Spokane Eyes First Human Heart Transplant This Year
Dr. Norman E. Shumway and colleagues expect a human heart transplant in Spokane before year’s end after Stanford’s successful graft. A Sacred Heart Hospital lab will open within weeks to begin research and preparation. Other doctors urge caution, noting long term proof and possible artificial units may be needed.
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Spokane
Stanford University
Robert W. Kendall
Sacred Heart Hospital
Dr. Grunwald
Jpace
Percy says U S cannot win Vietnam war
Sen Charles Percy says after returning from Vietnam the United States cannot win the war for South Vietnam. He urges Johnson to halt bombing population centers to test peace feelers, keep raids on infiltration routes, and press Saigon elites to contribute more. He also criticizes the weapons gap versus the Soviet supplied North Vietnamese.
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Washington
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Vietnam
United States
Percy
Johnson
Ued
Saigon
Soviet Union
Heart transplant performed at Stanford University
At Stanford University a 54 year old steel worker, Mike Kasperak, received a donor heart from Virginia White, a 43 year old housewife who died of a stroke. Dr. Norman E. Shumway led the operation, which began at 5 p.m. and ended about 9 30 p.m. Kasperak, conscious but intubated, is monitored closely as doctors assess the transplant's early progress and risks of rejection.
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Stanford
Calif
Mike Kasperak
Norman E. Shumway
Shumway
Stanford University
Virginia White
Dr. Shumway
Stanford School of Medicine
Kasperak
Doubt Faces Ho Chi Minh Death Report Abroad
A Saigon newspaper cited special sources claiming North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh died two weeks earlier at age 77. Diplomats in London and New Delhi voiced skepticism, while Hanoi and U.S. officials offered no confirmation. Contingent reports note unusual language shifts in Ho’s speeches and a late December death claim.
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Saigon
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
London
U.S
Washington
New Delhi
Cong Chung
Noi
Vietnam
Tokyo
All India Radio
Cambodia
Clashes in Northern Vietnam Kill 200 Communists
U S and South Vietnamese forces repelled several attacks in the northern provinces over the weekend. More than 200 Communist fighters were reported killed as North Vietnamese regulars infiltrated the area while a major force waited near the DMZ. In actions near Da Nang and Hue, Marines and Vietnamese troops suffered, with 16 Marines killed and 46 wounded at Phu Loc and 29 Americans dead in Que Son Valley clashes.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Phu Loc
Highway 1
da Nang
Hue
Hai van Pass
Que Son
Humphrey gets polite greeting in Kenya during Africa trip
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, on a nine nation Africa tour, received a quiet welcome in Nairobi after a shortened Mogadishu stop. Police had arrested six would be demonstrators at the airport and Somali leaders denied anti Humphrey plans. In Mogadishu he signed an 8.5 million dollar loan for a water system, the largest U.S. loan to Somalia.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
Mogadishu
Chheer Arid
Humphrey
Somalia
Africa
Mohamed Ibrahim Egal
Weather outlook for Butte Anaconda region today
Mostly cloudy and warmer with a chance of snow showers this afternoon. Snow probability 60 percent today and 30 percent tonight. High around 24 and low near 6. A year ago temperatures were 33 and 7. Weather table Page 2.
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Butte - Anaconda
Tricky maneuvers in store for Surveyor 7 spacecraft
Pasadena based report details two planned course corrections for the Surveyor 7 lunar lander as it targets a tiny 12 mile Tycho crater area. Engineers chose Tycho over Hipparchus to sample younger sub surface soil with a 43 percent landing chance.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.S
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Tycho
Lunar Disk
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Hipparchus
U.S. Space Agency
Ty Cho
Surveyor 7
Favorite sons threaten GOP convention potential
Fifteen states with strong favorite-son movements hold 642 of the 667 votes needed at the Miami Beach nominating session. If no candidate gains a first-ballot majority, a favorite son could secure the nomination or pivot delegates to Nixon, Romney, or others based on primaries and state results.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Miami
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Ronald Reagan
California
Johnson
Vorite
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Goldwater
John Tower
Texas
Nixon
Rockefeller
Rhode Island
John H. Chafee
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
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Watt
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Richard M. Nixon
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