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(UPD—Dr. Philip Blaiberg
lived life with an enduring
• relish and a realistic philoso
phy. 'Tm living on borrowed
time,” he used to say with
a smile.
Blaiberg, 60, died Sunday
night in Groote Schuur Hospital
where Jan. 2, 1968 Dr.
Christiaan Barnard implanted
in his body th e heart of a
• colored millhand.
The cause of death awaited a
report on an autopsy performed
today but medical sources said
•Blaiberg’s body finally rejected
the foreign tissue of the heart
that had kept him alive longer
than any other heart transplant
• patient.
Massive doses of drugs and
anti-lymphocite globulin which
had always staved off the
• body’s natural rejection of
foreign tissue had faltered at
last. With the heart starting to
work abnormally, Blaiberg’s
• kidneys and liver also failed,
medical sources said.
Enters Hospital
Blaiberg entered the hospital
Aug. 14 with clogged arteries.
*lt was his third return to the
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Monday, August 18, 1969
hospital. He had always
■ bounced back before.
“I am afraid I have nothing
to say,” Barnard told newsmen.
"That is all.”
Blaiberg’s wife, Eileen, was
under sedation at the luxurious
suburban home Blaiberg bought
with the money from articles,
television appearances and his
book, "Looking at My Heart.”
"She was there (at the
■hospital) practically until the
last,” said her brother-in-law,
George Abel. He said Blaiberg
suffered no pain.
Blaiberg in each of his
recoveries from crises not only
managed to go home from
Groote Schuur, but returned to
a life hardly that of a
convalescent.
Delighted In Telling World
He swam in the nude in his
private pool, drove his automo
bile, took walks, waved to
passersby and seemed to
delight in telling the world of
his experiences.
Blaiberg was asked months
ago whether he could go
through another transplant.
“What a lot of trouble that
would be to go through again,”
he said. “I’m a lazy bloke, you
know. I’ve lived a good life and
enjoyed it. Many of my friends,
my colleagues have passed on.
What bloody right have I to go
on?
“All I can say is I’m living
on borrowed time.”
Blaiberg ridiculed the idea
that he permitted the trans
plant as a sacrifice for medical
science.
“I realized that a new heart
was my only chance of survival
and I took it,” he said.
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In Georgia
Weekend Wrecks
By United Press International
The State Patrol said nine
persons lost their lives on Geor
gia highways during the official
weekend counting period that
started Friday at six p.m. and
ended Sunday at midnight.
In the worst reported acci
dent, two young men were
killed when the cars they were
driving crashed head-on along
Sycamore Road in Turner
County. The patrol said John
Henry Menul, 24, from Atlanta
crossed the centerline at a high
rate of speed and smashed into
a car driven bv Samual John
son, 17, of Ashburn. Both were
killed and two others injured.
An early Sunday accident on
a Ware County road, claimed
the life of Joseph Griffin, 21, of
Waycross. He went off the road
at a high rate of speed and hit
a lightpole, said the patrol.
James C. Moon, 24, of Stath
am crashed into the rear of a
tractor - trailer rig Saturday
while being chased by a police
car. Authorities said the fatal
smash-up happened about two
miles north of Monroe on Geor
gia 11.
A 21 • year • old Dallas man,
Tommy Benjamen Crowley,
died Saturday when his car hit
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BfifcA Capt. Budge Williams of Athens.
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8 Beret Suspects
Moved To Barracks
By NAT GIBSON
SAIGON (UPl)—The Army
removed eight Green Beret
officers from solitary confine
ment today and gave them
rooms in barracks outside the
military stockade where they
had been since accused of
murdering a South Vietnamese
civilian.
A civilian lawyer and several
congressmen had charged the
men were kept in inhumane
conditions at the stockade in
Long Bih, 17 miles north of
Saigon.
“It is a terrible thing out
there,” said George Gegory of
Cheraw, S. C., lawyer for one of
the accused. “You cannot
believe how bad it is.”
The men will be allowed to
mingle and share a common
mess hall in their new
confinement quarters, a milita
ry spokesman said.
“Isolation of the prisoners,
which was necessary during
a tree after careening off Geor
gia 92 about three miles north
of Dallas.
Two others died Saturday in
traffic accidents. They were
Forrest McCrary, 25, of Forest
Valley and Farris Cowins, 45,
of Norwood.
A pedestrian—identified as 61-
year-old Milton Piper of East
man—was killed Saturday when
he stepped into the path of a
car on Georgia highway 46 that
runs through downtown East
man.
A Friday evening accident on
Georgia 23 six miles north of
Millen claimed the life of Geor
gio H. Bradham, 22, of Swains
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one phase of the investigation,
is no longer required,” the
spokesman said.
The eight men are held in the
investigation of the slaying
June 20 of a South Vietnamese
civilian at Nha Trang, 188 miles
northeast of Saigon. The group
includes the former commander
of all U.S. Special Forces
(Green Berets) in Vietnam,
Col. Robert Rheault of Vine
yard Haven, Mass.
Gregory represents Maj. Tho
mas Middleton Jr. of Jefferson
S.C. Gregory said the man
killed was a double agent
working for the Communists
and the United States.
Sources close to the case said
Sunday the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) had hidden its
key witness in the case to avoid
questioning.
The witness was identified
only as a senior CIA agent who
works under the code name of:
“Col. Enking.” The sources
said he suggested that the
South Vietnamese victim be
“terminated with extreme pre
judice”—slain.
Refusal of the CIA to produce
the witness has apparently
caused another delay in opening
of the Investigation.
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Thinks Victim
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ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — The
mysterious Vietnamese double
agent, allegedly executed by
eight Special Forces troopers,
could have been a top - level
South Vietnamese, Athens law
yer Guy Scott told UPI Sunday.
Scott, who is representing
Capt. Budge Williams of Ath
ens, made the comment after
the following telephone conver
sation with an unidentified mili
tary source in Saigon:
“I just can’t see a man in
volved in this situation being
a double agent. It must be
somebody high up in Vietnam,”
Scott said he queried.
Scott said the military source
replied: “Yes. You’re right. It
was.”
The Athens attorney went on
to say that the Army does not
intend to drop its charges
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men, and will probably try
them at a general courts mar
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However, when asked about
his clients involvement, Scott
said he was told Williams was
not the trigger man.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland —
Armed British troops face down
crowd where new fighting broke
out between Catholics and Pro
testants. The battle was reduced
to words today as a shaky peace
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