European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes tuesday january 12,1993 Pittsburgh surgeons on sunday prepare a Baboons liver for transplant into a 62-year-old Man who was dying of hepatitis b. Doctors believe the Baboons liver is immune to the disease. Baboon liver recipient recovering in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh apr a 62-year-old Man whose liver was ravaged by hepatitis began waking up monday after undergoing the world s second Baboon liver transplant. The liver appeared to be functioning properly doctors said. Quot Overall the layer seems to be behaving As if it were a liver from a human donor a said or. Andreas Tzakis a transplant surgeon. The Man whose identity was not made Public could open his eyes when doctors asked him to Tzakis said. Patient Normal for patients in the Days following a transplant. The Many Sliver had been ravaged by hepatitis b. Doctors say Baboon livers Are immune to the lethal disease. University doctors encouraged by their first Baboon to human liver transplant in june had said last week they would perform another. A medical ethics panel at the University has approved four such operations. The first human recipient of a Baboon liver a 35-year-old Man who was never identified died sept. 6, 70 Days after the transplant. An overdose of an anti rejection drug hastened an infection that killed him doctors said in a study released last week. After that operation animal rights activists demonstrated outside the Hospital charging it was cruel to use animals As Quot spare parts for humans. Activists planned to hold a candlelight Vigil outside the Hospital monday night. Quot we have compassion for animals and humans a said Amy Bertsch spokeswoman for people for the ethical treatment of animals. Quot we believe these patients deserve better and not just this Frankenstein  doctors on sunday used a liver from a Baboon raised at the Southwest foundation for biomedical research in san Antonio. Before harvesting the liver veterinarians and scientists checked it for infections. If this Baboon liver fails or is rejected the patient could receive another Baboon liver but would not be made eligible for a human liver because the hepatitis b virus destroys the human liver. The viral disease leaves Baboon livers unscathed University spokeswoman Lisa Rossi said. Sailor sought in racial killing of woman kidnapped in . Charleston . Apr police on monday sought a Sailor accused of firing the fatal shots in the kidnapping gang rape and slaying of a woman that authorities said were racially motivated. Petty officer 2nd class Joseph Gardner of Detroit had been on family leave from his Charleston based ship but his status was changed to absent without leave when he was named As a suspect the Navy said. Five men and two women have been arrested in the dec. 30 killing of Melissa Mclauchlin 25. She was White All those arrested Are Black. Quot two of the men said they were looking for a White woman a said Harve Jacobs an assistant to the North Charleston mayor and a police spokesman. Quot no one wanted to believe this was a racial killing we did t want to spark a panic or have another los Angeles incident. But when the evidence kept presenting itself we had to face what we had on our  Mclauchlin formerly of Wixom mich., was abducted in North Charleston taken to a trailer and sexually assaulted at gunpoint by up to five men authorities said. Later she was shot repeatedly in the head and dumped along a Road outside Summerville another Charleston suburb. In the car allegedly used in the abduction police found a four Page document filled with racial slurs descriptions of White oppression and passages seeking to justify revenge on Whites. Detroit police said they were searching for Gardner who was stationed aboard the Cruiser Richmond k Turner. A it. Cmdr. Max Allen at Charleston naval base said Gardner was seen in the Detroit area last week and authorities believed he remained there. The victims father called for racial Calm following the arrests. Quot revenge is 110 Way to solve a problem a Clair Mclauchlin of Detroit said. Quot we done to want it we done to want anything else horrible to  �?T8 survivors of Shipwreck May be from haitian ship from wire reports Miami a a boat that reportedly left Haiti three weeks ago with nearly 400 refugees is missing and Cuba has reported finding eight survivors of a Shipwreck that could be it the coast guard says. Cuba told the coast guard on Friday of rescuing the eight near cubans northeastern coast dec. 23, officials said. The survivors said their ship the 70-foot wooden freighter Virgen Mirach went Down in the Southeastern Bahamas on dec. 21. The boat was carrying 396 people when it Sank the cuban report said. The coast guard has no direct evidence of the Shipwreck Petty officer Joe Dye said sunday but had heard reports for Morthan a week that a ship called Vierge Miracle French for Quot Virgin of the Miracle a left Haiti on dec. 19 for a five Day trip to Miami and never arrived. Quot Virgens is the Spanish translation of  tree kills woman Eugene Ore. A a woman on the Couch in her living room was crushed to death by a 90-foot Douglas fir that fell through her House police said. Rebecca Coleen Shelquist 33, was napping or watching to on saturday when the tree crashed into the three Story duplex said police spokesman Tim birr. Failing Trees have Long been a danger in the Hills surrounding Eugene said birr who called the Accident one of the worst he had seen. A neighbor Dave Brinduse said he had notified the neighbourhood association that the tree was beginning to lean and made a videotape of it but nothing was  bragged of deaths the slayings during reported sunday. Melissa Gomez who had been a member of the Loose group called the downtown posse told the Dayton daily news that her friends held a dinner at which the talk quickly turned to the slayings. She said said one of the suspects Heather Matthews told her Quot if you re going to run with us you need to know what a going on and what a already  a she said Matthews 20, showed off a new pair of Tennis shoes and said Quot of i killed some girl at the phone Booth for  Matthews and three others were charged with murder and robbery in the three Day spree that began dec. 24.cow flees farm show Harrisburg a. A a 1,300-Pound cow bolted from a state farm show sunday ran into a moving ear and stayed free for More than four hours before it was cornered and Tranquili Zed. A it Felt like getting hit by another car Quot said Richard Hoffner whose car had a Large Dent on the Side. The cow that fled the 77th Pennsylvania state farm show was recaptured at the state agriculture department across the Street. The cows owner Rodney Carmichael of state College  say whether the animal was injured or explain its  crash kills Pilot new Smyrna Beach Fla. A Pilot was killed when he crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about a mile  a Small plane he recently flew from California?1 John Homer Messier 71, of the Fly in Community Spruce Creek East was flying Solo saturday in the Cessna spymaster about 100 feet above the water when the plane banked sharply and crashed said sgt. Bill Marshall of the Volusia county Beach department. Marshall and two other Beach rangers said the air plane flew Low and tipped its wings before going Down. After the plane went out of sight Marshall said he heard a couple of noises then a  Messier a certified flight instructor bought the plane m California two Days before and flew it Home Marshall said. The Federal aviation administration is investigating the crash