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BEST AVAILABLE COPY College football UCLA 32 Washington24 Ga.Tech 59 UA 25 Stanford 14 NCSt. 21 ASU 37 WSU 34 NAU 39 Oregon 17 USC 14 SWTex. 0 Baseball New York 6 Houston 5 California 4 Boston 3 Section 1986 The Arizona Daily Star Mmlw Star Home Edition, Tucson, Sunday, October 12, 1986 Vol. 145 No. 302 $1.00 198 Pages i 'iff if 3 Donor heart 'deteriorated right before our eyes' By Cynthia Hubert The Arizona Daily Star Bernadette Chayrez, who became the focus of a bold medical experiment when her heart suddenly failed, died yesterday after a "courageous" eight-month fight for survival.

In a final, desperate attempt to grant Chayrez her only wish to return to Phoenix with her family surgeons yesterday morning tried to replace her troublesome artificial heart with a human donor organ. But the heart "deteriorated right before our eyes," said Dr. Jack Copeland of University Medical Center, and with it went the 40-year-old woman's final chance for life. Chayrez underwent eight major operations in? eluding two artificial heart implants and two failed transplants. She was brought close to death several times by severe infections, internal bleeding and other complications.

She battled kidney failure and a minor stroke. But up to the end, she was good-humored and brave, Copeland said. The surgeon, who led yesterday's operation, fought back tears at a news conference two hours after his patient had been pronounced dead at 1:55 p.m. "She went into this operation afraid, no doubt," he See Page 5A She died on the operating table at 1:55 p.m. after 240 successive days tethered to a mechanical heart.

Chayrez is survived by her mother and father, Tillie and Ernesto, and three children: Larry, 13, Tammy, 10, and Ernie, 9. It was a dramatic ending to a personal yet very public struggle for Chayrez. She had been an assembly worker for Motorola Inc. in the Phoenix area before being struck down by a heart ailment. When Copeland implanted a scaled-down version of the Jarvik-7 mechanical heart into her chest Feb.

3, neither he nor his patient imagined the ordeal that lay ahead. Star file photo Bernadette Chayrez: Long battle ends toff 400 Quake Two leaders create teams for key issues 0 icf) fc SrtFJSitf I IUUI UJUJUUUL 1 REAGAN GORBACHEV AT A GLANCE President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for nearly four hours in two sessions. They set up two working groups, one on arms control and the other on human rights and regional issues. They agreed to meet today 30 minutes earlier than planned. There were indications another summit might be held, possibly in the spring.

Red Cross says 6,000 are injured By Tim Golden Knight-Ridder Newspapers SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Salvadorans worked feverishly yesterday to rescue survivors from the rubble of the devastating earthquake that hit the capital of this country on Friday, (recover the bodies of the dead and aid the thousands of injured and homeless. President Jose Napoleon Duarte said at a morning news conference that at least 100 people had died with 1,500 injured and added, "we hope that these figures will not rise much." By the afternoon, those hopes had long since been shattered. The International Red Cross in Geneva said relief workers sent to San Salvador reported 400 dead and 6,000 injured, Associated Press reported. The Red Cross said the quake left more than 20,000 people homeless, and about 600 people were hospitalized. More than 300 bodies Rosario Goches Castro, a justice of the peace overseeing work at the Isidro Menendez Judicial Center, which houses the city's principal morgue, said in an interview that the badly damaged facility had received more than 300 bodies.

The bodies of an unknown number of other victims were taken away by relatives as they were dug out of fallen buildings and never passed through the morgue. The presidential palace, U.S. Embassy, six major hospitals and several schools were severely damaged. U.S. spokesmen said nine Americans suffered minor injuries at the embassy.

3 hospitals evacuated Hundreds, if not thousands of injured were attended at what remained of the city's main hospitals. The country's main military, social security and children's hospitals all were so badly damaged that they had to be evacuated. In a handful of the most badly damaged downtown buildings, rescue efforts that had been slow in getting started picked up speed and organization with help from rescue experts who flew in from Miami, Fla-, Mexico, Guatemala and other nations. But government officials acknowledged that they had no idea how many people might have been trapped inside, when the quake hit yv0 By Bernard Weinraub 1 986 The New York Times REYKJAVIK, Iceland President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened talks here yesterday with the Soviet leader saying he will not set a date for a summit meeting in the United States unless prospects for signing a major arms control pact are high, a ranking administration official said last night.

To meet Gorbachev's concerns, the United States and the Soviet Union set up two separate working groups, one on arms control and the other on human rights and other issues. U.S. officials expressed optimism that the creation of the working groups and an agreement by Reagan and Gorbachev to meet this morning 0 minutes earlier than planned were hopeful signs in the efforts by both nations to narrow differences and arrange a full summit in the United States later this year or sometime in 1987. U.S. officials said the bulk of yesterday's talks between the two leaders focused on arms control.

Reagan was expected to raise human rights See REAGAN, Page CA Legislature may inflate 55 by 10 By Susan R. Carson The Arizona Daily Star PHOENIX Arizona's 'double-nickel" speed limit could be on its way ouL The battle to raise the state's 55 mph limit has been an annual feature of the Legislative session, and this year probably won't be any different What is different is the attitur on the federal level, which has evaporated much of the opposition among legislative leaders. Opponents no more Jack Taylor, R-Mesa, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, was a leading defender of the speed limit Not any more. Congress is preparing to change its mind on the subject and. "I'm not really too shook up about it" Taylor said.

Rep. Doug Todd. R-Tempe. the former chairman of the House Transportation Committee who is now running for the Senate, also says he would support a change in See DPS HASVT, Page 2A It ft 1 Fall fashions Find out what's new in today's Star, Section G. WEATHER Associated Pms Workers survey the rubble of a building in downtown San Salvador Partly Cloudy at times and slightly warmer today, with a 10 percent chance of rain.

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The government told them to stay there until the full extent of the damages could be determined..