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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q vietnamese refugee finds a new Home Page 2 q civilian jobless rate drops to 7 percent Page 6 q azores to England trip was Tough on tug pages 8,9 the stars Ano stripes authorized unofficial publication Fob the u v Ahmed Fod Cei vol. 44, no. 142 saturday september 7, 1985 in Don and d 8693 a Reagan sorry for Africa remark new outbreaks of violence hit s. Africa areas Johannesburg South Africa a riot patrols used Bir shot rubber bul lets tear Gas and whips Friday against a Youthful mob As new violence erupted near Durban police said. Near Cape town police guards drove off attackers trying to fire bomb the Home of a mixed race member of parliament As sporadic rioting persisted overnight. Seventy six people were arrested in the Cape town rioting where police battled youths in seven mixed race townships police Headquarters at Pretoria said. No new deaths were reported. In a year of turmoil Over apartheid South Africa s racial segregation system More than 650 people have been killed. The Law and order minister Louis in Grange said Friday he planned new Mea see Africa on Page 28 ? a photo police arrive in Athlone area of Cape town where a truck Burns after being set afire. Washington a president Reagan said Friday he is sorry he carelessly gave the impression that racial Segre gation had been eliminated in South Africa. During an Impromptu question and an scr session with reporters at the White House Reagan said i did t intend to say that during a Telephone interview last week from his California ranch. I m sorry that 1 carelessly gave the impression that i believed that segregation had been  the president said. There Are areas where it has  in an interview in August Reagan told web radio in Atlanta that South africans have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country the Type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so Forth were segregated that has All been  his comments louche-4 off a juror in the United states and elsewhere among opponents of the South african government which is controlled by the nation s White minority. Speakes sought to explain Reagan s com ment at the time saying he was talking about major cities where there has been a step in that direction to remove barriers of apartheid major areas such As Pretoria see Reagan on Page 28 Congress asks Dod Short tour study at the request of Congress the ining the grounds for their Short by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington services Are re exam tour designations in a Survey that could mean longer stays for military people in the places that seem furthest from Home. The defense department wants the data from the services by mid March and owes the House and Senate armed services commit pcs a report by july 31. In its report on the 1986 defense authorization Bill the House committee directed the department to set overseas Tours at 36 months for personnel accompanied by their families and at 24 months for those unaccompanied and to provide the rationale for any exceptions. The committee said exceptions appear to be based on subjective judgments by commanders and demanded that they be justified with conclusive  in june air Force it. Gen. Edgar Chavarrie Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for military personnel and Force management asked the services to fill out forms detailing the reasons behind each exception. The forms have essentially two parts an officer in Chavarrie s department said. The first probably can be filled out by Icenior com Manders or major commands he said. It inquires information on the military population climate housing and medical support and local customs. Data for the second part probably would have to come from the local personnel centers he said. It asks about re enlist mint and tour Extension rates and discipline problems. That kind of data matters according to a 6-Wcck-old general accounting office report. In 1980, the army won permission to trim the length of a Long tour overseas assignment for first term unaccompanied soldiers from 30 months to 18. In asking for the change the commander of the . European see Dod on Page 28 Drummond strokes Spur search for new heart Tucson Ariz. A doctors at University medical Center waited Friday for a gravely injured Man to die and searched for other possible heart donors As the world s youngest recipient of a Jarvik-7 artificial heart fought Back from a series of tiny  officials were pursuing a Possi ble donor heart for Michael Drummond from a 21-year-old Man in an Oklahoma City Hospital who was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head transplant coordinator Mary Jean Mcaleer said. His family reportedly had Given Permis Sion for the donation if he did not survive she said. Drummond s name was entered on National and regional computer lists for donor organs and hospitals were alerted of the immediate need for a heart. The University of Arizona s heart trans Plant team intensified the search for a donor heart after or. Jack Copeland who implanted the Jarvik-7 in Drummond j Chest aug. 29, expressed concern that the strokes could be an indication of More serious problems. Copeland has planned All along to use the Jarvik-7 Only to keep Drummond alive until a human donor heart could be found. Telephone Calls about possible donor hearts in san Francisco and Phoenix also were received at the medical Center Mca Lear said but both were older than a 35 year old maximum age limit which was set in order to avoid the possibility of arterial disease. University medical Center spokeswoman Jan Rooney said thursday night that Drummond 25, was very much improved from the morning when doctors discovered he had suffered a series of Small embolism. His right Side is almost Normal and his strength has returned she said. Doctors said earlier that the strokes left drum mond s right hand slightly paralysed. Roo nay said neurologists found no evidence of permanent damage from the strokes. Drummond was put Back on a liquid diet in anticipation of surgery to replace the artificial heart with a human heart. We Are afraid More problems could come up in the next few Days or week Copeland said. We arc anxious to proceed with the  he said the strokes probably were caused by an inadequate dosage of the anti coagulant heparin. He said Drummond s liver appeared to have recovered from the in see heart on Page 28 base Bam payer names names of drug trial Page 21  
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