A 41-year-old Oregon man who received the wrong kind of heart in a botched transplant walked out of the hospital 11 days after getting a properly matched organ on the second try.
"I'm doing very well," Greg Hamilton told reporters Thursday before leaving the Oregon Health Sciences University with his wife. "I feel real good. I'm anxious to get home."Doctors at the hospital performed Hamilton's first transplant Aug. 14, accidentally giving him a heart of blood type A even though his blood is type O. After learning of their mistake, doctors put Hamilton at the top of the region's heart transplant candidate list, and four days later conducted a second operation with the right kind of heart.
Dr. Adnan Cobanoglu, the head surgeon on the transplant team, said Hamilton was recuperating as well as a patient who had undergone only one operation.None of 25 missing crew members found JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A search for 25 missing crew members of a Greek ship with a load of iron ore that sank in the Indian Ocean has ended with no trace of survivors, government broadcasting reported.
The 73,000-ton Melete, a Greek-flagged bulk carrier, went down 540 miles south of the French island of Reunion on Saturday. French and American rescuers found two crew members Sunday. The rest were missing.400 pro-lifers hail leaders' release from jail WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - About 400 pro-life protesters gathered at a rally to welcome three Operation Rescue leaders released from jail. Pro-choice advocates also hailed the release because the three said they would leave town.
U.S. District Judge Patrick F. Kelly released Keith Tucci of Charleston, S.C., the national pro-life group's executive director; the Rev. Joe Slovenec of Cleveland; and the Rev. Pat Mahoney of Boca Raton, Fla.
Lawyers for the three men promised their clients would obey Kelly's order barring them from blocking clinics where abortions are performed.
Also Thursday, Municipal Judge Harold Flaigle released 14 of about 70 protesters who had been held for violating ordinances against trespassing and loitering.
Exiled Lebanese general moves to Riviera MARSEILLE, France (UPI) - Defeated Lebanese Christian strongman Gen. Michel Aoun arrived in France Friday to take up political asylum and was installed at a Riviera villa after spending 321 days up in the French Embassy in Beirut, witnesses said.
French authorities took Aoun to the Villa Gaby on the seaside Kennedy corniche in the southern port of Marseille together with two former Lebanese officers who accompanied him from Beirut. Also at the building were Aoun's brother Elie, his wife, three daughters and two nephews, witnesses said. Aoun's family had arrived at the villa Thursday evening.
The Villa Gaby-Deslys, named after an artist who donated it to the city of Marseille in 1919, contains six suites as well as some grand reception rooms and has one of the finest views over the Mediterranean on the Riviera.
Aoun and his aides were driven to the villa in four cars under heavy police escort Friday, the witnesses said. Scores of CRS riot police ringed the villa and a white police launch patrolled the sea in front of the building.In other news . . . THE SOVIET UNION has launched a satellite for India that will warn of floods and drought, help crop production and control mosquitoes, space research officials said. . . . POLICE HAVE broken up a key Basque guerrilla cell, killing one suspected extremist, injuring another and arresting six more, the Basque regional government said in Bilbao, Spain. . . . THREE PEOPLE were shot - one fatally - during an attempted robbery at a New York pub that is a popular gathering place for dart players.