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HOUSTON (AP) — Texas
Heart Institute surgeons plan to
implant a battery-powered heart
assist device that will enable a pa
tient to move freely and perhaps
leave the hospital while awaiting a
transplant.
Surgeons, however, must first
get federal approval, said Dr.
OH. Frazier, director of the
Houston-based institute’s cardio
vascular surgical research labo
ratories and heart transplant
service.
The institute and Thermo Car-
diosystem Inc., a bioengineering
company, already have applied
for a Food and Drug Administra
tion investigational device
exemption that would permit
them to use the battery-powered
device in patients awaiting heart
transplants.
The two entities have worked
together on heart pumps for sev
eral years, and their experts be
lieve the battery-powered device
is an important step forward.
Current heart assist devices are
powered by large air-driven
pumps, making movement cum
bersome for patients.
“With this newer electrical
pump, you do have a wire
through the skin, but it’s battery-
controlled,” said Frazier, who
hopes the implant can be made
this summer.
The heart assist pump or left
ventricular assist device performs
most of the pumping function of
a normal heart’s left ventricle.
Many patients can live for months
with the device.
One Texas Heart Institute pa
tient has lived 233 days with the
air-driven pump replacing most
of his natural heart’s function.
Namibia set free
from S. Africa
Independence marks democratic
triumph for last African colony
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) —
Namibia became the world’s newest
nation Wednesday as Africa’s last
colony celebrated the end of 75
years of South African rule with tra
ditional tribal dances and choirs
singing liberation songs
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I he season for violence
has passed for Namibia and
the whole of southern
Africa. It is above all a
moment for hope; hope that
the future of this vast and
beautiful land will bring
peace.”
— F.W. de Klerk,
South African President
The South African flag was low
ered for the last time just after mid
night local time by South African
soldiers and the new blue, red and
green Namibian flag raised by Nam
ibian troops to a bugle fanfare.
Thousands of blacks and whites
cheered and clapped the flag cere
mony, but some yelled “Down,
down!” as the South Africa Hag was
lowered.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez, de Cuellar hailed the new na
tion’s independence as a triumph for
democracy. "The independence of
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below
Namibia also marks the triumph of
the international rule of law,” he
said. “The achievement bears elo
quent testimony to the norms of de
mocracy and human rights.”
Perez de Cuellar swore in former
guerrilla leader Sam Nujoma as the
first president of the new nation’s
government. “Africa’s last colony is
from this hour liberated,” Nujoma
said in his inaugural address.
Choirs sang “Cod Bless Africa” as
the crowds cheered in Windhoek
Athletic Stadium. Tribal dancers
sang and jumped with joy as hun
dreds of foreign leaders and officials
watched the celebrations.
South African President F.W. de
Klerk marked the end of his nation’s
rule of Namibia by calling for peace
in the region. “1 stand here tonight
as an advocate for peace,” he said.
“The season for violence has passed
for Namibia and the whole of south
ern Africa.
“It is above all a moment for
hope; hope that the future of this
vast and beautiful land will bring
peace,” de Klerk said.
Soldiers of the new Namibian
army in blue uniforms and green be
rets marched briskly through the
stadium to the beat of drums as offi
cers bearing swords barked com
mands. About 25,000 spectators,
some of whom waited 12 hours for
the ceremony, roared approval at
their first sight of the new army.
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