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In South African Hospital First Syccesstfyl Human Heart SiieportecS He said Washkansky had been kept alive by using pumps to assist his heart, but this could not have gone on indefinitely. "The heart muscle was fibrosed, which means that all the muscle was gone and there was only fibrous tissue there," the doctor said. "It wouldn't pump the blood any more, and his condition was deteriorating." Heading the team of five cardiac surgeons was Prof. Chris Barnard, father of South African women's water ski champion Deidre Barnard. The woman donor was in Washkansky has a tracheotomya tube inserted in his throat through which he is breathing and is unable to speak, said Burger.

He is being kept absolutely quiet in a special room. Dr. Burger said apart from the body's natural tendency to reject the heart, the main danger could come from blood clotting and resultant heart failure. Washkansky is being fed anti-clotting drugs to counter this. "We are also using steroids to prevent the heart being thrown out (rejected)," Burger said.

from Dr. Jacobus G. Burger, medical supervisor of the Groote Schuur Hospital. "The operation was his only chance," Burger said. "Washkansky was dying and wouldn't have lived longer than a few days otherwise." Burger said the next two or three days would be the critical postoperative period.

"The longer Washkansky goes on, the better," he said, "although that does not mean the heart will not be rejected later. The body could decide in 5 or 10 years' time that it doesn't want this heart." jured fatally in an auto acci-dent Saturday afternoon. Neurosurgeons, with an electroencephalogram to measure her brain waves, alerted the cardiac surgeons the instant she died shortly before I a.m. and the operation began immediately. Consent earlier had been obtained from her father to use her heart.

"The operation had to begin within half an hour of her death," Burger said. The woman's mother was killed instantly in the same auto accident. trodes were placed against the heart walls, and a high current was switched on for a fraction of a second. The heart started beating immediately, said Louw. Surgeons at California's Stanford Medical Center have been reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association to be ready for a heart transplant whenever the ideal donor and ideal recipient appear there at the same time.

Animal heart transplants have been successful at that center. The announcement of the transplant to Washkansky came In the first stage of the heart transplant operation, both Washkansky and the body of Miss Darvall were put on heart-lung machines, each manned by a team of technicians. In the second stage, the donor's heart was removed and the circulation of her heart, once it was taken out, was kept going by a pump. The third stage was the removal of Washkansky's heart. The fourth and most intricate stage of the operation was the placing of the donor's heart in Washkansky's body.

When the transplant was completed, elec the man was in satisfactory condition late Sunday but that the next few days would be a critical period. The heart was removed from the body of Denise Ann Dar-vall, 24, an accounting machine operator at a bank, and transferred to Louis Washkansky, a Jewish businessman, the hospital said. Washkansky, described as of medium build, was reported fully conscious and in very satisfactory condition after the five-hour operation that ended at 6 a.m. The announcement said his blood pressure was normal by Sunday afternoon. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) A South African hospital claimed Sunday the world's first successful human heart transplant.

Surgeons removed the heart of a young woman who died after an automobile crash and placed it in the chest of a 55-year-old man dying because his own heart was damaged, the announcement said. When the transplanted heart was in place, it was started beating by an electric shock. Dr. Jan H. Louw, the hospital's chief surgeon, said, "It was like turning the ignition switch of a car." Groote Schuur Hospital said WEATHER Forecast for Tucson: fair, little change in temperature.

Temperatures Yesterday: HIGH 62 LOW 49 Year Ago: HIGH 75 LOW 44 U.S. WEATHER BUREAU VOL. 126 NO. 337 FINAL TEN CENTS ir An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially it TUCSON, ARIZONA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1967 622-5855 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Entered as second class man' Post Ottiee Tucson. Arizona Politics In Arilona Jubilant Demos Take Control' Of City Today By LESTER N.

INSKEEP Jubilant Democrats take over undisputed control of the Tuo son city government today as a Republican-controlled Legist I1 IF Foug if 1 i I A I ry iSu'' fi ture continues its long struggle with Arizona's proposed new tax U.S. Envoy Ends Talks In Cyprus Greeks, Turks Agree To Appeal By U.N. By GERALD MILLER NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) envoy Cyrus R. Vance, looking tired and grim, ended his crucial talks with President Makarios on the Cyprus crisis Sunday and flew to Athens declaring: "The good will and cooperation of all parties is essential in the days ahead." He said in Athens he would return to the United States on Monday. He wound up his talks in Nicosia after receiving word that U.N.

Secretary-General Thant had appealed to all parties in the Cyprus crisis to avoid war. Cypriot officials indicated the wording of Thant's message represented a concession to Makarios and said the Nicosia structure. At 10 a.m. former City Councilman James N. Corbett Jr will be sworn in as mayor.

He i being elected each two years. 'r s' 1 NA rt All Srf Hit Weather Jets Key Railroad Joyner brings years of political training to the city. He is a professor of government at the University of Arizona and has participated in previous campaigns although never before as replaces Republican Mayor Lew Davis, who did not seek reelection. To be given the oath as coun-cilmen are incumbent G. Freeman Woods, Ward Republican; Richard Kennedy, Ward 2, Democrat; and Dr.

Conrad Joyner, Ward 4, Republican. a candidate himself. GEN. ITZHAK RABIN Gen. Rabin Steps Down From Post Being an acknowledged "Re publican liberal," he is ex pected to work more harmo By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) Allied troops fought off a series of heavy Communist mortar attacks Sunday in the Bu Dop area near Cambodia's border and along the central coast of South Vietnam.

U.S. Marine pilots, flying all-weather jets, penetrated heavy niously with the new Democrat They join three Democratic councilmen whose seats were not at stake this year. The holdovers are Kirk Storch, who also has been acting as vice mayor, Ward Hector Mo ic regime than would some of the more conservative members of the party. clouds to strike at North Viet- Peace Candidate Plans Protest To Bunker Bombs Bursting In Air Chunks of white metal streak the night sky over the U.S. Special Forces camp at Bu Dop after a Communist rocket scored a direct hit on an ammunition dump Saturday night.

The exploding ammunition shook the compound near the Cambodian border, raining shrapnel over the area. This picture was taken by AP photographer Al Chang. (AP Wirephoto) nam's strategic northwest railroad Sunday. One raid was about 50 miles from Red China's border. American B52 bombers also were aloft to keep pressure on North Vietnamese army regulars along the demilitarized government would make a positive response to the appeal.

In Ankara, the Turkish government said it was ready to comply "expeditiously" with Thant's appeal. But Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel told Thant that Turkey wanted a broader function for the U.N. Peace Force on Cyprus and that existing treaties be maintained two JERUSALEM (AP) Maj. Gen. Itzhak Rabin, mastermind of Israel's victory over the Arabs in June, stepped down as military chief of staff Sunday amid reports the government of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol would appoint him ambassador to the United States.

Brig. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, up to now deputy chief, was named by the Cabinet to rales, Ward and Jim Murphy, Ward 6. Stepping down with Davis will be Republican Council M.J. Southard, whom Corbett defeated for mayor in the Nov.

7 general election. Southard asked for a recount, and again lost. The difference in the number of votes cast for Kennedy and Tucson nurseryman John M. Harlow, a Republican, was so slight that an automatic recount was required. The recount changed nothing.

Woods, the only incumbent elected to his existing positions, is an experienced councilman. Kennedy, on the other hand, is starting from scratch but is expected to follow Corbett's lead. An as yet unknown factor is how well Corbett and Storch will get along, especially since Corbett has moved to the top spot. They've had some differences in the past. Corbett, incidentally, is expected to demand top billing as mayor.

He already has ordered 'Bushmasters' Reassigned zone and in the central highlands. U.S. and South Vietnamese troops killed 77 Communists in points not specifically contained the ground fighting, the U.S. in the Thant appeal. At the United Nations in New Pained Guard Unit Command reported.

It said York, diplomatic sources said American losses in four separate attacks were 12 killed and Turkey's and Greece's respon ses were positive. Acheson Says Talks Won't Settle War 1W7 New York Times News Service NEW YORK Dean Acheson, the former United States Secretary of State, asserted Sunday night that there was "no possibility of negotiating our way out of Vietnam." The only way to end the war, he said, is to convince the Com This leaves the Democrats The appeal was much differ a new automobile, will use a police driver and will use a po with the post of mayor and 1967 New York Times News Service SAIGON Truong Dinh Dzu, the peace candidate who finished second in September's presidential elections said Sunday he would formally protest his two-month house arrest to United States Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. "Ambassador Bunker emphasizes all the time that there is true democracy in this country," the cherubic, 50-year-old lawyer said. "Democracy, ha! "The government wants to shut me up. Keep me quiet like a mouse." Dzu, who remains under 24-hour police guard, has had no formal charges pressed against him.

American officials say that the arrest is "an internal Vietnamese Officially Retires PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona National Guard's I58th Infantry, the famed Bushmasters of World War II, was officially retired Sunday so its 2,000 members could be reassigned to new jobs. More than 800 persons, many of them combat veterans of ent from the original proposals in the Vance pack'aga con four of the six council seats. Rabin, 44, has been the armed-forces chief for four years, a year longer than usual. His officers have nicknamed him "the apple-eating giant killer" because of his liking for fruit. Defense Minister Moshe Da-yan proposed Bar-Lev, 43, a Yugoslav-born career officer, to assume command of Israel's armed forces.

He expressed satisfaction that Rabin one of his junior offi 68 wounded. The South Vietnamese, who do not enumerate their dead and wounded, said their casualties were light. An American military spokesman said the Marine A6 Intruders dropped their bombs at points 60 miles, 66 miles, 97 miles and 110 miles northwest Terms are for four years with three members of the council firming that Cyprus President Makarios had held out to the end and refused to approve mpny of the original demands the unit in WWII, were on hand of Hanoi. The railroad is a ma to witness the final "pass in review" at Phoenix College. munists that their effort has jor channel for the shipment of Spellman Lies In State At St.

Patricks Chinese and Russian war mate failed. "Too many people," declared It was officially decommissioned to allow its men to become military police, medics, engineers and transporters as part of the nationwide reorganization of the Army National lice escort and flags of the U.S. and state when meeting distinguished visitors. A victory party for the new mayor and Democratic members of the council will be held at 5:30 p.m. today at the Stat-ler Hilton Inn (formerly the Hi-w a by the Young Democrats of Greater Tucson.

Michael W. Murray is chairman. The public is invited and there will be no admission charge. One week from today, on Dec. II, there will be an inaugural banquet for Corbett in (Continued on 3A, Col.

I) Acheson, "have a completely wrong idea of negotiation as insisted on by Turkey. In a brief departure statement before flying off to Athens, Vance said: "I have completed my series of discussions with the governments of Greece, Cyprus end Turkey. I have just been informed that the secretary-general has issued an appeal calling for the maintenance of peace in the area." conceived of by the Communists Guard. In World War II, Gen The governor's official statement said the end of the unit was something "all the nation's enemies, with all the fury they could muster, were never able to accomplish." Organized at Maricopa Wells in 1865, the infantry unit had participated in Indian wars and the nation's other major military ventures with the exception of the Spanish-American War. rial into North Vietnam.

Air Force F4 Phantoms, relying on radjr because of dense clouds, bombed a truck park seven miles north of Mu Gia Pass in southern North Vietnam and reported that explosions triggered by their bombs reflected through the clouds. The pass is a geographical choke point on Hanoi's supply line to its troops operating in South Vietnam. Douglas MacArthur once said of the Bushmasters, whose cers, in the World War Jewish a a a underground would "continue to work in the national interest." This was seen here as an indication the sandy-liaired, soft-spoken soldier would be named Israel's envoy to Washington. Bar-Lev also was a member of the Palamach and fought the British. In 1946, he led a raid in which fee Allenby Bridge was Mown up.

Israel's new top soldier is a married man with two children. He commanded the armored corps until 1961. 1967 New York Times News Service NEW YORK The body of Cardinal Spellman was taken to St. Patrick's Cathedral Sunday night and placed in a catafalque in the center aisle for the first of a five-day series of funeral masses. The cardinal, who died Saturday morning at the age of 78, will be buried in a crypt of St.

Patrick's on Thursday. President Johnson or Vice President Humphrey may attend the name was taken from the deadly Central American snake, "no greater fighting combat team ever deployed for battle." "I'll be returning via Athens to the United States to report (Continued on 3A, Col. 4) tar bombardments Saturday night of the U.S. Green Beret camp in the village three miles from the Cambodian frontier and 84 miles north of Saigon. Another target of enemy bombardment Saturday was an encampment of U.S.

1st Infantry Division troops sent to the Bu Dop area Wednesday to bolster Green Beret defenses. The Green Berets and their South Vietnamese defenders took 200 rounds of 82mm mortar fire. and as conceived of by us a different idea. "With us, negotiation is a David Harum business in which both parties want to reach a result and each one wants to get a slight advantage in reaching a predetermined result sale of a horse, end of a war, whatever it may be." The 74-year-old Acheson, who served under President Harry S. Truman, voiced his views in a two-hour interview by four college students.

The interview was broadcast Sunday night on an educational television program produced by the Public Broadcasting Laboratory. Sen. McCarthy Endorsed The enemy mortar attacks Sunday hammered the allied units with more than 600 rounds, but the Communists mounted no ground assaults. The predawn attacks around Bu Dop followed up Red mor- Until then, many thousands are expected to file past the catafalque cardinal, clad Duck Hunter Kills Surfacing Diver 'Concerned Demos' Pass Resolution CHICAGO (AP) The Con MARSHALL, Tex. (AP) ference of Concerned Demo in white liturgical vestments, lies in an open casket.

The casket was carried to the prepared, black-draped catafalque, which was surrounded by six long candles. The cathedral was full. Hundreds of Today's News Index Tucson real estate man urees coneressional investltratlon of Russian Bombers crats shouted a unanimous en-dorsement of Sen. Eugene McCarthy Sunday for the party's 1968 nomination for Pravda Praises Candidate MOSCOW (AP) Pravda praised Sen. Eugene J.

McCarthy, Sunday for his attack on U.S. Vietnam policy but avoided direct comment on the presidential primary candidate's proposal for gradual de-escalation. Calling McCarthy "intelligent, witty," Pravda said: "He likes modern poetry and has a broad range of views." The official Soviet Communist party newspaper said McCarthy's philosophy was that of "a typical modern American liberal." Visiting Egypt CAIRO (AP) A squadron of Russian bombers swooped groups were well represented, most of the delegates were older. There were very few bearded delegates and conference attire for the men included ties and white shirts and for the women dresses. Very few Negroes were in attendance.

Gerald Hill, president of the California Democratic Council, e.aid he believed the ideas of the Concerned Democrats represent a majority of the American people. The state delegations included a sprinkling of Democratic party members with positions on the local level, but the only congressman present besides McCarthy was Rep. Don Edwards of California, president of the Americans for Democratic Action. over the eastern and southern areas of Cairo in tight formation Sunday to mark the start Jim Clark, 35, of Shreveport, was fatally shot Sunday by a duck hunter while competing in the Southwest Diving Council Gar Spearfishing Rodeo of Texas on Caddo Lake near Uncertain, Tex. Clark, who was diving for gar, surfaced by a stump near the duck hunters who were in a boat.

The hunter reportedly shot, thinking Clark was an alligator. The name of the duck hunter was witheld pending further investigation of the shooting by the Harrison County sheriff's department here. Arizona Civil Air Patrol, IB. LBJ regaining public confidence in his handling of Vietnam war, 2A. Yale president lambasts Gen.

Lewis Hershey, Selective Service director, for "outrageous usurpation of power," 3A. Governor Williams leads memorial service honoring sailors slain in USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, IB. England's 36,500 locomotive drivers threaten crippling slow-down, 12A. Ask Andy 10B Editorial 12B Pub. Ret- 5B Bridge 11B Horoscope 5B Radio-TV 11B Comics 10-11B Mostly Hers 9-11A Sports 2-4B Crossword 10B Movies 5B Weather 4.1 mourners had occupied front pews early in the afternoon.

The coffin was preceded on ifS way to the nave by clergy in purple and black mourning vestments, and followed by some of the cardinal's relatives. At 6:30 p.m. the cathedral's bells tolled, and eight bishops and 10 other prelate gathered around the main altar to celebrate a funeral mass. In a show of unity uniHsual for such political gatherings, the 450 to 500 delegates from 42 states approved without dissent a resolution that said the Minnesota senator could provide the "dynamic leadership" it asserted is lacking under President Johnson. "McCarthy te, a statesman who possesses the qualities of courage, leadership, humility of a good-will visit to Egypt.

The Egyptian press said the visiting squadron consisted of 18 UT16 planes piloted by Soviet fliers. The duration of their visit to Egypt was not immediately known. and vision needed to instill faith in our government," the resolution said. Shortly after its passage, actor Robert Vaughn, national chairman of Dissenting Democrats, said his group also had decided in a closed caucus to endorse McCarthy. Dissenting Democrats, organized in California in June, has member groups in 20 states, Vaughn said.

Delegates to the convention were all members of the Democratic party. While college.

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