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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 27, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday. September 27,19b6 . Asks judge to delay sentencing in spy Case Washington up1 attorney Genera Edwin Meese said Friday the Justice department has asked a Federal judge in Baltimore to delay sentencing soviet spy John Walker so that he can face renewed question ing about his spy ring. Meese Al a news conference conceded that investigators believe that Walker a former Navy chief War rant officer May have lied at least in part about the family and Friend spy network that has been called the most damaging in . History. We will not be satisfied until we re sure that behave ail the information and we assure ourselves that it is accurate Meese said. Although he would nol say whether the Navy prompted the Justice department 10 seek the second delay because officials Are questioning the need to Honor a plea agreement with Walker Meese said Secretary Caspar Weinberger and i keep in close touch on this and 1 think by the time we re ready for sentencing everybody will be  Walker pleaded guilty last fill to Selling us. Defense secrets to the soviet Union and in a plea bargain agreement was to be sentenced on. 3 to life in prison by . District judge Alexander Harvey ii. Under the agreement Walker s son Michael would receive a 25 pinpointing the trouble or. Jade Ali Rae Swansea a pfc of act Erburu books electrical Kuts to Acap Ectore a idles she is using to treat knee and hip problems in 14 year old Bufty a Labrador refer Ieper. Swan on say she has used acupuncture to successfully treat More than 100 animals in the past two years. Year sentence hastening hit chances for parole. Walker s older brother Arthur and Best Friend Jerry Whitworth also have been convicted in the Case. Arthur Walker received life in prison and Whitworth was sentenced last month to 36s years in prison. Meese said the delay in sentencing was requested because questions were raised one Way or the other by various entities within the government and the prosecutor fell it is important that All of those issues be resolved before they can make their presentation to the judge on  we re reviewing the matter to make sure we have Al the information that was agreed to be Given and that it is accurate he said. Justice department officials said Arthur Walker a retired Navy lieutenant commander was being brought to Maryland for further questioning about Tes Timony John Walker has Given. Both John and Arthur Walker Bav insisted that Ashur did not engage in espionage while in the Navy and that John formed Thering. Bui the officials said lie Detector tests have shown John Walker to be deceptive on the scope and origin of the ring raising Doubis about whether prosecutors will Honor the plea arrangement. Girl 14, receives 2nd new heart Houston a a teen age girl whose twin Sis Ter underwent a heart transplant last year was recovering Friday after undergoing her second such trans Plant Hospital officials said Dawn White. 14, of Clovis n.m., underwent sur Gery shortly before 11 . Thursday after her body rejected the first transplanted heart and she suffered cardiac arrest David Blackshear spokesman for hous ton methodist Hospital said Friday. Doctors completed the operation at 2 30 a.m., he said. She s critical but stable he said. He said Dawn would be watched closely for possible signs of rejection of the new heart. Blackshear said Dawn also could have a difficult recovery because her body is weakened from the rejection. Dawn s twin Lisler Nona had a heart transplant on sept. 7, 198j, the girls 13th birthday. Doctors later discovered Dawn had contracted the same virus that triggered Nona s heart problems. Doctors first tried to treat her with drugs but then decided she needed a new heart Blackshear said. Dawn underwent a heart transplant on sept. 3, she suffered a seizure from the medication she was Given to keep from rejecting the heart on sept. 17, but Doc tors lowered the dosage and said she had been recovering Well. Dawn s second operation began after a Houston sur Geon arrived in a Learjet with a heart donated by the family of a 9-year-old Columbia 5.c., boy who died in a bicycle Accident thursday. Debts Burden med school grads Chicago a More and More graduates of . Medical schools Are getting deeper and deeper in debt a trend that could have a serious Impact on the number of minority applicants the american medical association said Friday. A Survey by Iheama published in the journal of the american medical association found medical school graduates Are saddled with an average s 30,000 debt nearly double the Burden of 1980. It could have a serious Impact on the number of minority applicants or those from economically Distad Vani ated groups who arc Able to Gei a medical Educa Tion said Anne Crowley director of the Ama s of fice of medical education information analysis. While tuition at tie nation s medical schools in creased an average 7 percent first year enrol meals at those institutions dropped for the fourth straight year according to the Survey. At Public medical schools the Cost Tor tuition fees and All other charges averaged s12,291 for a Kate Resi Dent up from $7,653 fire years earlier and 117,755 for an out of Sale student up from 19,914 in 1980. Minority enrolment has changed Tittle in recent years standing at 16.5 percent for the 1915-86 school year the study indicated. The rising indebtedness of graduates was just one indication of the changes in . Medical education according to inc am a s 86th annual report. Among other trends the report noted a decline in first time enrolments for inc fourth year in a Row an average 98 students per year. More than 66,000 students attended the 127 medical schools during 1985-46, a decrease of 839 since the 1984-85 school year. A continuing increase in the number of women enrolling in and graduating from medical  made up 32 percent of a total enrolment of 66,604 for the 1985-86 school year and 31 percent of inc 16,191 graduates. Stateside blood test disproves surrogate Mother s claim Hackensack no. A the husband of a woman seeking to keep the Chad she bore for another couple could nol have been the in Fant s father according to blood test results re leased in court papers  court judge Harvey r. Sorkow had ordered the paternity tests after Mary Beth White head said her husband Richard May have fathered inc child even though he had a .  30, agreed to be artificially inseminated with the Sperry of William Butero and to Bear the child for s 10,000.after the infant was bom March 27 she changed her mind and has been fighting for Cus Tody of the girl. The child known As baby it in court document is in custody of Stem and his wife  to a medical report from Roche biomedical laboratories inc. Of Burlington n.c., the tests showed Whitchead cannot be the child s biological father. Lawmaker Calls for probe of official s travel Bill Washington a group of animal rights Clivi Tisaj called thursday or a Boycott of Gillette co. Product charging that the giant retailer is cruel to Laboratory animals. T Gillette officials denied the  All the flashy advertising lies untold animal agony said Lori a run of Armithe International animal rights cooperative. The animal rights group called news Confer ence to display photos it said were taken by a former employee of Gillette medical evaluation laboratories in Rockville my.,1je haunt me for the rest of my life said Leslie Fain who described tests in which chemicals Are fed to rabbits or placed on the skin or in their eyes. The tests Are done 10 determine whether various products such As shaving Cream and deodorants Are Safe for human use  
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