European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse To thursday june 6/1991 the stars and stripes b Page 5 Duarte. Calif. Up1 Marissa eve Ayala a 14-month-old girl conceived sober Bone marrow could to transplanted into her 19-year-old leukaemia stricken sister has fulfilled her potentially lifesaving role. The transplant performed tuesday by doctors at City of Hope National medical Center was completed without complications shortly after 12 30 p.m., Hospital spokesman Charles Matthews said a \ a Wuthe decision to conceive the infant by her parents. Mary and Abe Ayala of Walnut sparked a controversy among medical ethicist concerned by the ramifications of bearing a child for the purpose of a harvesting Quot its marrow to save the life of another. A if it turns out that she is not Well matched to the sister. In what Way will they regard her that she has failed in her Mission Quot Alexander m. Capron. A University of. Southern California professor of Law and Medicine said at the time of Clarissa s birth. Marissa s sister Anissa has said a i can t believe that Marissa is actually going to give this to me and i want to Tell her thanks. 1 love her so. Much and a it was t for her i would t be s paediatrician. Or. Rudolf. Brutocoa said after the procedure that the doing me declined to comment on Anissa s condition because she is another doctor s patient but. Lie did say that the teen Ager was in High spirits. A. A the fact that Marissa tolerated it so Well gives ants a a lift Quot Brutocoa said. A Anissa a mount san Antonio College student was diagnosed three years ago with chronic Myel Genous leukaemia. The procedure she underwent tuesday is known As allege Neil Bone marrow transplantation. Or. Stephen j. Forman City of mope s director of Haematology and Bone marrow transplantation directed the procedure doctors used a Needle to extract about a pint of the baby a Bone marrow from her Back in the area Over her Pelvic Bone the marrow was then injected into her older Sisters veins much like a blood transfusion. A a lot of Odds fell right into place Quot for the ayalas who overcome Many obstacles before to Cilny s procedure became possible. Brutocoa sail. Soon alter Anissa s diagnosis the family undertook a nationwide search fora Bone marrow donor. Mow Ever none of the thousands of people who provided blood samples proved to be suitable donors. Siblings have a l-m-4 Chance of having compatible Bone marrow. A. With that in fund Abe Ayala underwent surgery to reverse a Vasectomy and Marissa was conceived in w hat Brutocoa termed Quot record within a month of her birth doctors confirmed Het Bone a marrow a was suitable for the transplant. I hey a. Waited Lor her to grow Large enough to tolerate the operation. A a a a a a a a her sister will remain isolated for two to three weeks and her blood will be monitored to determine whether the new Bone Marrows producing the desired result. She is Likely to remain hospitalized Tor six weeks. The ayalas while acknowledging that Marissa was conceived As a donor have insisted the baby Means much More to them than simply fulfilling her role As a potential Lifesaver. Brutocoa said Marissa s birth a reinvigorated the Lati i la and gave them a sense of the future Long before her status As a donor was determined. _ me said Anissa s chemotherapy had rendered her. Infertile creating an even stronger Bond Between the Sis lers. A / a a a. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a. A a i his is a teen Ager who had tremendous mothering instincts and she got a Chance in the last 14 months to a Mother this baby Quot Brutocoa said. Minutes alter her birth april 3, 1990, doctors tested Marissa eve s umbilical Cord blood cells and froze them for use in the umbilical Cord blood and from an infant contain a higher concentration of a Stem cells Quot which multiply at a High a rate. a ,. L Eutemia victim Anissa Ayala holds her sister Marissa shortly alter the baby s birth 14 months at a clinic in Florida suffers from aids Miami up a a a a Quot dentist at a Veter ans administration clinic has been diagnosed As having aids and officials pre pared to notify his patients that they should he tested for the disease. The dentist was at least the third in Florida to reveal that he had contracted the aids virus in the stars and stripes the dentist who was not identified worked at a a outpatient clinic just North of fort Lauderdale the veterans administration Hospital in Miami said in a statement. A the dentist in question although still employed by the veterans adm Nistra. Tion is no longer providing direct patient the statement said. "federa-1 privacy measures prohibit flip Veteran s administration from identifying either the dentist or the patients a. Officials said the clinic treats 70.001 people yearly but Only a Small percentage of them receives dental care. They said records of appointments were being used to locate the dentist s patients. The Hospital plans to provide blood tests for and family members and also Oiler psychiatric counselling. A a a the a report follows an announce input a Iii a West i a a i in Beach orthodontist of plans to close his office because he has aids. 10 years ago june 6,1981 a in an Effort to win bipartisan support for his tax Cut plan president Reagan announced he would revise the plan to reduce. Benefits he had promised businesses and add tax Breaks for individuals. 20 years ago june 6,1971 a the defense department announced that the United state Sis considering a new Type of nuclear submarine designed to fire missiles at other ships from beyond the Range of their anti submarine. Weapons. A. A a. 30 years ago june 6,1961 a the . Us preme court decided by a 5-4 margin that the communist party in America must Register and disclose its membership and finances. I a a a a 40 ears ago june 6 1951 a Secretary of state Dean Acheson rejected the idea that the korean conflict was bogging Down in a War of attrition and asserted that the current . Strategy would Force chinese communist forces in North Korea to quit. Georgia resident goes on trial in pipe bomb mailings deaths by the los Angeles l Imes St. Paul Minn. A a thousand Miles from the deep South Region where a string of pipe bombings spread terror and death in 19n9, a Georgia Man went on trial tuesday accused of making and mailing the devices that killed a Federal judge and a civil rights attorney in his opening statement in Federal court . Attorney Howard Shapiro contended that Walter Leroy Moody 57, of Rex ga., committed the killings in retaliation against the ii the . Circuit court of appeals which refused to Clear him of a 1972 pipe bomb conviction. According to a 72-count indictment Moody sent letters to 17 judges who sat on the appellate churl threatening to assassinate them. The indictment also contends that he threatened to kill a act officials and sent letters to television news stations throughout the South. trial which was expected to last three weeks was moved to St. Paul because the Case had received so much publicity in the Southeast prosecutors Al Moody 1. Lege that Moody a self employed literary Quot consultant concocted a fictitious organization americans for a competent Federal. Judicial system and feigned a. Purely racial motive for the attacks in an at tempt to throw off . In re Airty Sha Uro Miinte ruled. Quot Moody believed that Black people received Piel Prential treatment from the Legal svs Lem but his primary motivation had been Rita ratio h Lor s failure his 1972 conviction. Shapiro said mood was obsessed Wilt. Overturning the conviction because he wanted to become a lawyer and knew that unless the conviction was in veiled. never be admitted to the. Georgia bar. Wilward Tolley Moody s defense atlor1 Ney cont Euleil that Moody Quot had never heard Quot of Robert. L Robinson the Savannah ga., civil rights lava Sci and Alderman who was killed and had no motive Lor. Harming judge Robert s Vance of Mountain Brook. Ala. Quot to Charleston s c. A a free believed to be the oldest living thing East Mississippi River now belongs to the City because its owner failed to payback taxes. Mavor Joseph p. Riley or. Said monday that the City will build a Park around the tree and construct a lire station nearby to protect it. Experts have said the Angel Oak is at least 71 0. Years old and could be More 1.000 Vears old. The tree was 50 feet tall before 1 Hurricane Hugo sheared some of its top branches in 1 js9.&Quot Riley had hang proposed acquiring the Angel Oak and learing Down a tall fence., that blocks it from Public View. L in gut ins wish last tall when the irs auctioned the holdings of the tree s owner. It. I Welkel who failed to pay Back taxes. I he City bid on the tree and won a contract to buy it if. Pc Lac l did not the i is within 1x0 Days. 1 lie deadline passed a. Sunday an irs spokesman said. I he City Quot will. Pay 5127.000 to the irs and an additional s2x,000 to satisfy an Oul standing Moi game on the lice
