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Wednesday, May 13, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7 s : World and Nation Former Nazi officer: Charges give impression of ‘madman’ 'AMILI the Ah > JoseplB LVON, I raiue (AP) — Former Geslapo chiei Klaus Barbie 9ttalion said Tuesday his trial on charges daysk o! crimes against humanity gives the impression He “acted like a Hiudman" and ran around Lyon Hunting )ews. H H Bai hie, an SS lieutenant in lHHynn liotn 19 12 to 1944, listened || Bithuui apparent emotion as two ■" court clerks read description,s of Tis purported crimes against Jews and Resistance workers during the Nazi occupation of France in ^^Jorld Wat IF. _ I 1 “1 had the impression after all nnfftose charges that I ran around Lvon with a rifle in my hand and hunted Jews,” the /3-year-old ■arbie told the court, speaking haltingly in German translated into French by an interpreter. I “When I heard all those accu sations against me today and yes terday, I felt like it was a revival of the Nuremberg trial,” he said. I He said the charges gave the impression he was the “master of Lyon” and that he “acted like a madman.” While making clear he did not accept the truth of the charges against him, Barbie did not spe- cifically deny them. Barbie made his statement Barbie’s trial opened Monday in a specially built courtroom in the lobby of the Palais de Justice and is expected to last two months. Most of Tuesday was taken up with the reading of documents ordering Barbie to trial. Then * >g thai tnvictkj y were:- id thcli -melv tE, “/ hud the impression after all those charges that I ran around Lyon with a rifle in my hand and hunted Jews. ” — Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief ed loj; i Wash;: dies - ig pan when presiding Judge Andre Cerdini asked him if he wanted to comment on a legal issue then un der debate. Barbie apparently be lieved he was being asked to ad dress the charges against him. After about Five minutes, Cer dini stopped him, saying Barbie would have an opportunity later to comment on the charges. Cerdini began questioning Barbie about his life before the period when the crimes allegedly were committed, beginning with his childhood in Germany. Barbie confirmed facts about his youth, family, marriage and membership in the Nazi party and the SS. Asked to give his understand ing of Nazism, Barbie responded, “I can’t explain National Social ism in two words.” Earlier Tuesday, defense law yer Jacques Verges told Cerdini the charges should not be brought to trial because the same acts were covered by one of the two military tribunals that con victed Barbie of war crimes and sentenced him to death in absen tia. Those sentences expired un der a statute of limitations. Verges argued that the trial now amounts to double jeopardy — trying Barbie twice for the same acts. Prosecutor Pierre Truche re sponded that the November 1954 case only covered the specific acts cited in court, and that authori ties only later learned of the crimes Barbie is charged with. “They did not say in 1954, ‘We are judging you for everything you are suspected of doing.’ That’s not justice,” Truche said. Patient gets heart from living person in pioneer surgery BALTIMORE (AP) — In a his toric series of operations, surgeons removed a cystic fibrosis patient’s healthy heart so they could give him a heart-lung transplant, then im planted his heart into a patient whose own heart was failing, doctors reported Tuesday. JoAnn Rogers, spokesman for Johns Hopkins Hospital, said the op eration apparently marked the First time a heart from a living person was used in a transplant. Both recipients Were reported in critical but stable condition, typical in such cases, she said. Joyce Plesic, mother of the cystic fibrosis patient, 28-year-old Clinton House of Baltimore, said her son was doing well following surgery. “He was very happy,” Plesic said. “He said if someone could help him, he should help someone else.” Cystic fibrosis causes its victims to n jits Researchers locate gene that may cause schizophrenia CHICAGO <AP) Remarkable physical iinularities in a man and his nephew who both iave schizophrenia have led researchers to he approximate location of one or more ;enes that could cause the disease, a re- iearcher said Tuesday. ^■he discovery of such a gene could be a Hoi step toward better understanding and ^ reatrnent of schizophrenia,, which afflicts an a j. istimated 1.5 million Americans, researchers s ^ ; “We have a potential < hie to the location of vsu j (! i Bnijor gene for schizophrenia,” said Dr. , Anne Bassett of the University of British Co- illed it passq utlbia in Vancouver, Canada. ■ he man and his nephew shared an extra fuiv °P V °* a se R inenl °l chromosome 5, one of he 25 pairs of chromosomes that carry he- )(ln( l editary information in humans, the" ‘The exciting possibility is that somewhere .mg a - hat Ul iton.Te ;atiot: 1 tion fc on this segment of chromosome 5 is a gene or genes that can help us understand the cause of schizophrenia for many of the other people who suffer from this disorder,” Bassett said at the annual meeting of the American Psychiat ric Association. Schizophrenia is marked by delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and blunted or inap propriate emotions. Its cause is unknown, but many patients can be effectively treated with drugs. Ray White of the University of Utah, an au thority on the genetic causes of disease, said the occurrence of schizophrenia in the two in dividuals Bassett studied could be due to chance, but that further research is war- i anted. “It’s very intriguing,” White said. “It’s the sort of thing we as researchers would follow up.” Bassett emphasized that even if the genetic segment is causing the schizophrenia, it is im possible to know yet whether this defect is re sponsible for a large percentage of cases of schizophrenia. “There could be some schizophrenia caused by one gene, some by another and some by a combination of genes,” she said. She said geneticists at the University of British Columbia and elsewhere were prepar ing to test other schizophrenics for the pres ence of an inherited defect on the segment of chromosome 5 that Bassett has identified. The segment comes from a part of the chromosome called the long arm, and it con tains perhaps hundreds of genes, she said. Some of those genes are responsible for the physical similarities between the two men, she said. Both men, for example, have protruding foreheads, widely spaced eyes and an abnor mally short fourth toe on each foot. The nephew, a 20-year-old student, has an abnormal left kidney. The uncle had been born without a left kidney. Both are the same height. 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