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
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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-
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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
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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.
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