European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pug 2 the stars and stripes first heart transplant carried out in Canada recipient is reported doing Well Montreal up a 58-year-old Butcher Friday received the heart of a Mother of fou who died of a cerebral Hemor rage. Surgeons said the new Organ was beating at a Satis factory rhythm in the Chest Falbert Murphy. A team of 12 surgeons completed Canada s first heart trans Plant and the world s 18th in less than four hours. The donor was identified a mrs. Gerald Rondeau who died thursday  surgeons at the Montreal heart Institute first remove mrs. Rondeau s heart and then removed her kidneys. The kid Neys were rushed to a o y a 1 Victoria Hospital to be Given to another recipient. There Are seven living heart transplant patients in addition to  transplants have been performed previously in Canad abut never before have a heart and kidney been taken from the same donor there. Richmond doctors identify patient Richmond a. Up officials at the medical College of Virginia thursday broke their week Long Clampdown on news about the world s 16th hear transplant. A statement released by the Hospital confirmed that Joseph Klett 54, was the transplant patient receiving the heart of an other Man in a 3-hour opera Tion last saturday. The statement made no men Tion however of the donor of the heart. Unofficial sources re ported the donor was Bruce Tucker 58, a negro from Rich mond. The medical College said the patient s condition is very satisfactory and promised new statements will be made Avail Able at noon each Day. Co Iii civilian employee Dies Worms Germany special Richard w. Atwood a civilian employee in the office of the staff judge advocate at come he Here died thursday at the 546thgeneral dispensary in Mann Heim the army said Friday. Cause of death was an apparent overdose of Medicine. Atwood is survived by his wife Phyllis who resided with him in nearby Weinheim and by h i smother Helen b. Atwood of me Tuchen . Viet marines kill 200 teds in Saigon advisers to South copter gunships were hit a communist gunfire. One brought Down. . Military we Mand spokesmen did not a firm the reports. National police estimated that two platoons of Viet Cong total me at Impact in �,.umdl ing at least 50 men slipped through government lines before the assault on Phu Lam w launched and moved to Miri miss miss Israel 1968 is 18-year-old, blonde Green eyed Miri Zamir who won Over 21 finalists in the contest held in the convention Hall in Jerusalem. Associated press photo Saigon up South Viet namese troops fought their Way Friday into a Section on the Western Edge of Saigon that had been held by the Viet Cong Fornix Days and killed 200 of the communists a government spokesman said. At least 50 guerrillas escaped and resumed fighting in the  the Edge of the City heavy fighting broke out near the Binh Vinh Loi Bridge on the Road be three Miles of Saigon s Center tween Saigon and the huge . Air base at Bien Hoa. The Vietcong Force engaged was Esti mated at 200 men. Government marines who battled their Way into the Phu Lam District at the Western Edge of Saigon counted 200 Viet Cong bodies. The government troop were supported by round the clock strafing runs by . Heli copter gunships. Two Viet Cong rockets landed Northwest of Saigon s Tan son Nhut air base Friday night . Military command spokes Man  area hit and other details were not immediately available. An air Force spokesman said he had no reports of any rockets Landing inside the air  correspondent Kate Webb said the Phu Lam District was deserted by its residents. There were bashed up remnants of car with bodies lying under bits of tin she reported. She said a 17-year-old captured Viet Cong with a leg shattered by rocket fragments said he Hadnot eaten for four Days and that his company commander had runaway during the fighting three Days  the Vinh Loi Bridge . Gaulle secretly visited he of French in Germany Bonn a French presi Dent Charles de Gaulle paid a secret Airport visit to Baden Baden site of French military Headquarters in West Germany wednesday the West German government disclosed  spokesman Guen Ter Diehl did not say whom Degaulle met at the Airport but it was presumed that he spoke with Gen. Jacques Massu a paratroop officer who is com Mander of the 60,000 French troops in West Germany. De Gaulle s appearance came amid rumours that he planned to bring half of the troops Back to their politically troubled Home land. These rumours were denied by the French defense ministry in Paris thursday , however acknowledged that some French troops were being withdrawn when he said that there were no French troop movements of any Large size from West Germany to France. Asked the purpose of the visit Diehl said the Bonn government did not know Why de Gaulle had gone to Baden Baden but he assumed the Short visit was sort of technical  asked whether de Gaulle had met with Massu Diehl said it was Likely that the general greeted the president. Diehl said Chancellor Kur Georg Kiesinger was informed of de Gaulle s Brief stay by Francois Seydoux French ambassador in Bonn. This information he added was conveyed at the time that the French presi Dent was at the Airport. The formalities of the visit Diehl said were completely in  about troop movements Diehl said Bonn had been in formed nine months ago that the French government planned to pull about 8,000 men out of West Germany this summer to form anew division in Eastern France. A spokesman for the West German defense ministry col. Lothar Domroese elaborating Odiehl s statement said that the redeployment to the Verdu Narea originally had been planned to begin about May 1, but no tone single Soldier in this con Tingent had been transferred. Domroese added however that there were other French troop movements and that Bon had been informed of these. Army has lost fewer copters than expected Washington is com Bat experience in Vietnam has demonstrated that the Vulner ability of helicopters to ground fire has been far less than predicted the army reports. Recent statistics reveal that Only one helicopter is shot Down for every 6,300 combat sortie flown and Only one helicopter for 23,000 combat sorties is unrecoverable said col. Thomas w. Mellen of army research an development. Mellen presented these Statis tics monday to a House armed services  record he said is due in part to the Armor kits for critical components and armoured seats that have been developed for helicopters. Effort is continuing he added for Armor Protection for All the army s com Bat  loss figures show that from january 1962 through no vember 1966 one helicopter was shot Down for every 5,500 com Bat sorties and Only one in 18,000 combat sorties was unrecoverable. At the time these figures were made Public the army said they were lower than originally estimated also. Weather . Temperatures h l 92 56 Albuquerque 89 56 Amarillo 76 55 Atlanta 80 54 Birmingham 75 57 Bismarck 71 45 Boise 70 57 Boston 60 51 Buffalo 68 49 Chicago 70 55 Cincinnati 63 52 Cleveland 83 54 Denver 74 47 Des Moines 64 49 Detroit 69 40 Duluth 66 45 Fairbanks 86 72 Honolulu 89 72 Houston 67 54 Indianapolis 92 67 Jacksonville 75 53 Kansas City 70 63 los Angeles h l71 55 Louisville 79 57 Memphis 84 72 Miami Beach 67 43 Milwaukee 69 46 . Paul 89 65 new orelans 72 54  Vork 80 63 Oklahoma u 74 51 Omaha 76 55 Philadelphia 102 67 Phoenix 60 49 Pittsburgh 68 40 Portland me. 66 46 Portland Ore 75 53 St. Woulf 79 54 Salt Lake 65 53 san Francisco 67 51 Seattle 66 38 Spokane 88 66 Tampa 76 60 Washington Meagan unqualified gop unit a Cambridge mass. Up the Ripon society an Independent Republican research organization said Friday that gov. Ronald Reagan of California is unqualified for any National Post requiring a High degree of administrative or diplomatic  research and policy group presented the conclusion in a 24-Page, 16,000-word study of the Republican governor s record a candidate and office Holder. Criticizing Reagan s perform Ance on All fronts the report cited his simplistic approach to Domestic issues his inability to match rhetoric with administrative competence and his preoccupation with the role of military Force in the conduct of foreign  to the november election the report said Nixon Reagan ticket for the presidency would deprive Nix on of the support of the left Wing of his party who guard the Gates of an electoral majority. Talks of the so called dream ticket of Rockefeller Reagan endangers the new York governor popularity before the Conven Tion the statement said. If Ronald Reagan is unqualified to be president he is unqualified to be vice pres ident the report stated. Citing Reagan s alleged impatience with the complexities of government and Lack of interesting administrative details the report said he is unable to control guide and limit effectively a Large  the study was especially critical of Reagan s foreign policy posture of which it said Reagan on Vietnam sounds like common sense Only to those who think that conducting a foreign policy is like winning football  the report was not All bad As the society my a commended actor to1former movie a to an?i8tsrnrf and of unfailingly Newsow Tilg. But since Ron does not yet have the he experience we Denev or 3s? e bl2 s3es.c" Russ report concluded