European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse the condition Virld s longest surviving splant patient Jeri Friberg is so serious that heart and lung trans cd be necessary medi Cal sources Here said Schuur Hospital sources said a new lung is needed to eliminate creeping pneumonia Tho fight to be affecting both s lungs. Officially the Hospital merely refers to a pulmonary condition and an imminent heart trans Plant. The sudden announcement Fol Lowed by less than 24 hours new that the 59-yea�old Farmer dentist had developed lung complications which were causing his doctors concern. Doctors said there was further deterioration saturday. Saturday night s Hospital Bulle tin heightened fears that Blai Berg was going the Way of his "w"11 i Torii newspaper of . Forces the Europe North Africa and the Middle East if2185$a is daily i of sunday sunday july 7,1968 d predecessor Pioneer transplant patient Louis Rashkansky Rashkansky died last Decem Ber of pneumonia also initially termed pulmonary lung com plication Only 18 Days after re Foont. On Page 24, ool. 1 Warren will stay on if Fortas is blocked is Kiwi ,. A Lra fac a 1ned by tragedy orphaned killed their parents these 10 children of Noad on collision on a freeway or. And mrs. Robert g. Morris of Madera calif., want to stay together As family. Story on Page 24. Dpi photo chief Justice says his oath obliges him Washington a Earl Warren said Friday he would stay on As chief Justice if the Senate refuses to con firm Abe Fortas As his Suc Cessor. I am obliged to under my oath Warren told a news conference. However he said he expects Fortas to be approved and to be come a great chief Warren offered to retire in Ajune 23 letter to president John son. Two weeks later the presi Dent named Fortas now an associate Justice to succeed War Ren and also nominated . Circuit judge Homer Thornberry for the supreme court. Warren discussed these events with reporters against a backdrop of a budding Effort by19 Senate republicans to Block the two appointments. The would prefer to let the new chief Justice be named by the presi Dent to be elected in november. Although it had been announced in Advance that Warren would not discuss politics with reporters he answered their questions freely except Forone. That was whether his offer cont on Page 23, col. V lint eggs de at silent Salvador i Salvador i president Johnson shop limousine became the saturday of red paint and eggs hurled by m an otherwise cheering of tens of thousands aft arrival in this smallest i american nation for aut meeting. Of a dozen or so paints 2 tj6 car but Tow Par an legs by Latterell the window by Johnson s a the five t m of can presidents Funso is meeting the paint bombs Al paint was described As one. On Page 93, col 9 kill 2, wound 3 . Ambush beat group Long Binh Vietnam a a los Angeles musical group was ambushed by the Viet Congon a lonely South vietnamese Road Friday evening and two teen aged members of the group were killed. A . Soldier and two other members of the group including 20-year-old Singer Paula Levine of North Hollywood were wounded when half a doze Viet Cong guerrillas opened fire on their pickup truck at Point Blank girl said in the . Army s 93rd evacuation Hospi Tal saturday i played dead and that s the Only reason i m the musical group Brandi fill a Wing flaw disclosed a the wings of an fill a broke off Dur ing a ground test for structural strength two months before the controversial warplane was sent to Viet Nain it was disclosed saturday the defense department Saida structural modification de signed to Correct the condition had not been incorporated into the planes sent to the War zone but they were operating under limitations to reduce the amount of stress. And the department said the incident in which the wings broke off involved an overtes of the aircraft s capability involving strains far beyond those expected in Normal flight operations. The Wing failure in the test was brought out by sen. Carl Curtis r-neb., at a closed hear ing of the Senate military preparedness subcommittee april24 a transcript censored by the cont. On Page 8$, col. 8 Perry and the Bubble machine was attempting to reach the vietnamese coastal resort of Vung Tau about 45 Miles South East of Saigon before were stopped by a South vietnamese militia Roadblock Halfway to their destination and were returning to Saigon be cause of darkness the two male members of the group killed were aged 17 and 19. Their names were withheld until next of Kin could be Noti others wounded were Jack Bone 18, of los Angeles and a 21-year-old Soldier escort ing the group. He was in serious condition. The attractive dark haired miss Levine suffered fragment wounds in the Back and legs but cont. On Page 23, col. 1
