European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday december 22, 1985 heart patient s slow recovery worrisome Minneapolis a the first woman to receive an artificial heart is not improving As quickly As doctors had hoped and officials say they fear that the implant of the Jarvik-7 pump May have been too late to save her. Mary Lund. 40. Remained in critical but stable Condi Tion saturday. Her condition has not changed significantly since last night said or. Fredarick Gobol a cardiologist and spokesman for the team that performed the implant. Because mrs. Lund s neurological and kidney functions Are not improving As quickly As doctors had hoped doctors continue to Monitor these functions very closely he said saturday. Gobol said Friday that doctors were concerned that her slow recovery May mean that the implant team was not Able to help her soon enough. I would have liked to have seen her recover a bit More rapidly than she has he said. It May be too  however Gobol said saturday that her respiratory functions continue to improve and there arc no apparent signs of infection. She is receiving drugs to prevent blood clotting he said and the mini Jarvik-7 implant and re lated equipment Are functioning very  Lund received a smaller version of the Jarvik-7 heart in a six hour operation at Abbott Northwestern Hospital that ended Early thursday. The surgery was performed after doctors diagnosed what they believed to be acute viral myocarditis a rare virus attack on the heart muscle. Gobol said the air driven artificial heart was to be used until Lund is healthy enough to receive a human heart transplant. Gobel said a minor procedure was performed on Lund s right leg to relieve pressure Friday afternoon. The pressure was a complication caused by the balloon pump which was used to assist her own heart s pumping prior to the implantation of the artificial heart he Saint. The minor procedure was done at  earlier Friday Gobol said at a news conference at the present time the artificial heart is working  he said Lund has a better than 50-50 Chance of survival. If a virus is still in her body it could attack a new heart Loo. Lund who exercised regularly and enjoyed Cross coun iry skiing was Laken to the Douglas county Hospital tuesday morning suffering from nausea and a burning sensation in her Chest. An ambulance took her to Abbot Northwest can later that Day. I Felt time was extremely critical said or. Ron be rant an internist at Douglas county Hospital. "1 Felt time was slipping  a team led by or. Lyle Joyce began surgery wednes Day evening. A second operation was performed thursday morning to explore excessive loss of fluids in her Chest cavity Gobol said. The Jarvik-7 device is about 30 percent smaller than those implanted in seven men. The smaller device had never been used on humans before. Man accused of giving secrets to soviets Bulgaria places barriers outside . Embassy Washington up a print shop worker was arrested Friday night on charges of trying to pass . Defense secrets to the soviet military office in Washington the Fri said. The Fri said the arrest brings to 11 the number of people charged with espionage in the United states this year. The latest suspect identified As Randy Miks Jeffries 26, of Washington was arrested Friday night at a downtown Motel Fri spokesman Lane Bonner said. Jeffries is accused of securing american defense secrets through his employment at a local printing firm that does business under contract with the . Government an Fri statement said. The Fri charges Jeffries attempted to deliver the classified documents to the soviet military office dec. 14. If convicted Jef Fries could face life in prison for the offence. At a hearing in District of Columbia Superior court Jeffries was ordered held without Bond on spying charges. He will be arraigned monday in . District court on Federal charges of gather ing or delivering defense information. Ensa worker indicted in spy Case Baltimore my. A former National Security Agency employee Ron Ald w. Pc ton was indicted Friday by a Federal grand jury on six counts of espionage accusing him of delivering . Secrets to the soviet government. Pc ton 44, who was arrested nov. 24 at a hotel in Annapolis was charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of de livering classified defense information to the soviets. Each charge is punishable by a term of life in prison. He also was charged with one count of transmitting information about the . Spy communications system to an unauthorized person which is punish Able by a 10-year prison term. When Pelton was arrested he was charged with Only one count of delivering National defense information to a foreign government and one count of conspiracy. The government said Pelton admitted in a nov. 24 interview with the Fri that he sold extremely sensitive classified information about . Intelligence activities to the soviets after leaving the Asa in 1979. He began working for the supers Crit Agency in 1965. A communications specialist at the Asa Pellon had top secret clearance with special Access to signals intelligence. The government said pc ton went to the soviet embassy in Washington in january 1980, about six months after his govern ment Job ended and nine months after he filed for bankruptcy offering to provide sensitive intelligence information for Cash. Sofia Bulgaria a bulgarian officials erected barricades in front of the . Embassy saying they have received a threat from a shadowy islamic terrorist group against american installations in Eastern Europe. However . Officials said saturday they believe the move was aimed at prevent ing bulgarians from entering the embassy Library rather than protecting the building. The officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified said the Metal crowd control barricades were put up shortly after thanksgiving. They said bulgarian officials told them that a threat had been received from the terrorist group islamic jihad against american buildings in the Eastern bloc. Temperatures lawmakers from Page 1 medicare patients and the other a freeze on fees paid to doctors under the program. With Snow threatening to snarl transportation out of the capital lawmakers were impatient for a solution. Why Are we not taking the reasonable Way out from this morass said sen. J. James Exon a Nib. We re almost threatening the breakdown of the entire system. What would the founding fathers think White House spokesman Larry Speakes indicated the lawmakers were spinning their wheels Over the deficit reduction Bill a three year package that included s60 billion in spending cuts and is 4 billion in taxes. We would veto the. Bill in its present form he said saying the superfund tax was just one of Many problems the administration saw in the measure. Others include a formula to share billions of dollars of offshore Oil revenues with coastal states which Speakes called a Giveaway that could Cost the Treasury up to $27 billion Over several years. The administration also opposed the Bill s continuation of Aid to industries Hurt by foreign Trade. Epa from Page 1 one asking Why his cml Christmas card mailing list was so grossly and deliberately outdated and another request that he provide a list of All individuals not on your  the letter ended with every Good Christmas wish and was signed by Thom As executive assistant Linda j. Fisher. Dingell responded to Only one of the requests. He sent the administrator s office a Box crammed with six Telephone directories Laken to be the names of people not on his cml. French gunmen gave up to Aid Friend Nantes France a the three gunmen who seized a courtroom full of hos tages ended their 34-hour standoff with police after receiving a Promise that their moroccan Comrade would be sent Home France s top policeman said. No one was injured in the siege which began thursday when the moroccan Abdel Karim Khaki burst into the courtroom where two French comrades were being tried on armed robbery charges. Carrying a grenade and a pistol Khaki grabbed the judge by the Throat and or dered guards to turn Over their weapons. The siege ended Friday night when the three released the last of their 32 hostages on a police encircled Airport runway fro which the gunmen had hoped to Fly to free Dom. Police commissioner Robert Broussard told reporters the three surrendered after police promised to expel Khaki 33, to Morocco. He said officials appealed to the other two gunmen to return the favor Khaki had performed in trying to free them by allowing him to return Home. Police said they assumed Khaki would be tried by moroccan authorities. Police said Khaki befriended the two robbery suspects Georges Courtois 38, and Patrick Thiolet 24, while All three were serving terms in a French prison. Khaki had been in prison for an armed Holdup and was released nov. 29. During the courthouse standoff the three freed most of their hostages while issuing political statements criticisms of the French Legal system and society and claims that they would rather die than return to prison. Thirty hours after seizing guards weapons and taking Over the courtroom the gun men persuaded police to allow them and four remaining hostages All court officials to drive to the Airport outside Nantes. Handcuffed to their hostages the gun men walked to a car provided by police and drove first to the Tram station where they picked up additional weapons from a locker police sources said. The most dramatic moment came Fri Day shortly before the gunmen left for the Airport. Courtois walked out onto the court House Steps and fired into a crowd of report ers and television Crews about 70 Yards away. No one was hit. Courtois and Thiolet had been on trial with two other suspects in connection with a december 1983 armed robbery near Nantes. The two other defendants who were charged with Possession of stolen goods were allowed to leave when the siege began and immediately were taken into custody. L i n n m 33 31 29 4622 30 12 27 33 47 26 44 -1 12 17 30 it 24 9 22 31 55 19 31 3 1? 20 24 i 23 2� 47 24 50 i 34 23 20 24 -21-34 25 62 m 3� 59i 19 14 41 3 12 3 to  Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic Colv Baltimore Billing Birmingham Boise Boston Bushik Burlington Charleston. S. C.  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