European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday november 19, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 i # i me by Aho and stripes a a a Bush nominates sex drug chief Bennett to replace Atwater As gop chairman by the new York times Washington a in a surprising move intended to invigorate the demoralized Republican National committee president Bush has chosen William j. Bennett the departing Federal drug policy chief to be the new party chairman administration officials said saturday night. Although the final decision rests with the Republican National committee the vote at the party a meeting in january is considered Only a formality. As recently As last week Republican party officials insisted that the current chairman Lee Atwater who is battling an inoperable brain tumor planned to seek a second two year term As chairman when the party meets i january. _ but administration officials speaking on condition that they not be identified said White House officials determined that Atwaters health problems would make it impossible for him to do the Job effectively. They said the White House was pushing his appointment As general chairman a largely honorary Post that has been vacant. The move to replace Atwater with the Blunt and often combative Bennett was particularly unexpected because he has never campaigned for political office and knows Little about the nuts and bolts of running political campaigns. An ardent conservative Bennett was once a Liberal Democrat and did not Register As a Republican until 1986. Under pro rident Reagan officials said the Choice of the 47-Vear-Nlh Ren Hole How s ,0hn h. S�u7�?z a,rh0eldwbhi?e in the inh to Hei wanted a fellow conservative wine which amp a a a the re actions with the party a right in a revo"psfcha1 Choice Aiti if Quot eur s Lack of political experience the offis sky on Cven among some party respond no to a Twa it the Whie House spokesman n8ren�?zj�?Tocula.at a Friday about same kind a spark told pm Henuse off als emphasized that when Bennett Fml i t6 weeks ag0that he planned to step Down there wan has f ,0n�?Ts first dru8 policy director she Nam r a to 8�to the Republican party. Nov 7 to Brough. Up the idea with Bennett on have Ltd r6 a a ic1fis a Bennett then met last thurs 94 a ? be 9 a Fulce it and Bennett asked for 24 hours to make his decision. A a a said he apparently told Sununu at first it Uriot a Tihe jobs but that he changed his of l he chief of staff assured him he would have Access to Bush and would play the major role in setting the party s Agenda. In an interview on wednesday Bennett made no mention of his prospects with the party and said he was leaving Public life. He joked that his brother Robert the special counsel in the Senate ethics committee inquiry into five senators and their ties to Charles h. Keating the savings and loan executive was getting More attention. A a it a time to step aside a he said a and let the other Bennett the Kinder gentler Bennett take the Center the Choice of Bennett for the party Post was disclosed on the Cable news network by Robert Novak a conservative columnist who reported that Bennett had accepted the offer saturday. White House officials later confirmed the report. At a White House ceremony on nov. 8, Bennett formally announced that he was stepping Down from the drug policy Post saying he would become a fellow at the american Enterprise Institute a research and study Center based in Washington. He was also expected to give speeches and finish a Book about his tenure As Secretary of education. Never one to enjoy the Washington social scene Bennett has often described himself As an outsider and has made no secret that he was growing restless with Public service and eager to make More Money. Bennett got mixed reviews in a role in which he sought to coordinate the drug fighting activities of Many Federal Jones eulogized for courageous fight White two a White settlement Texas a Stormie Jones the worlds first heart liver transplant recipient was eulogized saturday As a Gallant courageous youngster who strive to live a Normal life. The 13-year-old girl who battled Organ rejection hepatitis and medical complications before her body suddenly rejected her transplanted heart last sunday was Laid to rest in a cemetery in this fort Worth suburb. Many of the estimated 400 mourners at the 45-minute funeral service burst into laughter several times As Jerry Conley a minister at West freeway Church of Christ recalled highlights of her life. A everything was always upbeat with this very special child a Conley said. A Stormie has conquered life More gallantly perhaps than any person you or i have Ever known. Her illness was not her enemy. A Stormie was a very simple Young lady a he said. A she did no to really want All the fanfare that went with All of this. She Ujj Ped a be just an average teen age she was later buried at a private ceremony attended Only by her family and close friends. At the Church service White settlement mayor James herring read a Resolution the City Council approved earlier in the week recognizing Stormie As an honoured citizen. Her life for others a herring a. She did no to desire the notoriety that ame her Way but she was willing to do Ner part As a result of that. When called Tiwi 9,step Forward and talk to folks a Auau news cameras. She was Al is there and ready and herring also read a poem by one of Lois Purcell Mother of Stormie Jones and her husband Alan walk behind the casket after a memorial service in the fort Worth Texas suburb of White settlement. Stormie a classmates. A most say you were just a Little girl but you were an Angel to me a he read. A a you be been our Little lady your courage was so True. When things seemed to go bad you always pulled Stormie died nov. 10 at the same children a Hospital of Pittsburgh where she had undergone the historic operation of feb. 14,1984. Doctors at the Hospital said Friday that Stormie died because her body had suddenly rejected the transplanted heart. The autopsy results surprised Stormie s doctors who said an Organ rejection so Many years after a transplant was rare. A no one expected to see any rejection in Stormie a said or. F. Jay Fricker her cardiologist at children a. A after All we had a track record of More than six years of never seeing any heart rejection. So Why would we suddenly see it now a Fricker said it would take months for doctors to determine if they Ever can what caused the heart rejection. Doctors declined to speculate whether it was fk-506, an experimental anti rejection drug Stormie began receiving last november a second liver transplant she underwent last february or treatment for recurring bouts of hepatitis that caused the rejection. The Blond Brown eyed girl needed the heart liver transplant because of hypo Chole Seremia a rare genetic disorder that prevented her body from processing cholesterol. Her sister misty suffers from a Milder form of the disease. A bout with hepatitis in february slowly damaged her liver requiring a second liver transplant. But clinical studies done after surgery showed no evidence of heart problems Fricker said. Major gets prison term for trying to kill wife. A. A. Most Leavenworth Kan. A an army for to , saturday to 23 years confinement by �ln8to kill his wife by hitting her with a toilet tank a is David Chneider 35, also will forfeit All pay and ances and will be dismissed from the army. That Quot tended by the same panel of eight officers two in not a huty Friday of attempted murder and Der inn so conduct unbecoming an officer involving sentence11 a Teitz had faced a maximum 26-year knee a est Point graduate will serve his sen the fort Leavenworth disciplinary Barracks. He showed no emotion during sentencing. A civilian court in Platte county mo., acquitted Schneider earlier this year in another Case involving injury to his wife. Schneider was accused of flipping his wife Deborah Over a hotel Balcony railing. She fell eight floors and survived. Mrs. Schneider has since filed for divorce. She has been unable to remember her fall and could not say whether her husband hit her with the toilet lid while she slept in october 1989 at their fort Leavenworth Home. Military prosecutors accused Schneider of having an affair with a woman in California. A the affair made him want to kill his wife a a military prosecutor capt. Richard of Keefe jr., said in closing arguments Friday. The defense rested its Case thursday without calling Schneider to testify. Both a pathologist and a crime lab examiner testifying for the defense said the toilet lid did not cause mrs. Schneider a wounds. In the civilian Case prosecutors had alleged that Schneider threw his wife Over a Kansas City hotel railing last november. A jury found him innocent after he testified that he was carrying his wife in a romantic gesture when she arched her Back or fidgeted and he accidentally dropped her
