Park Plaine the ability." 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Kaku said he feared that in the near future, if the United States develops the technology to allow a "successful" first strike against, the Soviet Union, that those same hard-liners would say, "now we have the ability, let's do it." KAKU explained his version of the current plan for nuclear war. "You have to throw sand in your enemy's face - that's the elec- tromagnetic pulse," he said. "Then get a gun and blow the head off your enemy - that is the Pershing II's objective. Then, if you still need to, you can back it up with MX and Trident missiles, and all you need is a bullet-proof vest." Electromagnetic pulse is given off af- ter a nuclear blast. It temporarily halts electric functions and radio tran- smissions following the first nuclear strike. THE "BULLET-proof vest," said Kaku, is the first strike - laser warfare identified as Reagan's "space wars" weapons. Kaku said the only reason for nuclear weapons is a political one. "There is one, reason why we have 30,000 atomic and hydrogen bombs," he said, "and that is raw political leverage, in the Mideast, Vietnam, in any hot spot in the world - there is no such thing as deterrence. KAKU SAID that classified Pentagon documents have surfaced in recent years containing such statements as "the United States must prevail. .. our nuclear capability must prevail even after the prolonged condition of nuclear war." The United State's plan for nuclear holocaust is outlined in a presidential directive, Kaku said. He added that the three priorities of the directive are first to preserve banking records of major multinational banks; second, to set up "fallout shelters for the "elite" and; third, to distribute morphine to those fallout shelters for. treatment of radiation burns. 0 PM I+ PM Wednesday, February 15, 1984 Vol. XCIV-No. 113 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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