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Quinlan Reported Taken Off Respirator From Pott Win Strvlcos DENVILLE, N.J. Karen Anne Quinlan has stayed alive without the aid of a respirator for several days, NBC News and the Morris County Record reported yesterday. A spokesman for St. Clare's Hospital and the attorney for the comatose woman's parents refused to verify or to deny the reports that she was removed from the machine that has kept her breathing after she went into a coma more than 13 months ago. They also would not confirm the newspaper's report that Miss Quinlan, 22, was moved from the intensive care unit to a private room Saturday.

The hospital would say only that her condition remained critical. Tha ummnn'a naronU won nprmission "All medical ministrations fall within the sacred realm of privacy," he said, adding that it was "patently untrue" that the parents had asked the treating physicians to stop feeding their daughter intravenously or to withhold antibiotics that were needed to stop an almost continuous round of infections suffered by Miss Quinlan. Reports of strained relations between the Quinlans and the attending physicians, Dr. Robert Morse and Dr. Arshad Javed, began circulating several days ago.

No one connected with the case will comment on the record, because of the insistence on secrecy by the Quinlans and Armstrong. The lack of direct information has inspired a round of speculation about what is happening in the case, which has attracted international attention. At least one official at St. Clare's Hospital has asked the hospital's attorney to challenge the family's insistence on the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship, on the ground that Miss Quinlan has become a public figure. While he will not comment directly on developments in the case, Armstrong issued a statement that said in part: "We are deeply saddened that such ill-informed and thoughtless speculation tends to cast the ignoble upon the noble." He said he referred to reports that tended to picture the parents as attempting to induce the physicians to withhold care from their daughter.

The family asked Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. in Morristown to allow from the state Supreme Court on March 31 to disconnect the machine and to allow her to die if a hospital ethics board certified her condition as hopeless. NBC said weaning Miss Quinlan from the respirator was a way of bypassing the requirement for an ethics board decision. The network said Miss Quintan's removal from the respirator did not necessarily mean her condition had improved. In a trial last October, physicians testified that Miss Quinlan could live for several days if she was weaned from the machine.

Paul W. Armstrong, the attorney for the young woman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Quinlan, confirmed that Miss Quin-lan's condition had not changed.

them to let her die "with grace and dignity" because there apparently was no hope for her regaining consciousness. Muir turned down the request after a widely publicized week-long trial last October, but his decision was overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court in March, which appointed Joseph Quinlan, Karen's father, as guardian and authorized him to allow her to die with approval of doctors and a hospital ethics Karen has been reported to be able to breathe without the respirator for an extended period of time recently, while testimony during the October trial indicated that she could be taken off the respirator for no more than an hour at a time. Awinis The Palm Beach Post WEATHER Partly cloudy with a chance of mainly afternoon and evening thunder-showers. Low tonight in the low 70s, high today and Tuesday in the mid 80s. Data, A2 VOL.

LXVIII NO. 75 Pyle Kennedy Pulitier 42 FIFTEEN CENTS WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1976 13 Die as Troops Storm Hijacked PAL Jetliner JimmmmDu i 1 xu sj VI fa ft rt i ''(-, 7 i lfv I I JTf" 'J Hill fit I 40- From Post Wire Service! MANILA, The Philippines Soldiers stormed a hijacked jetliner yesterday at Zam-boanga as frantic passengers leaped from the burning plane to escape grenades, bullets and teargas. Ten passengers and three hijackers were killed in the ensuing battle, officials said. Three hijackers were captured. The gunbattle broke out when several passengers tried to escape from the plane, ending a 48-hour hijack attempt by six young Moslems.

The Moslems had commandeered the twin-engine Philippine Airline (PAL) jet Friday as it took off from Davao, on the island of Mindanao. Twenty-two other persons were wounded, the Philippine Defense Department said. Most of the wounded were hit by shrapnel, and others were caught in the crossfire between special "anti-hijacking troops" and the Moslem terrorists. The $4 million BAC111 jet, wracked by blasts from fragmentation grenades and fire, was a "total wreck," the PAL said. Two Americans among the hostages were unharmed, officials said.

Philippine Airline sources indicated there were about 87 hostages aboard the plane when the shooting began. One of the Americans who escaped, John Mallett, the manager of a United Brands banana plantation on Mindanao, said that when the firing broke out a stewardess helped him smash a window and crawl out to safety. The other American was Andrew Macs, general manager of Weyerhauser Philippines, a large wood products company, officials said. Just before the fighting broke out, the hostages freed a flight stewardess and two passengers. On Saturday they had released five women, including Mrs.

Martha Talton, 34, a travel agent from Charleston, and nine children. A Swedish passenger, Max Heuttner, was reported in critical condition. AP Wirephoto Rebel Grenades Set Plane Ablaze After Shooting Began rebels, then threw two hand grenades, officials said, setting the craft ablaze. Several hijackers tried to escape by mingling with the fleeing passengers but they were pointed out to soldiers who shot them, sources said. Ten bodies were found in the gutted fuselage.

Authorities identified the leader of the hijack gang as Pendatun Dominanca and said he was slain. The three surviving gunmen were taken away for questioning. Turn to HIJACKED, A13 The battle blazed suddenly after tense negotiations between the hijackers and military officials who were refusing all demands. The nose wheels of the plane had been deflated to keep it from taking off. According to a military report, the specially trained anti-hijack troops rushed the plane when the gunmen began "indiscriminate firing" at passengers jammed in a doorway trying to flee.

But passengers said a teargas grenade was thrown first from outside the plane. The hijackers, described as Filipino Moslem AP Wirephoto One of Three Captured Hijackers Is Led Away three of his comrades died in the fighting High Winds Cause Damage in County T.ca" 1 0 cn ill ma a. jj. w. x.

Ml I Saw and trees blown to the ground. Lines tangled around the railroad warning gate at Blue Heron Boulevard, forcing it to remain upright. When a train came through the area, a police officer halted oncoming cars, avoiding an accident. In North Palm Beach, the wind ripped ceiling tiles from the First American Bank's drive in area on Northlake Boulevard, and blew over several nearby trees. A large ficus tree in the parking lot of the North Palm Beach Elementary School was also toppled, along with a half dozen smaller trees around the school.

Another large tree, at the home of Bill Stover, 500 Captain's Road, was felled, mashing in the roof of Stover's car and causing minor damage to his home. "I heard it coming," Stover said. "My wife was on the screened porch in the back. I grabbed her and threw her on the bed." Stover said heavy rain had preceeded the high winds, but had almost stopped when the winds ripped through the neighborhood. His neighbor, M.

Bub Lang, 414 Driftwood Road, also heard the wind. Turn to WEATHER, A13 More Photos, CI By PETER COOKE and DAVE REDDICK Post Staff Writers Tornado-like winds raked northeast Palm Beach County yesterday, felling trees and causing extensive power outages. There were no reported injuries as weather officials recorded sustained winds of '37 m.p.h., gusting to 48 m.p.h from the west. Thundershowers dropped nearly an inch and a half of rain. "All of a sudden it started pouring like hell and the wind started screaming," said Roy Rausch, who was working at the Harbor Park II warehouse unit, 1238 Old Dixie Highwav in Lake Park.

The roof of an adjacent warehouse building began tearing loose, scattering tar paper and pebbles throughout the area. "Everything just started flying all over the place. "he said. Several large dump-sters. blown by the high winds, rolled by his office window, as the front of his pickup truck was lilted from the ground.

Widespread damage was reported throughout Riviera Beach, with power poles Stiff Photo by Kin Stolnhoft Leroy Boast of Riviera Beach Surveys Damage to Trailer Awning Inside Mistress Story Denied Rep. Hays Accused of Keeping Woman on Staff From Post Wirt Services I Today Collision At least 19 persons die in South Korea as a fuel truck collides with a train filled with families on their way to country picnics. Story, A2 PassrnyVrs Hurl Eleven of the passengers aboard a National Airlines DC10 are slightly injured as the plane encounters severe air turbulence. Story, A5 Index Amusements B5 Classified Ads C4-11 Comics B6 Editorials A12 Letters A12 Mitchell CI Obituaries 06,7 Poster B1-8 Sports Dl-6 TV Listings B7 many desks piled with office work." Hays is running as a favorite son candidate for president in Ohio's June 8 primary. "I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone," the Post quoted Ms.

Ray as saying. The Post also Said she had an unmarked office in a House office building with an electric typewriter she did not know how to use and no business papers on her desk. "Supposedly I'm on the Oversight committee. But I call it the Out-of-Sight Committee," she told the Post. No one answered her telephone yesterday when efforts were made to reach her.

The Post said Hays visited Ms. Ray's Arlington apartment "for sexual relations once or twice a week in their long-standing relationship." The Post said Hays told Ms. Ray after his recent marriage their relationship would remain the same, but "that Woodward (Bob Woodward, Washington Post reporter) is after me and if he found out about you Neither of the two Post reporters who received bylines in yesterday's story was Woodward. Turn to HAYS, A13 divorce from his first wife, told the Post: "Hell's fire! I'm a very happily married man." In making her allegation, the Post quoted Ms. Ray as saying: "I don't hate him.

I'm a nervous wreck. I'm afraid of him. There are 10 or 15 offices on Capital Hill that I know girls have had to do this to get a job. Only mine is so cruel; the other congressmen at least treat them like a date. I used to go into depression, but I had to tell myself that it's a job I have to do right now." Ms.

Ray said she was introduced to Hays by former Rep. Ken Gray (D-Ill for whom she worked prior to being put on the payroll of the committee by Hays. The Post said that last August Hays arranged to have Ms. Ray placed on the payroll of Rep. Mendel Davis Davis was quoted as saying he remembered Ms.

Ray working as a general typist. When told she pould not type, he said. She wasn't outstanding." After a month on Davis' staff, she returned to the staff of Hays' committee. Hays has almost total control over the allocation of office space to House members. Ms.

Ray's office described by the Post as spacious and luxuriously appointed is next to that of Rep. Bella Abzug, in which the Post said a dozen or more staffers are "shoe-horned into as WASHINGTON Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio), the powerful chairman of the House Administration Committee which controls much of the hiring in Congress, has kept a 27-year-old woman on his staff as his mistress, the Washington Post reported yesterday. Hays, 64, called the report "blatantly untrue" and "malicious." He said he would consult with his lawyers today about a possible libel suit against the newspaper.

As chairman of the committee, Hays exercises great power over congressional staffing, travel, parking and payroll. The Post said Elizabeth Ray, a blonde Ashe-ville, N.C., native, was paid $14,000 a year and her duty was to dine with Hays occasionally and take him to her apartment. "It's not true; it's just not true," Hays said through an aide. "This is my reward for trying to help somebody who's sick," said Hays, who added he would fire the woman he called "a former mental patient." Ms. Ray, who prefers that designation, told the Post she shows up at her Longworth House Office Building desk once or twice a week for several hours, but does no work.

Hays, who was married five weeks ago to his Ohio office secretary Pat Peak following a 'I can't type, I can't file, I can't even answer the phone Supposedly I'm on the Oversight Committee, but I call it the Out-of-Sight Ms. Elizabeth Ray.