European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 23, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 5 twins still not out of danger 2 weeks after being separated or. Mirk Roger Baltimore a German siamese twins separated two weeks ago in a 22-hour operation were described tuesday As fighters bul doctors said the  boys arc still seriously ill and Are no yet assured of Sun Ivel i Don l think you la find anyone Here giving Odds because Ali arc is nothing o compare it  said or. Mark Rogers director of pc Dalric intensive care at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Bul Rogers said doctors Are More hopeful now than they were after 7 month old Patriek and Benjamin hinder were separated during the operation ending sept. 6. The boys who Are being monitored constantly in cribs 30 feet apart in a seventh floor podiatric intensive care unit Are gradually recovering brain function Rogers said but it will be at least several week before their ultimate neurological out come can be determined Rogers said. In other cases where turns born joined at the head have been separated either one twin died or brain function in both was significantly affected by the surgery. In the Best reported ease both twins developed significant paralysis. The Binder twins were born joined at the Back of the head and shared a com Mon vein but have separate brains. The infants face the risk of life threat ening infections particularly Over the next two weeks Rogers emphasised. Doctors have been trying to slay one step ahead by returning the infants to inc operating room to cleanse their wounds to reduce the risk of infection. The twins suffered a setback Over the weekend when they each suffered a Par tial Collop so of one lung forcing doctors to place hem Back on ventilator. They had been removed from he ventilators on Friday Rogers said inc problem did not rep resent a Eire threatening complication. He called it a Normal reaction to the stress thai had been placed on their lungs. By monday morning their lungs were fully expanded and they were Able to breath on their own Rogers said. Doctors will keep them on the ventilators another week however to minimize the extra work the infants runs put into breathing so that the calories they receive arc used to help their Healing Rogers said. Cuomo favors rights Parley phone Cable Cut by Utility Crew Moscow a new York gov. Mario Cuomo monday told soviet dissidents he will take their Mes Sage of belief in the Freedom of expression Back to the West and said he favored a conference on human rights abuses in the soviet Union and the United states. However Cuomo who met with one of the fathers of the soviet human rights movement physicist an Drei d. Sakharov at the Nobel peace prize Winner s Moscow apartment said he would t do anything thai shows disrespect to the soviet  asked if he thought there were any human rights violations in the United states Cuomo said Why Don l you have a conference and find out his comments came after meetings with a member of the communist party s ruling politburo Vitaly to Zolnikov and with Gyorgy Arbatova a top adviser to Sovil Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev Cuomo said a wide Range of issues was discussed including arms control Trade issues and human rights. The governor said he perceived an eagerness to move Forward on the part of to Sotnikov but added there is a great firmness on their part too and no apologies for their  Cuomo said to Sotnikov reminded him thai mos cow had proposed a conference to discuss possible human rights abuses in both nations. We and our allies have neither accepted nor rejected the soviet proposal said a senior . Official. Man executed for 1974 rape murder Jackson a a to Molix w. Mcco quo Daft was executed in Georgia s electric chair on Mon Day for the 1974 torture murder of a runaway teen age girl a murder he claimed he could t remember. Mccorquodale 35, the fifth Man la be executed in Georgia this year was convicted of raping torturing and then breaking the neck of 17-year-old Donna Marie Dixon. A runaway from Newport news va., whom he had seen talking to a Black Man. Meco quo Dale and the victim were White in 1976, a state psychiatrist reported thai Mccorq a Dale could not remember the murder. I cannot be Lieve Ilia i would do them things he was quoted As saying. I just Don t believe i could do it As Mccorquodale died six hooded  the Kun Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today ,. Sept. 23, 1947 the european economic cooperation committee wound up its 2 a months of Wor when chief delegates from the 16 member a aliens signed the Marshall plan report asking $22 billion from the United states to finance the recovery of Europe Over four years. 30 years ago today. Sept. 23, 1957 Britain s Priit to Charles. 9, Nodi in line for the British throne. Headed Oil to boarding school. His parents. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip escorted him to Cham a preparatory school 50 Miles West of London. 20 years ago today. ,. Sept. 23. 1967 president Johnson noting Viet Nam War critics said the big question was whether the War was Worth the Price and declared i say in  10 years ago today sept. 23. 1977 Secretary of stale Cyrus Vance said the United states would allow the 1972 United states soviet strategic arms Accord to expire oct. 3, bul would abide by ils provisions As negotiations continued with the soviets. Flux klan and several other people demonstrated outside the prison in favor of capital punishment while a dozen death penalty opponents held hands and prayed. Mccorquodale was the 93rd person to be put to death in the United states since the supreme court cleared the Way for Stales to resume capital punish ment in 1976. Parole Board chairman Wayne Snow said the panel received a letter from Mccorquodale Friday in which he showed considerable remorse for what he had  Snow said the Board viewed the killing As Ore of inc most heinous crimes committed in the state and decided against commuting the death sentence for that reason. New York a the main fibr optic Tele phone Cable on the East coast was severed monday morning by a cons auction Crew in new Jersey causing a crunch on auxiliary cables and chaos in data trans Mission networks that rely on phone lines. There is heavy blocking of Telephone Calls on our networks said Ralph Dobriner a spokesman for american Telephone & Telegraph co. The break occurred in Trenton  where contractors were working he said adding it was Utility com Pany contractors it was t  the Cable was repaired by 6 50 p.m., said at to spokesman Dan Coulter with minor interruptions expected As traffic was routed Over other routes. Earlier Dobriner said Many of the circuits were rerouted to other facilities but the volume of Calls was Loo heavy to be absorbed by other Lino. He declined to say How Many Calls the Cable normally carries we Don t provide numbers for competitive reasons but it s one of the most heavily trafficked routes in the at4.t  Dobriner said thai As of 1 30 p.m., two hours after the Accident All voice Calls had been rerouted because they gel priority Over data circuits at to s internal precision clock which provides pulses that Are used to synchronize transmission of different streams of data also was affected. Private data circuits such As those used by the associated press Banks insurance companies brokerages and other businesses were affected. The most heavily affected area codes were in the Newark Camden area 201 and 609, with spillover to the upper East coast. Italian financier Gelli surrenders to Swiss after 4 years As fugitive Geneva not an italian financier wanted in connection with investigations of the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano a 1980 bombing of the Bologna rain station and with a spurious masonic Lodge sur rendered to authorities Here monday More than four years after he fled a Geneva prison officials said. The fugitive Licio Gelli 68, surrendered at the Geneva courthouse. His lawyers said he needed medical attention possibly for what they described As a serious heart condition. Gelli wat taken to the Geneva prison he escaped from on aug. 10, 1983. Just nine Days before he was expected to be extradited to Italy by order of the Swiss Federal court in Lausanne. When he escaped. The Swiss authorities had been holding Gelli since september 1982 on charges of try ing to withdraw millions of dollars from a Bank account using false documents. The surrender of Gelli May provide investigators with an Opportunity to obtain new information regard ing several sensational Legal cases in Italy Over the last decade officials said. They include the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, with losses Esti mated at $1.2 billion the activities of inc spurious masonic Lodge and the 1980 bombing of the Bologna station which killed 85 people. Investigations in 1981 into the activities of the spurious Lodge which Gelli had headed since the Early 1970s, Ted to the collapse of the Christian democratic government of Arnaldo Forlani and prompted officials to de Gelli Clare that the organization sought to undermine the foundations of official Italy. Gelli is also wanted in Italy on fraud charges in connection with bankruptcy claims stemming from