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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, December 8, 1967 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Heart Transplant Ys. Ethics And Law The history-making- heart transplant in South Africa this past week has tied together new problems of surgery and law. Louis Washkansky, the now famous 55-year-old grocer received the heart of a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in an automobile accident. Washkansky’s heart was failing and doctors say he would have been dead in a few more days. But a problem of law and ethics enters and asks—when was the woman considered “dead”, and were the doctors actually commiting a forum of murder when they removed Washkansky’s ailing heart to implant the new one? By removing his heart he was considered legally dead. If the operation had failed at that point, it could have put the doctors in the position of those who have tangled with euthanasia or mercy killing the disease was terminal and they “saved” the patient from suffering by killing him. The tremendous success of the operation has almost nullified any protest over the action but in later transplants the question of death and timing may become important legal problems. And there are even more complex legal questions con cerning the donor, for doctors must be absolutely sure the donor is beyond recall. As an Associated Press writer asked, what if some one important—on the order of a President—were dying and needed a heart? Who could be certain a healthy heart was not taken prematurely ? And what if two patients were dying and there was only one heart available? Fortunately, Louis Washkansky is doing well in this first critical period after the operation. It is historical in that it is the first successful human heart transplant in history. More will be attempted in the coming months but many will fail. Washkansky may die within a day, a week, a year or ten years when his body rejects a foreign body—the heart of another human being. Artificial hearts and drugs to prevent rejection of transplants will someday make old, ailing, or defective heart replacable. But that’s more than 10 years away, while the ethical questions exist today. Goldberg Says Viet Tried To Come To Cong UN “We’re at a disadvantage in thinking up teasip jokes! Every one comes up pathetic instead of funny!” Sound Off Cavalrymen, Artillery Blast N. Vietnamese Strongholds SAIGON (■#*) — American air cavalrymen, supported by artil lery salvos, fighter-bomber at tacks and helicopter gunship raids on heavily fortified enemy positions, killed 159 North Viet namese soldiers in two days of fighting 300 miles northeast of Saigon, the U. S. command re ported Friday. n | A spokesman s^^^l r American casualties were light. But he said sporadic fighting still was under way Friday and gave no specific figures on U. S. casual ties. Many of the enemy dead, iden tified as elements of the 22nd Regiment of the. 3rd North Viet namese Division, apparently were slain by helicopters firing rockets and machine guns, and by Air Force bombers and the artillery. THE FIGHTING developed Wednesday after U. S. recon naissance helicopters spotted an enermy force and called for ground troops. Two companies of the 1st Air Cavalry Division were moved into the area by heli copter and armored personnel carriers. They made contact with an estimated North Vietnamese company — perhaps 200 men —- entrenched in a heavily fortified position. Headquarters said the U. S. forces contained the North Viet namese troops Wednesday night with a wall of artillery and tac tical air strikes around the enemy positions. The air cavalrymen reestab lished contact with the enemy forces Thursday and fighting continued throughout the day. They were reinforced by another company of U. S. mechanized in fantry and there was another bombardment by artillery, bomb ers and helicopter gunships. To the south, heavy fighting- broke out again early Friday near the Bu Dop Special Forces camp, three miles from the Cambodian border and 80 miles north of Sai gon. A BATTALION of the U. S. 1st Infantry Division came under heavy mortar and rocket fire fol lowed by a ground attack by an estimated 400 Communist troops 1.5 miles southeast of the Bu Dop airstrip. There was heavy Communist shelling Wednesday of U. S. Ma rine positions along the demili tarized zone, again emphasizing the possibility North Ahetnamese regulars will try another inva sion in force into South Vietnam. Editor, The Battalion; I have been following the bat tle which has and is being waged in the batt over the “tank traps” on Houston street. Your paper is to be commended for printing both sides of the story. I think Mr. Robert Bigham, class of ’62, went too far in his letter, though. I respect his right to have his own opinion, but stooping to per sonal abuse is no way to solve anything. It tends to muddy up the issue and confuse things somewhat. To present the facts or his own opinions is well and good, but insulting the author of “Cars Are Deadly; Concrete’s Not?” hurts Mr. Bigham’s case and reflects on his character. His satire is excellent, but that is all his letter is—satire. I have been walking around campus every day for the past three months, and in that time, I have yet to be attacked by any vicious motorists. The pylons are set in the road to slow down traffic by redirect ing it, but they seem to be more of an inconvenience and a hazard than they are worth. At least one Aggie who unfortunately both ways, as our kindergarten teachers told us. The tank traps have turned our thoroughfares into obstacle courses. What next—land mines ? Tim Gerling ’71 ★ ★ ★ thought he could go through them can support me here. The roads are built for traffic, not for pedestrians. They have the sidewalks. When they cross the street, they are supposed to look Puritan Sportwear at |ltm £»tiuncr« menfc wear THE BATTALION Editor, The Battalion: An entertainer’s responsibility is to entertain. Whenever he at tempts to foreshadow his per formance with his own personal beliefs, he oversteps the respon sibility an audience grants him in allowing him to entertain them. When Mr. Waring used his public appearance as a sound ing board for his own personal form of right-or-wrong logic, he not only was rude but also dis played illogical thinking in at tempting to imply “dissent is equated with the unpatriotic.” In Wednesday night’s Town Hall performance Mr. Waring demon strated valid credentials in musi cal entertainment, but he defi nitely lacked the proper creden tials as an authority as to whether dissent to the war in Vietnam is unpatriotic. Alan Maples ’66 UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. <A>) The United States said Thursday night that the Viet Cong in re cent months had sought to send two representatives to New York for a year or two, but had drop ped the idea when told that they could come only on U.N. business. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold berg, head of the U. S. delega tion to the United Nations, called reporters to his mission to tell them of the episode. He said the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front, the socalled Viet Cong, had made an inquiry through the U.N. secre tariat in late September about getting visas for the visit. But that it was asking “no U.N. stat us” for the representatives and that they would grant interviews to news media, and it failed to reply to a question of whether they would talk with the U. S. government. In response to a question, Gold berg said he did not believe that “under the circumstances” an NLF visit would have contrib uted to negotiations leading to peace in Vietnam. Goldberg said the United States would grant visas to NLF repre sentatives if they were invited to appear before the General As sembly or Security Council, and would vote for such an invita tion in the council if it met on the Vietnam question. But he said he had no instructions yet to ask for such a council meeting. He said he was giving his briefing- because the stories had become “a matter of public con cern.” He also said he wanted to make clear that there was no connection between the episode and an incident in Saigon in which an NLF representative was reported arrested by the South Vietnamese recently while trying to contact_the U. S. Embassy. Goldberg said that in the lat ter part of September a member of the U.N. secretariat sought him out with a message from Secretary-General U Thant “that was characterized as personal” and not an official U.N. com munication. This message, he said, relayed an inquiry from the NLF as to “whether the United States would be agreeable to having two or three NLF representatives come to New York” and “whether we would grant visas for this pur pose.” It came, he added, through an unnamed intermediary.” Goldberg said he immediately conveyed the message to his gov ernment and, on instructions, responded to the secretariat mem ber in mid-October by asking: What was the purpose of the in tended visit? Who were the in dividuals involved? What kind of passports would the NLF rep- Opinions expressed in The Battalion wre those of the student writers only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported non profit, velf-supporting educational enter prise edited and operated by students as a university and community neivspaper. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. pos ers chair the Student Publications Board are: Jim Lindsey, chairman ; Dr. David Bowers, College of Liberal Arts; F. S. White, College of Engineering: Dr. Robert S. Titus, College of Veterinary Medicine; and Hal Taylor, Col lege of Agriculture. News contributions may be made by telephoning 846-6618 or 846-4910 or at the editorial offioe. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call 846-6415. Mail subscriptio ear ; $6.50 ions full are $3.50 year. All pel sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building, College Stati< per semester ; subscriptions nished >b pei abject r school to 2% Texas on, published in Coll Sunday, and Mon< May, and once a wee student newspaper at Texas A&M is Station, Texas daily except Saturday, and holiday periods, September through k during summer school. Represented nationally by National Educational Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Francisco. Los Angeles and San MEMBER The Associated Press, Texas Press Association EDITOR CHARLES ROWTON Managing Editor John Fuller News Editor John McCarroll Sports Editor Gary Sherer Staff Writers Bob Palmer, John Platzer Editorial Columnist Robert Solovey Photographer Mike Wright GRADUATES Meet December 15 Deadline Dissertations and Thesis Bound $3.95 (Discount For 4 or More) Phone 846-6312 Located In Loupot’s Save time & money with fast local service MSC BOWLING - BILLIARDS GIVE BOWLING & BILLIARD GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS ON SALE UNTIL DEC. 20th, 1967 AMF Bowling Balls - Drilled & Engraved $16.95 All Bowling Bags & Shoes — Reduced 20 f / All Billiard Cues & Cases — Reduced 20% Aggie Bowling Shirt — $7.95 Each With Lettering resentatives have ? What kind of visas did they want? Who was the intermediary? How reliable did the secretary think them. Would the NLF men be open to talks with the U. S. government? The ambassador said the re plies came in early November, and included: —As to the purpose of the vis it, no U.N. status was asked for the men “but it was desired to work . . . principally at the U.N., but ratio, TV and press inter- | ra mat SCONA Panel (Continued From Page 1) the United States. “It is easy for those far away to take the noble point of view,” he said. The nations of Southeast Asia are working to make their par ticular country “a place where their people will be pleased so that dissent will remain at a minimum,” he noted. “WE ARE trying to improve the situations in our countries by our own means peacefully. We also have to realize the political realities of the area, primarily the expansionism of China,” Panyarachun said, speaking for Southeast Asian countries. He viewed the Vietnam war as only a battle in the entire South east Asian war. “We believe U. S. presence is a protective shield behind which we can work for the progress of all Southeast Asia,” Panyarachun said. Tracy explained what he saw as the main roadblocks to the continued progress of Southeast Asia. “THE LEADERS must be dedi cated, the civil service systems and central planning procedures need revision, and financial and technical aid must be increased,” Tracy said. The former foreign service worker observe that the ruling clique spent so much time worry ing about staying in power that they neglected their duties to their countrymen. He viewed the low pay rates—$25 or $30 per month for policemen—as a detri ment to performance and the main cause of corruption. Tracy also expressed concern that central planning boards are restrained in most Southeast Asian nations. He also questioned the advisability of the U. S. hav ing several agencies working overseas in the same nation as it causes foreign officials to ques tion “which agency has the au thority to do what” in United States-Vietnam relations. views would not be refused,” —There would be two repre. sentatives; their names were ml yet available but might be pro- vided later. —They would be traveling on North Vietnamese passports. —Their visit would be for year and possibly two years, Goldberg said the secretariat would not identify the mediator and he did not press for tht identification. CIVILIAN SENIORS and GRADUATES STUDENTS Will have their portrait made for the 1968 Aggie- land NOW thru Jan. 15. Portraits will be made at University Studio. (Coats & Ties) lequen Till ■eporti TUXEDO RENTALS At r ' 3tm £itanm ^ ^ men's went 822-3711 NEW SHIPMENT Aggie War Hymn Musical Door Chimes $5.95 plus tax 50^ Handling Charge On Out of Town Orders. AGGIELAND FLOWER AND GIFT SHOPPE 209 University Drive TOWN HALL PROUDLY PRESENTS The J. S. 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