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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Snow chills . West a i shelters Page 2 d Mandrikova upsets Evert in . Open semifinals Page 21 q . Trading partners get Reagan warning Page 28 the stars  vol. 44, no. 143 sunday septembers 1985 is Don and sunday d 8693 a 31 killed in Milwaukee air crash Rescue workers rest after it becomes apparent there Are no survivors of air crash near Milwaukee. Milwaukee investigators saturday probed the debris of a Midwest express airlines dc-9 which crashed Friday under sunny skies shortly after taking of from general Billy Mitchell held killing All 31 people aboard it. Witnesses said the twin engine plane fluttered in the air rolled twice and plummeted to the ground about a half mile South of the runway bursting into flames. The aircraft was demolished said Federal aviation administration spokeswoman Marjorie Kriz in Chicago. Flight 105, in route from Madison wis., to Atlanta carried 26 passengers four Crew members and an airline employee Judy Lawrence a spokeswoman for the Apple ton  airline said. A National transportation safety Board team arrived late Friday and worked through the night looking for clues Robert ?.on, an Nosb employee supervising work at the crash site said. The plane s cockpit voice recorder was recovered but the Orange Box protecting it was crushed at one end and it might be too badly damaged to Tel Why the plane crashed. It s very severely damaged. But we May get some thing out of it said James Burnett chairman of the National transportation safety Board. Whatever was said in the cockpit Well get if the tape is in Good  the crash was the 19lh commercial air Accident in 1985 and added to the death toll of More than 1,400 this year the worst on record. The plane used Pratt & Whitney jt8d-7 engines an older Model than the jt8d-15 that apparently exploded causing 2 British Boeing 737 crash in August said Pratt & Whitec spokesman David Long in East Hartford Conn. Rex Kessler director of maintenance for Midwest express said the airline s maintenance Crews had been alerted to pay extra attention to symptoms of engine Mal function in Light of the British Accident. Mort Edc Stcin an Faa spokesman in Chicago said see crash on Page 28 to billion dumping held Down Buck new York a the United slates and 10 allies lumped about s10 billion on foreign  markets be tween Jan. 21 and March 1, one of the largest coordinated interventions against the Dollar since foreign Exchange rates began floating in 1973, the Federal re serve Bank of new York said Friday. The disclosure was made in the . Central Bank s semiannual report to con Gress on its foreign Exchange operations and provided the government s first confirmation of the size of the joint intervention that helped halt the Dollar s record breaking Rise last Winter. The . Share of the operation As previously disclosed was s659 million Over the five week period. That was the largest . Intervention since Early 1981, during the beginning months of the Reagan administration. In february March 1981, the United states bought the equivalent of $778.4 million in Wes German Marks when the Dollar was rising sharply in volatile Trad ing and later sold the equivalent of $74.4 million in Marks to support the Dollar and Calm markets after an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Reagan on March 30. In the late 1970s, . Intervention was substantially higher. When Central Banks intervene against the Dollar they sell dollars and buy other currencies. The sudden flood of dollars on the mar Ket combined with increased demand for other currencies and the psychological Impact when it becomes Clear that Central Bank action is being launched against a specific currency usually is enough to halt a precipitous Rise by the Dollar. Analysts have said however that intervention alone usually is not enough to re verse the course of a currency. Under the Reagan administration intervention has been limited to countering conditions of disorder in foreign Exchange markets. Disorderly conditions have never been precisely defined giving the Federal Reserve and the Treasury some leeway in their operations. In addition at a january financial sum Mil of officials from the uni cd Stales Japan West Germany Britain and see Buck on Page 28 Drummond receives Accident victim s heart Tucson Ariz. Up1 surgeons sat urday transplanted the heart of a 19-year old motorcycle Accident victim into the youngest heart patient Ever kept alive by a Jarvik-7 artificial heart. The almost five hour operation at the University of Arizona medical Center was performed on 25-year-old Michael drum mond after he suffered a series of mild strokes thursday that temporarily impaired his speech and hand movements. The operation began immediately after a seven hour round trip Jet flight to Texas to remove the Accident victim s heart by a four person transplant team that performed both  medical team flew to Texas Friday night to obtain the heart of Terr cd Griffin who was killed when his motorcycle struck a car. The heart of the Accident victim was re moved in an hour Long operation at a Hospi Tal in the Texas City of Tyler. The surgeons looked for abnormalities or problems with the heart during the operation and found nothing wrong with it said Mike Woods director of emergency care at the Texas Hospital. They said the heart looked  a member of the medical team carrying the heart in a special Container dashed 1 so Yards from a helicopter Landing pad near the Hospital to a Side Entrance officials said. The medical team had been airlifted to the Hospital from an Airport in Tucson. There were three heart donor Candi dates in Texas tonight but this had the Best match said Woods. A learn from the Southwest Organ Bank in Dallas removed the victim s kidneys for future transplants he said. Nina Trasoff a spokeswoman at the Ari Zona Hospital said the medical learn iwo physicians a transplant coordinator and a scrub nurse made the trip in a Learjet. Drummond became the sixth person in inc world to receive the Holyur Culhane and aluminium Jarvik heart on aug. 29. At the time he had less than 24 hours to live Wilh a deteriorating natural heart. A viral infection last March spread to his heart and caused cardiomyopathy deterioration of the Harl muscle. Of the six Jarvik patients four including Drummond have survived Wilh inc mechanical Harl. The hrs Palicot or. Barney Clark a Seattle dentist lived for 112 Days after the surgery was performed in Salt Lake cily. On Friday Drummond appeared to have overcome most of the effects of the strokes. Sweden s artificial heart patient Leif Stenburg suffered a stroke sept. I and was resumed to the intensive care unil at Stock Holm s Karolinsky Hospital. Before the stroke 52-year-old Stonberg. A real estate businessman had been recovering quickly from his april 7 heart implant  
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