European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 5 panel bars 68 draft revision wis �5? u7attd7eosressmen, a key House settee chairman has Rule Dot congressional revision of s draft system this year Mendel Rivers d-s.c., chairman of the House armed splices committee said Fri Day his panel would not rep Fig draft Issue because pres Dent Johnson already has authority to Deal with what draft critics believe Are inequities in the system. We Don t intend to hold an hearings on the draft this session Rivers said. All the need to do is administer the Bill the Way Congress hearings there can be no change in the up Check Sii owed 74 House members so far have introduced or cosponsored legislation that would undo revise or add to action by Congress last year in extending the selective service act for four years. Johnson s failure to follow through on his intention announced one year and three Days ago to reverse the order in which men Are drafted an Start talking first the youngest instead of the oldest has generated Many of the congressional Calls for himself has questioned the president s plan to continue taking the oldest men first. The result of this decision along with the president s decision to eliminate deferments for Colleg graduate students Means a draft in the year starting injure composed almost entirely of College graduates. Random selection the latest proposals for revision were submitted by 25 lawmakers who introduced inthe House a measure written by sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass.,a longtime critic of the draft. Its chief feature would required the president to Institute a i random selection system wit Hyoung men called first. Congress left open to the president the option to reverse the order of Call. In his message to Congress on March 8, 1967, the president said he would exercise that option. The Lack of uniform standards in the nation on who qualifies for occupational deferment a Soled to Calls for Reform. Forty two republicans have introduced a Bill that would create uniform standards for the nation s 4,084 local draft boards. They argued the standards vary so much from Board to Board that no Young Man can plan his future with certainty. ,9 Itamari says \ u. S. T Washington up Barnard told Congress Friday that a proposed Federal study of the moral implications of Organ transplants would be study opposed an insult to your doctors an would impede medical research. The famed South Africa heart transplant surgeon Testi fied before the Senate govern ment research subcommittee Ona Resolution providing for a presidential commission to study and make recommendations on moral ethical Legal and easter Seal twins president Johnson meets the easter Seal twins Lisa and Lori Yauch of Southfield Mich. The 4-year-Olds have spastic paraplegia handicaps. Also on hand atthe White House meeting is Singer Dinah Shore the Campaign s chairman. Up photo ,9 claims jury of Ark. Prison Case Star City Ark. A the Lincoln county grand jury re turned no indictments Friday in its investigation into the unearthing of three human skeletons at nearby Cummins prison farm saying the whole episode was designed As a publicity stunt to Benefit Thomas o. , the outspoken Penolo Gist brought Here last year to Reform the state s prison sys any Tern was fired thursday by thei state Board of correction under orders from gov. Winthrop chairman John Haley told a news conference at Little Rock Friday that Murlon was insubordinate a poor adminis Trator and fiscally irresponsible. There were reports that the grand jury would indict Mur ton who started the investigation that led to the discovery of the skeletons on Ian. 29. The panel was highly critical of Mur ton who called the report a travesty of i Rund jury discounted no in fi4 r ii � to Lull a Kissinger claims Campaign against Stuttgart Germany a Uusi cellar Kurt Georg kit sin nor charged saturday that internal critics were waging. Of permanent slander the we i German Statt i Estiu or said it had become More necessary than Ever be re to defend it again S.C. Hacks and be warned of what Saul were attempts by utopians of try 1u w Refl o Nake a i Seijido religion of democracy. The chancellors remarks obviously were prompted to wide i ail student unrest and by on president a Limich thave us meeting of ins . Or come under membership said he rec Luebke who last week made Public defense against allegations that he had helped to de sign concentration Camps. Kit Singer did not specifically refer to the Luebke controversy Public is the Best judge of events and knows what it can expect from a candid Man said. If our people really did not believe thai we of the c1 u exer else these Virtues of Candor then no policies however skillful j realistic or . Could i Ellics oui a Chancellor told a of the protestant win Christian democratic reports that the skeletons might have come from an unmarked cemetery for murdered in mates. Murton had said there was a possibility there were a Many As 200 bodies in that Pas , the report to circuit judge Henry w. Smith said the site had been in use As a Ceme Tery As far Back As 1923 when a free world employee was buried there. The panel said a map dated in also shows the cemetery to have been there for some report said Murton has displayed a More sincere desire for publicity for personal gain than for operating the Arkansas slate prison for the Protection of her Citi Cus from the criminal element found in this or any other prison is the panel said. Trimm Reform was needed and is needed and will no doubt continue to be sociological considerations Reg a r d i n g transplants genetic experiments and other advanced research. Sitting under hot television lights in a crowded Senate caucus room Barnard told the senators that doctors have always decided S.C. question Sas who should live or die because they Are Best qualified. You Are seeing ghosts where there Are no ghosts he said with a Trace of annoyance. If the commission were tory to direct medical proce dures he said it would be a insult to your doctors and put Progress Back a in fact Barnard said a another Point the result might put american doctors so far behind that they would never catch up with one of Barnard s patients Blaiberg is the Only surviving heart transplant patient. The surgeon said that 65days after the operation Blai Berg is alive Well walking adjust about ready to leave the realistic questions or. Arthur Kornberg and Lederberg of Stanford University medical school Apalo Alto calif., told the subcommittee that Congress should concentrate on realistic questions of scientific priorities rather than moral or ethical problems they said May never this business of creating Little men in a test tube is so much nonsense said Kornberg who helped make medical history by synthesizing a virus molecule that approximates Lederberg said Clear think ing and rational decision on biological change is hardly helped by invoking slogans like genocide who decides on life and death and genetic tamper the commission proposed by sen. Walter Mondale d-minn.,would consist of 15 members appointed by the president from the Fields of Medicine theology philosophy Law science ethics health administration and of module s concerns was raised by sen. Abraham Ribicoff. A Conn. Lie said 80,000patients might be saved each year by heart transplant operations which he estimated would Cost $75.000 each. Bothers me what bothers me Ribicoff said. Is who makes the Sion which these Are Bodoc i . I thought thai i explored that several tunes . This decision rests in the hands of the doctors. The Yare totally nullified 10 do lie said the doctors decision always is based on which patients need it most who is the . Karl Mundt. . Asked about a donor who might leave his head to a Cousin or fellow Down the bar Nard replied Itiat of blood "tin1 who himself has fire for his form Erin the a i parly t Mii de the role of de. But this can for All concerned be u w Uii out n a t i u n a a orld a Ide t. Iii. Tie. The be a of i lie Case has no the intellectuals a permanent renew but Cwm hem . I t a slander. We repel the s must stand up to must become the amt Lui s Lor i of society. .1 . He said was., i. D to Ner Maneu Murieil. U to Cate 10 u1 i w As aider but we criticism and ale Tho asserted. Ii a Primi . "ju.--1 direct removal. 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