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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 13,19bb the stars and stripes Pagas artificial heart patient Dies during operation Tucson Ariz. A the Only person o receive no artificial hearts i cd saturday As doctors tried to implant a second human heart since her series of trans plants began in february Burnad Kllc Chay Rcd 40, died about Wen hours into surgery when the donor heart failed Chevrez said Jan Rooney of University medical Center. Chayrez received her first artificial heart feb. 3 and was Given a human transplant four Days later but her body rejected the human Organ and a second plastic and Metal  was implanted feb. 9. Saturday s operation was her eighth. Doctors removed the mini Jarvik 70 mechanical heart from Chayrez s Chest and began the transplant Al 10 51 a.m., almost four hours after the operation began at the University of Arizona hos Pital Rooney said. Chayra died Al 1 55 p.m., Rooney said. Rooney gave no information on the donor. Or. Jack Copland head of the trans Plant team said the decision to proceed with the transplant was made Early sat urday morning after the donor heart arrived from Texas. The heart of the donor appeared to be Cuc Ellem Copland said at a Hospi Tal news conference. There was nothing wrong with it As far As we could Tell. Initially after the transplant it functioned like a Normal  but after about 2vi hours. Copeland said the heart began to change color and doubled in size doctors were unable to attempt to implant a third artificial heart when the donor heart began to fail Copland said. We had not enough tissue left to sew to because of the previous operations he said. Earlier doctors had said that Chayrez probably could withstand Only one More operation either a transplant or an other artificial heart implant. They said the decision to pursue a transplant was made after consulting with Chayrez and her family. Chayrez a Phoenix Mother of three who has suffered transplant threatening infections was put Friday on a wailing list for a human heart after doctors cleansed her blood of antibodies. Chayrez also underwent radiation therapy last week to suppress her immune system. Both artificial hearts were intended to keep her alive while doctors searched for a human donor heart after a virus caused her own heart to fail. I0-Monfh-o/dboy in critical condition offer receiving liver Boston api doctors successfully transplanted a liver saturday into a 10-month-old boy whose parents had received a letter of encouragement from t re Sid Cal Reagan last month the boy Philip Jadoin received the Organ during a 12-hour operation by six surgeons after the liver arrived Al about 6 j5 a.m., said children s Hospital spokeswoman Wendy  did require multiple blood transfusions hut basically they thought it was very successful she Suid she said multiple mood transfusions in such a proce Dure Are not uncommon the infant who was suffering from a fatal liver disease was listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit she  Zacchia. Another Hospital spokeswoman said u team of physicians flew to Georgia Aboul Midnight Friday to gel the liver Philip and Kelly Jodom recently received a letter of encouragement from president Reagan while they searched for a new liver for their sick son. Although these arc difficult limes keep your Faith Strong and your Hopes High. Americans inc a generous people and will give the gift of life once they arc aware of the needs of others such As Philip Reagan wrote. I have often urged americans to become Organ do nors and do so once again. May god bless you and your infant  son s condition worsened sept. 10, and he was admitted id children s Hospital. Sea world s logo is painted on lie Side of the company s new Blimp Al the Lakehurst , naval air engineering Center. The German built new paint Job Airship is 193 feet Long and 5j feet wide. Sea world operates amusement Parks across the nation. 11/2 tons of plutonium missing from Humford Plant Portland. Ore. A almost a ton and a half of plutonium was Unac counted for at the Hanford nuclear weapons Pant in Pasco wash., during its first 30 years of processing the highly radioactive substance government documents show. Based on a 1979 department of Energy report on Security at the Hanford nuclear reservation obtained under the Freedom of information act More than 2,800 pounds of plutonium were Unac counted for through 1976, the oregonian newspaper reported in saturdays editions. Large portions of inc 48-Page report were censored for Security reasons but the report said Han Ford had lost track of 1,286 kilograms of plutonium or about 2,800 pounds. Experts say is kilograms could be used to make a bomb. There is Only an Assumption on some people s part that it was possible it was stolen. We Don t believe it s possible said Kenneth h. Jackson director of safeguards and Security for the Energy department in Richland. A declassified 1984 Doe report revealed last week noted that flawed Secu Rity would have permitted some worker so Lake plutonium from the Rockwell Hanford pc rations without being detected. Doe has said the Security problem was corrected and that no plutonium was stolen. Karen wheless a spokeswoman for the Doe at Hanford said saturday that the plutonium was probably overestimated or had gotten Hung up Over the years in the Plant s Miles and Miles of piping and was probably later discovered or flushed out of the system. We have very High Confidence that ii has not been taken out of the Plant she said in a Telephone interview. If it was taken where is it a 1984 Doe study found that 46 pounds of plutonium were unaccounted i or Al the plutonium uranium extrac Tion Plant Al Hanford in one year the newspaper said a series of recently revealed Rockwell Hanford audits complained of safely and Security problems at to factories Al the Plant which produces plutonium used in weapons built at other plants. Sands of time 2 in. I san Francisco a Fleet week marking the Navy s 211th birth Day got under Way saturday but the unveiling was crimped by fog that grounded the Blue Angels precision Fly ing team. A 13-ship flotilla of destroyers Frig ates cruisers and an amphibious assault ship carrying 8,500 sailors and led by the aircraft Carrier Kilty Hawk sailed beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. A coalition of protest groups in Small boats calling themselves the peace Navy escorted the Navy vessels to protest the growing militarization of the  the coast guard kept the group of 20 to 30 protest boats close to Shore. The Blue Angels had planned to Fly Over the City Friday bul a lowering sky prevented the show. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct 13 1946 a wild gun Battle Between police and Black Market operators raged through the streets of downtown Frankfurt resulting in the deaths of five germans. 30 years ago today. Oct. 13, 1956 film Star Humphrey Bogart disclosed in Hollywood that he underwent an oesophagus operation last Spring for a malignant tumor. 20 years ago today. Oct 13 1966 . Officials told the families of pos they have some Evi Dence that american pilots being held by North Vietnam arc not being mistreated or brainwashed. Military sources believe that As Many As 200 pilots Are prisoners of War 7 0 years ago today. Oct. 13, 1976 state health officials in Wisconsin Louisiana Vermont and new Mexico ordered temporary suspension of Swine flu inoculations after three elderly persons died hours after they got flu shots in Pennsylvania s Allegheny county  
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