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Monday September 7 1987 The Miami Herald 7A Reagan toasts Alf Landon Siamese twins separated after 22-hour operation Reagan who extended a piece lit with a single candle for the former Kansas governor He promptly blew out the flame and received a kiss on the cheek from Mrs Reagan 100 years Alf Landon has chased many dreams and caught most of President Reagan doctors said Carson who participated in the operation said the surgery was "extremely delicate" years and an easier field" BALTIMORE (UPI) A 70-member surgical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital completed an "extremely 22-hour operation early Sunday separating 7-month-old Siamese twins from West Germany who were born joined at the head Patrick and Benjamin Binder emerged from surgery in critical but stable condition and were given a "no greater than chance of surviving said Dr Benjamin Carson director of pediatric By DAVID HESS Herald Washington Bureau TOPEKA Kan When Alf Landon the grand old man of the Grand Old Party was born in 1887 the Statue of Liberty was only a year old and Democrat Grover Cleveland was president On Sunday three days before Landon's 100th birthday on Sept 9 President Reagan came here to help the Republican centenarian celebrate his day Reagan who stopped in Topeka on his way back to Washington after a 25-day California vacation saluted Landon as personifying the strength and simple of Americans Standing on the front porch of Landon's columned white-brick mansion the 76-year-old Reagan beamed and said: know what a joy it is for a fellow like me to go to a birthday party for someone who can in all honesty call me Noting that Landon was born in the centennial year of the US Constitution and now part of its Reagan said Politics and policy were largely forgotten however on this warm but overcast day as the hard-of-hearing Landon sat beside Reagan on the portico of his antebellum-style home and ate birthday cake A few moments before after Reagan guided Landon from his house holding the older arm to steady him Landon had approached nearby microphones and said with a steady voice: a great day in my life and it's a great day in the lives of all of us to have had the privilege that we have today of meeting the president of the United States and Mrs Reagan" birthday cake was presented by first lady Nancy know whether it will be successful or Carson said of the operation did every thing humanly possible to pull this off I think the rest of it is up to God" The twins were born joined at the back of the head and shared the major venous blood supply but had separate brains ineptitude linked to death The twins were resting in separate cribs for the first time since their birth Feb 2 1987 hospital officials said The operation was believed to be the first time body temperatures were deliberately lowered and cardiac arrest induced to spare brain tissue during such surgery The twins from Ulm West Germany arrived at the hospital a week ago but a preoperation procedure started in June Josef 36 and Theresia 20 the parents of the fair-haired and chubby-cheeked children will not talk to reporters or release photographs of their sons because they have an exclusive contract with a West German photo magazine Bunte LINE OF LINE OF AND UNDERWEAR Nancy Kassebaum daughter and junior US senator served the cake to family members and the Reagans on the portico senior senator Robert Dole a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination next year also attended the celebration Earlier in a statement given to reporters Reagan paid tribute to workers in a Labor Day statement and called on Americans to in the that more people than ever before hold jobs The stopover in Kansas was a brief one on their trip back East and they arrived back at the White House about 6 pm At the White House first dog Rex bounded up to the Reagans as they stepped out of the helicopter that had transported them from Andrews Air Force Base FOR FOR 30 A H-U QHO OU From Herald Wire Services KANKAKEE 111 Kidnappers who buried Stephen Small bungled their attempt to keep him alive because the pipe hookup they wanted him to breathe through was a rig" the county coroner said Sunday The former media executive whose body was discovered Friday night was buried alive in a wooden box about four feet underground people have been Small police said Three arrested and police are looking for two more suspects Small 39 was the nephew of the publisher of a family newspaper chain and a great-grandson of an Illinois governor He was buried in a rural area about 13 miles southeast of Kankakee by kidnappers who demanded a $1 million ransom Police said Sunday that family was and to pay the ransom but make the delivery because the tape-recorded instructions were unclear The kidnappers dictated their 100 years Alf Landon has chased many dreams and caught most of Landon is perhaps best remembered for the drubbing he took from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 when he received only 37 percent of the popular vote and eight electoral votes those of Maine and Vermont No other Republican presidential candidate has received fewer electoral votes Reagan who was a New Deal Democrat during those Depression years and voted for FDR Sunday attributed his own decisive victories over Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984 to fortune and circumstances had a little better luck" he told Landon I also had better instructions on tape then held the tape up to the telephone while calling wife Deputy Chief Robert Pepin said Kankakee County Coroner James Orrison said Small was buried alive but that he probably suffocated after a short time The breathing pipe which was 1 '2 inches in diameter did not go all the way into the box but only up to the edge where several slots were cut into the wood was placed that way so he couldn't yell through Orrison said But the coroner said the ground was very sandy and that a great possibility that the pipe could have been The three accused kidnappers Daniel Edwards 30 and Nancy Rish 26 who lived together in nearby Bourbonnais and Kent Allain 33 of Kankakee were arrested Friday and were expected to be charged formally with murder and kidnapping Tuesday police said They were being held in the Kankakee County Jail Although Small was kidnapped Wednesday local media did not report anything about the abduction for nearly three days The Daily Journal and two local radio stations WKAN-AM and WLRT-FM are operated by relatives Radio station WBUS which is not owned by members of family also agreed to the blackout smaller fires were reported last week in Washington Arizona Montana South Dakota and Wyoming bringing the total acreage to about 620000 The burned area is only 84 square miles smaller than the state of Rhode Island Fires in Oregon and California were being fought by 22000 firefighters up 2000 from Saturday according to the Boise Interagency Fire Center in Idaho Smoke and haze from the fires had reduced visibility to one-quarter mile late Saturday when a private plane and a four-engine Pacific Southwest Airlines jet came within 200 feet of each other near Oakland said Jeremy James a spokesman for the San Diego-based airline Earlier Saturday the pilot of a single-engine Cessna 150 flying southeast of Salinas reported he came dangerously close to another aircraft because of the smoke according to the National Weather Service in Redwood City Verde Islands off the coast of Africa was expected to change little by today The Atlantic depression referred to by Case as "the weaker was about 850 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands at 6 pm and moving toward the northwest at about 20 mph The depressions would become named tropical storms if they reach sustained winds of 39 mph or more The 1987 Atlantic hurricane season has had only two storms Arlene and Bret and both died at sea NO EMPLOYMENT CHECK PDWn MMEOIATE APPROVAL t-nrru IIC MTG BKR 434-1028 Cooler weather in West helps crews battle fires MEN off ENTIRE HO REG $100 SALE 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