India Tightening on Dacca
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n Park Told It May Get Sewers SEE STQRY.BELOW Mostly Cloudy Cloudy today ana tonight. To- morrow partly cloudy and Kcd Bank, Freehold FINAL warmer. I Long Branch EDITION Monmoutli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 48PAGES VOL 94 NO. 116 RED BANK, NJ. THURSDAY, DECEMBERS, 1971 TEN CENTS Riverview Changing Policy on Sterilization By UOfllS KULMAN The suit says the hospitals' denial of tne operation violates He said the new policy is incorporated in the by-laws re- states which forbid sterilization. 1 the Yohns' rights under several constitutional amendments •• cently adopted by Riverview's medical staff. Those by-laws The Yohns' sui asks that the hospitals be directed to RED BANK - Riverview Hospital, here, has changed its and has compelled them to use less certain and more hazard- haven't been submitted to the hospital's board of governors make facilities "immediately available" to Mrs. Yohn so she policy on voluntary sterilization of women. ous methods of birth control. jet, Mr. Grause said. can have the sterilization operation. It also seeks an injunction J5o has St, Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. The policy at Riverview has required review by a medical The new policy already has been in effect at St. Barnabas, ordering the hospitals "to cease interfering in any way with The two hospitals are named as defendants in a $500,000 fed- committee before a therapeutic abortion or sterilization could according to a spokesman there. the performance of a sterilization operation" upon Mrs. Yohn eral court suit brought by a Monmouth County couple who are be performed, according to Joseph T. Grause, a Red Bank at- The spokesman denied that St. Barnabas previously had • "and all other women seeking such an operation upon ade- challenging as unconstitutional hospital rules which limit the torney who represents that hospital. used the so-called "120 rule," as alleged in the suit. That rule, quate assurance that they freely and knowlingly give their availability of voluntary sterilization to women who seek tubal That was because the policy was a requirement for hospi- followed by some hospitals, requires that a woman's age mul- consent." ligation as a means of birth control. tal accreditation, Mr. Grause said. tiplied by the number of her live children equal or exceed 120 The suit seeks $500,000 in punitive and compensatory dam- The suit has been brought by Mr.'and Mrs. Barton Yohn, 11 He said that the Joint Committee on Accreditation of Hos- before a tubal ligation could be performed. ages arising from the birth of the Yohns' third child conceived Aberdeen Ter., New Monmouth, parents of three boys ranging pitals has changed its requirement, and so the hospital is' There aren't any statutes dealing with sterilization in New after St. Barnabas allegedly denied Mrs. Yohn the operation. in age from five to two years. It alleges that Mrs. Yohn was changing its policy, too. Jersey. It contends continuing injury as long as Mrs. Yohn is denied denied the tubal ligation by St. Barnabas and Riverview unjess Word Eliminated the operation. 0 Dr. Samuel Breslow, medical director of the Perth Amboy she was certified physically or mentally unfit to deal with the Specifically, the word "sterilization" is being eliminated Family Planning Program, told a family planning seminar The suit is the first of its kind in New Jersey. It was filed burden of another child. from the policy, Mr. Grause said. there earlier this week that Utah and Virginia are the only Monday in the U.S. District Court, Newark. India Tightening on Dacca By The Associated Press terday its forces were within The Pakistani command in ber of points. mains unchanged. conceded that the Pakistanis 28 miles of Dacca. Dacca claimed that its forces Except for the trip to Jes- "Our troops have blunted had launched major attacks in in the Dinajpur and Rangpur the full scale invasions on all the Chhamb sector, but he India said today its troops Free Areas sore, newsmen were barred areas repeatedly defied fronts," the broadcast said. made no reference to an In- have captured two more ma- Defense Minister Jagjivan from the battle zones and enemy attempts to achieve a dian government spokesman's jor towns in East Pakistan, Ram told the Indian parlia- there was no way to check the It added that claims of vic- major breakthrough. A report yesterday that Pakis- Comilla and Sylhet, and are ment that Indian troops and opposing claims. tory by India "are ridiculous spokesman claimed that, in tani forces had crossed the holding their own on the their allies in the East Pakis- Radio Pakistan, in a broad- and hardly need any denial." the Sylhet area Indian forces Tawi River and were attack- Kashmir front in the north- tani secession movement have cast today, said the military In the long disputed Hima- were pinned down at a num- See Indians Page 2 west. "freed large areas of Bangla situation in East Pakistan re- layan state of Kashmir, Ram Pakistan's eastern com- Desh from the occupying mand in Dacca, the capital of forces of Pakistan." Bangla East Pakistan, countered with Desh—the Bengali nation—is reports of fierce fighting on the name given to East Pakis- most fronts in the east and tan by the rebels and India. claimed that "enemy thrusts "The forces of our army and Seek Father in Slaying are being successfully count- ered by Pakistan troops." But the Mukti Bahini guerrillas it was still reporting fighting acting not only in concert but today in Jessore, on the west- under a unified command are em border, nearly 24 hours af- forcing the Pakistani forces to ter foreign newsmen from pull out from their strong- Of Westfield Family of 5 Calcutta visited the town and holds in confusion," Ram as- found the Pakistani army serted. By CAUSEWELL VAUGHAN gone. Ram said Comilla, south- WESTFIELD (AP) - They »f Wtpt Associated Presss corre- east of Dacca, and Sylhet, in lived in an 18-room mansion ASSAILS U.S. AND SOVIET FOR TROUpLE - spondent Peter O'Loughlin re- the northeast corner of the set back 100 feet from a nar- Chlaq Kuan-hua, Communist China's deputy for- ported that the feeling in Dac- territory, fell yesterday. He row, tree-lined street in this eign minister to the U.S., addresses session of the ca "was that the Indians, at- reported that the capture of fashionable community. They General Assembly yesterday when he blamed tacking from several direc- Rangpur and Dinajpur in the were described as members United States and Soviet Union for Middle East tions, are tightening the northwestern part of the prov- of "a very fine family," ac- crisis. noose." India claimed yes- ince was imminent. tive in community and church affairs. They were found shot to death, their decomposing bodies lending an acrid odor to the .t mustiness of their 80- year-old home. Neptune City Sets Meeting A police search has cen- tered in four states for John E. List, 46, wanted for ques- tioning in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother, wife and three children one With Stern on Sludge Issue month ago. The business executive was By SHERRV FIGft'ORK propriate legal action in fed- municipal attorney for Nep- identified by Police Chief eral District Court" if sludge tune City, said last night the James F. Moran as a definite reports of noncouperatiun J • AP Wlraphoto NEPTUNK CITY - discharge was not voluntarily suspect in the month-old from the borough are not true WIFE, THREE CHILDREN SLAIN — John E. List, 46, poses with wife Borough officials here have halted. ,, slayings yesterday. and that "special circum- and three children, who were found slain, along with List's mother, in fhe scheduled an emergency The second letter has Moran said that police had stances" requiring the remov- family's Westfield home Tuesday. Police are seeking List, who dis-. meeting on Dec. lti with U.S. brought answers of varying no clues to the reasons for the al of settling tanks in the mu- appeared a month ago, when the slayings were committed. Seated are Attorney Herbert J. Stern to types from seven of the eight slayings. nicipal sewerage system have' List, his wife, Helen, 46, and Frederick, 13. Standing are Patricia, 16, and discuss reports that Neptune towns, Jonathan I,. Goldstein, caused the uproar. Moran said the five victims John F. List, 15. City would commence dis- first assistant to Mr. Stern were discovered Tuesday charging sewerage sludge into said yesterday. "We indicated in a letter to night when police were called were evident. The body of (he ocean, next week despile Five Agree Mr. Stern's office (sent on Nov. 9. The same date report- ities have combed the house to the 18-room home by neigh- List's mother was found in a threatened legal action by the "Bay Head, Lavallett, Long Dec. 2) our intention to coop- edly appeared on a note a lo- for clues, but all other notes bors who had not seen any small room on the third floor attorney's office. Bench, Point Pleasant, and erate," the attorney said. member of the family in a cal school official said he re- found pertained only to List's of the house. ceived saying the children Twenty-two municipalities Spring Lake Heights," he "But we have an emergency month. business. Police tentatively fixed the would be absent while the in Ocean and Monmouth said, "agreed to postpone, the situation involving the Rt. 71 Victims Moran also said he was dumping until .1 a n. 17. interchange in Neptune City- date of the slayings as family took a trip south.