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British kill 3 Argentinians, send war fleet to Falklands
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina said yesterday more of its soldiers were killed in British marines defending a scientific facility on the Falkland Islands near Tortoise.
It warned Britain that any attempt to reclaim the Falklands by force would mean a full-scale war.
In Britain, the largest British war fleet assembled since the 1962 Suez crisis completed preparation to set sail today for Falklands, 450 miles off the South Pacific.
An Argentine military communique said a contingent of 22 British marines ambushed an Argentine force landing on the island of south Georgia Saturday, killing three Argentines and destroying a helicopter in a two-hour battle near the scientific outpost of Gurkien.
It said the marines, on south Georgia to protect a team of British scientists, surrendered and that the Argentine force was in full control of the area.
The fighting brought Argentine casualties to four dead and two wounded since Friday, when 4,000 troops invaded the Falklands' main cluster of islands, capturing the capital of Port Stanley after a three-hour battle with 78 Royal marines.
Both Argentine and Britain officials hope for a diplomatic solution to the property battle, but Argentine Pens. Gen. Leopoldo Gattieri said he was ready to take action. "We are ready," he said.
The Falklands have been a British colony since 1833 and their residents are of British stock. Argentine maintains it inherited a Spanish claim to the islands.
Leaders remember death of King
ATLANTA—Curtessa Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was named a special guest on the 51st anniversary of the Nobel Peace prize winner's assassination.
King was joined at the grave site by King's father and other family members, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King founded after the 1966 Montgomery bus boycott.
King was gunned down April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn., while standing on a balcony at the Lorenstein Hotel during his campaign for better treatment of blunt wounds.
A group of about 500 blacks embarked on a march through Henning, Tenn. to commemorate the anniversary of King's assassination.
Brezhney to resign, magazine says
NEW YORK—Soviet President Leonid Breznev suffered a “very
serious” injury two weeks ago and will resign in May. Newsweek magazine
started writing about him.
Newsweek quoted what it said was a 10-page U.S. "intelligence document" which concluded that even if Brenzhener survived, he would be replaced. Communist party leaders have scheduled a central committee assembly in May, ostensibly to decide on a successor to theAILer leader.
Other sources have said Breznev's condition is not that serious. They indicated that doctors were still not sure whether Breznev had suffered a mild stroke or a transient pre-stroke condition. Meanwhile, the official Soviet newspaper Prava published yesterday a terse, two-paragraph announcement in Breznev's name, apparently to silence speculation on his condition.
Reagan's defense remarks blasted
WASHINGTON—Two influential Democratic senators and a former U.S. agent when he said the Soviets had a margin of superiority in nuclear force.
The comments, made on two television broadcast interviews yesterday, referred to Reagan's remark during a news conference last Wednesday that the Soviet Union has a "definite margin of superiority" in nuclear weapons would launch a nuclear attack, "absorb our retaliatory blow and hit us again."
Sen. Daniel Moyhann, D-N.Y., vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence, called Reagan's remark a "leakage of reality" and said it was
Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., said that imbalances existed between the Soviet and nuclear forces, the United States still had the largest of them.
Paul Wainne, President Jimmy Carter's arms control negotiator, said the United States had "got to regard to the state of nuclear balance and his statement was flat wrong."
Reagan was defended by a state department official, who said, "Of course the President was right."
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador-Gunman assassinated a right-wing politician and wounded a second man in the first post-election violence directed against members of El Salvador's new constituent assembly, authorities said yesterday.
Gunmen kill Salvadoran rightist
Assemblyman David Joaquin Quinteros of the extreme right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance and his cousin were shot by gunmen late Saturday and left to die in a trash dump used as a burial ground by death squads, a party spokesman said.
The assassination came amid a fierce power struggle between a coalition of five extreme rightist parties and the U.S.-backed Christian Democrats for control of the 60 seat assembly, which will appoint a new provisional government.
The rightist parties won 36 seats in the election, but no single party won a majority. The rightists are attempting to form a coalition that would leave the moderate Christian Democrats powerless and replace their ruling military junta.
PARIS—French President Francois Mitterrand personally ordered a nationwide wanwhamh yesterday for a female terrorist who shot and killed a Frenchman in Paris.
Murder stirs French manhunt
The 17-year-old son of saint diplomat, Yacov Barsimanton, provided police assistance in the description of the assassin after chasing the woman through the streets of St.Paul.
Barsimantov, 42, was shot several times at close range in the ground floor hallway of his Paris apartment building.
Israel has accused the Palestine Liberation Organization of responsibility for the assassination, but the PLO's representative in Paris said his
Chicago subway trains crash again
CHICAGO—Two Chicago Transit Authority rapid transit trains crashed yesterday, injuring six people, authorities said. It was the second accident in
In yesterday's incident, an Evanston line train hit the back of a north-south line train that had stopped on the tracks, officials said.
A two-train accident Saturday sent at least 60 people to area hospitals with minor injuries.
A CTA conductor, a junior and four passengers were taken to an Evanston hospital for treatment, a CTA spokesman said.
In Saturday's accident, a train's motorman stopped his train in a subway after some tar naron on the tracks caused the train to alin.
Another train came moments later and struck the lead train, a spokesman said. It was not known how fast the second train was going.
Real-life emergency crew waits for action
By TOMHUTTON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The crew of KARE 24 sat in Fire Department Headquarters at Sixth and Armstrong streets with a glazed look that only a day filled with inactivity could bring to a team trained to thrive on movement
The jobs of the crew of KARE, which stands for Kansas Aid and Resuce Emergency unit, are not the glamorous duties as portrayed by their Hollywood counterparts. There is no weekly episode with a car on the edge of a cliff and often there is no hardening end.
KARE units are stage one ambulances, which carry sophisticated medical equipment and highly trained personnel. They are located in Johnson County and the Douglas County ambulance service are all examples of this new type of ambulance that carries personnel with the intensive Care Technicians certificate.
THE KARE emergency unit, which is part of the city fire department, sat in limbo much of Saturday night. The crew waited for the shrill modulation of a gun from the relaxed, shoe-off state and into a precision team. They knew that
This certificate allows technicians to administer drugs, start intravenous fluids and make heart tests before the patient reaches the hospital.
When a call did come, late in Saturday's 24-hour shift, there was no time for unit leader, Mick Mitchell, to tell his co-workers Tommy Dudley and Chelsea to bring the equipment to be ready and Dudley and Cleveland did not let him down.
the relaxed state could change without a moment's notice.
Possible heart problems characterized by shortness of breath and chest pains and severe trauma cases, such as those in children, the only calls to which KARE responds.
The modulating horn blew and was followed by the nasal tones of a dispatcher who had sent the call.
"KARE 24, KARE 12" the dispatcher's voice barked over the speaker in the 50-year-old station house "7-11 store" where officers and their chest pains. Police will accompany.
Mitchell and Dudley hoisted themselves from the chairs in the middle of the squaud room and started across the garage lined with bright red pumpers. They were met halfway across by a woman who had left the room for a upstairs.
Police said herbert Sneddy was arrested at 3:40 a.m. after he allegedly entered a student's room at Winona Hall and attacked the occupant.
MITCHELL GUNNED the one-and-a-half ton dual-wheeled Chevrolet truck out of the garage with the speed and experience 11 years of experience could bring.
"I told you Barb," Dudley said as the tri moved to the far side of the garage. "As soon as you went upstairs we'd get a call."
Winds Friday damaged about 10 cars parked on campus parking lots, KU police said. Police reported that eight windows were shattered because of the windows were shattered because of the wind or wind-blown objects.
LAWRENCE POLICE arrested a 27-year-old Haskell Indian Junior College student for attempted rape yesterday.
Nine of the cars were parked in the Tempiin Hall parking lot and one was parked at the computer center. Police said that nothing was missing from the cars.
The suspect allegedly entered the room through a partially opened door, lifted the covers and attacked the victim. The suspect did not say anything to the victim.
With the sirens wailing their pitiful
On the record
Police said the victim pushed the attacker away and ran to the dormitory office to call police. A security guard came and tried to grab him outside the dormitory, police say.
Sneddy is being held on $10,000 bond in the Douglas County jail pending formal charges.
LAWRENCE POLICE also arrested a 16-year-old juvenile for indecent exposure Saturday night.
The suspect stood at the office window of the Hallmark Inn Motel, 730 Iowa St., knocked on the window to get the clerk's attention, pulled down his pants, lifted his shirt and exposed himself, police said.
The victim told her husband who then chased the suspect. Police officers continued the chase and found the suspect in a wooded area, police said.
Doors flew open, Mitchell and Cleverdon bolted from the cab, leaving the rookie Dudley a few steps behind carrying the heart monitoring equipment. Lugging a heart defibrillator and an oxygen tank, Dudley arrived just in time to meet Cleverdon and Mitchell on their way out of the store.
song, the truck arrived in front of the store in a little more than one minute.
"False alarm," Mitchell said.
Apparently, he said later, a friend of the middle-aged man in the store heard him complaining of an arm injury and called the fire department. The KARE unit was dispatched, he said, because the called probably had said the man was suffering from chest pains. An immediate call went out for KARE.
"A lot of people think they can save themselves the cost of a private ambulance service by calling us and lying about the symptoms." Mitchell said.
"If we don't feel it's a legitimate call, we'll either call a stage two ambulance or tell them to ask a friend to take them to a hospital."
WITH THE SIRENS off and its foot lightly on the accelerator, Mitchell headed toward the station. The modulating tone blurted over the radio in the truck—this time the call would be for real.
The ambulance arrived at the address, nearly 30 blocks away, in less than 10 minutes. However, the pumper and the nurse had already arrived at the scene.
"KARE 42, KARE 42," barked the dispatcher. "Woman companding of chest pains, 1911 N. 41st Street, 11 pump accompanery."
Released from the hospital only a week earlier, Aldrich did not complain, but quietly answered the questions at her by all three KARE members.
Mitchell whipped the ambulance into a U-turn in the middle of an empty intersection and the sirens once again began their song.
On the kitchen floor of a modest home decorated with pictures of sons and sisters.
A HISTORY of emphysema, bronchitis and the possibility of a small amount of fluid in her lungs, caused KARE to recommend hospitalization.
"The choice of whether they want to go to the hospital or not to up to them," he said. "And as long as a patient is ill, they have their choice of hospitals."
Dudley began intravenous fluid lines and supplied oxygen and Mitchell attached the electrocardiogram while she was discharged in contact with the hospital's emergency room.
The woman had chosen a hospital in
Western Wyandotte County, and the somewhat jerky ride began.
The total time at the scene had been 16 minutes.
As the ambulance moved forward, the electrocardiograph beeped steadily and scrawled a heart-beat pattern that was intently watched throughout the ride by Cleverdon and Dudley. It was a possible congestive heart failure, Dudley said. The woman could have died on her kitchen floor.
AS RECENTLY as seven years ago when ambulances were often called "meat wagons", most patients did not have a good chance for survival. Ambulances used to be staffed by technicians who work with chauffeur's license and a first-aid certificate from the American Red Cross.
The qualifications for ambulances have changed considerably, and the University of Kansas Medical Center has its own EMCICT program and directs all other programs in the state. Cleverdon, Mitchell and Dudley all graduated from the Med Center's EMCICT program.
Becoming an EMCI1 through the Med Center requires a student to complete three parts of an intense one-year course. These divisions—classroom, clinical and actual experience on a stage one ambulance—prepare the student for the required yearly state certification test.
"This is not an easy course by any measure," Mike Szczygiel, associate director for the emergency medical training program, said recently. "It takes an enormous amount of dedication and strength to stick with the course—it's just not for everybody."
State two ambulances, which often are privately owned, are usually staffed by personnel with emergency medical technician certificates. Szczegyl compared this training to an advanced first aid course Emergency Medical Technician training teaches CPR and basic medical first aid training that the nurses of KARE, 42 thought everyone should have and training that new Kansas City, Kan. firemen are required to complete.
The last call was completed around 2 a.m. yesterday, and some of the firemen and KARE crew re-hashed the evening's events and discussed their plans for the two days off following their 24-hour shift.
But they awaited, even if asleep on one of the cots upstairs, for the modulating tone that they knew could have been a signal shift change at 7:45 Sunday morning.
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