European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 5, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 9 s. African siamese twins separated Soweto South Africa not a40-Membcr medical learn tuesday successfully separated 16-month-old twin girls joined Ai inc Back of the head. The 7 a hour operation took place at Hospital an the outskirts of this sprawl ing Black satellite City of Johannesburg. The surgical team was led by Rober Lipscnitz a professor of Scuro surgery at University. Lipschtz. Who previously gave the twins less than a 50-50 Chance of surviving the operation rated their chances tuesday night As very a spokesman for Baragwanath hos Pital where the operation look place said both infants were removed fro life support equipment and were breathing independently. Doctors were optimistic thai the twins would survive with no Lone term ill effects although or. Percy Miller a neurosurgeon Saidat a news conference thai one of the infants identified As Mph Nyana suffered extensive blood loss. He said the effect of the blood los was an open Mph Nyana we Csc name Means less than a Gin has been smaller and slower to develop than her sister Mph whose name Means a like the Binder twins. West German infants who were successfully separate Dat Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti More in september the South african infants shared the Sag Ilal sinus a major vein that drains blood from the brain As Well As a Section of Skull and a Large amount of brain tissue. The Baragwanath team collaborated with their counterparts at Johns hop Kins. The surgeons at Hopkins Sepa rated the West German twins in a 22 hour procedure during which the Bod ies of the babies were cooled to Stow their metabolism. By contrast the South african surgeons used a two step technique. A Clamp was applied to the shared vein in Art operation in october. Over the Reil eight do the lamp was slowly tight ened As blood v As redirected to smaller surrounding that gradually took Over for the Shan d vein. Doctors originally planned to Sepa rate the twins soon after the first opera Tion. Problems with bleeding and infection delayed inc second operation. The doctors did not disclose details of How the brains of the infants were separated. Hospital officials said it was the first time that such a clamping method had been used to separate twins joined at the head. Sophie Mai Hibala the Mother of the twins was overjoyed. I feel so Happy Happy Happy she said. "1 want to sleep a Little Pray and thank god Tor All lie Lias male inc la a Domestic worker who cams 170 a month embraced the superintendent of Baragwanath or. Chris Van Den heeler when he told her that she would be Able to sit with a child on each knee. Although senior members of in medical team were White other who took part in the procedure were of Dif Ferent races. Or. Van Den heeler said at a news conference that the operation proved that people 01 All races could work together. It has brought together people that should have been together he soul. Adding that few Days in his life had been better than tuesday. Mat Hibala 33, paid the equivalent ofj4 toward the Cost of the operation which was estimated to Cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Johannesburg Star inc major English language daily Here has started Trust fund for the twins that currently stands at $25,000. Hamburg vows vengeance on n. American pests staff writer Hamburg Hamburg residents rim tolerated a half Century of munching by North american termites but when the two poplars standing sentry to their High court building fell victim to the creatures earlier this year the City vowed revenge. But How to Best protect the Justice system fro these Poplar poaching pests remains the problem since the pesticide that has been used to fight sporadic outbreaks of the termites no longer does inc Job. Compounding that arc new environmental taws that prohibit past methods of combating the insects such As digging holes in the ground and pouring pesticide directly into them. Emission Laws and Plant Protection acts must be considered said Udu Seltun Schmo an entomologist with the Hamburg Institute for Hygiene. Additionally termites Are not indigenous to Ger Many. Although other termite pesticides exist no com Pany has been willing to pay for the extensive testing thai is required by the German government before approval of its use. The Market is not big enough to justify the Cost. We arc looking for a new pesticide but the build ing department says it has to be an approved pesticide in Germany said. Meanwhile the chomping continues As officials Cau Cus. The yellow footed termite Flavi pcs is found across a wide area of the United states from the East coast to the Mississippi River and North from Florida to the Canadian Border. It belongs to the most destructive enus of termites found in North America where termites have made their Home for 50 million years. The first of the species to be identified in Hamburg was in 1937, and it parts believe it arrived in Wood used As ship ballast. Wooden stakes sunk into the Lawn Monitor termites sullen Schmo theorized that the Hamburg migration began when the baling wow was sold off As fuel the transported to Homes near the Harbor area. Underground heating shafts provided the termites the dark highways they needed to search for More of the Wood fiber they thrive on. In 1952, termite damage was extensive enough to require demolition of build Ings in Altona a District not far from the port. Each time the underground dwellers came to Light they were eradicated official hoped. Bui because the termites live below ground their continued existence and the damage they cause is hard to spot sullen Schmo said. Repair work or the above ground tunnels termites construct often were the first indications of damage he said. It is Clear to the people involved that they will never eradicate the creatures sullen Stehlo said. All it needs is for one Colony to or one termite to develop wings and Fly. We found one in february and of course we got cold feet sullen Schmo said. We Are most worried about he flying ones because they can Migrate farther with a favourable the Law of genetics dictates that More termites mean a greater possibility of one that can Fly. That is one reason sullen Schmo is worried by the current out break As the warm months approach and egg laying termite Queens go to work. The Sieveking Pilz where Hamburg s Justice Appa Ratus is entered May or May not be under siege. Sell in Schmo said. In addition to the felled poplars which Are obvious signs of damage testing is under Way lode Termine the client of infiltration he said. But a counterattack by Justice officials on grounds that the North american immigrants arc illegal alien already has been ruled out by a study done in 195 7. Successive generations of the North american Ter mite have so changed or so goes the study that in Hamburg variety is the City s very own. Dod proposal offers greater budget flexibility by Arrington Dock Scalf writer Stuttgart army commanders could get More flexibility in budgeting next fiscal year under a program a de sense department official termed a management the proposed policy which would allow commanders to reprogram up to s percent of their total annual budgets was disclosed this week by Gerald Kauvar director of the Model installation Grad uate program under the assistant Secre tary of defense for installations. The de sense department official said he expected the department of the army to finalize the policy soon. Kauvar a Champion of increased financial flexibility at lower echelons of the military bureaucracy spoke at a con Ference on military productivity sponsored by Vii corps and the Stuttgart chapter of the american society of Mili tary comptrollers i think the Way to improve Quality. Is to free people to get rid of crazy rules and regulations that Tell people How to do their jobs instead of what to do Kauvar said. Under the existing military budget system Money is set aside at most Mili tary installations in numerous individual accounts often More than 100 for specific purposes. Funds normally can not be moved from one account to an other. Kauvar said the government Hierarchy will Trust a commander with thousands of lives but they won t Trust him with$25to do his Mission the Way he knows is the new policy Kauvar said will affect anybody who s got a the proposed army policy revision stemmed from a successful one year test started in october 1986, of six army air Force Marine and Navy installations including Raf ukr Heath in the unite kingdom. Under inc lest base com Manders were free to move Money from one account to another 10 handle emergencies improve Mission capability an take advantage of Good prices on sup plies. In a report issued in March on the so called unified budget test the program was credited with producing a dramatic gain in Mission performance without de grading accountability for Kau Var said the test found about 90 percent of the Money was in the right at Raf Lata Halh. For example unused Money originally allocated for utilities was put into upgrading a Hospi Tal. The March report also cited fort Ilcy kan., for generating sj79.000 in additional training by combining savings from six other accounts. At fort Leonard Wood mo., housing renovations were paid for with Money not needed for med ical testing by the Post Hospital Accord ing to the report. The army will be the first service Branch to adopt the policy which Kau Var said will help get rid of a system that writes people up for giving people an excellent place la work and the test has been expanded to additional installations in the other three services Kauvar personally favors a id percent flexibility Factor but he added five percent is a Good first in a question and answer session after his talk Kauvar acknowledged that the policy change is not universally Well received but he expressed Confidence thai it would prevail with backing from Secre tary of defense Frank Carlucci a management revolution is not going to be easy Kauvar said. Some people think we re spreading anarchy., and believe this is the wrong Way to run the defense department
