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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1975
Judge forbids sterilization of retarded child
Associated Press
LONDON — An English judge
ordered doctors Wednesday not to
sterilize an 11-year-old girl they say
is mentally backward, declaring that
it would deprive her of the basic
right of a woman to reproduce.
Judge Rose Heilbron, 61, who is
married to a physician, said some
doctors felt the operation was
necessary because the girl was men
tally backward while her “physical
development had advanced at an
exceptional rate.
Her mother, a 51-year-old widow
and cleaning woman with two other
children, had consented to the op
eration. But an educational
psychologist, Margaret Dubberley,
who works at a special school at
tended by the girl, brought legal
proceedings to stop it.
The girl never has been named
and Judge Heilbron ordered that no
hint be given of her identity.
At the end of a five-day private
hearing in high court. Judge Heil
bron said she was announcing her
decision in open court because of
the controversy the case has pro
voked over whether English law
adequately protects the rights of
children.
She said the operation was
“neither medically indicated nor
necessary, and it would not be in the
girl’s best interests for it to be per
formed. The girl’s behavioral condi
tion had improved, and the opera
tion would “deprive her of a basic
human right — that of a woman to
reproduce,’ Judge Heilbron said.
The judge praised the “courage,
persistence and humane concern for
this young girl” shown by Mrs.
Dubberley and her colleagues and
described the girl’s mother as “ex
cellent, caring and devoted. The
mother had “courageoulsy faced
various problems over her daugh
ter’ and had consented to the opera
tion on medical advice, the judge
said.
Doctors said the girl suffers from
a rare condition called “Soto’s syn
drome,” which results in large bone
growth, behavioral problems and
often some degree of mental retar
dation. However, Mrs. Dubberley
had said she did not consider the girl
retarded, though she is somewhat
clumsy and of below-average intel
ligence.
The case has similar parallels to
one in the United States.
The U..S. Office of Economic Op
portunity reported two years ago
that 11 minors may have been in
voluntarily sterilized by a federally
funded birth control clinic in
Montgomery, Ala., after an investi
gation prompted by a lawsuit filed
on behalf of two sterilized girls.
Thqre was no indication that
mental retardation was involved in
these cases, butaU.S. federal judge
issued guidelines early last year
prohibiting the sterilization of any
institutionalized mental patient in
Alabama under 21 years old except
in cases of “medical necessity.” Ear
lier, a three-judge federal panel had
declared unconstitutional an
Alabama law which provided for the
sterilization of residents of mental
institutions. .
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Executive orders written in blood
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former CIA
Director Richard Helms testified
Wednesday his employes were
trained to accept oral commands as
“orders written in blood — and
therefore he had spurned ink and
paper when relaying a directive
from the President of the United
States.
Helms said the CIA's failure to
destroy its cache of poisons in ac
cordance with former President
Richard M. Nixon’s order was an
“odd aberration” unlikely to recur.
He told the Senate Intelligence
Committee that while he issued no
written backup order he had as
sumed the shellfish toxin and other
poisons had been destroyed.
Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn.,
told Helms and Thomas Karames-
sines, the CIA’s former deputy di
rector for plans, that their responses
pinpoint the difficulty the commit
tee has had in accessing responsibil
ity inside CIA for a wide variety of
questionable actions, including the
alleged assassination of foreign
leaders.
“The situation always is some
thing happened and nobody did it.
Mondale said.
Shortly after Helms testified, it
was announced that Sidney
Gottlieb, a former CIA scientist
whom Karamessines identified as
the person to whom he relayed the
order to destroy the toxins, has told
the committee through his lawyer
he will invoke the Fifth Amend
ment and refuse to answer ques
tions.
The committee is seeking to
question Gottlieb, former head of
the agency’s Technical Services Di
vision, in connection with both the
retention of the shellfish toxin and
the destruction of records about the
CIA’s testing of LSD and other
behavior-modifying drugs.
Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., the
committee’s chief counsel, said the
Justice Department has been told
that if Gottlieb does invoke his con
stitutional right to avoid self-
incrimination, the committee will
seek to compel his testimony by
granting him immunity for what
ever he might say.
Both Helms, now U.S. ambas
sador to Iran, and Karamessines tes
tified that Gottlieb appeared to
agree fully with them that the order
issued early in 1970 by former pres-
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ident Richard M. Nixon was valid,
did apply to the CIA, and should be
complied with.
The order renounced the use by
the United States of chemical and
biological weapons and directed
that they be destroyed.
Dr. Nathan Gordon, the CIA sci
entist actually in charge of the agen
cy’s chemical weapons division —
operation MK Naomi — testified
Tuesday he and two associates de
cided on their own they need not
comply with the order.
Gordon said he never received
any orders on the subject from his
CIA superiors but came to the con
clusion he could ignore the Nixon
order after analyzing news stories
about the decision.
Gordon testified he concluded
shellfish toxin was not intended to
be included and that in any case the
order applied only to the Defense
Department, not the CIA.
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AUSTIN — About 4,000 Univer
sity of Texas students — a tenth of
those enrolled — declared a clas
sroom boycott Wednesday to pro
test the selection of Dr. Lorene Ro
gers at UT-Austin president.
A black student from Amarillo,
Tom Collier, climaxes a sun-baked
rally with his motion to stay away
from classes until Dr. Rogers res
igns.
“Quit! Quit! Quit! Quit! the stu
dents chanted. Many shot their fists
into the air, a gesture reminiscent of
the 1960s when anti-war demonst
rations were frequent events on the
South Mall at the foot of the Main
Building. Wednesday’s rally was at
the same site.
Dr. Rogers, a 61-year-old
biochemist and nutritionist who was
itemed to the post Friday, dedafed
she will remain on the job even
though the general faculty de
manded Tuesday that she resign.
Speakers at the rally insisted their
main objection was that UT regents
had ignored a student-faculty advis
ory committee, which had refused
on four separate occasions to in
clude Dr. Rogers on its list of re
commendations for the presidency.
But participants in a “guerrilla
theater” play mocked Dr. Rogers
statements that she is characterized
by openness and has not been hand
icapped in her career by the fact she
is a woman.
Rep. Gonzalo Barrientos,
D-Austin, called for an investigation
by the Texas House Higher Educa
tion Committee “to clear up all this
crap.”
Rep. Sarah Weddington,
D-Austin, said the regents bad ig
nored the “representative process
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and business control of universities,
noted that three of the five regents
who voted for Dr. Rogers are ban
kers and referred to her as “the bank
teller who is now president of this
university.”
“You are now ruled by bankers,”
Dugger said. “. . . Basic change will
not come until you get new regents
and you do not get new regents
without a new governor.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe’s present
term does not expire, however,
until January 1979.
Dugger said of the regents al
leged disregard of faculty and stu
dent opinion: “If it is not stopped
here, the example will spread to
every boondocks state university in
this state.
The rally was sponsored by a new
coalition called Students Helping
Academic Freedom at Texas
(SHAFT).
Some students carried placards.
One said, “Lorene, You Give Us
Shivers All Over,” a play on the
name of regents chairman Allan
Shivers, a banker who supported
Dr. Rogers for president.
Several young people stood along
Guadalupe Street at the edge of the
campus with signs urging passing
motorists to honk if they wanted Dr.
Rogers to resign. Reporters driving
along the street heard few, if any,
bonkers.
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