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1984 IE NmbAW Shulfz View Of Talks ixed One t-- -1 -i I AP Laserphoto CrdlCt DrinQS JOy Moslem women wearing traditional veils establish a fundamentalist Moslem state after the assassination of Egyp- rejoice as they stand outside the courtroom where defendants tian President Anwar Sadat. The women have just learned that more than were facing charges of attempting to overthrow the government and to half of those on trial had been acquitted. Story on Page 4A. Heart Transplants May Be Offered Here TENNESSEAN News Services WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Shultz said yesterday chances have improved for productive negotiations with Moscow, but he declined to characterize talks between President Reagan and Andrei Gro-myko as "very positive." "Not very positive sober and intense," is the way Shultz said he would describe the Reagan-Gromyko meeting, as well as two separate sessions the secretary of state held with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko. And Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mon-dale charged yesterday that President Reagan "is not really in charge" of foreign policy and challenged him to state what he accomplished in his meeting with Gromyko.

The Democratic presidential nominee's weekly paid political radio address and his comments to reporters afterwards rehashed his speeches and news conferences of the past week, which aides consider a turning point toward fashioning a tough attack on Reagan's leadership. He told reporters, without offering evidence, that "apparently there was no progress toward arms control" in the Reagan-Gromyko session last Friday. Mondale said Reagan should hold a news conference "and tell the American people what we're to make of this? What did they Reagan and Shultz try? What did the Soviets respond with? Did we do what we could honorably have done to move forward?" In an appearance on ABC-TVs This Week with David Brinkley" Shultz said that as a result of the nearly nine hours of talks, "the chances of a more constructive dialogue with the Soviet Union are reasonably good." He said the two sides agreed "to keep in touch, carefully and systematically" through diplomatic channels and that such contacts would make it possible to negotiate solutions to some problems. Shultz predicted there will be follow-up consultations at the ambassadorial level in Washington and Moscow to decide plans for specific meetings on specific issues. He did not indicate when he thought such talks might occur.

Shultz described as "nonsense a fairy story" a published report that the White House kept the invitation and planning for the Reagan-Gromyko meeting secret from the Defense Department at the start last summer because of concern that Pentagon officials might try to prevent it Shultz acknowledged that in the early stages of planning, "the President kept it to himself and a few other people." But he said "the Department of Defense was completely involved in the preparations." "The secretary of defense was present at the last briefing and others with the President before the meeting," Shultz added. "He was present at the luncheon with Mr. Gromyko. And so this is a fairy story." (Turn to Page 5, Column 2) The St Thomas program would probably be a "very small one," performing "a few" transplants a year, Lee Penuel, a hospital spokeswoman, said. "Many long-term support services for transplant patients and their families will have to be in place before we are ready for our first patient" Meador said.

"When a surgical team's procedures are near -perfection and have met the rigorous surgery critieria at St. Thomas, it is likely the procedure will be offered." Meador said he does not believe St Thomas will need approval of the state Health Facilities Commission, which regulates hospital expansion, to offer trans- plants. Vanderbilt officials, including Dr. Ros-coe Robinson, Vanderbilt vice chancellor for medical affairs, discussed possibilities for a traasplant program several months ago, and officials have been negotiating with transplant surgeons since, said Vanderbilt spokesman Jack Kennedy. For "more than a year" Vanderbilt and St.

Thomas officials have been discussing developing a joint transplant program, he added. (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) The surgery "is not what I would term a difficult procedure by any means," Glassford said. Before a hospital initiates a heart transplant program, it needs physicians skilled in transplant surgery, and it must decide whether the surgery will be economical for the hospital. A heart transplant costs between $25,000 and $50,000. Some insurance companies pay for the surgery.

St. Thomas officials are trying to determine whether Medicaid and Medicare policies would pay for transplants. While officials of both Park View and Vanderbilt said the two hospitals may recruit heart transplant surgeons from other hospitals, St Thomas is training surgeons already on its staff. Saturday's surgery at Meharry was the second performed by the St. Thomas doctors "to perfect their procedure as a team," Petracek said.

Pigs were used in the exercise because pig hearts are similar to human hearts. The pigs were killed painlessly with an injection after the surgery proved successful because there was no further need to study the pigs, Petracek said. By DAVID GRAHAM Three Nashville hospitals are considering performing heart transplant surgery, and doctors from St Thomas have begun by studying transplant techniques on pigs, hospital officials confirmed yesterday. St Thomas Hospital could offer transplants "within the next several months," said Dr. Clifton Meador, St Thomas' medical director.

On Saturday, St Thomas Drs. Michael Petracek and David Glassford successfully transplanted the hearts of two pigs into two other pigs in a laboratory at Meharry Medical College. This was done as an exercise in learning the techniques of human heart transplant and the doctors have planned more such exercises. "The studies will simulate as closely as possible the actual procedure which would be performed in a human heart transplant" Petracek said. A final decision about offering the surgery has not been made, Meador said.

Vanderbilt University Hospital and Park View Hospital are the other ville hospitals considering offering heart transplant programs. Officials of both hospitals have spoken with transplant physicians at other hospitals about the possi bility of relocating here, hospital officials said. Vanderbilt and St Thomas officials have also discussed developing a program together. St Thomas appears to have advanced farthest of the three hospitals in developing a transplant program. No Nashville hospital offers heart transplants now.

The transplants are considered a "treatment" not experimental, by the National Institutes of Health. A transplant is used as a therapy in patients with heart disease who have "less than six months to live," Glassford said. Heart transplants are performed now at several places in the United States, including Stanford University, Palo Alto, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston; Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and the University of Alabama, Birmingham. At Stanford, 80 of transplant patients live at least two years after the surgery, and new drugs which lessen the chance that a patient's body will reject the transplanted heart have made the surgeries more successful, Glassford said. Between 200 and 300 such transplants are performed each year.

Parade Celebrates China's 35th Year of Communism licemen and milita men and women, dressed in new uniforms with white gloves, paraded past the rostrum as a brass band played patriotic music. The military parade also included a flypast by warplanes, new tanks, armored personnel carriers and rockets strapped onto olive-colored army trucks with whitewall tires. It was the first military review in 25 years and was seen as a morale booster for the armed forces, which Deng leads as chairman of the military commissions of the party and government. (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) patriotic celebration since the communists came to power in 1949. "We have given China a new face," Deng, 80, the chairman of the Communist Party Central Advisory Commission, said in a 20-minute speech from atop Tiananmen's northern gate after the military review.

An estimated half-million people were in the huge square in central Peking. "Today, all of our people have reason to be proud," said Deng, who had made few public appearances since emerging as China's major leader in 1978. Six-thousand soldiers, sailors, po PEKING (AP) Communist China celebrated its 35th National Day today with self-congratulations and a mammoth military parade reviewed by Deng Xiaoping, who made his first major public speech as the nation's top leader. "How are you, comrades?" Deng shouted to thousands of soldiers from his black limousine convertible in a 20-minute inspection of troops assembled in Peking's Tiananmen Square and the adjacent Chang An Boulevard. The state-run television showed the festivities live in what the government called the most elaborate A 1 I laa Albert Gore Jr.

"He ran them out" Victor Ashe "I'm not a coattailer" Gore, Ashe Debate Gets Personal, Race Heats Up Restaurant Owner Hurt In Robbery Peking Garden's Chen In Critical Condition By RAM UPPULURI A Forest Hills man was beaten and robbed in his home early yesterday and was in critical condition at St Thomas Hospital last night while his attackers remained at large, police said. Norman Sheng Tu Chen, 44, owner of Peking Garden Restaurant on Division Street, was alone in his home at 4511 Harpeth Hills Drive when robbers broke in through a window between midnight and 3 a.m., said Metro detective Randy Fowler. "We're not sure how many robbers there were, but there was no evidence that Chen knew his attackers," said Metro Sgt. John Hutchison. Chen was out of bed but still in the master bedroom when he was hit over the head at least three times with a blunt object and left unconscious on the floor as his assailants ransacked the house, police said.

The robbers found the keys to Chen's 1979 black four-door Cadillac, and, unable to open the electronically-operated garage door, rammed the car through it and fled, Fowler said. One of Chen's two sons was camping with friends in nearby woods, the other was staying with a neighbor for the night, and his wife was out of town when the incident occurred, Fowler said. "One of the kids camping with Mr. Chen's younger son heard the sound of breaking glass around 3 a.m," Fowler said. "He had just gotten himself a new watch." The noise was presumably the sound of Chen's car being backed through the wooden garage door.

Talent Won Stars' Hearts Handicapped Child To Visit Opry They and the other Nashville personalities in attendance were stunned by the child's talent and deeply moved by the fact that he performed despite severe handicaps. The native of Hartford, was among the children associated with the National Very Special Arts Festival for the Handicapped, a group which was meeting at the World's Fair. The Nashvillians heard him sing and play the piano at a news. rnnforonrn CiiKcosiiinntlir thou tmrit. By JIM O'HARA Tennessee's U.S.

Senate race got personal yesterday with Democrat Albert Gore Jr. admonishing Republican Victor Ashe to apologize to Henderson County residents for chasing them out of his legislative office. Ashe, a former state senator, told Gore, In turn, to "take notes" on what really happened and then attacked the Democratic congressman for trying to "usurp credit" for stopping the location of a toxic waste dump in that rural West Tennessee County. Ashe, in his continuing effort to paint the 6th District congressman as a liberal who is out-of-step with Tennessee, also offered a $5 bill to charity if Gore would simply mention Democratic presidential candidate Walter Monday's name. Gore didn't When the issue of the Henderson County toxic waste dump came up during a debate in Jackson, sponsored by The Jackson Sun, Gore sought to use it to illustrate his contention that Ashe is Ineffective.

"He ran them out of his office the way that bulldog runs people out of his office in his television commercial," Gore said, referring to Ashe's campaign gimmick, a bulldog which, In the Republican's first TV commercial, was shown chasing lobbyists out of an office. "I believe he owes the people of Henderson County an apology, and this afternoon would be a good time for it" Ashe said he would answer the charges later during the question-and-answer session. About halfway through the debate, while answering a question about what he would do as sena- (Turn to Page 4, Column S) By ROBERT K. OERMANN Jason DIsworth, the blind child with cerebral palsy who stole the hearts of country stars at the World's Fair In New Orleans, is coming to the Grand Ole Opry thi" week. The country music community has been moved by the tale of the 8-year-old who found his way out of a dark, confining childhood by ing to sing and yodel the songs of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings and George Jones.

His story, told in Saturday's Ten-nessean, has spurred plans to treat the youngster to a trip to the land of his dreams, Music City U.S.A. "I've gotten him and his family rooms at Spence Manor for a few days and at Vanderbilt Plaza for a few days," said Carl May, promotion (Urector.for Jhg May is working with people from the National Committee of Arts for the Handicapped to bring the boy to Nashville Friday. "Lindsey Sheehy of that organization is talking to several stars," said May. "We're going to host him together. Our plans aren't complete, but we've scheduled tours of the city and meetings with celebrities." Representatives of The Tennes-sean have had conversations with Opryland's Bud Wendell about making little Jason's lifelong dream come true to appear on the Opry stage on Saturday night The Opry star who will host the boy has not been announced.

Jason's dream came to light after he sang onstage with Tammy Wy-nette, Eddie Rabbitt and T.G. Shep-, pard two weeks ago in New Orleans. ed him to make his stage debut with them. The Tennesscan, United Press International, McCdl's magazine and other media subsequently publicized Jason's triumph over adversity. He was born blind and developed cerebral palsy as an infant.