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Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1980 Trail begins for woman accused of m urdering h er da ugh ter Asian leaders say support slipping United Press International WICHITA FALLS — Jury selec tion is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of a woman accused of stab bing her 4-year-old daughter and cutting out her heart with a butcher knife. Officials at Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane said in Sep tember that Patricia Ann Frazier is competent to stand trial for the Feb. 22 death of her daughter, Khonji Wilson. District Judge Keith Nelson, who received no objection from either the prosecutor or defense attorney Harold Lerew to the hospital’s deter mination, ruled the defendant is competent to stand trial. Lerew, the Wichita County Attorney-elect, so far has not sought a change of venue. At a competency hearing held April 14, it was determined Frazier was incompetent to stand trial. She was transferred to the Rusk facility in East Texas at that time. 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Reports circulated that the defen dant had cut out the child’s heart after seeing a sequel to the movie “Exorcist” on television. Officials: U.S. has military edg United Press International HONG KONG — Despite a Soviet buildup in the Pacific and In dian oceans, American officials be lieve the United States and its allies still hold a military edge over Mos cow in Asia. But the confidence of Asian lead ers in America’s ability to defend them has sagged as they watched the Soviets invade Afghanistan and sup port the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. In addition, Soviet access to naval and air facilities at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, a build-up on the Kurile Islands north of Japan and Soviet use of Indian Ocean bases have spawned The Cow Hop ^ AT NORTHGATE The Biggest Burger Bargains in B-CS! GIANT 1/3 LB. HOMEMADE BURGER served with a pile of real French Fries or salad. Dress it yourself at our salad bar. 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Wee Cho Yaw, presi dent of Chambers of Commerce in the five-nation Association of South east Asian Nations, called recently for a higher U.S. profile in Asia. “What worries many people is the introspective mood that appears to have enveloped the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam pull out,” Wee said in Singapore. “The American government appears to be inert to the extent of surrendering political leadership and initiative to the Soviet Union.” American officials, anxious to ease Asian fears of an American abandon ment, acknowledge that the “margin of confidence” in U.S. military su periority has narrowed in recent years. But they say the United States still deploys a superior military force and is taking steps to reverse the post- Vietnam decline. In addition, Washington is de veloping increasingly close military ties with China, Japan, the ASEAN countries and Australia, and some of these countries also are exploring military cooperation among them selves. “We are seeing a greater parallel ism of perceptions among all these players, which poses problems for the Soviets,” one high-ranking U.S. official said. In addition, the American econo mic presence is also on the upswing in Asia, so much so that U.S. trade with Asia now surpasses its trade with Western Europe. This helps serve as a counterweight to Soviet ambitions in Asia, the U.S. officials say. Carter administration officials naturally are eager to depict the U.S. position in the world in glowing terms with the presidential cam paign in the home stretch, but inde pendent analysts agree the American position in Asia is not as grim as sometimes depicted. “A lot of people in this part of the world regard the strain on U. S. naval resources in particular as signifi cant,” said Kenneth S. Chem, a lec turer in history at Hong Kong Uni versity who specializes on U.S. fore ign policy in Asia. “We are in fact under a strain,” Chern said. “The modernization of our armed forces is just beginning. I don’t think our edge is as comfort able as we’d like it to be, but I think we still have one. We haven’t totally lost it.” r| BOISE, come up wi Soviets is far higher than fotK^ tr Americans because of the vasts e , tance they must cover to reachsM eese f or a i home base at Vladivostok. | p re siden The Soviet ships deployeiJ^ ran Asian waters also lack virtuallyP' veed . air power compared with thedforcontami aircraft carriers. Even the Mi/ 0 ,,®/? 0 e , now in Cam Ranh Bay, VietnamM, lies on vertical lift-off and landiJ|"’,. ^ nc aircraft and is designed morefor><«r edin & ~7 submarine warfare than an air war. icmicals 1 ip and th The com] ich it us lea farmei He said t out 2,00( increasi an, Roll* The gees ley also m ttuce. Ro Specifically, U.S. officials say the United States retains an advantage in terms of the numbers and quality of surface combat ships in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Seven aircraft carriers, one more than previously, now operate in that theater, allowing the United States to maintain two carrier battle groups in the Indian Ocean at all times. The largest conventional military threat is regarded as submarines, which vastly out® ber U.S. submarines in the Still, the officials are confident U.S. anti-submarine capability, Other signs that the U.S. mililj deterioration has halted included buildup of air and naval facilities! the tiny Indian Ocean islandi Diego Garcia, the pre-positioninj, seven ships near the island witbcoi ^HtTsaTd bat supplies, and the stationing! 1,800 Marines on ships in the regie The high-ranking U.S. officials} the U.S. strategy was tomakeiti expensive as possible for the $ovi> to support Vietnam and Afghanis!; and to maintain their militaryatt ity at high levels. am crop: aches a c Although the numbers of U.S. and Soviet ships on forward duty shift from day to day, the percentage of support ships required by the “The idea is that the costs ofltte; ing in place can be high enough a period of time to make the Sow dances it and Vietnamese conclude it is their best interests to withdraw, said. Lung transplants failing a ro INGL snorting him to g As on< rodeo pf United Press International WASHINGTON — One glaring failure in these days of increasing successes with organ transplants has been transplantation of the human lung. There have been 38 lung transplant attempts around the world since 1963, and all have failed although one patient lived 10 months and another six months with someone else’s lung. The last lung transplant was performed by a Universi ty of Toronto medical team directed by Dr. J. M. Bill Nelems. It was the first lung transplant in five years and also ended in failure. The patient, a 19-year-old man, died 18 days after the operation. Nelems and colleagues reported on the case in the October issue of Chest, a medical journal. Although the patient died, the doctors said it may be time to reap praise the general pessimism with which lung transplan tation is regarded. In an editorial in the same issue, Dr. John R. Benfield of the UCLA school of medicine agreed that successful lung transplantation is possible. “One need consider only the human misery and eco nomic loss which results from chronic lung disease with progressive respiratory insufficiency to conclude that research in lung transplantation should continue,” he wrote. Dr. Frank J. Veith, a lung transplant specialist at Montefiore Hospital in New York, said in a telephone interview that recent animal experiments have been encouraging and he, too, thinks lung transplant^ someday will be feasible. Veith has been involvediiia| of the 38 transplants done so far. The Toronto case involved a young man whose Iuk were severely damaged by smoke inhalation in a fire. Doctors were unsuccessful in attempting to we: him from a respirator after five months in the hospiti During the 48 hours before the transplant operation,li condition deteriorated rapidly. Lung transplantation was considered the onlychaiE the man had of living. The donor was a previot! healthy, nonsmoking 18-year-old who suffered a fc head injury in a motor vehicle accident. barrel,” The donor’s immune system was somewhat compit s t anc ]j n g ble with that of the recipient and the patient wasgire drugs to suppress any immune system rejection proce | p r op e lle :ht * ses that might take place The patient’s right lung was removed and replatt with one from the accident victim. The surgery wer well, and the patient was reported able to walkandlii the stavi without complications up to the 17th day. Then!; “Then Texan w cheerlea titles, ar She pi clown rc Robin long dai wearing shiny sat . which m I When Distra Robin fa Shew Then, p< beef wit “Whe Occas high as If she So she c Twoy developed a cough, began spitting up blood and k doing ch Ity' difficulty breathing. He died the next day. Nelems said there was no sign that the recipien! body rejected the foreign lung. 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