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Baby Fae's Battle Ends Winchester opponents ^Prudence Crandall house Play Bingo finally get their say has taught many lessons and win cash ... page 4 ... page 11 ... page 2 f Cloudy tonight; Manchester, Conn. breezy Saturday Friday. Nov. 16, 1984 — see page 2 M p r a I J i Single copy: 25C ■"s None take Her kidney falls credit ,fgr flooding Baby Fae’s By Tracy U. Geoehegan Herald Reporter Five days after flooding caused the evacuation of apartments in battle ends The Olcott building, the responsi- bilty for the financial losses of 11 Bv Sheila Grissett-Welsh families still has not been United Press International determined. Thomas Amato, the attorney LOMA LINDA, Calif. - Baby , representing one tenant who suf­ Fae, the infant whose three-week fered heavy losses from water battle to survive with the trans­ damages, said Thursday he be­ planted heart • of a baboon en­ lieves the primary blame belongs thralled the world, died after her to J4 L Industries of Niantic, the kidneys failed and the tiny heart firm that was repairing the roof at quit pumping, doctors said. the time of the leak. The 32-da'y-old infant, who had Amato claimed that the roofers her fatally detective heart re­ apparently opened up more of the placed with one from a 7-month-old roof than they could finish last baboon Oct, 26 in a historic week, so they left it covered with experimental operation that was plastic over the weekend. both praised and criticized, died at Heavy rains Sunday dislodged 9 p.m. PST Thursday at Utma the temporary cover, saturated Linda University Medical Center. the roof and leaked into apart­ The hospital said her parents ments, according to Manchester were with her "as much as Chief Building Inspector Russell possible” during the"* days her Davidson. body’s immune system tried to An insurance adjuster on the UPl photo destroy the foreign organ. scene Thursday estimated there Doctors who had been battling a may be $100,000 worth of damage The shuttle Discovery touches down at crew returned with two satellites "moderate rejection episode” with Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canav­ to the complex at 40 Olcott St. retrieved from space which will be powerful anli-rejection drugs they •BABY FAE' Records filed in the town clerk’s eral, Fla. shortly after dawn today. The repaired and launched into orbit again. knew could damage her blood office say the building, formerly purification^ system, said t'he . lived 32 days known as Marilyn Court Apart­ baby’s kidneys began to fail about who was separated from Ih t ments, was purchased in Sep­ noon, and they put her on dialysis carpenter husband just before the tember by an East Hartford firm to mechanically replace the kidney birth, took her infant home after called Olcott Associates. Members Discovery crew makes function. doctors at a Barstow,xT;ilif., of the partnership are listed as the But the walnut-siz^d heart that hospital told her the defect would Clinton Equity Corp., attorney had pumped away faithfully since kill the child within u month. , Craig F. White, and Ronald being Implanted three weeks ago, « A lew day* later, the mother -— SELF Seplowitz, gave out, despite doctors’ attempts whose identity was a closely White could hot be reached for to massage it through the baby’s guarded secret — was introduced a triumphant return tiny chest. comment this morning. Patricia to Dy. Ia;onard Bailey, who had Ruggerio, manager of the build­ Doctors detected the rejection workbdi; for several years on r.w. attempt last Friday and began ing, would not comment Thursday Bv William Harwood in orbit to launch two communica- damage. cross-species transplants involv­ giving Baby Fae increased doses when she was approached by a United Press thternatlonal tions satellites and rescue the Discovery knifed into the upper ing sheep and goats. of the anti-rejection drugs and put reporter at her office. stranded Westar and Palapa relay atmosphere 477,000 feet over Ha- Friends of the woman told 1! her back on the respirator she had John Laverdure of Niantic, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - stations during a pair of spectacu- waii at 25 times the speed of sound, reporters she decided to let Bailey grown strong enough two weeks contractor for J&L Industries, also, Heralded by twin sonic booms, the lar spacewalks by Allen and and the heat generated by atmos- perform the experimental opera­ was unavailable this morning. ago to abandon. shuttle Discovery swooped to a Gardner. pheric friction quickly blacked out tion to save her baby’s life. Thursday morning, doctors had lU f II M * fo igotn Roofers were at work on the dawn landing at the Kennedy Never before have satellites radio communications In Barstow, where the baby was said the dark-haired, 5-pound building Thursday afternoon. Tenk Space Center today with two been plucked from orbit and "Lots of pink stuff outside the born, owners of a neighborhood '^LSI infant was showing signs of recov­ foot piles of wet carpetinu| rescued satellites nestled in its returned to Earth and Discovery’s windows, ” Hauck said a few bar and restaurant. The Back ering from the expected rejection. stripped from the building's floors?^ ‘ cargo bay in history's first space mission dei^nstrated a capability minutes before the shuttle went W reh, said Baby I'a c’s mother lay beside dumpsters in the salvage mission. no other nation can match. into the blackout phase of the “ Although her immunological was frightened for her child and parking lot along with other With the early morning sun The satellites, which still con- flight, studies had not changed signifi­ overwhelmed by the attention her cantly, her heart became unstable water-drenched household items. glinting off Discovery’s wings, tained a small amount of danger- The speeding glider’s ground situation was receiving. and failed to respond to intensive Several abandoned apartments commander Frederick Hauck and ous hydrazine rocket fuel, were track cut across northern Mexico Bailey told the AmericiMl Medi­ Loiixfil measures, including closed car­ on the third floor were left .open to co-pilot David Walker banked the tucked inside Discpvery’s 60-foot- the southern tips of Texas and cal News in a copyright iqferview 'air out, but puddles of rusty water diac massage,” a statement from 104-ton shuttle across the space­ long payload bay on special Louisiana and out over the Gulf of published Thursday he believed remained on the floors of the units. the hospital said. port and glided to a picture-perfect cradles, Mexico before crossing the west Baby Fae could live 20 years Davidson said Thursday he touchdown at*7 a.m. EST on the It appears we have no problems coast of Florida The baby’s 23-year-old mother. without further surgery believes the ceilings, floors and 3-mile-long runway. with the two satellites inside the When the shuttle broke out of electrical wiring in the apartments VIDEO "Wheels stopped," Hauck cargo bay ’ said NASA spokesman radio blackout south of Houston, it are drying out. He said as long as ^ported. James Ball. was racing along at more than ll there is no more rain, no more CAMERA’S "Roger, wheels stopped, looked Hauck guided Discovery to a times the speed of sound and Towh 4th-grader THE BEST apartments are likely to be de­ like an’ OK pass all the way,” precision 224-mph landing right on dropping like a rock on its clared uninhabitable. BRANDS,... replied Dick Richards in mission the centerline of the huge runway. precisely controlled glide slope ■" AT THE Amato’s client, Virginia Boyett, control in Houston. Technicmns quickly swarmed A NASA spokesman said ob- lost bedroom furniture, most of her Hauck, Walker and crewmates U M b e s t around thejetlmer-sized spaceship servers in the Houston area wiH light festival clothes and all her food when water Anna Fisher, Dale Gardner and to make sure no toxic fumes were reported spotting the diving shut- PRICES. leaked through the roof, causing Joseph Allen climbed out of the in the area. tie as it raced across the predawn Bv Sarah E. Hall part of the ceiling to collapse onto spaceship at 7:42 a.m. to a smiling Discovery s wheels stopped 2.800 sky. Herald Reporter her bed, she said. red-carpet welcome from ground feet short of the end of the The Westar and Palapa com- ‘‘It's a good thing she wasn’t crews before entering their "astro- 15,000-foqt-long runway. Televi- munications satellites that make Shawn Larson, a fourth-grader sleeping when it happened or she’d van” trailer to leave the runway. Sion views showed shimmering up Discovery’s precious cargo Buckley School, will turn on be buried under there,” Amato It was only the third Florida heat waves radiating away from were sent into useless orbits in Friday than he said. landing in 14 shuttle missions and the shuttle’s main landing gear. February by rocket failures Probably will for the rest of his life. Boyett said most of the other the last shuttle flight for the year. r tenants she knows whc were Previous shuttle landings have shortly after their release from the Because his name was pulled in a The astronauts spent eight days been marked by serious brake shuttle Challenger.-^ random drawing, Shawn will flick affected have also contacted lawy­ ‘ “ the switch turning on 50,000 tiny I TERMS: ers. She said even apartments on AQU the first floor were damage!^ One life term or more? Festival of Light in Hartford.
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