European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1978 key issues to be inflation Washington up pocketbook concerns like inflation and taxes will be the cutting issues of the fall congressional chairmen of the nations two major political parties said democratic chairman John White and gop chairman William in Sepa rate interviews with news and world said voters were focusing on issues that directly affected their local issues such As taxes and inflation Are the key this White our candidates Are going to emphasize that there better Able to handle Domestic the former Texas agriculture offi Cial democrats have nothing to apologize for since the Federal deficit was drop Ping under president Carters i think our record on fiscal responsibility certainly exceeds any Republican re Cord we know White a former Tennessee Dis the democrats without admit Ting it have become the tax Brock contending that Carters tax proposal Means Well Over half the american peo ple will be paying higher taxes next year than they Are in like conceded pocketbook issues will make or break i think voters Are looking most at those issues that affect them personally the Cost of living and their ability to buy a educate provide for and of pay he Brock said the party of Abraham Lin Coln finally was making gains recruiting Blacks As candidates and As Well As other minorities and Blu Collar were talking to precisely the groups who Are frustrated with the inability to control their own Brock the gop Effort to get Black won Little sympathy from John interviewed Over the weekend by americas Black suggestions that Blacks consider the gop As an alternative to the democrats is a Nowin Conyers since the republicans in Congress Are at least twice As bad As Conyers should decide whether to make or break Carter in if he is salvageable and i leave that As an open question then the rejuvenation of president Jimmy Carter has to be Gin this Conyers Sam Ross hangs Over the Edge of the 17 Story United National Bank building in Dallas with a rope tied to his legs after tied up Over traffic getting out of a Strait jacket left then climbs Back to the an unemployed construction worker from says he i to be the greatest death Devyln Devil on desertion count reduced to awol surgeon facing of court martial new York up a plastic surgeon arrested by the air Force one Day last immediately inducted As a major and then charged the very next Day with now faces reduced charges of being absent without Elliot was inducted into the military after he was arrested at his new York City apartment by a lieu tenant colonel and flown to Dyess fab in Jacobs was originally charged with de but the charges were reduced to awol by a hearing the hearing officer had recommended that Jacobs be Given a nonjudicial punish but the office of Brian commander of the 15th air ordered the scheduled or to go Jacobs had committed himself to serv ing in the air Force by joining the Berry plan when he finished medical school in under the in effect at a time when doctors were subject to the doctors were Given deferments to com plete their residencies on the condition they serve two years in the service of their Jacobs was originally to report for Active duty in july 1976 but was Given a year Extension to Complete his residency in plastic in he was Given a month Extension because his who had had three mis was pregnant she later lost the previous to who transplant of testicle is a Success Washington up doctors in Louis have successfully performed what is reported to be the first human testicle transferring one reproductive gland from a Normal Man to his identical twin announcing a breakthrough achieved but not publicized about a year airman Silber said the transplanted Organ is functioning perfectly and the 30 year old Oom without is now both potent and Fertile enough to father he has a Normal sperm so he is now a member of the Luke Hospital West team that performed the declared in a Telephone inter As a result of this initial he his team intends to perform another testicle transplant Between twin Brothers next month and Hopes Fatherson trans plants May take place in the near Silber said that the 1977 operation was kept secret so that doctors could Monitor the results of the surgery and make sure the recipients body would not reject the transplanted male reproductive rejection of a transplanted Organ is not unusual and was one of the major Obsta cles to heart transplant it is especially when the donor is not related to the in this Case reported by Silber in Fertility and sterility journal and amplified in Telephone interviews with up the do nor and recipient were twins who Are genetically identical except that one brother was born with two Testicles and the other with their identities were not in the Silber said that the recipient had enjoyed an Active sex life even without but had produced exceptionally High Levels of female Hor he required weekly injections of the male in order to stabilize his mood and to maintain secondary sex such As a growth of the report said he had Long been asking doctors to try a testicle transplant because he wished to discontinue the injections and father i own his donor is the father of three he retained one testicle after the trans Plant by Silber said that the genetic makeup of any child sired by a testicle transplant recipient would be determined by the donors and not by the recipe in this he the genes Are the same since donor and recipient Are identical that was also a deciding Factor in using first such transplant Silber since the Genel Denty mus mixed the possibility that the Organ would in his published Silber said the transplant was performed by microsurgery that required Only a simple incision in the lower Pelvis and the stitching to Gether of nerves and blood vessels under a special tests indicate that the patient began producing his own testosterone at Normal Levels within two hours after with the level of female hormones coming Down to Normal he said completed his had debut it was a conscientious objector and my air Force for the necessary Pap Mvi discharged on that the air Force agreed to Proem wit quest at Mcguire base to new t in both sides hut did not a n Ter ordering him to report for tember he received a letter and from Dyess informing him Taat Al Jacobs says he sent a letter Tot Force explaining that he was claim before taking 1 was not denied until May of Udor Jacobs civilian Jot who had counselled him in he says she was about to court seeking a stay of induct doctor was she saw i or heard of a claimant be until the claim was processed Robert a so said the air ahead with the court martial i Field Grade officer being off leave is a very serious j if Jacob could be honorable he said Hes reached i All my Bridges Are cent a dishonourable dead then All this misery would e Hok Ranc to world a tin commit Lola 9uiim4 Guu Wustum 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