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Tuesday, Nov. 6, 1984 Santa Cruz Sentinel A-5 Tank from ship towed info port CD i'-if feet in width by 200 feet in length, heading southwest away from land 25 miles off the coast at midday Monday. Following a storm packing winds of about 50 mph, the ship broke up and the stern section sank in 2,400 feet of water about 25 miles off Point Montara, 15 miles south of San Francisco. The Coast Guard will convene a Marine Board of Investigation on Government Baby Fae's parents study offers for rights to story if- Ml LOMA LINDA (AP) The parents of Baby Fae, who received a baboon heart transplant, are entertaining financial offers from news organizations and publications to tell their story, a hospital spokeswoman said. The unidentified parents decided to accept the bids after organizations from around the world expressed an interest in buying their story, said Joyce McClintock, a spokeswoman for Loma Linda University Medical Center.

"People were asking if they could do this, so the mother was consulted with and then we agreed to take them (bids) from people," Ms. McClintock said Monday. She said it was the parents' decision, not the hospital's, to accept financial offers, although she said hosptal officials would forward the bids to the parents. The parents have rejected requests for interviews since the infant's operation on Oct. 26.

The hospital reported earlier that the National Enquirer offered $10,000 to anyone who revealed the identity of the parents and the baby, but Enquirer Editor Iain Calder denied the claim. Meanwhile, nurses attending the infant at the Seventh-day Adventist institution 60 miles east of Los Angeles reported the tiny patient was "drinking better than most baby's who've had open heart surgery," spokeswoman Tami Wood at 7:20 a.m. today. "She is doing very well," Ms. Wood said.

"Last night was a very good night. She's still guzzling down full strength formula." The 25-day-old infant showed no signs of rejecting the baboon heart and continued to receive fluids intraveneously while also Santa Barbara police from Highway 101 Monday night. Four transients lay down SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Owners of the SS Puerto Rican, the tanker blasted apart by three mysterious explosions last week, worked today to submit a plan to the U.S. Coast Guard on what to do with the remains of the battered petrochemical ship. Officials from Keystone Shipping the ship's Philadelphia-based owner, met Monday to develop a salvage plan for the two-thirds of the vessel floating about 50 miles off the San Mateo coast.

At the same time, Coast Guard and insurance investigators got their first close look at a huge blackened ballast tank that was towed into port in Alameda. The tank was "the closest thing we have to where the explosion took place," said Petty Officer Mike Kelley. The tank, measuring 100 feet long, 45 feet wide and 26 feet high, floated free from the bow section when the ship broke up early Saturday. The stern of the vessel sank, and the Coast Guard has refused to let the rest of the ship be towed under the Golden Gate Bridge into port until the owner shows he can do so safely. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Dale Puckett said the owner has three options for dealing with what is left of the tanker.

"He has the option of bringing it in and risking danger and environmental damage, which he would be liable for," Puckett said. "It could be taken out farther and scuttled. Or they could attempt to burn off the cargo that's on it and bring in the hulk that's left after there is no danger of pollution." The FBI is also involved in the in-, vestigation to determine whether a bomb or bombs caused three explosions that tore apart the 632-foot-long vessel outside the Golden Gate Wednesday. The vessel had been involved in a labor dispute, but officials say that so far no evidence of sabotage had been found. Meantime, 10 seabirds soiled by oil were discovered at San Francisco and Marin sites Monday, but Coast Guard officers said their location made it unlikely the birds were soiled by the tanker oil.

The birds were taken to a Marin County bird rescue center. The spokesman said a slick of about 300 barrels of light lube oil from the ship had been reduced to an area measuring 150 Action News Team's Now. More from Island in the Oakland Estuary Wednesday to receive evidence on the disaster that overtook the Puerto Rican. The stern section went down with 1.43 million gallons of oil; the bow section remained afloat with 2 8 million gallons. It has been estimated that 2500 barrels of various oils leaked out, most of it broken up by a air drop of the chemical Corexit.

taking formula from a bottle, spokeswoman Jayne McGill said. Baby Fae was still receiving cyclosporine-A, which suppresses the body's immune system, to prevent rejection of her new heart. Ms. McGill said doctors had no immediate comment on Baby Fae passing into the 11th day with her new heart without signs of rejection. Human heart transplant recipients often show rejection seven to 10 days after the operation.

But doctors have warned since the Oct. 26 experimental surgery that nothing was typical about Baby Fae's case. She is the longest-lived human recipient of a heart transplant from another animal, and the first infant to receive such a transplant. "There's no way we can look into the future, it's all new territory," Ms. McGill said Monday.

The infant was still covered by a small oxygen tent while in her bassinet, but her parents are allowed to remove her and hold her for short times, sitting in a rocking chair provided for the room, Ms. McGill said. Despite the baby's stability since the operation, doctors have not made any plans for removing her from intensive care, she said. Baby Fae, whose real identity has not been released at the request of her parents, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a fatal condition in which the left side of the heart is severly underdeveloped. Dr.

Leonard Bailey, who led the team of surgeons in the historical transplant, said he performed the "highly experimental" operation to test the feasibility of using baboon hearts in infants with such defects. Jim Vanderzwaan carry one of three members of the The three men, including the leader of the group, Bob Hansen, were booked for investigation of endangering public safety and for unlawful assembly. One woman motorist hit her steering wheel when she slammed on her brakes, which led to the endangering charge, Warren said. The 7:30 p.m. protest apparently was carried out because the transients recently lost a legal battle to have the Moreton Bay Fig Tree, a 107-year-old tree located in a small park, declared as their residence, which would have allowed them to vote.

The California Supreme Court turned slaying suspect released local news more great people. AP Laserphoto Homeless Coalition on freeway down the transients' plea on the issue last week. The men had previously build a mail box under the tree, but it was confiscated by police. "They feel they've got a right to lay their heads down anywhere, but the city has an ordinance again public sleeping and public camping," Warren said. "The members of this group have been periodically arrested for violating this ordinance." The misdemeanor offenses for which the men were booked carry possible fines and jail sentences, Warren said.

U.S. 101 is the main coastal highway from Los Angeles to San Francisco. after he returned home from a 15-minute trip to the store. McNamara said Ms. Erbert's 5-year-old daughter witnessed the crime from a hiding place behind a couch.

The girl told authorities the killer wore a halloween mask, cut her mother's stomach open and tore out the fetus. Dennis was arrested that night and taken to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for treatment of lacerated tendons in his right hand, police said. McNamara said the couple had divorced in 1978. Their 3-year-old son died in the Erbert's swimming pool in February 1980 and Dennis later filed a wrongful death suit against his former wife and her husband. than a year ago, Lee Pitt, a public relations spokesman for Hughes Aircraft said Monday.

The FBI has indicated that indictments may be handed down next spring in the wide-ranging probe, Pitt said. "It's a problem affecting the whole industry, not just us," Pitt said. "Along with other companies, we are trying to put a stop to this kind of practice by setting up more and more restrictive rules. When we run into a situation that might look out of the ordinary, we will report it to the FBI, and we did that a year ago." The FBI declined Monday to provide details about the investigation. Sacramento reporter sentenced to jail SACRAMENTO A Sacramento Union reporter has been sentenced to jail for refusing to give a murder trial defendant's lawyer her notes of an interview with a witness.

But Superior Court Judge A. Richard Backus gave reporter Anne Richards Monday one week to appeal the contempt citation. Unless he is reversed on appeal, Backus said Ms. Richards will be jailed until she surrenders the notes. PUT A TRAIN AROUND YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE THIS YEAR! Lionel from $34.95 740 Water St.

Santa Cruz 423-9239 SANTA BARBARA (AP) Four transients who call a sprawling fig tree their home lay down in the middle of U.S. 101 Monday night to protest voter registration laws, bringing traffic to a halt, police said. Three of the men were hauled away and a fourth escaped, said police Sgt. Mike Warren. "They were carrying signs saying that homeless people should be given the right to vote and residency should not be a requirement to vote," Warren said, adding that the men "even erected a structure, which looked like a cardboard tent." "U.S.

101 was completely blocked," he said. "They were fortunate that none of those semis came by." Halloween SAN JOSE (AP) Prosecutors have released a man who was taken into custody on Halloween night for the meat cleaver hacking deaths just hours earlier of his ex-wife and her unborn fetus in their living room. William Dennis, 34, had been scheduled for a Monday arraignment in connection with the killings of Doreen Erbert, 31, and the fetus she had been carrying for eight months. But the arraignment did not occur, and prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to charge Dennis. Deputy District Attorney Alan Nudelman refused to comment on the evidence presented against Dennis, but he did say that no one has been eliminated as State digest From Sentinel wire services Book says Lindbergh gave military reports STANFORD Charles A.

Lindbergh, whose pre-World War II trips to Germany and acceptance of a Nazi medal drew strong criticism in his own country, made detailed reports of his observations on German air power to U.S. military officials, according to a new book. According to the book, "Berlin Alert: The Memoirs and Reports of Truman Smith," the visits by the aviation hero who made the first solo flight across the Atlan-; tic in 1927 were arranged by Smith. Smith, who died in 1970, represented the U.S. military in pre-war Berlin.

The book did not call Lindbergh a spy or agent for the United States but strongly implied the visits had the blessing of the U.S. military because Smith had arranged them. The book said Lindbergh agreed to visit Germany and tour the Luftwaffe installations and aircraft facilities. Smith was successful in arranging the visits because he correctly guessed that the Germans would be anxious to impress the air hero with their air excellence, the book said. Smith said Lindbergh made reports to the American military, describing Germany's emergence as an air power.

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"I'm not the one who did it." The bodies were found on Halloween night by Mrs. Erbert's present husband Two boys arrested in school bombing SACRAMENTO Two teen-age boys have been arrested after a pipe bomb exploded in a locker at Valley High School in South Sacramento. Police said a 16-year-old junior at the school was arrested Monday on a felony charge of possessing and igniting a bomb. His name was withheld because of his age. Kenneth Aaron Flores, an 18-year-old acquaintance, was also charged, and was held in $50,000 bail.

No one was injured in the explosion, which destroyed 12 lockers. FBI investigating cash kickbacks LOS ANGELES The Justice Department is conducting a nationwide investigation into allegations that aerospace industry employees received cash kickbacks to ensure that subcontractors gained lucrative federal contracts, a spokesman said. The FBI investigation includes major defense contractors in Southern California, the Silicon Valley, Florida and Massachusetts and was launched more i ,.41 Li Joe Glover Bev Hudson Dennis Lehnen Joe Glover leads TVS news team to expanded coverage at 6:00 pin. You'll now see a full hour of local news each weeknight at 6:00 pm. on KSBW-TV8.

It's part of the expansion that has added reporters and photographers to all corners of the Central Coast, and also brought Joe Glover to the station as anchor of Action News. Joe Glover, with over 20 years in TV reporting, joins Bev Hudson for news, Dennis Lehnen for sports, and Jim Vanderzwaan with the weather. They'll tell you what's happening in your neighborhood. This news team understands the importance of hometown news. ACTION NEWS HOUR Now pm followed by NBC Nightly News at 7:00 pm with Action News Update at 11:00 pm ROUNDHOUSE TRAINS Ksemr-ws NEW USED ELECTRIC TRAINS Now broadcasting from Northern California's tallest TV Tower located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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