University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 11, 1989
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Baby undergoes third surgery First living-donor liver recipient's condition critical but stable
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — The young recipient of the nation's first living-donor liver transplant successfully had surgery yesterday for the second time in two days to stop bleeding on the surface of her new organ, hospital officials said.
Twenty-two-month-old Alyssa Smith was taken to surgery at 10 a.m. yesterday after an operation the night before failed to stop the bleeding, said Mary Fetsch, a spokesman for the University of Chicago Hospitals.
The bleeding was controlled, and Alysa was out of surgery at 3 p.m., said Christoph Broesch, a physician in Chicago.
She was listed in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit, which was her condition before undergoing the operation.
On Friday, doctors at the University of Chicago
Medical Center removed the left lobe of 20-year-old father Robert Jones' liver and implanted it in the infant. Jones' condition was upgraded from critical but stable to serious but stable.
Doctors first detected the bleeding Saturday afternoon when the child's abdomen had swelled, Fetsch said.
Fetsch said it was a common problem that happened in 30 percent of all liver-transplant patients.
"You just never know when it's going to happen, but it's something that's controllable and something you can manage." she said.
It was the same problem that prompted doctors to perform an operation on Alyssea within 12 hours after she was given part of her mother's liver Nov. 27.
The infant's mother, 29, was released from the hospital Thursday.
Attack on apartheid planned
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Anti-apartheid leaders yesterday announced a militant strategy of civil disobedience and political pressure and urged South African whites to join them for the "final onslaught on apartheid."
The plans were adopted late Saturday at a closed session of the largest anti-aparthheid conference conducted in South Africa. It was attended by
4,662. Black, white, Indian and mixed-race delegates from 2,128 organizations.
Several major Black organizations to the left and right of mainstream anti-apartheid groups either boycott conference or were not invited.
But Murphy Morobe, one of the organizers, said the Conference for a Democratic Future was a roaring success.
"Business was concluded in a spirit
of unity unprecedented in any gathering in the past with such a disparate array of organizations," he said at a news conference.
One resolution urged whites "to break decisively with all apartheid forces and side with the majority." It urged them to conduct solidarity marches into Black townships and sequestered cities in municipalities by merging white cities and their adjoining Black ghetos.
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"They're changing so fast it's hard to keep up with them all," said Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League.
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Her abortion-rights lobby has been swamped with news of converts in the weeks since anti-abortion candidates were defeated in Virginia and New Jersey governors races, and as an impression grows that electoral majorities favor maintaining legal abortions.
CENTRAL AMERICAN LEADERS CONFER: Five Central American presidents, including bitter bites Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Airedo Cristiani of El Salvador, gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica, yesterday to try to rescue the shredded Central American peace process.
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The meeting had been scheduled for Nicaragua.
"Only a miracle would produce an agreement," said a Central American diplomat who helped arrange the meeting. "I do not see a solution to the political crisis," the diplomat added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
MOURNERS GATHER IN MONTREAL: Thousands of grieving men and women filed by a row of white coffees yesterday, paying respects to the 14 women killed by a gunman shooting. "I hate feminists," in Canada's worst mass murder.
A funeral service for nine of the victims will take place this morning at the Notre Dame cathedral. The other families scheduled private ceremonies.
The flower-draped coffins of eight of the victims were placed in the University of Montreal's hall of honor, and mourners passed by quietly in single file.
ABBORTION STANCES CHANGE! In dazzling leaps or small steps, Republican and Democratic candidates are moving away from anti-abortion positions as they prepare for 1990 campaigns that promise to spotlight the divisive issue.
Police said that Marc Lepine, 25, burst into the University of Montreal's engineering school Wednesday and shot at women he encountered before killing himself with his semi-automatic rifle.
Another resolution urged an escalation of confrontational activity by Black trade unions. It said workers should be prepared to occupy the Johannesburg Stock Exchange if necessary to prevent possible privatization of important state enterprises such as the postal and transportation services.
Perhaps the most important resolution, Morobe said, was a demand for non-racial elections for an assembly that would draft a constitution establishing a one-person, one-credit system for South Africa.
President F.W. de Klerk has rejected the concept of such an
assembly. He has offered to negotiate a new constitution that would extend limited political rights to the Black majority of 28 million, but he wants Black negotiators chosen in segregated elections.
Since taking power in August, de Klerk had made several conciliatory moves aimed at promoting negotiations between Blacks and the country's 5 million whites, who control the government and the economy. He has freed some prominent political prisoners, prohibited the segregation of beaches and permitted previously banned opposition activities, including meetings such as the conference.
However, delegates adopted a res
olution saying de Klek's proposals were "designed to enmesh our organizations and people in schemes to maintain the status quo."
Other resolutions urged parents and students to defy school segregation policies, demanded land redistribution and urged young white men to refuse mandatory military service. Delegates also demanded appointment of an independent commission to investigate allegations that police death squads have killed government opponents.
Morobe said, "The conference ... took the view that President de Klerk's reform initiatives are devoid of substance."
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