European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes to Day Harvard group sets up guidelines controversy goes on Over moment of death Boston up is a human being dead when his heart slops or when his brain no longer functions the varied opinions on when person is really dead have set off a controversy in the medical and nonmedical world Turlieu Biaco Pihet spectators Are searched Oakland Calif. Up the judge in t h e murder trial of Black Panther Huey p. Newton ordered a search monday of All spectators including newsmen. Superior court judge Monroe Friedman strengthened the Al ready tight Security by ordering the daily search for those enter ing the courtroom because of rumours of possible harm to the defendant or to witnesses. Only the jury the court staff and attorneys were exempted from the order. Heavy guard the Alameda county Superior court building has been under heavy guard since the trial opened three weeks ago with the building surrounded by 2,500demonstrators supporting new ton founder of the militant Lack Panther party. With the resumption of the trial monday prosecutor Lowell Jensen in his opening statement said Newton was guilty of the killing of a policeman and asked the jury to find him guilty of first degree counsel Charles r. Garry said Newton 26, had noun and fired no shot in t h e Early morning of last oct. 28when Oakland policeman John Frey was killed and fellow patrolman Herbert Heanes was wounded. Early in View of Organ trans plants. To help guide physicians i determining actual death an and hoc committee of Harvard University faculty members has established a series of guide lines. The committee said the decision when to turn off life support equipment on patient sin an irreversible coma must be the responsibility of the physician but Only after the guidelines Are committee also emphasized such a decision should note made by a physician who might later be involved i transplant operations using the deceased person s comments were made by the committee in setting Dow guidelines for use by physicians Booklet tells airlines All but How to halt hijacking ads must not specify sex Washington up help wanted advertisements in news papers which specify jobs for men and women Only will be illegal after dec. 1, the equal employment Opportunity com Mission said monday. The unless Ajob requires a person to be of a specific sex it is a violation of Federal civil rights Laws for an employer to specify his prefer ence. An employer who uses news paper classified and columns which Are segregated by sex willbe considered to be stating a preference which is in violation of the 1964 civil rights act pro vision against Job discrimination by sex the chairman of the com Mission reported. Discriminatory it said that advertisements for help which specify sex have a discriminatory effect by Indi Cating an employer preference and discouraging for example the qualified woman Job seeker from pursuing Job opportunities listed in the help wanted male,columns." the ruling will not take effects mail dec. 1 so newspapers will have an opportunity1 to reorganize their classified advertise ment sections the . Washington a the Fri monday released a Booklet outlining ways airline personnel can help it handle almost any crime including the one that currently is getting the most at Booklet however offers no helpful hints on How to pre vent hijacking. The omission tends to underscore a quandary facing not Only government sleuths but the airline Industry As Well which concedes Little is being done or can be done. An Fri spokesman said the new Booklet entitled airlines and the Fri was planned be fore the current rash of Hijack Ings. But he said it was a Revi Sion of one that first came out during a spectacular series of similar incidents in 1961. In a foreword Fri director Hoover said the Booklet s purpose is to suggest various measures which the airlines and their personnel can take to Hel this Bureau perform its Hoover said the Booklet willbe widely distributed among unplanned Stop Wallace tells vegas hell win Las vegas Nev. A George Wallace flew to Albuquerque n. M., monday after a unscheduled Stop sunday in Las vegas because of bad former Alabama governor spoke with newsmen an watched television but stayed away from the gambling Casi nos. I Gamble every time i Takeoff in an air plane Wallace said. And with All the anarchists in the streets i Gamble every time i walk Down the streets just like you Wallace who is running for president on the american inde pendent party ticket told news men at a Motel on the strip that he would carry Nevada an enough other states to win in the electoral College. When asked Tio would Winthe Republican nomination he said i Don t know really. I not very much in with the re publicans. They re discussing me More than i m discussing Wallace and his party of 100had flown from Sacramento Calif., and had intended to reach Albuquerque sunday night but their dc7 plane had to land be cause of a thunderstorm. Asked about legalized Gam bling in Nevada Wallace said i m in favor of what you want to do in Nevada. However i would not recommend legalized gambling in Wallace was asked to com ment on the recommendation of his party convention in Nevada for former Secretary of agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to be his running mate. He said he had not talked with Benson but termed him a very Fine Man and said i would like his George Wallace airline Booklet says the Fri has jurisdiction Over most criminal offences occurring on interstate or foreign in the Booklet s Only specific reference to hijacking it is listed Only As illegal and under the Fri s jurisdiction. Other crimes listed include murder rape assault robbery damage to or destruction of Anai plane or any facility used in its operation carrying a concealed deadly or dangerous weapon giving false or threat ening reports and stealing a Booklet cautions airline employees not to tamper wit physical evidence to be Alert to make sure All pertinent information is taken Down when accepting checks and to try to re member Complete and accurate descriptions of also urges personnel to make note when taking a threat ening Telephone Call of Back ground sounds the caller s accent or any indication the caller is a juvenile drunk mentally retarded or unusually familiar with the airline s the first of the year there have been eight hijackings of airliners Over the United states in which the gunman or gunmen ordered the plane flown to Cuba. Pilot allowed to return a plane chartered for a sight seeing trip was hijacked Over Naples fla., sunday and diverted to Cuba but the Pilot was Al Lowed to return to the unite states a few hours later. In a recent Survey airline an government spokesmen said several methods of praying bag Gage and passengers for bombs or weapons Are under said what Steps have been taken such As requiring cockpit doors be locked in flight have not had much effect. No apparently has the act of con Gress that made hijacking a Airliner a capital offence. The Federal aviation administration says it has started put Ting Security men aboard som flights when there is reason to suspect something might Hap pen. But it says it has t got enough people to Man Ever commercial flight. Or h. Assoc a Eberl in defining brain death irreversible coma guidelines were aug 5 Issue of he american a i prof. Robert chairman of to composed of 12 m faculties of Medicine i la health divinity and Ark s sciences at " j major reasons Lead a a need for a definition irreversible coma. Of one is the improvement of devices to keep a person s heart beating even though his brain irreversibly damaged. The oth is the use of obsolete criteria for the definition of s which can Lead to controversy obtaining organs for trans the medical guidelines in elude a patient s total Lack of response to externally applied stimuli no muscular move ments of breathing Lack of reflexes plus data from an Electroencephalogram which re cords electric currents Deve loped in the brain. Further tests the tests should be repeat Dat least 24 hours after the initial tests the committee said. The committee said the final determination of death through irreversible coma. Can remade Only by a physician who must also inform All those involved of his decision including the family. At this Point death is to be declared and then the Respirator turned off the committee said. The decision to do this an the responsibility for it Are to be taken by the physician in charge in consultation with one or More physicians who have been directly involved in therase the members said. The also said they consider edit unsound and undesirable to Force the family to make the decision. Not invoked the committee added that the decision to declare the person dead and then turn of the Respirator should be made by physicians not involved inane later Effort to transplant organs or tissues from the deceased individual if these guidelines Are Fol Lowed the Committer said it believed they could form the basis for change in Hie current Legal concept of death. No statutory change in the Law should be necessary the com Mittee said since the Law treats this question essential Lyas one of fact to be determined by physicians be unable to agree on new my Liral Cri Terui then it probably will be necessary for legislation to be offered in the various Stales to define death by Law. American motors reports profit from a and up dispatches american motors corp., after two straight years of heavy losses monday reported from Detroit profits of $5.82 million for the first nine months of the fiscal year ended june 30. Earnings for the third Quarter were $4.69 million or 24 cents per share. Chairman Roy d. Chapin arid president William said. This compared with a loss of$12.64 million or 66 cents per share in the third Quarter of the previous fiscal year. The 30-cent per share earnings Over the first nine months compared with a net operating loss of $42.70 Mil lion or $2.24 dollars per share in the same Span of the previous fiscal year. The company said its Sale of the Kelvin Tor appliance division to White consolidated industries of Cleveland for $24 million Dur ing the third Quarter resulted Ina la Okke Ping loss of $7.25 Mil lion. The result was that the company recorded a nonrecurring loss of $2.26 million on its books for that Quarter. Despite the third Quarter operating earnings am failed to declare a quarterly dividend forthe 12th consecutive Quarter. The last time the smallest of the big four Auto builders reported dividend was in september 1965, when shareholders received 12 agents per share. The company s operating earn Ings for the third Quarter came on worldwide sales of 88,542 cars an increase of 10.7 per cent Over the 79,981 autos sold in the Sam Quarter of the previous year. For the first nine months. Am sold 258,855 Aux. Of 12.1 per cent out the we cars sold in the first my Knoll Lebof fiscal 1967. In new York Din uus of eral motors corp declared a dividend a a share on the common mock. It is payable sept. 10 to holders of record air the same amount was pain the third Quarter of 1m7. The latest declaration i p total dividends for tin a St � a months of this year u by compared with 12.55 i i vol
