4 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Sunday, October 28, 1984 Baboon heart saves baby girl LOMA LINDA, Calif.(AP)-A 15-day- old girl who faced certain death from her own underdeveloped heart was in "remarkably stable condition" yester- day, one day after her organ was replaced with that of a baboon in a historic transplant operation, a doctor said. Sandra Nehlsen-Cannarella, an im- muniologist who was a member of the operating team, called the case "one of the biggest, overdue advances in our field." ONLY FOUR ape-to-human heart transplants have been performed previously, all in adults. Only one recipient survived more than a few hours, living for 3 days. No human heart was available for "Baby Fae," born slightly premature two weeks ago with a heart so under- developed that she would certainly have died, so doctors at Loma Linda University Medical Center decided to use the baboon's heart. The child, whose full name was withheld at the parents' request, was in critical condition yesterday, which is normal after transplant surgery, said hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell. "SHE IS improving. The physicians are pleased with how things are going right now," said hospital spokeswoman Maureen Taber. "She's doing remarkably well," spokesman Dick Schaefer said as the child came out of anesthesia. "She's on a respirator and she will be probably for a while. . . She was stirring and opening her eyes." The baby suffered from hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which always results in death within a few days. Doc- tors said she had nearly died on her six- th day. THE CHILD'S mother told the Bar- stow Desert Dispatch she had taken the ailing newborn home on Oct. 16, expec- ting the worst, but the baby surprised both mother and doctors. "She had trouble breathing, and she slept a lot but she was alert when she was awake," the mother said. But she said her daughter "wouldn't be alive today if she weren't in the hospital.". Schaefer said there was "hopeful op- timism" that the child could have "a long life" with the ape's heart, based on studies by Dr. Leonard Bailey, who headed the surgical team of more than a dozen people at the hospital about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. "In his animal research, he's had animals go from infancy to adulthood and experience pregnancy and delivery with transplanted hearts, so hope springs eternal that she'll have an ac- tive and normal life," Schaefer said. THE RESEARCH team said in a news release that it hopes to perform four more such baboon-to-infant tran- splants on an experimental basis. Schaefer said there had been 200 telephone calls about the case, mostly from the media. One call was from a Chicago man seeking a similar operation for his son, said hospital spokeswoman Jayne McGill. "It's an infant boy. He's just holding his own, just a little over a week old," said hospital Vice President Ed Wines. "We have promised to get back in touch with him," he said, but no immediate decision has been made on that case. WINES SAID two calls expressed op- position to such surgery. Bailey, 41, who had performed more than 150 heart transplants on animals such as goats and sheep, said that if "Baby Fae's" tranplant is successful, his experiments indicate the baboon heart will grow as she does. Doctors were emotional when the newly transplanted heart began beating without artificial stimulation after the five-hour operation Friday. ". .Members of the transplant team got tears in their eyes and some of them embraced each other," Schaefer said. "It was somber, not euphoric, but there wasn't a dry eye in the house,," said Nehlsen-Cannarella "It was an overwhelming feeling of accom- plishment and satisfaction, to see her literally transformed from a helpless cripple." IN BRIEF Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Official admits killing priest I Mondale momentum down after debate win WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan is sitting on an enormous lead over Walter Mondale slightly more than a week before Election Day 1984, accor- ding to a nationwide Associated Press survey, but Democrats are reminding voters "It ain't over until r it's over." The momentum of the campaign did shift to Mon- dale in the past two weeks, observers say, but the im- pact of the second debate with Reagan a week ago appears to have slowed, if not stopped, that motion. THESE TURNS of events have left Reagan ahead in 40 states with 426 electoral votes, the AP survey found, far more than 270 needed to win. Mondale leads for only 13 electoral votes, with the rest of the states in the toss-up eolumn. "I think there is movement toward Mondale, but obviously, it ain't enough," said New Hampshire Democratic chairman George Bruno. "We benefitted from the surge between the first and second debates and rallied most of the Democrats, but there is no movement now," said Colorado party chairman Floyd Ciruli. "THE FIRST debate made Mondale respectable. He's no longer a joke. He's now just a chuckle instead of a guffaw," said University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato. "The second debate restored a bit of Reagan's luster but it didn't basically change the dynamics of the campaign." Kansas Democratic party chief Pat Lehman is a bit more hopeful: 'It ain't over until its over, as they say, I still think there is a chance Walter Mondale can get his message through all that packaging around Reagan." * Mondale opened the next-to-last weekend of the presidential campaign yesterday by telling a West Coast rally that Ronald Reagan's re-election could lead to right-wing packing of the Supreme Court. DECLARING that "we must carry California," Mondale spoke in a sprawlaing San Diego park during a day of appearances in Reagan's home state. He said that if Reagan were re-elected, the Supreme Court would fall under the control of a "far- right fringe." Ultraconservatives "would seize our temple of liberty and turn it over to judges who passed the ap- proval of the Jerry Falwells of our land," he said in a reference to the leader of the Moral Majority. SPEAKING TO a cheering crowd of several thous- and, Mondale said voters should realize that in light of several judges' advanced ages, Reagan might nominate five high court justices in a second four- year term. "You are picking that court for the rest of this cen- tury," he said. "This crowd would close down those doors we've opened and follow the dictates of a far-right fringe," he said. "They want the federal government to in- trude in the most personal and religious decisions each of us make in our own lives." REAGAN SPENT the day at Camp David, but he took time out for his weekly radio talk, in which he appealed for young people's votes. He declared that a victory for Mondale could "send many of you from the graduation line to the unemployment line." Addressing youth at the beginning of his paid political address, he said, "I just have to say your generation really sparkles. "In my travels I've met you by the thousands and I've seen enthusiasm and patriotism in your eyes that convince me that you get high on America." Reagan also returned to the themes of his speeches at recent campaign rallies, saying the nation's economy, military strength and opportunities for growth all are greater than when he replaced President Carter four years ago.' "OUR NATION is at peace and our economy is in one piece," he said, adding that Mondale's policies "would destroy all that . . . would cause enormous hardships and send many of you from the graduation line to the unemployment line." WARSAW, Poland - A captain in the Interior Ministry has said he killed a' pro-Solidarity priest who was kidnapped Oct. 19, but his confession has not. been confirmed, the interior minister told the nation yesterday. The captain and two liertenants in the ministry have been charged in the abduction of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko, said Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak. He said the three accused men gave conflicting statements, that no one has been charged with any killing in the case and the Roman Catholic priest's whereabouts were still unknown. Police stepped up patrols in Warsaw, apparently to discourage any street demonstrations. Popieluszko's sermons backing this now-outlawed Solidarity trade union drew as many as 10,000 people to his Warsaw church. Poland's official PAP news agency said that the Warsaw provincial defen- se committee met during the day and "took necessary actions to prevent possible threats." It did not elaborate. Kiszczak, who oversees all police units, said on nationwide television and radio that he had no immediate evidence to back up the assertion that Popieluszko had been murdered. Lebanon to attack ships unloading at 'illegal ports' BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's government decided yesterday to use its armed forces to attack ships trying to dock or unload at militia-controlled "illegal ports" that cut into official revenues, state radio reported. The threat against shipping appeared to be a warning to militias to turn over the ports quickly and without resistance when told to. Any military action against shippers is not expected to be taken until foreign government and international shipping firms had been notified of the decision, sometime next month. Yesterday's action was taken at a six-hour Cabinet session chaired b President Amin Gemayel. It was the latest in a series of emergency measures aimed at braking a sharp fall in the Lebanese pound brought on by uncertain security conditions and losses in government customs revenues. ; Prime Minister Rashid Karami, whose "national coalition" Cabinet has been unable to enforce a public security plan outside Beirut, warned that "those attacking the financial security of the state will be brought to justice." GM, UAW reach tentative pact TORONTO - General Motors of Canada and the United Auto Workers yesterday reached a tentative contract settlement that included a wage hike and cost-of-living increases to end a 10-day-old strike that forced layoffs of more than 41,000 U.S. workers. The settlement was reached in a 15-minute afternoon negotiation session that followed all-night bargaining. The pact came a day after the company issued a new money offer, the first since the 36,000 Canadian Auto workers worked out Oct. 17. Robert Andrew, GM's chief negotiator said GM had suffered a product loss of $20 million in retail value since the strike began. White said negotiators still had to work out some contract language, and after that the rank and file would vote on the offer at the company's 13 plants in Ontario and Quebec. He said the workers would not return to their jobs until after ratification. White said the agreement proved for a three-year contract that included a 2.25 percent base wage increase in the first year. He said workers would also receive a 19-cent-an-hour (25 cents Canadian) "special Canadian ad- justment" in each of the first two years and an 18-cent-an-hour increase (24 cents Canadian) in the third. Serious crime drops, FBI says WASHINGTON - Serious crimes reported to police during the first half of 1984 dropped 5 percent, continuing a trend that began two years ago, the FBI said yesterday. The overall volume of crimes for the first six months of the year decreased throughout the country, but two offenses - rape and aggravated assault - showed slight increases. The preliminary figures for the first half of 1984 reflect a decline that began in 1982. In September, the FBI reported a.6.7 percent drop in serious crime for 1983, the biggest decline in 23 years. The figures show a 6 percent increase in forcible rape and a 1 percent in- crease in aggravated assault. Declines were recorded for murder and robbery, 5 and 7 percent respec- tively. In the property crime category, burglary dropped 8 percent and lar- ceny-theft fell 5 percent. Motor vehicle theft increase 1 percent and arson in- creased by 2 percent. OPEC to consider cutting oil production by 2 million barrels GENEVA, Switzerland - The oil ministers of Iran and Indonesia threw their countries' support yesterday behind a hastily fashioned plan to prop up OPEC oil prices by cutting production. Indonesia's Subroto told reporters on his arrival at a Geneva hotel that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would succeed in avoiding a price cut if it slashed production by 1 million to 2 million barrels a day. OPEC output currently is estimated at 17.3 million barrels a day. Its self- imposed ceiling is 17.5 million. Iranian delegation chief Mohammad Gharazi said his country supported Tuesday's call by six other OPEC oil ministers to tighten the oil spigot in or- der to preserve the cartel's shaky pricing system, based on $29 a barrell for Saudi light oil. 4 h { 4 4 f 4 I 4 Graffiti on the doors to the new business Administration Library on East University Street marks one person's effort to help a nationwide movement TUESDAY LUNCH - FORUM October 30, 1984 - 12 Noon THE U.N. SYSTEM IN CURRENT PERSPECTIVE Speaker: SARAH GODDARD POWER Chairperson, U.S. Commission for UNESCO, 1976-79 Delegate, U.N. Decade for Women Conference, 1980 AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER For additional information, 603 E. I4adison St. please call 662-5529 Sponsored by: THE ECUMENICAL CAMPUS CENTER THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER CHURCH WOMEN UNITED IN ANN ARBOR Lunch - $1.00 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB' aimed at making colleges stockpile suicide pills for their students to use in case of nuclear war. Move to have colleges stock cyanide national (Continued from Page 1) elsewhere. "We sent out one hundred packets to personal contacts and organizations on campus on why we voted for the referendum," said Brown organizer John Bonifa. "We want to capture the momentum." There won't be any rallies this week in Ann Arbor, but the phenomenon has not escaped students here. "Suicide pills" graffiti adorns several walls around the campus. "Michigan is a large resevoir to tap into," said Northwestern's Weissman. "With the proper guidance Michigan can get into it. 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