Monday, September 30, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Transplants for young
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Seventy transplant surgeons and government officials agreed Sunday that "young people in the prime of life and surrounded by their families" should by given top preference as organ transplant recipients.
They also urged state legislatures to adopt laws designed to produce a generation of "card-carrying cadavers" persons who carry cards automatically donating their organs for transplant or other medical use as soon as they die.
The agreements were reached during a two-day meeting of specialists called by the 3,500-member American College of Cardiology to draw guidelines for doctors, lawyers and government officials dealing with the social and medical problems raised by transplant surgery.
Delegates to the conference included Dr. Denton A. Dooley, head of the Houston, Tex., team
Goldberg tries to avert NY strike
NEW YORK (UPI)—Former United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg moved into New York City's tangled labor crisis late Sunday at the request of Mayor John V. Lindsay.
Lindsay asked Goldberg to head a special "impasse operation" aimed at averting potential disaster for the city, a Tuesday morning slowdown by firemen and police which could turn into a full strike by the firemen and a strike by the city's garbage collectors.
Goldberg, former secretary of labor and presently a member of a New York law firm, will hold separate sessions Monday with leaders of each of the three unions after a briefing from Lindsay.
which has transplanted 11 human hearts; Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Brooklyn, N.Y., transplant surgeon and researcher on artificial organs; Dr. David M. Hums, Richmond, Va., a pioneer in kidney transplants; Dr. Donald C. Harrison, Palo Alto, Calif., a member of the Shumway transplant team at Stanford University; and representatives of the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, government agencies and 15 medical specialty groups.
The meeting was closed to newsmen and most of the results were kept secret pending publication of a guideline paper, probably next December.
But conference leaders disclosed agreement on the sensitive issue of whom to select for transplants if there is an insufficient supply of needed organs.
"All were agreed that transplantation provides an important form of treatment potentially helpful to young people in the prime of life and surrounded by their families," the conference said in a statement.
Mortar Board will discuss party candidates
Student government, political elections, and the presidential candidates are some of the topics for discussion at upcoming Mortar Board meetings.
At a weekend retreat held recently at Gardner Lake, members of the senior women's honorary society met to set their goals and to plan events for the year.
"Mortar Board's purpose this year is to become better informed on the needs of the University," said Elaine Greenock, Quincy, Ill., senior and Mortar Board president.
Chicagoans are grateful to Mayor Daley and police for their action during the Democratic convention, said John Husor, 1963 KU journalism graduate and sports writer for the Chicago Tribune.
KU grad defends Chicago
"Chicago is a proud city and the convention has thrown its reputation into what it was in the thirties."
Husor returned to his alma mater this weekend to report the KU-Indiana football game. While visiting the School of Journalism Friday, he commented freely on the convention scene in August.
Action between police and demonstrators was exaggerated on television, Husor said. "Several persons sent Huntley and Brinkley get-well cards because of their sick coverage."
Although Husor didn't cover the convention, he was in Chicago, read newspapers and talked with reporters. "We knew there was going to be trouble long before the actual convention." Reporters didn't come to Chicago to cover a convention, he explained. They were interested in the mood of the city. "They were there to cover a riot."
Chicago was peaceful, said Husor. In Negro areas, there was no looting, burning or murders. Business went on as usual—the city was virtually untouched by violence at the convention.
The sports writer recalled that "two months before the convention, statements charging police brutality were written and issued to the press." Every step of violence was carefully planned by demonstrators, he said.
"Police and news media infiltrated these various protesting groups to thwart them ahead of the convention."
Husor cited an incident of one investigative reporter, Tom Powers, who was assigned to cover undercurrents of the convention. "Powers caught one female protestor squeezing blood from a calf's liver into a pan to throw on someone's shirt."
"What people saw on TV was the attack by the police, not the provocation of demonstrators," he explained. Television viewers saw police arrest demonstrators, but the cameras didn't capture those same protestors throwing feces at an officer minutes before.
"Not all of the demonstrators involved were McCarthy supporters," said Husor. Some of them were riot organizers. "There is a movement today—an undercurrent of something bigger being carried out by people in the business of organizing protests."
As for innocent newsmen who were beaten, he said, the police are sympathetic. However, none of the reporters arrested were experienced police reporters who knew "when the hell to get out of the way," he added. "Some of those columnists did give police a rough time."
War,hecklers disturb Humphrey
SEATTLE (UPI)—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey conducted top level strategy discussions Sunday with his key advisers on the problems of Vietnam and hecklers who are harassing his campaign.
With five weeks left to election day, Humphrey's campaign manager, Lawrence F. O'Brien, flew to Seattle to join the Democratic candidate's policy discussions in the wake of an angry 15-minute shouting match with some 20 antiwar protesters.
Over the weekend Humphrey also discussed the Vietnam war with George Ball, former U.N. ambassador who has joined the Vice President's staff as his chief foreign policy adviser.
The men mapped Humphrey's "major" foreign policy address that will be nationally televised Monday night over NBC-TV. Humphrey purchased a half hour of time, the longest program bought by either Humphrey or his Republican rival, Richard M. Nixon, in the campaign so far.
Humphrey considered the strategy talks so vital he cancelled a salmon fishing trip that
was the only item on his Sunday agenda. He was to fly late Sunday to Salt Lake City, where the telecast will originate.
The confrontation with the antiwar protesters Saturday night was the sharpest verbal conflict between the Vice President and hecklers in his campaign.
Before police dragged the demonstrators from an auditorium crowded with some 7,000 Humphrey supporters, a shaggy-haired man with a bullhorn belowed that the 'Vice President should be tried in some sort of United Nations' court for "crimes against humanity."
When Humphrey tried to talk, the man blared through the bullhorn. "We have come to arrest you—not talk to you."
Obviously angered, Humphrey shouted to the balcony protesters: "Now you've had equal time-shut up!"
Although 99 per cent of the audience supported the Vice President, the shouting confrontation appeared to have dampened their spirits during the remainder of the program.
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