Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 161, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 March 1985 — Page 2

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Despite recent vasectomy, Maine couple expecting July birth of sextuplets

KITTERY, Maine (AP) Kim Perham waited eight weeks for her husband to become sterile after his vasectomy, then thought, “We’ve waited our time. We’re OK.” Now she has learned she is pregnant with sextuplets. “111 have eight babies that are under the age of 3,” said Mrs. Perham, 27, formerly of New Castle, Ind. Already the mother of 2-year-old twin boys, she said of her husband, “He always wanted a girl. Now he’s got girls.” Four daughters, in fact, and two more sons are to be delivered by Caesarean section which has already been scheduled for July 28 at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Mrs. Perham said they waited eight weeks for Dick Perham to become sterile after the vasectomy, or surgical removal of the vas deferens conduit for sperm. But Perham skipped the usual doctor’s tests for sterility and assumed the operation had been successful. “I’d talked to all the guys at work and they said ‘Eight to 10 weeks, no problem, don’t worry about it,”’ he said. “None of them had any more

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kids. I guess I was the lucky one.” Mrs. Perham said Wednesday that as soon as she learned she was pregnant, “I just had this feeling I was going to have more than two.” Although Mrs. Perham was taking a hormone treatment, her husband said doctors attributed the multiple conceptions to pregnancies that occurred days apart. The doctor told Mrs. Perham in early January that there were four heartbeats. A while later she learned of a fifth, and last week an ultrasound test detected a sixth fetus. “I worried about my twins when they were born, and of course. I’m worrying more this time because there are so many of them,” said Mrs. Perham. “They have a 50-50 chance of survival.” Perham, 33, a diesel mechanic at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard here, has taken a second job working nights at a service station so the family can move into a bigger house than the twobedroom home they now occupy. Because Mrs. Perham will not be able to be on her feet much longer, friends have begun helping with housework.

Gets second human transplant

Man kept alive 11 hours by unapproved artificial heart

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Surgeons today transplanted a human heart into a man who was kept alive for 11 hours by the emergency implant of an artificial heart that has not received federal approval and has never before been used in a human, officials said. Sharon Kha, a University of Arizona spokeswoman, announced the operation was complete. However, the patient, listed in critical condition, had developed several significant complications. They included congestive heart failure caused by fluid in the lungs and other conditions, according to spokesman Allan Beigel, a university vice president. Beigel said Dr. Jack Copeland, the

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Reagan veto for farm bill

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - President Reagan vetoed emergency farm credit legislation Wednesday, saying the measure was a “massive new bailout that would add billions to the deficit.” In Reagan’s first major confrontation with Congress over the budget since the start of his second term, the president essentially triumphed over a coalition of Democrats and farm-state legislators. Moments after Reagan’s veto, the speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., conceded that there were not enough votes in the House or Senate to override the veto. In sharply worded remarks from the Oval Office, Reagan said, “The bottom line is that someone in Washington must be responsible. Someone must be willing to stand up for those who pay America's bills, and someone must stand up to those who say here’s the key, there’s the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.” The measure, which would provide federal loan guarantees to help farmers finance their spring planting and restructure their debts, was delivered to the White House from Congress just hours before the veto. In terming the legislation expensive and unnecessary, Reagan made it plain that he was determined to hold down federal spending, whatever the political costs. “I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control,” Reagan

surgeon who performed the transplant, said the complications were “a direct result of the length of time that the patient spent on the heart-lung machine" Wednesday while awaiting implantation of the artifical heart and then the second human heart. Beigel said the patient’s vital signs were fairly stable. He said, “Dr. Copeland indicates the prognoses is guarded ” The unidentified 32-year-old man on Wedneday received the first implant of a mechanical pump called the Phoenix Heart, which was designed by a dentist who specializes in reconstructive surgery. The patient had suffered cardiac arrest after his body rejected a transplanted

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said. Democrats responded acidly to Reagan’s veto, which was expected. But O’Neill made it plain that there would be no attempt to override the veto with the necessary two-thirds vote in the House and Senate. “I don’t see any sense in it,” he said late Wedesday afternoon. “It’s a foregone conclusion that the Senate is not going to pass it. There is no sense in playing games out there.” “We know we can’t override it in the Senate,” in which Republicans are a majority, O’Neill said. He said that the president was wrong in terming the bill a budget issue. “For an administration that has added a trillion dollars to the national debt,” O’Neill said, “this is a reasonable price for insuring the survival of an American way of life.” “We in Congress will continue to fight for the needs of the American farmer,” he added.

human heart. Doctors said that the patient would have died if he had not been put on the artificial heart until a natural heart could be found. About 11 hours after the pump was implanted, another compatible human heart was located and transported to the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center about 11 p.m. Wednesday. The source of the second heart was not disclosed. A surgical team led by Copeland, head of the University of Arizona’s hearttransplant team, disconnected the Phoenix Heart and put the patient on a heart-lung machine, said Beigel. Then the transplant operation. The patient’s first transplant operation.

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Reagan signed the veto message in an office packed with reporters, television cameras and photographers. After thanking the 35 senators and 168 members of the House “who courageously stood” with him in opposing the legislation, Reagan said: “Now that I’ve vetoed this bill I hope that Congress will get the message and work with me to reduce spending in a responsible way that does not threaten our national security. If it doesn’t, then I’ll do what must be done.” The farm measure was attached to a bill authorizing $175 million in disaster and refugee assistance to drought-stricken African countries. “My veto will not interfere with the African relief effort now under way,” Reagan said. The credit provisions of the vetoed bill were designed essentially to enable farmers already heavily in debt to obtain new bank loans for spring planting. This in-

which failed, took place at midnight Tuesday. Temporary artificial hearts had been implanted in humans at least three times before Wednesday’s surgery. All three patients died after receiving new human hearts. Three men have been given permanent artificial hearts. Barney Clark died after 112 days on a Jarvik-7 heart implanted in Salt Lake City. In Louisville, Ky., William Schroeder and Murray Haydon are currently being kept alive by Jarvik-7 hearts. Dr. Cecil Vaughn, who performed the implant and who assisted in the second transplant, said the Phoenix Heart had been tested at St. Luke’s Hospital in

U.S. drug agent's body found after shootout

MEXICO CITY (AP) - The U.S. ambassador says two bodies found in plastic bags on a ranch where five people died in a shootout with police are almost certainly those of a missing U.S narcotics agent and a Mexican pilot employed by Mexico’s an-ti-drug agency. “We have an ongoing war. There are losses in this war,’’ said Ambassador John Gavin. “As we continue prosecuting the war against illegal drugs, there is a very real possibility that our own agents, our own people, who constantly and daily go in harm’s way, may once again suffer these kinds of attacks.” He said the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was vulnerable because it was “thinly staffed and thinly spread out.” Gavin said Wednesday there was only “a faint and flimsy” hope the bodies found by a farmer in an alfalfa field were not those of Enrique Camarena Salazar, of the U.S. agency, and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala Avelar. There were unconfirmed reports the victims’ hands and feet were bound.

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eluded SIOO million in interest subsidies, $1.85 billion in new loan guarentees and about $7 billion in immediate advances on crop loans usually not received until harvest time. Reagan defended his farm measures, saying the administration had launched a “carefully targeted effort to direct special help to famers with credit problems. ” “This year, under plans that I approved, the federal government will make nearly $4.5 billion in credit available to farmers, the president said. He added that the administration would spend more than sls billion to support the price of farm commodities. “Let’s be clear on one thing,” Reagan said. “The bill I vetoed would not really help farmers. It’s too late in the season for that. The bill is merely designed to convey the impression of helping farmers.” Reagan made it plain Wednesday that he would, in effect, pay the political price for his veto, which seems bound to prove unpopular among many farmers. “I asked for help,” he said. “I asked Congress, which just days ago was bemoaning the size of deficits, to demonstrate courage, hold the line and match rhetoric with deeds.” “Congress failed,” Reagan added. “In the first major bill since convening in January, a majority proved itself incapable of resisting the very tax-and-spend philosophy that brought America to its knees and wrecked our economy.”

Phoenix in calves for up to 12 hours but that he believed the device was capable of working indefinitely. Dr. Kevin Cheng, the Phoenix dentist who designed the Phoenix Heart, flew to the university’s Health Sciences Center with the team from St. Luke’s Hospital and was present during the operation. The polyurethane Phoenix Heart, operated by compressed air, is similar to but slightly larger than the Jarvik-7 permanent artificial heart. Vaughn said Copeland had contacted him at about 5 a.m. Wednesday to inquire whether the Phoenix Heart could be made available

“There is no positive identification, but there is preliminary identification” based mainly on an examination of clothing, he said. The victims appeared to have been dead at least 15 days, he said. However, Francisco Fonseca, spokesman for the federal Attorney General’s Office said later Wednesday that Zavala Avelar's body had been positively identified by dental records and by family members who recognized his clothing and a scar. Camarena was abducted near the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara, 322 miles west of Mexico City, on Feb. 7, and Zavala Avelar was kidnapped the same day in the same city. Meanwhile, a judge said drug smugglers killed four Mexican policemen and a civilian in a shootout near San Fernando in Tamaulipas state. Three other police officers were wounded. The truck was stopped 12 miles from the Texas border. The alleged smugglers were driving a tanker-truck loaded with marijuana when police stopped them.