European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday May 14,1987living heart donor Happy of be giver As Well As receiver Baltimore a a Man who underwent a heart lung transplant after apparently becoming the first living person to donate Bis own heart was Happy be could give As we As receive the Gin of life his Mother ays. La historic series of operations a Johns Hopkins Hospital two teams of surgeons transplanted Clinton House healthy heart into John Couch with bit own heart remaining then gave the heart and lungs of a brain dead Accident victim to House. He said if someone could help him he should help someone else Joyce Plesic House s Mother said tuesday. It s n real Nice feeling to know that a person is alive and thai my husband will get to meet him said Peggy Couch of Yardley pit whose husband suffered from congestive heart failure. We re very grateful and pleased and thankful and without him my husband would still be Home without the heart that he needed to live she said. Altho cych House whose lungs Weir destroyed by cystic fibrosis bad what Doe Ion described As a healthy heart they mid they gave him a new bean along with new lungs because such dual trans plants appear to be More successful than simple lung transplants. Tie Complex feat completed monday and announced tuesday appeared to be the first application of what doctors Call the donor Domino  we be talked about it Many times. And now they be done i i said or nor Man Shumway a Stanford University cardiologist who helped Pioneer heart lung transplants others however questioned the wis Dom and necessity of the procedure. House 28, was reported in critical but stable condition wednesday while Couch s condition was upgraded to serious. Couch had been taken off a Respi Rator and House also is expected to be taken off a Respirator soon or. William Baumgardner head of the transplant team told abcs Good morning  the surgery began when the heart and lungs of the automobile Accident victim who died sunday were removed at University of Maryland medical system and transported on ice across town to hop Kins where House was waiting. Surgeons removed House s heart and quickly implanted it in the Chest of Couch who was waiting in an adjoining operating room. A separate team at the same time removed House s disease lungs and transplanted the new heart and lungs. Couch s own diseased heart was left in place and connected to the transplanted Neon during the surgery a technique doctors said is often used when More pumping Power is needed to circa Lutc blood through congested lungs. The twohearts which pump in tandem win be left in place doctors Laid. Or. Beryl Rosenstein a cystic fibrosis expert at Hopkins said the transplant from House was possible Only because his haul had not yet been damaged by the lung disease. But or. John Wail work a cardiac sur Geon at Papworth Hospital in Cam Bridge England said risks remain. He performed a heart lung transplant on a or. Wll Tatt  show How the Johns Hopkins  were a it. Woman who has lived t9 months after the procedure longer than any other cys tic fibrosis patient it is pretty Brave using a cystic fibrosis heart because you Doire know what the outcome will be for the recipient retold the new York times. Waxwork also cited Psychol a Rea sons for not employing the donor Domi no theory the recipient will be Able to speak to his donor and if they do Well mat will be great if they do badly just supposing inc bean lung recipient live and the person he gave  heart to Dies How is he going la feel this is one of the reasons i Haven t done it the hidden emotion in it or. Joel Cooper of the Toronto Gener Al Hospital said House could have kept his l a with Ait Experiment lungs Only transplant his team has pioneered. Giving him the heart As Well May have increased the Chance of Organ rejection Cooper said. Cystic fibrosis uses the production of a thick Sticky mucus that clogs the lungs and digestive system. It is the m Tion i most common inherited disease afflicting 30,000 americans and usually kills its victims by their mid-20s. House who older brother Keith died of cystic fibrosis at age s months was diagnosed with the disease in infancy. Spence k. House said he was told hit son would t live to age l2, is and then 22. But he attribute his son survival in part to a determination to keep working As a refrigeration Mechanic and slaying Active. The younger House last worked on saturday. He s really had a rough life but lie s a fighter said Plisic. He win make in. We re All very proud of him radio Liberty cites need to update equipment Washington a increased jamming by the soviet Union has made it More important tar radio Liberty to replace outdated transmitting facilities with new and More powerful equipment station official say. There s no doubt jamming has increased Mal Colm Forbes jr., chairman of the Board for International broadcasting which operate radio Liberty told a Senate subcommittee tuesday. In january the British broadcasting company ceased to be jammed and that soviet jamming equip ment was turned against radio Liberty he said. Engineers at radio Liberty which broadcasts in russian and 11 other languages to the soviet Union have said the soviets diverted at least eight transmit ters previously used to Jam bbl broadcasts in order to increase jamming of to tits . Government financed station. Forbes estimated that before the soviets slopped jamming the bbl about 70 percent of their jamming efforts were aimed Al the . Station. That has in creased to about 80 Perce with the soviets spending about seven times As much to Jam radio Liberty As the station does to broadcast he said. With the intensity of soviet jamming we need More powerful equipment than Ever before he said. There s no sense sending that signal if it can t get  Forbes commented at a hearing of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Board for International broadcasting which also operate radio free Europe. Radio Liberty reaches about 20 million listeners in the soviet Union. Radio free Europe is heard by about to million people in Eastern Europe where transmissions to Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Poland and the Bailies Are jammed but those to Hungary and to mania Are not station officials said. The Board said it needs a $33.2 million supplement Al appropriation this fiscal year to compensate for losses due k devaluation of the Dollar against the Prin Cipal currencies the stations spend. The current budget is $140 million. Without the supplemental funds. Radio Liberty and radio free Europe will have to Cut Back and possibly suspend broadcasting operations in july Forbes said. The Board also is requesting a $203.6 Milhon budget for next fiscal year including about $41.9 million Tor the final phase of a $77.2 million refurbishment project and $27.2 million for currency Rale adjustments. 210 alleged dealers arrested in drug sweep St. Louis a us. Attorney general Edwin Meese warning narcotics dealers they can run but they can t hide wednesday announced the arrests of More than 200 alleged drug traffickers in a nationwide sweep. Meese said in a statement prepared for a news conference in St. Louis thai a special unit of the . Marshals service concentrated on major drug criminals who had evaded arrest or jumped bail or Bond and managed to remain at Large to continue their criminal  he said that among the suspects were four people who had jumped Bonds of $ 1 million and five who had been at Large for 11 years or longer. Meese said 210 people had been arrested in the crackdown code named operation want for warrant apprehension narcotics team. Stanley e. Morris director of the marshals service said the nine week manhunt was conducted by special learns operating out of los Angeles san Diego Houston Chicago Miami Balti More new York and san Francisco. Mcnese said those arrested included 166 narcotics fugitives and 44 other whose alleged criminal activity was identified during the Hunts. In addition he said the government is seeking the arrest and return to the United slates of 3 fugitives traced to foreign countries. Pilot of softball Diamond in foul trouble Over License Stamford . A a nun who bounced his plane onto a softball Field and broke up a game was tick eted for flying without a License state police said Leonidas Maria Cabin 27, of new York City could not produce a Pilot s License after his plane skidded to a Hall at Home plate at about 9 , scattering players and spectators stale police said. I was almost out of Gas. 1 bad to land said Cabin who received 24 stitches to close a Cut on his head. The single engine Cessna sustained minor damage and the game will be re played officials said Cabin was in route from Middle Lown r.i., to Lincoln Park nov about 200 Miks South of Stamford he said he was lost and seeing the brightly lit Field circled once and went in Over the Center Field Fence. Cabin a native of the Dominica Republic who works As a taxi Driver in new York said he had rented the air plane from a Friend. He said he has been flying for several years. Cabin is due in Harpersfield Tow court monday to answer to the ticket