Child Alert After Heart Transplant
Houston AP reports five year old Maria Giannaris of Hagerstown Maryland woke and was alert within hours of her heart transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital. She became the second child recipient in history and the world’s 31st heart recipient. The donor was 11 year old James Dudley Herron II.
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James Dudley Herron
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Texas Heart Institute
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Johns Hopkins
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Denton A. Cooley
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Pro Soviet Letter Critics Baited in Czechoslovakia
Pravda reports continued harassment of 99 signers from 4000 Auto Praha workers who backed Soviet troop presence in Czechoslovakia. Prague leaders condemned the “nondemocratic campaign” but baiting persists, with signers losing positions and facing Czech press attacks.
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Burglars Loot Safes In London Diamond Market
Raiders blasted safes in the London diamond market over the weekend and fled with an unknown haul of jewels, gold and silver. Scotland Yard opened the Hatton Garden case as detectives probed Scientific Precious Metal Co and eight firms in Minerva House. Early estimates valued losses at about 240000 dollars.
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Scotland Yard
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Hatton Garden
Britain
Scientific Precious Metal Co
Minerva House
Richland Negro Shot In Escape Attempt
Richland Parish Deputy shot during a counterflight as John H. Freeman, a 26 year old Black man held on battery warrants, fled a Start area house. Freeman shot Deputy Ernest Kennedy in the left arm, assaulted Jesse Watts, then escaped before deputies wounded him. Both officers were treated. Freeman underwent surgery in Monroe.
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Ernest Kennedy
Jesse Watts
George Jackson
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Monroe
Judge Race In Third Circuit Faces Run-Off
Two candidates, Chris T. Barnette and John A Dixon Jr., advance to a runoff for the 3rd District seat in the 2nd Circuit after the Democratic primary. Barnette 46 percent, Dixon 42 percent. Price 56.4 percent defeats Heard for the 2nd District at-large seat. Miller 59 percent defeats Watson for the 3rd Circuit at-large seat.
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UPI
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John A Dixon Jr
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Dixon
E. Price
Jesse S. Heard
Minos D. Miller Jr
Jack C. Watson
Pollutant Exposure Studied in Yokohama Hair Samples
Japanese police began sending hair samples to the University of Cincinnati to measure poison absorption in soot polluted streets. A joint project with Yokohama State College examines air pollution in Mexico. In Houston, two heart transplant recipients are back at work while two others died. four more are recovering at St. Luke's Hospital.
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UPI
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Accidents In State Take Lives Of 20
A weekend in Louisiana killed twenty people in traffic and electrocution incidents. State police reported 64 traffic deaths in the first 18 days of August along state highways, with 1,727 accidents and 1,165 injuries. Notable losses include State Rep. Richard Talbot, 36, near Thibodaux, and Miss Frances Reeder, 18, daughter of a police sergeant, among others.
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Natchitoches
Robert Reeder
Jonesboro
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Winn‘field
Rosie Lee Anderson
Martha Ruth Evans
Leroy Early
Prime Minister Claims Foiled Attack on Thai Base
Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn announced that security forces stopped a planned Communist raid on U S Sakorn airbase in northeast Thailand. He cited 12 arrests, seized base maps and bunker keys, and implicated six Laotian officials. Four Americans wounded. two planes damaged. Four terrorists killed and five captured in recent firefights.
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Thanom Kittikachorn
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Thai Sakorn
Thailand
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Thanom
Takhek
Nakorn Phanom
World's Largest Fish Reaches Forty Feet in Length
The whale shark holds the record as the world’s biggest fish, growing up to about 40 feet long. This gentle giant roams tropical seas feeding on plankton and small organisms.
British Diplomat Leaves Beijing With Advice For China Successor
Sir Donald Hopson, Britain's senior diplomat in Beijing for three years, returns home with practical counsel for his successor. He says a short haircut a hard head a zinc-lined stomach and inexhaustible patience are essential.
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London
Donald Hopson
Britain
Peking
Hopson
Michael Stewart
Stewart
Biafra Extends Appeal to Britain for Cease Fire
Biafra urged Britain to mediate a cease fire in the 13 month civil war. A Biafra radio broadcast claimed Nigerian forces killed 2,600 civilians while marching toward Aba. It said British officials promised to review policy if more civilians die and terms are refused.
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Aba
Michael Stewart
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Lord Shepard
Clements Wins PSC Post With Large Primary Margin
Ern est Clements clinched a second term as Public Service Commissioner in New Orleans after defeating Huey P. Coleman in the Democratic primary. Clements surpassed 60 percent to Coleman's about 31 percent. Lafayette’s Sherman Davis Ledford trailed with under 10 percent after withdrawing. No opposition in November. Coleman had charged Clements with being controlled by AFL-CIO president Victor Bussie.
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New Orleans
UPI
Ernest Clements
Clements
Huey P. Coleman
Sherman Davis Ledford
Lafayette
Wild Life and Fisheries
Coleman
Afl-Cio
Victor Bussie
Concorde Makes First Taxi Tests In Toulouse
In Toulouse France the Anglo French supersonic Concorde jetliner completed its first taxi tests Sunday. The aircraft moved at about 10 miles per hour for 200 yards under tow before static testing and further flight trials.
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France
UPI
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