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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 15, 1968
Page
10
Tokyo reports the Japanese Cabinet approved a stringent 1968 budget of 5 818 500 million yen aimed at slowing industrial expansion to curb a possible balance of payments strain and rising prices. Indirect taxes rise while personal income tax cuts offset by higher cigarette and alcohol taxes.
The American Heart Association will form a permanent ethics committee to study clinical investigation and medical practice including heart transplants. The group will include physicians and lay representatives to address ethical and legal issues and guide research as transplant science advances. Independent doctors urged caution, noting donor death criteria and tissue rejection as ongoing challenges.
A Canton army hospital surgeon, Dr Lau Tsuen-yin, faltered during brain surgery as blood gushed. Theatre staff read quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung to steady him, restoring calm and enabling the doctor to tie blood vessels and complete the operation successfully.
World newspapers voiced worry over the Soviet Union's trial of four young intellectuals ending Friday. Alexander Ginsburg and Yuri Galanskov received five and seven years' hard labor. Morning Star urged outsiders to know the evidence before judging while defending Soviet self protection.
Youth groups gathered in Stockholm to protest the trial with police reporting about 100 participants and calm demonstrations. In Oslo Arbeiderbladet editorialized that the trial shows lingering Soviet limits on free expression, while Dagbladet called the proceedings a macabre play and denounced the sentences as barbaric and inhumane.
Salisbury reports Rhodesia Front decries a questionnaire drive by the Rhodesian Constitutional Association to test support for a settlement with Britain. RCA plans 6,000 voters in three constituencies, while warning results could undermine Rhodesia’s stance and aid Mr Wilson.
In Chicago a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that whether cigarette smoking caused more coronary heart disease deaths remains uncertain. Dr Carl Seltzer of Harvard says evidence since the 1964 Surgeon General report is inconclusive, though studies suggest higher death rates among male smokers with certain conditions.
PALQ ALTO California Sunday AAP Mr Mike Kasperak was in a semi comA a week after his heart transplant operation and in Cape Town doctors attending Dr Philip Blaiberg admitted they were worried. Kasperak had a big blood transfusion but remained on the critical list. A faltering liver was blamed for a serious setback earlier today. He received 10 pints of blood to remove impurities normally filtered by the liver. At Groote Schuur Hospital Dr Christian Barnard said nothing specific was worrying the doctors attending Dr Blaiberg. Blaiberg was a little tired and blood pressure checks would be spaced to every two to four hours. Dr Martin Botha said two or three days ago injections of maclobulin flown from Germany were given to help combat infections. A spokesman at Groote Schuur noted surgeons differed after a post mortem on Louis Washinsky, the first heart transplant patient, who died in December following tissue studies.
Six third year students at a Pennsylvania college suffered total blindness after staring at the sun while under LSD. Federal officials note a rare case of complete loss of sight from sun exposure during a drug-induced trance. The incident occurred on a grassy area near the college, with the youths later found blind and unaware they had stared at the sun. Rehabilitation is being provided by the state welfare department.
The United States expelled Polish assistant military attach Lt Col Henk Pommanski after Warsaw sent home US Lt Col Edward Metzger and Lt Col Kenneth Jefferson, the Canadian attache. Polish officials claimed evidence of American espionage by the US attache in Warsaw. Both sides described the actions as retaliation with no charges announced.
Life jackets and a body were sighted in the area where the 1376-ton Greek freighter Evelpis was reported missing after sending a distress call. The ship sailed from Benghazi to Ravenna with 16 crew, engine trouble at dawn, and was later lost amid gale conditions.
A FHA bulletin warned female employees that mini and micro-skirts risk health problems in freezing conditions. It claimed exposure triggers rapid fat buildup in leg areas, risking frostbite and cold-related issues, with advice urging extreme exercise to prevent fat layers.
Russia to replace its top UN team within weeks. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenkiy will be succeeded by Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik. Platon Morozov departs. Viktor L. Israelian, a Russian Armenian diplomat, will take his place in New York later this month. Morozov long served as a hard negotiator and speaker.
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