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SUN. Thursday February 12, 1981 A 3 Plastic heart Near-human apes' held possible sustains calf for 267 days Salt Lake City (AP) -Tennyson, the Jersey calf that lived a record 267 days with an artificial heart, was destroyed yesterday after antibiotics failed to clear up an infection, a university spokesman said. Larry Hastings, a technician at the University of Utah Medical Center's heart laboratory, said Tennyson had an infection along the tubes that connected the airdriven heart to a power source and had a high fever. Researchers tried to treat the calf with antibiotics, said university spokeswoman Fogle. But said a decision was made to put the animal to death because "he was suffering." "He was a much loved calf, and they're researchers) prety broken up," she said.

The previous record survival by an animal with an artificial heart was 221 days, set by a calf, Fumi Joe, in 1979. Doctors had expected Tennyson to die eventually for the same reason other implanted calves died -from outgrowing the hearts. Tennyson had grown from 160 to 330 pounds. Tennyson's heart was slightly larger than a model surgeons at the University Medical Center propose putting into a human being this year. After more than 1 20 years experimenting with artificial hearts in animals, the researchers have been authorized by a university committee to implant a polyurethane heart in a human patient.

The draft of a proposal which must be submitted to the federal Food and Drug Administration was to be reviewed for a final time Wednesday by Dr. William C. DeVries, the university surgeon who will perform the operation. Movie studio gets aid Hollywood (AP) -Paramount Pictures has turned over $1 million to Francis Ford Coppola, and movie fans have mailed cash donations in hopes of keeping the filmmaker's financially troubled Zoetrope Studios alive. Paramount executives Barry Diller and Michael Eisner purchased a $500,000 interest in an upcoming Zoetrope filmi "Interface" and extended a $500,000 personal loan to Mr.

Coppola, officials said Tuesday. Staff members and union workers on Zoetrope's $23 million film "One from the Heart" agreed to work for no pay last week when Mr. Coppola could not meet the payroll. "The money lets us shoot a couple more weeks. It rids us of the heavy burden of the payroll for a couple weeks," said Anne Schwebel, a Zoetrope spokesman.

Peking (KNT) -Chinese at one time experimented with fertilizing a chimpanzee with human sperm in an attempt to create a "near -human ape," and they may try it again. The chimp was three months pregnant before the first experiment was halted, one of the original researchers claims. Western science long has scoffed at such an experiment as medically impossible, but Dr. Ji Yongxiang says the research, if it ever resumes, has the potential to develop creatures with higher animal intelligence who could speak and perform simple tasks. A second researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science said there were plans to resume testing.

The benefits of a new species are legion, Dr. Ji said in an interview with the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Bao. The creatures could be used for herding sheep and cows and driving carts, he said, and they could be used in exploring space, the bottom of the sea, and in mines. "If it had worked, it would have taken the medical world by surprise," Dr. Ji said.

Dr. Ji was a surgeon before the Cultural Revolution, and now he is director of the small Su Jiao Tuen Hospital in She- nyang, a provincial capital in northern China During the Cultural Revolution, he was branded a "counterrevolutionary" and sent to work on a farm for 10 years. He was one of two doctors who did the ape experiment. Dr. Ji said the fertilizing experiment in Shenyang was stopped by the Cultural Revolution in 1967 when the laboratory was smashed, researchers were hounded from their studies and the chimp died from neglect.

He said the primary object of the experiment was to develop a creature with a larger brain and mouth. One factor that makes it impossible for a chimp to imitate human sounds is that its mouth is too narrow, he said. The research was spurred by the evolutionary belief that humans and apes were "originally related" and still are compatible enough to produce common offspring. It is a point that has led to much fantasy and humor in the Western world. However, Li Guong, of the genetics research bureau of the Academy of Science, treats it seriously, "My personal view is that it is possible, because according to general biological distinctions, they and belong to the same category," he said.

"We also did experimental work on this before the Cultural Revolution, but we were stopped. At the moment, we plan to arrange further tests." Dr. Ji also noted that the World Health Organization recently held a meeting in Rome to discuss the problems and ethics of transplanting animal organs into humans. He said if such a "near-human ape" species were created, it could offer a solution to the problem of human rejection of animal organs. The new species' organs would be preferable to artificial organs in transplants to humans.

He also said a "factory" could be set up to provide parts from the "near-human ape." The doctor also spoke of the possibility of transplanting heads. At the same time of the ape-human experiments, he recalled, researchers in Harbin were trying, to transplant the heads of dogs. That work, too, apparently ended with the Cultural Revolution. The Shanghai newspaper article was unclear whether the doctor proposed exchanging only the brains or the entire heads of humans and "near-human apes" if such a species could be developed, but he did say a transplant from a human to a new creature could be beneficial in that "the intelligence of a man can still be used." 5 top childhood diseases waning in U.S. Washington (AP)- -Immunization levels among the nation's children are at an all-time high, and outbreaks of five major childhood diseases have reached a record low, federal health officials report.

There were fewer cases of measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus and diphtheria in 1980 than ever before, the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reports. "Immunization levels in this country are probably higher now than they've ever been," Don Eddins of the CDC's immunization division said in an interview Tuesday. There were only six reported cases of diphtheria in 1980, down from 59 in 1979. Only one of the six cases was in a child.

Rubella cases plummeted to 3,837 from 11,795 in 1979. Mumps cases fell to 8,531 from 14,225 and tetanus dropped to 74 from 81. There were 13,430 cases of measles, down only slightly from 13,597 in 1979, but measles has come down sharply from nearly 27,000 cases in 1978 and 57,000 in 1977. Although most children bounce back with no ill effects from a bout with the measles, 1 in 10,000 dies. Mr.

Eddins said measles outbreaks grew less frequent as 1980 wore on, with a record low of only 13 cases during Christmas week. He said disease fighters are well on their way to meeting a goal of eliminating measles as a disease of U.S. origin by October, 1982. Children would still need mea- Sweater set A sweet deal on our pastel knit skirt and top, special purchase 29.99 Long sleeve sweater and pleated skirt in tasty pastel shades of easy care acrylic. Beautifully detailed for sizes S- Come see our entire collection in Junior Dresses (041), at all stores.

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The abortion issue was the most controversial during a two-day debate on women in the EEC. Irish and Italian members repeatedly said the motion amounted to "a death sentence for unborn children." The parliament was debating a 22-page report, prepared over the past year by a committee of women in the parliament headed by Dutch Christian Democrat Hanja Maij-Weggen. The report put forth statistics saying that about twice as many men in the EEC have paid employment as women, and that working men do an average of 9 hours of housework a week, while working women do 34. The motion urged the EEC to act to ensure that men and women are equally paid, to make more money available from the EEC social fund for educating women, and to encourage members to grant equal legal status to men and women. sles shots because it is expected that 100 cases will be imported into the United States each year, he said.

Federal, state and local health agencies began an intensified immunization drive in April, 1977, when measles and rubella were on the rise and as many as one child in three lacked protection against some or all of the major childhood diseases. States passed or tightened laws requiring children to get shots before entering school. By the 1979-80 school year, the CDC Burlington checked records of 2.5 million children starting school and found that 94 percent were immunized against 1 measles, 93 percent for polio, rubella and DPT (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis) and 86 percent for mumps. The rates are slightly lower for all children from kindergarten through 12th grade. Checks of 28 million students' records found the national immunization levels were 91 percent for measles, 83 percent for rubella, 58 percent for mumps, 89 percent for polio and 90 percent for DPT.

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