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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday october 18, 1977 Kohout is reportedly arrested Prague up police arrested author Pavel Kohout in a court building monday and detained other dissidents As four prominent intellectuals went on trial accused of acting subversively in their de sense of civil liberties. Czechoslovak sources said. Writers Vaclav Havel and Jiri Lederer with theater directors Ota Ornest and Frantisek Pavlicek face prison terms of up to 10 years each in the trial which is expected to last three Days. All but Ornest Are signers of the charter 77" manifesto of human rights issued by czechoslovak intellectuals. Dozens of sympathizers and supporters gathered at the court building As the trial started but police sealed off the courtroom and Only 14 officially authorized observers were permitted to attend. Sex minister summoned while Kohout and another dissident were arrested former foreign minister Jiri Hajek was ordered to report to a police Sta Tion for questioning and other members of the czechoslovak human rights movement were kept under close surveillance czech sources said. In Warsaw a committee of polish dissidents issued a declaration of Solidarity with the czechoslovak charter 77 move ment and called on participants in the Bel Grade review conference to intervene on behalf of the four on trial. The committee for social self defense protests the indictment and expresses Soli Darity with All signers of the charter 77," the polish statement said. Appeal for support we Appeal to the participants in the Belgrade conference on european Security and cooperation to take a stand on this Issue it said. Czechoslovak police started calling at the Homes of prominent charter 77" sign ers at 4 . In a concerted move to pre vent them from attending the trial czech sources said. More than 800 persons have signed the document. Omeste and Lederer have been held in jail since january. Havel and Pavlicek were both released after four months in investigative arrest. Havel subsequently resigned As spokes Man of charter 77." tory predicts strike if demands not satisfied . Police place ads for pay hike London up British police placed unprecedented newspaper advertisements monday to press pay claims which a member of parliament said could Lead to a police strike. Police pay is a crime said the advertisements in several National newspapers which said a thousand police officers Are assaulted every month. Some earn about 40 pounds $70 a week. No wonder hundreds Are now quitting the service in disgust the police federation ads said. Eldon Griffiths the conservative party member of Parlia ment who advises the police federation said sunday the police almost certainly will strike unless their pay is raised substantially. Police strikes Are illegal in Britain but Griffiths said the walkout would go ahead anyhow. The federation has demanded pay increases of up to 104 percent. The Home office was to respond to the demand tues Day. While violence increases and the crime figures exceed 2 million a year the strength of the police is falling the police federation ads said. Every month a thousand police officers Are assaulted. One in every 10 will have been attacked by the end of 1977. The police Are the front line Between the citizen and anarchy and the Only Way to end the police manpower crisis is to increase police  Alex Haley at the Book fair Marilyn Mikki Torrey representing the afro american club and the Multi cultural committee of Mannheim High school presents roots author Alex Haley with a sketch of him drawn by Mannheim senior Andre Bakke. The sketch is surrounded by signatures by the student body and is wrapped with the official afro american club Sash. Haley met a delegation of american teachers from Mannheim in Frankfurt at his German publisher s stand at the Frankfurt International Book fair where he spent 2 hours meeting read ers. Photo for is by Dabrowski preserve your Unity Queen urges Canada Ottawa i not Queen Elizabeth ii in an address to the nation sunday night Lent her immense prestige to the Effort of prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau s government to keep the country United in the face of a separatist threat by the largely French speaking province of Quebec. What is most evident in looking at your country from the Long term Point of View is that Canada s accomplishments and Prog Ress have from the first moment been the results of the joint efforts and joint councils of canadians of every background she said in a National television broadcast a highlight of her six Day visit to Canada to Mark the Silver Jubilee of her reign. The confederation itself was not a French idea or a British idea she declared referring to the joining together of separate Canadian territories in 1867. Though this is the nation s present form it seems bound to be modified in the near future to meet the growing aspirations of the provinces to greater autonomy especially in  election in Quebec last november of a government dedicated to bringing about political Independence for the province has placed a severe Strain upon the 110-year old Union. Throughout her address the Queen dwelt on the material accomplishments of this multicultural nation which she described As having a Standard of living higher than 92 per cent of the world s  she also stressed the spiritual inspiration to be drawn from cooperation among Peoples with different roots. The body of the speech at least was prepared by Trudeau s staff like All state ments made by the head of state that have a bearing on politics. She spoke in her role As hostess at a state dinner in Rideau Hall the official Guesthouse where she and her husband Prince Philip Are staying. The Queen was expected to make second Appeal for Canadian Unity perhaps in stronger terms when she would read the policy statement called the speech from the throne opening the third session of the30th Canadian parliament on tuesday. Man Given Chimp heart is dead after 82 hours Cape town South Africa a Ben Jamin Fortes died monday 82 hours after or. Christiaan Barnard and his surgical team put a Chimpanzee s heart in the Man s body to bolster his own ailing heart. Fortes a 59-year-old accountant was the second Man to receive a Chimpanzee heart transplant and the first to get one As an auxiliary or piggyback pump. In 1964, or. James Hardy of the University of Mississippi replaced a 68-year-old Man s heart with a Chimpanzee heart but the patient died two hours later. A spokesman for groote Schuur Hospital announced that Fortes died monday morn ing but gave no details. Fortes had been reported in satisfactory condition sunday. But a spokesman for the Hospital said it might take two weeks to de Termine if his body would reject the animal heart. In the past three years Barnard and his cardiac team have performed 17 Success Ful piggyback transplants but in each Case used a second human heart. In his first attempt with an animal heart Barnard last june grafted a Baboon heart to the heart of a 26-year-old italian woman but she lived Only four hours. The doctor said then that the heart of a Baboon was too Small to do the necessary work and that he would use a Chimpanzee heart the next time. For the operation thursday he used the heart of a 10-year-old male Chimp imported from the Netherlands. Hospital sources said Barnard had planned to remove the animal heart As soon As a human heart was available. Train kills 14 cows in . Staythorpe . A fourteen cows were killed when a passenger train slowed into them on the fog bound notting Ham Lincoln railway line in the English midlands. The train was derailed but officials said its 40 passengers were unhurt  
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