Doctors report fluid tapped from Blaiberg heart
In Cape Town Groote Schuur Hospital doctors tapped fluid around transplant patient Dr. Philip Blaiberg's heart. The 88 year old, nine days after his operation, showed temporary improvement but remains in worse condition than midweek. Infection and throat irritation are being managed while immune-suppressing drugs are reduced.
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Cape Town
Groote Schuur Hospital
Philip Blaiberg
Blaiberg
Marthinus C. Botha
Botha
Groote Schuur
Louis Washkansky
Washkansky
Tax reform delayed until after Pearson quits job
Ottawa plans a substantial tax reform but will not introduce a white paper until after a new Liberal leader is chosen in April. Mitchell Sharp proposes extending tax collecting agreements past 1968 to allow renegotiation. Pro vincial treasurers criticized Carter Commission findings yet expect reform, while Dozois seeks pre publication consultation on capital gains.
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Pearson
Ottawa
Mitchell Sharp
Sharp
Carter Commission
Quebec
Paul Dozois
Dozois
Departments of Finance, National Revenue and Justice
Heart transplant patient Kasperak writes first words
In Stanford California Reuters reports steelworker Mike Kasperak age 54 spoke his first words since a heart transplant, telling his wife Ferne I love you. He cannot speak due to a tracheotomy after receiving the heart of Virginia White 43 at Stanford University Medical Center. A medical bulletin says he remains in critical condition but improving. he sat up in bed for the second day, his blood pressure normal and liver functioning.
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Stanford
Calif
Reuters
Mike Kasperak
Ferne
Kasperak
Virginia White
Stanford University Medical Centre
Heart transplants ethics split by death criteria
In Ottawa, ethicists and surgeons discuss when death occurs and how dead donors can ethically provide hearts for transplant. Rev. Jean-Guy LeMarier says ethical acceptability rests on respect for the body and a death criterion rooted in irreversible brain failure, while noting legal death typically follows physician declaration and heart stoppage with fatal brain damage.
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Jean-Guy LeMarier
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Medicine
South Arica
United States
Father le Marier
MacLean
Hellyer enters race for Liberal leadership
Transport Minister Hellyer announces bid for Liberal leadership in Ottawa stating concerns about fiscal restraint vs Medicare spending. He avoids taking a Medicare position, calls himself a genuine reformer, and says he has broad support nationwide as he argues the federal role in examining provincial Medicare attitudes.
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Ottawa
Hellyer
Liberal Party
Sig
Defence
Seven Die in Alberta Head-On Car Crash En Route to Florida
In Alberta seven people die in a two car head-on crash on Highway 4 near New Dayton. An Army officer and his wife with two daughters are killed at the scene, as is a Calgary family of five including Howard French, a golf pro. Two children survive in satisfactory condition. The victims were en route to a Palm Beach Florida vacation for three months.
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Alta
United States Army
Florida
Here
Highway 4
Lethbridge
Howard French
Calgary
Shirley
The
Timbrell wrong states judge report on foster case
Judge Harry Waisberg delivered a 102 page report finding no justification for improper conduct by Mrs. Arthur Timbrell and family in the September dispute with Waterloo County Children’s Aid Society over two foster children Peggy and Valerie. The inquiry recommends the sisters remain in their present foster home until permanent adoption is arranged under the society’s policies and procedures.
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Toronto
Arthur Timbrell
Waterloo County Children’s Aid Society
Peggy
Valerie
Preston
Ont
Harry Waisberg
Waisberg
Psychiatrist links Hoffman killings to mental illness
Dr. Donald McKerracher testified Hoffmann a Leask laborer with acute schizophrenia felt under a divine injunction to kill the Petersons at their Shell Lake farm on August 15. He said Hoffman believed he had to kill to please the devil, and did not grasp the wrongness of his actions at the time.
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Hoffman
Vine
Petersons
Carmichael aid to UN mission sparks Cuban protest
Black Power figure H. Rap Brown sought refuge for nearly six hours in the Cuban mission to the United Nations after a shoving incident outside the building with a rookie police officer. The Cuban delegation at the UN protested police misconduct and denied asylum. Brown called the events Nazi oppression and accused Mayor Lindsay and President Johnson of instigating the action. Civil authorities planned to charge Brown with harassment as the episode drew diplomatic attention.
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New York
H. Rap Brown
United Nations
U Thant
Brown
Lindsay
Johnson
Jesus Jimenez
Thant
Robert Smith
Smith
East 67Th Street
Fifth Avenue bridge site favored by planning group
The Municipal Planning Commission endorsed the Coordinating Committee suggestion to place the new bridge at Maple Avenue over the Fifth Avenue site. The Maple site offers better access for Crescent Heights residents and would be a double lane, aiding Finlay Bridge and the Flats area. Engineering studies will follow before cost estimates. Mayor Meagher noted council trusted the experts’ guidance.
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Municipal Planning Commission
Maple Avenue
Maple Ave
5Th Avenue
Crescent Heights
Finlay
Norwood
Crescent View
The
Heights
Chuck Meagher
Ago
Bridge section collapse endangers main transatlantic line
A 600-year-old bridge part carrying the London New York telephone cable collapsed. In Stanford California surgeons report a kidney transplant from a heart donor to Annabel Mann of Reno was rejected and removed. In Montreal an emergency landing was forced for a Soviet jetliner carrying 43 passengers including the Russian hockey team. In Moscow a prosecutor seeks sentences from one to seven years for four young intellectuals charged with anti Soviet agitation and propaganda.
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Brideford
England
Reuters
New York
Stanford, Calif
Stanford
Reno, Nev
Annabel Mann
Montreal
Montreal International
Moscow
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