European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 27, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5abortion Issue divides . Heartland rally Marks 7 weeks of protest in Wichita by Don Terry the new York times Wichita Kan. A the intense struggle Over abortion continued sunday but this time it was Between thousands of abortion opponents attending a rally at a football stadium and a Small air plane circling overhead. In the sky the plane pulled a sign a go Home. Wichita is  on the ground the crowd estimated by the police at 25,000, shouted Back their voices drowning out the Buzz of the plane a we Are Home. We Are  it was a moment of humor tinged with anger and Defiance on both sides coming on the eve of what will be seven weeks of protests at the City a three abortion clinics. But in the end the Day belonged to the abortion opponents who gathered under the blazing Kansas Sun to declare their determination to make a Wichita the first abortion free City in  the rally dwarfed the gathering of about 5,000 abortion rights supporters that was held downtown saturday. The protests have divided families in Wichita and made the City a Flash Point in the nations struggle Over abortion. There have been More than 2,600 arrests in the protests including 65 sunday morning during a sometimes rough confrontation with the police at one of the clinics just hours before the Start of the evangelist Pat Robertson addresses an anti abortion rally in Wichita on sunday. Apr Hope for the heartland  it was an unusual confrontation in this summer of conflict. Until this sunday the clinics have been closed sundays. The Rev. Pat Robertson who was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, brought the huge crowd to its feet when he declared a we will not rest until every baby in the United states is Safe in his mothers  he went on a and we will not rest until this land we love so much is once again truly one nation under  Robertson also spent considerable time on sunday criticizing the Federal judge Patrick f. Kelly who late last month issued an order prohibiting the blocking of the clinics Gates an order that the 10th . Circuit court of appeals in Denver has since upheld. A August 1991 is the month when oppression collapsed in the soviet Union a Robertson said. Quot and August is also the month when a Federal judge was Able to oppress brutally the rights of innocent children and the people who protect them. We re Here to do something about that brutality. We re Here to change things Federal judge  of people stood in the blistering heat waiting to get into the rally held in the Cessna stadium on the Campus of Wichita state University. And part of the Day had the Aura of a Homecoming game. Hotdogs and to shirts were for Sale and there was a sea of umbrellas american flags and homemade signs such As a support our unborn  the roman Catholic Bishop of Wichita Eugene j. Gerber told the crowd a we come together to reaffirm that abortion is an abominable crime against god and the entire human  the rally was organized by a coalition of local anti abortion groups and organizers said operation air Scute played no official role. Operation Rescue has said that after sunday s rally its leaders would leave  he plays soccer his heart is really in it Pittsburgh a Simon Keith says he could not make up a better Story than the account of How he received a heart transplant. As a 20-year-old world class soccer player he Learned a virus was ravaging in the stars and stripes10 years ago aug. 27,1981 a . Education Secretary . Bell named a commission to search for ways to upgrade the nations schools after receiving repeated complaints about a a Long and continuing decline in the Quality of american education.�?�20 years ago aug. 27,1971 the White House said president Nixon would stick by his 10 percent surcharge on imports despite the threat of retaliation from some of the United states major trading partners.30 years ago aug. 27,1961 a in letters of protest ., British and French ambassadors demanded that the soviet ambassador to East Germany take the necessary Steps to reopen the Border dividing Berlin and that the soviet Union keep its hands off Western air corridors into West berlin.40 years ago aug. 27,1951 a communist China warned that future peace talks were inconceivable unless the United nations changed its Quot Savage  meanwhile communist troop movements across the korean front indicated they might be planning a massive assault. His heart. He waited six months for a new Organ before one became available when a 17-year-old soccer player collapsed during a game and died of a brain aneurysm. A it really sounds like fiction. It really does a Keith said sunday. Now 25, with five additional years of soccer behind him Keith was among several Hundred Organ recipients who gathered this weekend in Pittsburgh for a meeting of the transplant recipients International organization. Keith a member of Canadas world cup soccer team in 1986, had Learned he needed a transplant because of viral myocarditis. He returned to his native eng land and was awaiting a donor when the 17-year-old died in Wales. Within four months Keith was Back on the soccer Field. He played two years for the University of Nevada at Las vegas and three professionally in Cleveland and Montreal. He does no to dwell on the fact he has someone else a heart. A i have goals in my life things that in a doing a he said. Most transplant patients learn Only scant details about donors. Keith said his Case was different because his Story was covered by the British Media and because the circumstances of the donors death also were newsworthy. He said he never tried to Contact the donors family. One speaker sunday was Joyce Willig of Fairfield coiin., who received a liver transplant in 1982. She encouraged fellow recipients and their families to help others gain a second Chance at life by spreading the word about Organ donation. A what makes us heroes is not that much to do with what we did a she said. A rather what makes us heroes is what we choose to do with what we be been  at the close of the gathering transplant recipients Hung Organ donor cards handmade items photographs and other mementos on three potted Trees. Trauma care eroding study says Washington up the Quality of emergency medical care at . Hospitals is deteriorating because of overcrowding and increased demands stemming from violence drug abuse aids and homelessness a study showed monday. The yearlong Survey of 239 teaching hospitals in seven major metropolitan areas a new York los Angeles Detroit Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis and the District of Columbia a found that Many were having difficulties in providing essential emergency services. For example during a one month period half of the hospitals surveyed in the hardest hit cities of new York los an Geles and Detroit were forced to turn away ambulances carrying trauma or heart attack patients More than 25 percent of the time. Ten percent of the hospitals reported that sometimes patients had to wait at least 40 hours for a vacant bed in the intensive or critical care units. A left unchecked emergency department overcrowding will progressively erode the ability of hospitals to provide essential emergency services a said or. Arthur Kellermann co author of the study. Kellermann blamed much of the problem on decreasing patient Access to regular health care and preventive services. A individuals who would not otherwise seek emergency care Are forced to use the emergency department As their sole provider of care a said Kellerman head of emergency Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. The Advent of aids and the increase in homelessness drug abuse and violence were also cited As contributing factors to the overburdened health care system said Dennis Andrulis director of the study and president of the National Public health and Hospital Institute. A emergency department crowding reflects the ongoing erosion of social health and economic conditions in cities across the country Quot Andrulis said. Alaska gives gift of Salmon to soviet City Anchorage Alaska up in a gesture of Good will Alaska packed 5 tons of surplus Pink Salmon for shipment sunday to the hungry citizens of Khabarovsk in the soviet far East. The Salmon was canned saturday and flown sunday night to the soviet City. The gift was. Also an act of conservation that prevented the waste of millions of surplus fish. The world Market for the Alaska fish is glutted and most of South Central alaskans canneries have said they will not buy any More Salmon this summer. The shipment last weekend was Only the first Load for alaskans Western neighbor said Eric Rehmann a spokesman for gov. Walter j. Hickel. There Are plans to ship an additional 5 to 6 million pounds of fish to the soviets during the coming week. Most of the Cost of the Giveaway is being covered by a $2 million gift from the Oil giant Exxon corp., with other costs to be paid for through private donations Rehmann said