European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday february 22,1988 news updates siamese min surgery Baltimore a one year old Patrick Binder was doing Well after surgery to implant a Metal plate Over the Hole in his Skull where he was attached to siamese twin brother. Benjamin the Hospital said. The West German infants whose Heads were separated in a historic operation last fall were listed in stable condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital said spokeswoman Lisa Hillman. Doctors also said the twins appeared to be making boiler neurological Progress since the separa Tion Hillman said. Doctors had feared they might suffer vision loss As a must of the surgery in which surgeons Cut a major vein Supply ing blood to their separate brains. Hone will grow Over the titanium mesh plates which remain in their Heads permanently doctors said. Verification Accord Brussels a Belgium and the soviet Union have exchanged documents enabling soviet inspectors o verify that . Nuclear cruise missiles stationed on belgian soil arc being removed the belgian foreign ministry re ported. Foreign minister Leo tide mans and soviet ambassador to Belgium Oclis Bogdonov exchanged notes detailing the obligations for the two countries result ing from the .-Sovicl treaty on tic elimination of intermediate nuclear missiles the ministry said. The .-Sovie t treaty was signed by the nations leaders last december. It ii expected to be ratified by Lite . Senate in a few months. Guam Commonwealth Bill May be facing Long Battle by William 3. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington the leaders of Guam last week began what could be a Long and Tricky Effort to gel Congress to give the . Territory More control Over Ila own affairs. Related Story Dally Magazine a Pacific Island delegation which included Cov Joseph f. Ada presented Congress with the Guam draft Commonwealth Bill a soon to by proposed piece of legislation that already has raised its share of concern on Capitol Hill. If the Bill should pass As it is drafted. Congress would Grant the citizens of Guam the right of self determination and such privileges As compensation for land occupied by military installations. The request for compensation for militarily held land however ii just one. Reason Why even the Bills staunches supporters Don t it pct it to pass As writ ten. I think there Wilt be a great Deal of negotiation said an aide to Delegate Ben Blaz who represents the Island in Congress. I think eventually a document will come out. But i Don t think anybody realistically expects it to get done in this  other benefits the Bill would offer Guam include control of its own Immi Gration policy taxation control and Spe Cial benefits and provisions for inc Cha Morros the indigenous people of Guam far training and preferential treatment with the local government la Alto would give Guam control of it natural re sources and remove Federal Laws that guamanian feet hamper the Island s development such As requirements hat Only .-Owncd ships be used for trans port of goods. Many of the proposals Are historic Corning from a territory but based on some precedents for example the re quest for compensation for militarily used land is based on the fact thai the government compensate the District of Columbia because of All the municipal property taken up by the Federal govern ment. It also compensates new Vork City for hosting the United nations. Guam is regarded As a primary Candi Date for base relocation if the Philippines forces the United states to leave Subic Bay naval base ant Clark a. Guam the largest of the Mariana islands but the Only one never administered by the United Stales As a . Trusteeship it 1,500 Miles East of the philippine. About 25,000 military personnel and their families live on Guam. Guam Volin approved the draft Commonwealth Bill in the last half of 1987. The Issue Dat Back to 1980, a iguana plans began to feel that they were being neglected while the Federal government negotiated new political arrangement i that offered what they saw As belter deals for other territories in the Maria Nas. While the people of Guam Are is. Citizens they cannot Vole for the presi Dent. Their congressional representative cannot vote on in House  he can Vole on legislation in three committees to which he is appointed among them armed services committees. While making Guam a Commonwealth under the United states would not change these factors it would give it More Power Over its own internal affairs. While Guam does have its decked legislature its Laws can be overridden by the us. Department of the Interior. British caledonian of nearly co Des with pan american plane Over England election 88 Washington voting assistance officials have released presidential and stale primary dates for april and May. Soldiers civilian employees and their family members should Contact their unit voting assistance officers for details in How to Register and obtain Absentee ballots. A completed Federal Post card application should be mailed to state Side voting authorities Early to ensure timely receipt of a ballot. Presidential primaries in april include Wisconsin on april 5, new York on april 19 and Pennsylvania on april 26. Presidential and slate primaries will be held in Indiana on May 3 Ohio May 3 Nebraska May 10 West Virginia May 10 Oregon. May 17 and Idaho May 24. A stale primary will be held in Kentucky on May 24. The District of Columbia will hold its presidential preference primary on May 3. Voters from the District will select con  candidates and local party officers at the general election on nov. G. Correction Washington a in a Story on a new conservative lobbying group launching a nationwide Campaign to win a Pardon for former White House aide Oliver North the associated press erroneously described the ownership of the Washington times. Larry Chandler a spokesman for the Washington times said the newspaper is owned by investors who Are members or officials of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon s unification Church but Moon bos no personal Finan Cial interest in it. London up a British caledonian airline Pilot spotted a pan american jetliner lumbering directly into his flight path sunday and called for an emergency course change to avoid a collision in Brit Ain s crowded skies officials said. It was the second aviation near collision Over Southeast England in two woks. The two jets together carrying 222 peo ple came within a mile of each other Over the English coast some 60 Miles Northwest of London when the British caledonian Pilot noticed the pan am Jet heading directly toward him officials said. The Pilot alerted air traffic controllers and they immediately ordered the pan am Boeing 727 jul to divert its course to Avert a collision officials said. No injuries were reported on either Jet which were both flying at 25.000 feel. They continued their nights without fur ther incident officials said. Both pilots Are filing a report on the miss and we will investigate a civil aviation authority spokesman said. They were following routes thai would have led to a collision another aviation source said. Luckily the skies were Clear and there was Good visibility aircraft in flight under aviation regu lations arc required to stay at least 3 Miles apart horizontally and Fly at an Altitude at least 1.000 feet different from nearby planes aviation sources said. The pan am jetliner carrying 152 people was flying to London s Heathrow Airport from Oslo and the British caledonian plane with to aboard was heading from Gal Wick Airport also in the London area to Amsterdam when its Pilot noticed they were heading toward each other and the diversion was ordered. An air traffic controller handling flights in the area was suspended Pend ing investigation officials Laid. Pan am officials said Many of those aboard its Jet were ultimately bound for Miami and changed planes at Heathrow. The near collision came a week after Britain s Union for air controllers called for an urgent meeting with transport Secre tary Paul Channon to discuss safety improvement measures for the sues Over Britain where air traffic has doubled in the last decade to nearly a million flight a year. Two weeks ago a British airways Jet nearly collided with a bulgarian Airliner also Over Southeast England in what Channon acknowledged was a urious  no injuries occurred when the British airways Pilot steeply bunked his plane to Avert a collision. British airways said the planes to Gether carrying More than 500 people had come within 300 Yards of each  some passengers on the two planes said hey had come much closer and the could see the faces of passing in in he opposite plane through the windows. Infant removed from life support Loma Linda Calif. A a brain dead baby whose body was kept alive in Hopes of transplanting his organs was removed from life support machines saturday after no suitable recipient could be found. Meanwhile a child bom saturday with the same fatal defect in san Anto Nio Texas was placed on a Respirator and flown to California to be enrolled in Loma Linda University medical Cen Ter s donor program. The babies Wen born without Molt of their brain and Skull a fatal condition known As Anen Cephal. The child known As baby John was bom tuesday and declared brain dead thursday at Loma Linda. Official had hoped to keep the baby s body on life support machines for up to seven Days Hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell Laid. By saturday Rockwell said physicians of four wailing liver recipients of baby John s same blood Type refused the liver because of its progressive deterioration Over the past 36 hours. Despite a worldwide search no in Fant of the same blood Type needing a heart has been found. Out of respect for the brain dead in Fant and with the consent of his Mother or. Joyce Peabody removed the artificial life support from baby  Anen Cephal is fatal usually within Days after Bint. An infant s Hall he organs can Only be transplanted if Organ damage is prevented by Mam. Mining the infant on life support from birth. The first Ane Cephalic child consid ered by Loma Linda Hospital for the pioneering procedure was the child of Brenda and Michael Winner of Arcadia Calif. But the baby was stillborn on dec. 22. The use of such infants As Organ do nors has raised controversial ethical is sues and Loma Linda it the first Hospital in the United slates id develop a medical protocol allowing such transplants the National right 13 life committee has denounced the procedure and complained that doctors have failed to do enough to ensure that organs weren t re moved from live children. One of the Hospital s 13 heart trans Plant patients under age 4 received the heart of an Ane Cephalic bully earlier this year from a donor child in Canada. If the Texas baby is declared dead within seven Days and one or More of her organs successfully transplanted ii would be the lint time that the proce Dure has been tried using an Anonce phallic baby bom in the United slates the infant for Pound 1-ounce Evelyn keys was put on a chartered plane in Texas in route 10 Loma Linda. She a bom with Only a brain Stem said Robert Mcnaughton Wilford Hall medical Cen Ter spokesman in san Antonio. Evelyn is the first child of a. I a. Todd keys 21, and his wife Judy 22