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Couple claims hospital
switched babies at birth
BALTIMORE (AP) — A couple who raised a girl un
til she died of a congenital heart ailment last month at
age 9 have filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming the
child was swapped at birth for their own healthy baby.
In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Ernest and Regina I.
Twigg allege their child was put up for adoption nine
years ago after hospital workers changed identifying
bracelets and altered records so the adoptive couple
could have a well baby. They hope to eventually find
their own child and gain custody.
Tests on blood and tissue samples taken from Arlena
Twigg before she died showed she was not related to ei
ther parent, their attorney, Marvin Ellin of Baltimore,
said.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tampa,
Fla., names Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula,
Fla., three physicians and a nurse, charging them with
fraud or negligence, or both.
A woman who answered the telephone Thursday at
the Twiggs’ home in Langhorne, Pa., referred calls to
Ellin.
“We’re totally devastated,” Mrs. Twigg told the Balti
more Sun. “Our lives have turned into a nightmare.
We’ve not only lost our Arlena . . . but also where is our
own daughter? We’re very much interested in tracking
down our own child.”
The lawsuit said that after the baby was born, the
Twiggs were originally told that she was healthy but
three days later were told she had congenital heart dis
ease that could eventually prove fatal.
They didn’t suspect the swap until May, when a rou
tine test showed that Arlena, who was facing heart sur
gery, had a blood type of B-positive. The Twiggs said
their baby had been born with a blood typeotft
tive, and they both have type O blood.
On the basis of the differing blood types,
would he all hut impossible for Arlena to bethetj
Additional tests on Arietta’s tissues conducted:
concluded the same thing, he said.
The Twiggs never told Arlena, whodiedinjl
of their doubts about her parentage, Ellin si
couple have seven other children.
Efforts to reach the defendants — Dr. Ernes?
a family doctor; Dr. William D. Black, an obstel
Dr. Adley Z. Sedaros, a pediatrician; and ?i
Spieth, a nurse — were unsuccessful Tlutrscb f
Messages left at the offices of Black in|
Springs, Miss.; and Palmer in Wauchula, Fla. J
immediately returned Thursday. There wasnoJ
at midday I hursday at Sedaros’ office in Me||
Fla., or at the Waychula home of Spieth.
Palmer told the Sun, “I certainly wouldntnj
hies on anyone, but I guess you can be suedbyuj
Harold Connelly, hospital administrator, said I
no knowledge of the lawsuit and was surprisd!
allegations.
The lawsuit said the unknown adoptive]
wanted a healthy baby but it gave no reason for.]
medical personnel might have gotten invokl
switching two babies. Ellin said some defendil
have been only negligent, but that at least one j
must have deliberately switched the two babies]
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) —
Discovery’s astronauts donned
orange pressure suits and threw
switches in a successful practice
countdow'n Thursday, and NASA
officials said they hope to launch the
first space shuttle since the Chal
lenger tragedy before September
ends.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration plans to an
nounce a launch date Wednesday,
following a two-day flight readiness
review here.
Officials have been discussing a
date from Sept. 26 to 29.
“We clearly demonstrated that
we’re ready to pick up the count for
real; I hope that we will be able to do
that by the end of the month,” Ken
nedy Space Center Director Forrest
S. McCartney told the launch team
after the test.
“We clearly demonstrated
that we’re ready to pick up
the count for real; 1 hope
that we will be able to do
that by the end of the
month. ”
— Kennedy Space Center
Director, Forrest S. Mc
Cartney
“You have a feeling this train is
about to leave the station and we’re
about to get on board,” astronaut
Mike Lounge said.
“The enthusiasm around here is
obvious,” McCartney said. “It seems
to me like we’ve finally got it put
back together.”
He referred to the long recovery,
with its many setbacks and mile
stones, from the Challenger explo
sion that killed seven astronauts on
Jan. 28, 1986.
Thursday’s practice countdown
was the last of those major mile
stones, and it was completed with
only a few minor communications
glitches.
It began Wednesday, and the five-
man Discovery crew boarded the
shuttle Thursday to participate in
the final two hours, throwing
switches, testing communications
and monitoring systems, just as they
will on launch day.
The commander is Navy Capt.
Rick Hauck. The pilot is Air Force
Lt. Col. Dick Covey, and the mission
specialists are George Nelson,
Lounge and Marine Maj. David
Hilmers.
For the test, they wore bright
orange pressure suits, the first time a
crew has not worn comfortable flight
coveralls since the fifth shuttle mis
sion in 1982.
The pressure garments, which all
shuttle crews will wear on launch
and re-entry, would be needed in
case of trouble during an emergency
landing attempt and the astronauts
had to bail out by blowing an explo
sive hatch, sliding down a telescop
ing pole to avoid hitting the wing,
and parachuting to Earth.
This emergency escape system has
been added since the Challenger ex
plosion. It would not help in a Chal
lenger-type accident, in which the
shuttle blew up 73 seconds after lift
off.
The communications problems, in
ground equipment, delayed some
practice countdown activities and
the test ended 34 minutes late.
A computer stopped the count at
six seconds before a mock liftoff, just
as it would if there were an engine
problem on an actual launch, giving
the launch team experience in hand
ling such a situation.
The test concluded three days of
training here for Discovery’s crew.
Afterward they returned to their
base at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
Hauck and Lounge will be back
here next week to represent the crew
at the flight readiness review which
will determine a launch date.
Hauck said the meeting, on Tues
day and Wednesday, is an in-depth
review that all elements of the pro
gram will have a requirement to sign
on the dotted line to say that their
part of the program is ready for us
to fly.
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Thursday for Sept. 25tobt J
for the first of two preside]
paign debates Iretween Da
Michael Dukakis and RrJ
George Bush. While top aidfl
working out details, them:!
dates were emphasizingdeifi
icy during appearances inTfi
Kentucky.
Dukakis told the AmerJ
gion that “a me mntain ofddfl
up during the Reagan adri
tion was endangering natri
frnse, while Bush, observiiiij
cry destruction of I S. uJ
comply with a new- treaty,bij
day the United States begil
verse the arms race.
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was announced by Dukahl
paign chairman Paul Broiri
said the two candidates woo
on Sept. 25 at Wake Fortstli
sity in Winston-Salem, N.Cl
tas said the second presiderl
hate would lie Oct. 14 orj
depending on the baseball
schedule.
Vice presidential nominetl
Ben tsen and Dan QuaylewlJ
during the first week in Octet
Bush was at LonghornArl
munition plant in Karnadf
to join other U.S. and Soviet®
in witnessing the demolition j
Pershing missile engines.
He said the occasion was l
those unique moments inthfl
of man, a moment whenthei
history turned, that a nenl
dawned.”
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850 weapons to be destroyetli
United States under the (Ul
treaty that eliminated iwl
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spokesman, said the vice prfj
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