European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 20,1989 Lucille Ball Alert after heart surgery los Angeles surgeons were optimistic wednesday that Lucille Ball would recover fully from an Emer gency of oration in which she received heart Issue donated from a 27-year-old Man. Ball 77. Who reigned for decades As the Zany redheaded Queen of comedy had her heart stopped for two hours Dur ing tuesday s procedure which kept her in the operating room for about sever hours. Lucille Ball spent an uneventful night which is a very Good sign. The to surgeons who worked on her continue to be optimistic that she is moving toward a recovery Cedars Sinai medical Cen Ter spokesman Ron Wise said. Doctors said her condition was serious but stable. Her Irish eyes Are smiling Hus band Gary Morton said after Ball awakened at 9 45 a.m., about 14 hours after the operation ended she was and looked Welt he said. The comedian suffered a heart attack at her fashionable Beverly Hills Home tuesday and arrived at Cedars Sinai medical Center with Morton. Ball suffered a ear in her Aorta the main artery in the body said her sur Geon or. Robert Kim. During the operation blood was pumped through her body by a machines Kass replaced part of her Aorta and aortic valve. He called it a High risk procedure with a fairly substantial mortality rate.1 -. The donor was a 27-year-old Man Kass said. No other details were released about the donor Kass said. I told her the nature of the condition she had hat it was life threat ening and thai we had 10 operate imme  Ball s last Public appearance was introducing a production number with Bob Hope at the March 29 Oscar presentations. ". Lucille Ball is one of the most wonderful women 1 have Ever known Hope said tuesday night. I m shocked especially since we worked together so recently at the facade my awards and she was so full of Energy there s Only one Lucy you Don t meet Many people like her. Like the rest of the world Dolores his wife and i Are Pray ing everything will be All right he said. Lawyer fells jurors North is Sacri Figiel Lamb Washington a Oliver North s lawyer in emotional final arguments wednesday described the former White House aide As a sacrificial  a Scapegoat and a hostage and implored jurors id Sci him  Oliver. North. Never wanted to be a hero said Al Lorincy Brendan  just wants logo  related Story pub 1 summing up North s defense in the Iran Centra trial s 12lh week Sullivan said North had done his Job Well As White House aide following superiors orders to help the nicaraguan rebels then was thrown overboard As president news briefs Reagan sought id escape political heat Over the affair. Sullivan told the jury that North who had worked to free american hostages in Lebanon has been in a sense a hostage himself  i ask you on the evidence to be him free said Sullivan in the Spectator Section behind North at the defense table were his wife an three of his four children. Betsy North had been at the rial before but it was first for the children. During a recess North took their youngest daughter by the hand and walked with her Down the courtroom corridor. All that remained before the jury begins its deliberations thursday was a rebuttal argument by prosecutor John kicker an the final instructions from . District judge Gerhard a. Go sell. During deliberation the jury will be sequestered for the first time since the trial  a former Marine lieutenant col Onel is charged with 12 criminal counts including lying to Congress and the at Torney Genera illegally converting trav Eler s checks to his own use and conspiring to defraud the Treasury through a lax scam to support the rebels fighting the nicaraguan government Sullivan sought to persuade the jurors that the government had presented Only weak evidence Loback up the charges against North whom he described As caught Between a Rock and a hard place in trying to keep slate secrets while he was asked by Congress to Tell All. He was fired from the White House offered As a sacrificial Lamb so to speak to the raging Congress Sullivan said referring to the Day North was fired in november 1986. Later that Day the president called him. How can you be fired at noontime and have the president of the United Stales Call you in Lale afternoon and Call you an american  bomb placed on car kills Salvador attorney Genera san Salvador Al Salvador a attorney general Roberto Garcia Alvarado was assassinated wednesday by unidentified assailants when a bomb was put on the roof of his car at q Stop Light his Driver said. Neither the Driver. Oscar orc Llama nor a bodyguard was wounded in the attack on Gar Cia. S3. Pc siderite Clell Alfredo Cristiani blamed the bombing on leftist guerrillas battling the . Backed government. Fort Benning to punish 27 for abusing  trainees Columbus a. A fort Binning a the relics will discipline 27 officers and non commissioned officers for abusing -trainees.by ordering too much exercise a spokesman said. The 27 face varying punishments including Relief from duty reprimand forfeiture of pay demotion confinement and extra duty it. Col. Mcdonald plummy said. Thirty nine trainees were hospitalized in old february complaining of soreness and muscle swelling. Ail but two returned 10 training. British won t move Heyford runway  . Bureau the British ministry of defense said wednesday i would not move the Raf upper Heyford runway an instead would continue to pay local villagers to Insu late their Homes from noise by Al i in fighter bomb ers. Realignment of the runway at Raf upper Hosfor would Export the noise problem to other villages around the base a memorandum issued by the ministry said building a new runway which would require relocating the 20lh tac fighter Wing for up to three years during construction would Cost As much As $516 million the statement said. The Takeoff and Landing patterns of the jets were changed in june when , air Force decided the modified Al 1 ibs at upper Heyford were too heavy to safely make turns necessary to avoid flying Over the nearby villages. Since then residents affected by the noise in villages on the cast and West ends of the base have campaigned to get the runway Angle shifted 20 degrees. The ministry studied several possible solutions to the problem including modifying the Al ii engine la make it More powerful which would allow he planes to return to their old less disturbing patterns. But at a Public meeting at the base wednesday defense ministry officials said they would continue compensating people and businesses affected by the increase in noise brought on by the flying pattern change a spokesman in London said. The ministry will continue to pay homeowners for extra sound insulation and in the worst cases offer to buy the houses closest to the Light paths according to the memorandum. The ministry will continue to Monitor the problem the memorandum said. Defense move delays Hamadi trial Frankfurt West Germany a a motion by defense lawyers to summon another witness in the trial of confessed Twa Hijacker Mohammed All Ham Adi on wednesday delayed the planned Start of closing arguments Caincr Hamm. The lawyer for the family of Navy diver  Stethem who was slain in the hijacking objected to the motion and said Hamadi s Law yers were intentionally delaying inc Irinel that opened july 19ss. But chief judge Heiner  overruled the objection and called John Simpson a reporter for the  corp., to testify on monday. Simpson was unavailable for Friday s session. The proceedings were then postponed. The court had hoped to begin hearing inc prosecution s closing arguments by wednesday missile from Page v. Beyond that of previous statements when the allies have said their forces will be Kepi up to Date where necessary Belgium recently said it wanted to hold off decision son modernizing Short Range nuclear weapons until the Early 1990s and agree to open East West  talks on the  As soon As possible. The government also expressed concern about extending the Lance s Range. Guy come Belgium s defense minister said the process is still ongoing but i can say on the Range Issue and on the wish to open negotiations Belgium is certainly not alone.". West Germany s outgoing defense minister Rupert Schwiz reiterated his country s View that no decisions on the new weapons were required immediately. Battleship from Page 1 were firing the ship s guns to make sure thai the worked when he explosion occurred he said. The gun Turret was full of gun powder he said. A gun Turret is normally occupied by 27 people but can hold up to 60 or 70 people Bauman n said. We Don t know How Many people were in there Al the time he said. There were 1,600 people aboard the ship including vice adm. Jerome a Johnson the commander of the 2nd Fleet Burnett said the Iowa has two medical officers and More than 20 medically trained corpsmen. The Coral sea was Aboul 120 Mil Csecsi of the Iowa Al the time of the explosion Baumann said. He said inc injured would be Lakin there initially. Officials were personally notifying family members of the deaths Baumann  a photo session in Washington president Bush called the disaster a great tragedy and a matter of terrible  will Lake this oppo Rumly to express my regrets especially to the families of the kids that were killed. Itis a terrible tragedy lose a lot of Fine Youngl Jucs. We re All  in addition to ils massive 16-Mch runs which can fire 2,700-Pound shells a distance of 23 Miles the Iowa is equipped with 12 5-Inch guns and with Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles. The 887-fool Model for three other Iowa class battleships is one of the most heavily armoured of .  Iowa was built during world War ii and Moth baited after the War. It was reactivated during the korean War and then mothballed again in 1984, it was modernized and reactivated returning Home last year after service escorting kuwaiti tankers in inc persian Gulf. I