European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 197b the stars and stripes Page 7  who has a by Molly to disease in an isolation null at Duke medical Center baby gets new anti germ therapy Apap dozens of babies born each year without natural immunities May have their lives Riding on the unusual experiences of Lemon hold the Happy resident of a special i City at Duke University medical Ricky suffers from severe combined immunodeficiency disease same hereditary condition that kept a Texas boy named David in a Ger free Bubble Tor his first six like Ricky lives in isolation from Ibe world with a plexiglass shield sur rounding his crib and a warm Stream of filtered air pushing potential disease away from but he shows signs of responding to a ail que and still experimental therapy that May offer nope for Normal lives far him David and others born with no natural system to combat germs and the therapy involves injections of feint liver cells to make up a Lack of White blood which normally combat the countless infectious organisms in a Normal the process it being tried in several medical but Ricky brother 4 years is the longest surviving recipient of such their last names Are withheld by Duke at Ute re quest of the neither Ricky nor David has a brother or sister who could serve As a donor of Bone marrow the material in the body which naturally produces the experiments have shown that Bone marrow from donors other than closely matched Brothers or Sisters produces fatal read the therapy under Way at Duke involves cells taken from fetuses a to 10 weeks at that stage of a lot of ceus in the liver Are not liver at said Rebecca professor of paediatrics at they Are actually the cells which will differentiate into the while cells which Ricky the liver celts Are taken from fetuses obtained in a suspension is made and infused into the peritoneal cavity the space that surrounds the stomach and from there the Ceils know where to she the cells Home to the in Pho id tissues where the cells he is lacking would and to the Bone Ricky has had four such infusions in a search for cells which will slay with the last one about id Days it taken 14 months to determine if the infusion has taken fetuses in the right stage of develop ment Are but the procedure itself is simple and she that one of the for choosing it As she Eartha Kitt returns to White House v Washington api president and Carter welcomed More than 100 7 guests to a White House reception sunday evening to celebrate the anniversary of the reopening of historic p and to one guest Carters receiving line la pleasantries were p in glad to have you Carter Laid to entertainer Eartha who had Tut been at the White House since Shea she gave her outspoken views i i against the Vietnam War to a shocked Tendon t took that As a personal s i joining die Carters on the receiving line f were House speaker Thomas tip Cine ill and his who was the chairwoman of the Fords theater who has been starring in tie Musi Cal Timbuktu at the Kennedy wed the crowd in the East room where Carter praised the Heaters Many support guests included Henry Cliff Rob lome Melba and a docent who said he first came to to White House when Franklin Roosevelt was president and in still always so in and Carter to attend the Teal two from shows that have which b id blocks from he whits in Oneill said she expected ticket Nsofor the Golant the to ear w bring at test in Fords will receive from which will carry the program on us Only one president has attended a Lefor Roance at Fords since Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there in april Gerald Ford attended the opening of James Whitmore give pm hell about Harry at the time of the the the Ater was one of the capitals favorite Gath ering and one which Lincoln patronized but it remained shuttered for a Century after his Assassin its John tried to reopen after the but Public sentiment was against him he sold the building to the which used it Over the years As an office a med ical museum and a in 1964 Congress voted funds to restore the with the help of photographs taken by Matthew the reconstruction was accomplished Over a period of three years and at a Cost of nearly 3 Mil the theater was reopened on the 159lh anniversary of lincolns disregard of exposed gis alleged Washington up the chairman of a House health subcommittee sunday accused the defense and Energy depart ments of not keeping track of the thou Sands of soldiers exposed to atomic radiation because at possible Legal the subcommittee headed by Paul concluded the first round of hearings last week into a possible link Between atomic bomb blasts and leu Kemia incidences in some soldiers who were on Maneu vers at Nevada test the veterans administration estimated soldiers have been exposed la nuclear radiation since the Center for disease control hat identified eight leukaemia victims who were present at a 1957 operation Smoky blast at Camp desert a former army Corporal testified that his hair and Teeth fell he became Ster had dizziness and got a blood disease after being among troops at the Smoky Lam amazed at the Lack of concern evidenced by the department of defense and department of Energy on followup studies of american citizens exposed to radiation from nuclear test conducted by the gov Rogers said in an army witnesses told the subcommittee that although radiation Reading were taken on Many of those who were virtually no Effort has been made since then to Check for Lon term there has been an almost studied Effort to avoid it because of the possibility of liability to those who were Rogers i dont know what they do with the re there Doest seem much Point in having records if they dont do something with Roger said the subcommittee was sur prised when army officials told them Smoky was one of the trolled tests in terms of Rad Lallon expo he said that Means his panel must follow up the other exercises As Rogers said be was satisfied with the work of the Center for disease control and said the subcommittee Felt the defense and Energy departments were beginning to co he that the government has spent More Money on study ing effects of radiation on japanese than it has on what was the purpose of putting troops in atomic areas he it looks like More of a Public relations the second round of hearings will begin 3 pounds of heroin seized Italy api police seized three pounds of heroin valued at nearly half a million dollars and arrested two turks on drug charges marriage vets give Golden advice Chicago api some 400 elderly Cou Pithy comments about lots of kids go into Marri pies celebrating their ugh anniversaries marriage today this year have some simple advice for sue if it Doest i can Ces Srul marriage wait out the worse and always get enjoy the when be gets in my he just goes downstairs and stays in the basement for a said Joseph Deutsch of Chi she and her husband were among the couples who braved near Zero tempera Tures and Snow logged streets to attend a mass in their Honor said by Cardinal John archbishop of the Chicago roman Catholic the couples were honoured at a reception where several of them offered some always get said who added that he and his wife went through hard times during the but never even thought of what keeps a marriage together Hon and hard said Ralph of and plenty of Home added Ber 77 year old Many of those celebrating their Golden anniversaries agreed on one thing to sur Vive a Long lasting forget about the illusions of unending tolerance is a big part of said Morrell Richards of when the going gets youve got to try a Little harder and wait for better times something couples nowadays seem to kids getting married today want too Many things All at they Rush id get a House right a a the emphasis is on not each she for Thomas who came to the from Ireland in the recipe for a Long marriage is easy work so youre too tired to carry on with and drink a shot once in a his wife had a simpler explanation i married a Good