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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 10. 1985 car bomb explosion injures 19 in Madrid Madrid a a car bomb exploded on a downtown Street monday As a Van full of paramilitary soldiers passed police said. Nineteen people were injured including an american businessman. Police said the car bomb Mas detonated by Remote control near the Plaza do la Argentina at about 7 30 . Civil guard to several consulates and embassies including the soviet embassy to relieve other guards police said. Sixteen of those Hurt were civil guard members and the other three were civilian passers by officials said. Eight of the guards and one passer by were taken to the red Cross Hospital and the other victims were rushed to a Provin Cial Hospital police said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but police said they suspect the Basque separatist group Eta. An employee of a Madrid hotel said an american businessman who was jogging in the area at inc time of the blast was on of those injured. Police identified the Man As Eugene Brown 40, a new Jersey resident employed by Johnson and Johnson. Doctors at the red Cross Hospital said he w As in serious a Phol officials in Madrid inspect wreckage left by � car bomb which wounded 19 people. Drummond walks eats solid Hod Tucson Ariz. A Michael Drummond took a few Steps and ate solid food just one Day after his Jarvik-7 artificial  was replaced by the heart of a Young traffic Accident victim from Texas Hospital officials said. Nina Trasoff a spokeswoman for University medical Center said sunday that Drummond was doing Well and doctors were pleased with his Progress. He remained in critical but stable condition monday according to a taped Hospital statement. Drummomd 25, was Able to stand and walk two or three Steps sunday morning and he had a breakfast of hoi Cereal and Orange juice Trasoff said. Drummond whose own heart was dam aged by a virus became the youngest recipient of a Jarvik-7 artificial heart in an aug. 29 operation at the medical Center. It was the first Lime the Jarvik-7 device had been used of sustain a patient s life until a human heart could be located. Five pre Vious implants were intended to be Perma nent. Drummond s aphasia or difficulty in speaking that appeared after he suffered a series of Small strokes thursday had All but disappeared by sunday Rasoft said. Other artificial heart recipients also have suffered strokes. Drummond s parents attended a Hospital news briefing sunday and thanked the fam ily of Tarro Griffin the 19-year- Texas Man whose heart was implanted in drum mond s Chest in a 4-hour, 45-Minutc opera Tion saturday morning. We talked to Michael one hour ago and it s just wonderful with his new heart said Drummond s father Clarence. We want to just thank everybody All Over the coun try everybody who s been praying Foi  Drummond said his son did have a glow on his face this  Trasoff said one ump doctor whom she did not name told her Drummond seemed to be doing better than most heart trans Plant patients. They think that is because he had the Benefit of a heart beating strongly in him for several Days before receiving the trans Plant she said. Drummond slept Well saturday night and his vital organs were practically perfect sunday morning Trasoff said. His blood pressure and temperature were both Normal she said. Drummond s Mother Joan who is a nurse at a Phoenix area Hospital said her son seemed to be making Good Progress and was in Good spirits sunday. He seems very Happy she said. He seems great this  a surgical team from the University medical Center flew to Tyler Texas Fri Day night to remove the heart from Griffin and Fly it Back to Tucson. Doctors removed the Jarvik-7 mechanical pump in six minutes and began to implant the human heart at 2 40 . Saturday. The sur Gery was completed at 6 45 . Or. Jack Copeland head of the Hospital s heart transplant team said at a briefing after the surgery that there had been More bleeding that surgeons anticipated but when we closed the bleeding seemed to be in  Trasoff said sunday that Drummond had shown no signs of additional bleeding since  Drummo surgery. German opposition says pullout is Only one of several proposals res Al  to 1011, so most influential newspapers. Mans must serve and the eventual with Bonn a the opposition social democrats said sunday that an internal paper calling for converting the army to a militia and the withdrawal of . Troops from Europe is Only one of several proposals for the party s platform. Willi Wimmer the defense spokesman in parliament for the governing Christian democrats had called the document a be trayal of Germany s external Security. The existence of the paper was disclosed in the weekend editions of the Frankfurter ally Meine Zeitung. One of Germany s most influential newspapers. Wolfgang Clement Deputy chairman of the social democratic party accused the government of trying to play up the party document in a hysterical  he said the paper was one of different proposals to be debated before the party decides on a defense platform for the 1987 elections. The document proposes the military s transformation into a defensive militia modelled after the one in Neutral Switzer land the reduction of military time Ger Man drawl of . And soviet forces from Central Europe. It was written by Andreas von Buelow a social democratic Deputy in parliament and a former state Secretary in the defense ministry. In an interview with the augsburger Al Ige Meine newspaper Buelow Laid the paper had been discussed by the party s Security affairs committee last week but had not been voted upon. Unclaimed baggage Offenbach Germany Sas warehouse personnel Are trying to locate service members and civilians in Europe who have not claimed their unaccompanied baggage a v corps spokesman said. Baggage Eft unclaimed for 120 to is Days is subject to disposal he said. The following people should Contact the Offenbach warehouse Ito Box 444, Frankfurt military Community apo09170, or Call Frankfurt military 2311 5008 or 7309. Bayaoa uncut we altar u do Brady Jack a a. Conway Jackla , Toov a. Oxnard hartal l. Duttman Zana a. Hafl. James l. Mcdonald Shawn Hava Karl j. Frauds Sloan Surv . Wilkinson. Andrea Woolsey. Irana a. Yaffi. Tobari Matial Jolt c. Wordy i mar m 4m Mooar slap Hen swill Kathy Woods Thomas condition. The hotel employee said Brown arrived last week and was to leave monday. Four of the guards also were in serious condition doctors said. The explosion shattered windows in near by apartment buildings and partially destroyed several cars parked in the area. The news Agency Europa press said two men 2nd  
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