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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 9, 1992
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Gunmen fire on convoy in Saraievo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Heavy machine gun fire raked a U.N. convoy near Sarajevo airport late yesterday, killing two peace-keepers, U.N. officials said.
Yusuf Khalef, U.N. representative in Sarajevo,
said the attack on the convoy from Belgrade
occurred at 11:20 p.m. He said he thought the
soldiers killed were French.
"We do not know at this point which side attacked the convoy," Khalef said. Serbian militias and Bosnian government forces have positions near the airport.
The shooting lasted several minutes and scored direct hits on the convoys, military officers said.
Man pleads guilty in Exxon kidnapping
TRENTON, N.J. — A former Exxon security guard pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges in the kidnapping and death of company executive Sidney Reso, saying that he never meant to kill Reso and that he died in his arms. Arthur Seale said he accidentally shot Reso after abducting him in an attempt to extort $18 million from Exxon Corp.
He said Reso, president of Exxon International, died four days after the April 29 kidnapping. U.S. District Judge Garrett Brown accepted Seale's guilty plea to attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion, mail fraud and interstate travel to promote extortion. Seale faces a maximum penalty of 95 years on the federal charges. He also faces state charges of kidnapping and felony murder.
Marcos victims seek compensation
HONOLULU — Filipinos who say they were tortured during Ferdinand Marcos' 20-year dictatorship of the Philippines plan to testify at the trial of a class-action lawsuit against his estate. Jury selection was scheduled to start today in U.S. District Court.
The lawsuit seeks compensation for an estimated 10,000 Filipinos who were the alleged victims of human rights abuses that included torture, abduction and execution when Marcos imposed martial law on the islands from 1972 to 1986.
Baboon liver works but the patient dies
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — A baboon liver transplanted into a man worked nearly as well as a human organ for 71 days until his death, a positive sign for more such operations, doctors said yesterday.
The 35-year-old man died Sunday night after a blood vessel burst in his brain, said Anthony Demetris, director of transplant pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
At the family's request, the man's identity remained withheld from the media. The man had an advanced case of hepatitis B that would have killed him had he not received the transplant June 28 at Presbyterian University Hospital, doctors said.
The transplant apparently was unrelated to the burst vessel, and an autopsy indicated no signs the liver failed. Demetrius said. Doctors found that blood was traced to traces of blood found in his lungs and kidneys.
An inspection Monday revealed that the arteries serving the liver and the surgical graft holding the organ in place were intact, Demetris said.
The baboon liver grew to the size of an adult human liver within one month of the operation, and the man experienced only minor episodes
of liver failure. doctors said.
The patient suffered a serious blood infection after dye was injected into the liver's bile duct for an X-ray. Thomas Starzl, director of the medical center's transplant institute, said a fungus from that infection might have caused the sudden bleeding.
In previous animal-to-human transplants, but neys, livers and hearts from primates failed because gangrene choked off blood vessels inside the organs. Starzi said.
The patient's hepatitis B apparently did not affect the baboon liver but could have appeared later, said John Fung, the medical center's transplantation chief. It is thought that baboons cannot get the disease.
Other possible causes were a blood-vessel defect the man had from birth or problems with blood-clotting agents, Demetris said. More tests during the next two weeks may determine the exact trigger.
"It looks as though there should be another
talent, perhaps with somebody not so far along in
their development."
Outside the medical center, four members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested the transplant. Group representative Steve Simmons said the man was a victim, not a hero.
South Africa killings endanger negotiations to end apartheid
The Associated Press
BISHO, South Africa — An angry Nelson Mandela yesterday called for the removal of the Black homeland ruler whose troops killed 24 African National Congress marchers and wounded 196.
South Africa controls most affairs in the homelands, areas established under the apartheid system as separate nations for Blacks, and the ANC and other Black groups consider most homelands puppet states of Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa.
Earlier, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other church leaders went to the field where the killings took place, kneeling and praying between police armored vehicles. Hundreds of ANC members huddled around campfires in an overnight vigil at the site.
The killings Monday sparked a confrontation between Black and white leaders in South Africa and dealt a severe blow to efforts to resume power-sharing talks.
The normally quiet South Africa-Ciskei border was sealed with barbed wire and guarded by Ciskean and South African troops. It was reopened after dusk.
The killings deepened South Africa's political crisis, making it unlikely Mandela's ANC will return soon to stalled talks aimed at giving Blacks the vote and ending apartheid. ANC leaders said President F.W. de Klerk's government bore direct responsibility for the killings because the government dictated policies in the homeland.
The ANC considers the homelands illegitimate creations of the apartheid system and wants them reincorporated into South Africa.
Religious leaders, including Tutu, urged the ruler of the Ciskei homeland to hold a referendum on returning the territory to South Africa. They said the ruler, Brig. Gen. Oupa Ggozo (pronounced OO-pah KOR-sah), refused.
In a sign of growing confrontation, the governing National Party lashed out at the NC, saying the opposition group was trying to seize power.
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