European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 12, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Abc Abc each fake j j emmy Beverly Hills Calif. Up Abc won 11 awards six for the special Ben Vereen his roots to tie Abc for emmy for creative arts in to programming announced saturday night by the Academy of television arts and sciences. Lbs won eight awards and Public broadcasting system three out of a total of 33 emmy awarded at a ban Quet at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. The Verein special was the most honoured show including awards for outstanding achievement in choreography technical direction and Art direction. Abc s holocaust and Zieg Feld the Man and his women and lbs Carol Burnett show and once upon a Brothers Grimm received two awards apiece. Powell says Vesco sought Aid from Carter s advisers Thurmont my. A the Whitehouse says fugitive financier Robert l. Vesp tried but failed to get several of president Carter s closest advisers including his Choice As Secretary of state to help end Vesco s Legal problems. Jody Powell White House press Secre tary said emissaries for Vesco who is hid ing out in the Bahamas from trial on five Federal indictments made an approach in december 1976 to Cyrus r. Vance after hews designated Secretary of state and apparently sought Aid from attorney general Griffin Bell. In addition Powell told a group of re porters at the Mideast Summit press Cen Ter Here a Vesco hireling wanted to see help from Carter s principal assistant Hamilton Jordan but was dissuaded fro doing so by Richard Harden a lower rank ing presidential  said however the administration wants to arrest Vesco and bring him to trial. He produced statements from administration officials that the Vesco matter had gotten highest level attention including face to face exchanges Between Carter and his wife Rosalyn i on separate Occa Sions last year with then president Daniel Oduber of Costa Rica where Vesco live until May. Powell met with reporters late sunday after syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported that Vesco directed a High pres sure lobbying Campaign at Jordan and Atlanta attorney Charles Kirbo a carte intimate. Kirbo and Jordan both angrily Deni Danderson s accusations saying they had never made any Effort to intercede on ves co s behalf or Ever been asked to do so. Powell acknowledged that an Albany,ga., attorney Spencer Lee was retained in Vesco s behalf. He said Lee a carte Campaign manager in 1976, was a longtime Jordan Friend from the same Hometown. Cuban president Fidel Castro responds to questions during an informal news conference in Havana attended by representatives of cuban Community toe transplanted to hand a thoughtful Castro newspapers and Miami and new Yor Tkv stations. Castro said he will try to open ties with cuban exiles in the  attempts to improve relations with Washington Are stalled. Castro spoke with exiles at the presidential Palace for the first time since he too Power in 1959. A girl has rare thumbs up surgery Durham . A Back in july Little Trudy Howie of Gastonia let Duke medical Center surgeons Cut one of heroes off. And then in a rare 14-hour opera Tion those surgeons turned that toe into thumb for the 8-year-old. Last week for the first time in her life Trudy was Able to touch her right thumb to her right Little Finger. Until the operation such a simple movement was an impossibility for her because of a congenital birth defect that left Only a nub where her thumb should have  team of six plastic surgeons at Duke medical Center used a technique called microsurgical composite tissue transplantation. It took them 14 hours because the microscopic arteries and veins had to be attached separately some being As Smalls one millimetre in diameter. Trudy s second toe on her left foot was severed and then transplanted to create the new thumb. Skin Bone muscle blood vessels nerves and fatty tissue were  the surgeons drilled a Hole in the end of the toe Bone and secured it suchlike a Cap Over the sharpened remainder of the protruding Bone in the  order to give the thumb feeling two nerves were attached three tendons we reattached to allow free movement. We Are confident that Shell have full feeling and use just like a Normal thumb said or. Donald Serafin associate professor of plastic surgery. Because we transplanted the growing enter it should grow As her hand does. It looks very much like her other thumb  has a Nail which will also continue to  the cast on Trudy s thumb was replaced last week by a splint but it will take sever Al months for the thumb to fully heal. Serafin said the procedure was perfected Only a few years ago and is per formed in Only three or four medical Cen ters around the country. Now the third grader will be Able to hold a Pencil properly in school and manipulate objects in a grasp others take for granted. I think i la be Able to play games and write and draw a lot better. I can already touch my Little Finger she said Friday. Anderson s column distributed to news papers last week for release monday originally began by saying that president Carter s two closest confidants top aide Hamilton Jordan and Atlanta attorney Charles Kirbo have been linked to a $10 million political  but Anderson sent newspapers a revised version of the column Over the weekend eliminating the reference to Jordan and Kirbo being linked to a $10 million Politi Cal  counter Effort the column was revised As the administration mounted an extraordinary Effort to counter Anderson s original allegations. This Effort included the hiring by Jordan on saturday of Edward Bennett Williams celebrated Washington trial lawyer and issuance by Jordan of a statement containing a thinly veiled threat to sue Anderson. The convening of at least two unannounced White House briefings at which Jordan Powell and officials of the depart ments of Justice and state sought to refute Anderson s original column. A Washington briefing on sunday at which Powell even produced Robert Piske the Holdover . Attorney from the Ford administration who would be responsible for prosecuting Vesco from Piske s base in new York City. Anderson said sunday he rewrote parts of his column because the Justice depart ment later provided him new information about its efforts to get Vesco Back to the United states. The columnist originally reported the department abandoned efforts to extradite Vesco from Costa Rica where he lived until he fled to the Bahamas last May 3, five Days before the inauguration of a new pres ident who had made his presence a Campaign Issue. In his revision Anderson said the department quietly switched tactics to seek Vesco s expulsion. Anderson said this is an important fact i did t have and one i Felt i should  Powell contended the expulsion approach was consistent with the policy of the Ford administration. The columnist acknowledged there was no hard evidence they Jordan and Kirbo lifted a Finger to help Vesco. Jordan called Anderson s Story an in credible fabrication and despicable  Kirbo called it an absolute lie by an irresponsible  train derails hits House kills 3, hurts 7 in Ohio Miamisburg Ohio a a freight train derailed sunday night and two of its cars crashed into a House killing at least three people and injuring seven. The victims were identified As 4-week old Michael Joseph Call of Miamisburg Kathy Anne Barkalow 17, of Miamisburg and Linda Humerick 26, of Germantown Ohio. Officials in this Community of 15,000 peo ple said the two women apparently were playing cards in the downstairs living room of the two Story House. Rescue work ers said Humerick was found holding the infant in her arms in the debris. Police chief Ronald Mcbride said one of the rail cars went through the House while the second stopped part Way through the dwelling. More cars were piled up near an abandoned feed Mill. They just stacked up like a car wreck Mcbride said they squeezed together like an accordion