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Show Thursday, Farewell Given New Jersey High Court Rules Karen Has Right to Die If . Karen, who was 120 pounds before she was felled last April 16 by a combination of drugs and alcohol, now is only 60 pounds and lies in a fetal By MIKE AVENENT1 TRENTON. N.J. (UPI) -Karen Ann Quinlan's father visited his comatose daughter's bedside today, his first visit since the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that she has the right to die if her doctors affirm she can never recover. Joseph Quinlan, who had fought since last July to have his adopted daughter removed from her life - sustaining respirator, left his modest home in Roxbury and paid his daily visit to her hospital position. Paul Armstrong, the Quinlan family lawyer, said today that several legal matters must be resolved before any action would be taken to disconnect the respirator and end the woman's life. Armstrong said he first wanted to determine whether any of the parties to the case the state, the county, and bedside. Absorbed by ConRail (UPI) even bankrupt railroads cluding the giant Penn Central faded into history today, absorbed by a government-plannecorporation charged with creating one profitable svstem. 'At 12:01 a.m. EST, the hundreds of freight trains moving throughout the East and Midwest on the bankrupt lines became ConRail freights, no longer the property of Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Jersey Central, Reading, Lehigh Valley. Lehigh & Hudson Rjver or Ann Arbor, whose names now exist only in court suits and history books. Some 2,034 miles of active railroad was abandoned at midnight. Most of it lightly used branch line, it also included the Erie Lackawanna main line from Mansfield, which Ohio, to Chicago, paralleled the Penn Central. Several shops also were closed, including the EL shops at Marion, Ohio, and the LV shops at Sayre. Pa . as ConRail consolidated repair work in Altnona.Pa For accounting purposes, the roads were frozen at 12 01. All revenues and expenses before that hour are the responsibility after that are the responsibility in- of ConRail. If ConRail succeeds and it will becomes profitable, to total return eventually private control. If not, railroad d nationalization appears inevitable. The disastrous Penn Central prompted bankruptcy to die" in hopeless cases. "We won't do anything if any an party is considering appeal." Armstrong said. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a respirator which has kept hc Asylum MANIIA estates; all of the bankrupt -S- - Sought In Embassy 7 Bankrupt Railroads PHILADELPHIA doctors and the planned to appeal hospital the unanimous landmark decision, which held that a patient may exercise a "right Karen's Congress to create ConRail. Months of intensive planning The Philippines Former Philippine (LPIl President Diosdado Macapagal sought asylum in the U.S. embassy today to avoid arrest for his book calling for the military to end the "lawless dictatorship" of President Ferdinand Marcos, a Macapagal spokesman .said. Embassy spokesmen refused to confirm the report. But a press release from Macapagal's office said he had . . Quinlan alive for nearly a year may be turned off if doctors and a hospital ethics committee find there is "no reasonable possibility" of her recovery. "We don't consider this a victory." said Karen's mother, Julia, through her tears. "We are going to lose our daughter. But this is the way we want our daughter's life to end." Karen's parents, both Roman Catholics, told a news conference they would consult doctors today about a medical panel acceptable to the ethics committee of St Clare's Hospital. Karen has lain there in a coma, bent into a fetal position, her weight reduced from 120 to 60 pounds, since April 15, 1975, independence of the Federal it Election Commission created, has voted to give Congress greater control over future decisions of the suspended agency. Today the House planned to 4ade other major issues it hoped during its third and last day of work on a bill aiming at least yimi' aspects of the federal election law campaign These issues include extending public financing tucongres skwwI races, limiting the creation of corporate and union political committees and deridto scrap all ing whether pnpised changes in the election law in favor of simply reconstituting the membership of the FEC lo meet Supreme Court objections. When the House completes its alion. the bill goes to a House Senate conference to compromise some major differences in the two versions Final congressional pawgi" and lrrsidcnl Ford s signature 011 wtuld lie required to put the FKC back into the business of disbursing funds lo presidential candidates The key vole Wednesday was 3ft to IH to uphold a sertion neijuirmg the FEC to make alt AdviMcy pmins into regulations and allow a congressional vrto of e. hone The House did modify its nrwly mfl veto power by tilr4 Trmprtjtu'r IY tv4 lutrftalnttri wipit ;W om h.ci IT MU,m Alia t QrSr IblKfJwii Hutvitik St t Justice II Ititt.fl .1 iwuio (Wl.ir willful" ihw Onrimirfi violation requirement UwimiIIt k'T(,hi m all that MiK-itl- Ifellit Mnf tMt W HH M IVf ill XI SH 2J lpta Un k Mr,j,,i Knw 1 iiti VfgM m tt, U of only ihe graveside. But before then, he belonged to the nation and to the world he helped save in World War II. Richard salute of 19 guns boomed as the coffin was borne through the streets of this city and under the towering battlements of the castle on a gun carrian?. funeral services reserved for its greatest war A out heroes. m commemorate the . 1976 Police said the 50mm antiairin was made gun Syracuse, N Y. and was a type widely used by Canadian and American troops in World War II combat. at midday most European Salt Like City man died at the University Medical Center Tuesday night, about one hour after he was shot apparently during an argument. City police detectives identified the victim as Lewis T. Perry. An autopsy w as scheduled for Ihe When the rear doors of the van parked in front of the truck were kicked open, revealing the loaded gun. the Brink's surrendered driver money but gold opened five higher in Umdon at to "1 M Til W W cents hijackers The three guards on the Brink's pickup run were in the bank at Ihe time. an ounce, and was uiKlianged in Zurich at $1'.)9 62. Easter Treat Specials in ZCMI Candy & Bakery today to determine the exact cause of death Perry was apparently shot in Ihe chest with a small caliber handgun. Detectives said a wound over his right eyebrow may also have Urn caused by a bullet . Police were looking for a male assailant witnesses spotted leaving the sene. The shooting at 8 10 p nv occurred near the victim's caslside residence A neighbor sud IVrry at first followed his assailant, but then returned and collapsed on Ihe man's front lawn. 'J m 11,1 mi! .J l 2 M I II Ml M II M on Oic l jfl V M U I? 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The pound's previous low was March 10 when it touched $1 9085. (Xher bankers attributed the renewed pressure on the pound to reports that Middle East oil nx'n were pulling out of pounds and going into West German Mark and French francs. "Selling of pounds has appeared from all quarters, The quickened selling of sterling, once the world's strongest currency, was attributed to a wildcat strike that has idled 17,000 workers of British Leyland Motor Corp.. the nation's top automaker and exporter, threatening to halt all production at the Birmingham theft armed craft New Beating in Mart - The (UPI i took British pound beleaguered an unprecedented beating on exchanges money foreign today, dropping for the first time below $1 90. to opposed robbery in North American history ornired Oct. 10, 1974 when $4.3 million was stolen from the vault of Puralator Security Inc., in Chicago. British Pound Takes LONDON cash The largest as Summer Olympics. The hijack more than doubled the previous armed Bank of England buying efforts toftmrrn Sn ki U J HuhmnTxl M tr.n(. iv..ii,iu private - 'J 7 lttillii hiiit-- I I rairtwmk ri HHlr I'miUhI. ntiUn4 i; II u S""i im II i1 requested the burials, with his immediate family at specifically must . . .in time for its role SAUSAGE. For many families everywhere, breakfast or brunch on Easter morning is a happy event. This smoked sausage can be served in several ways usually with eggs, hash brown potatoes or pancakes. It may be featured later in the day, too. The flavor is outstanding, and delightful. You'll be complimented for making the social part of Easter more interesting. H I,., 72 it SI V','', ft u Orwiind Jean-Claud- e :' ... an i ""' (Miami iHjh..m iMpK, 71 U ft lrr M, II )l e in North record America. The famed 1950 raid on the Brink's offices in Boston, Mass., netted thieves $2.77 million, of which $1,218 million was in cash. Eight men were sentenced to life in prison for that robber)-- of candidates lile campaign in their home states as wHI as with the FKC m SH 88. 29 age robbery S.1-II- ' k 70 gangs" and there may be some raids on underworld haunts as police try to get a lead on the five "highly professional" thieves, who carried out the heist with militarylike precision Tuesday. Brinks Canada Ltd., revealed Wednesday after an all night count that the bandits had netted $2 8 million in small unmarked bills ..nd a small number of coins struck lo contribution limits, and to add the possibility of a year in prison for such violations Hy a vole, it adopted an amendment lo keep a 1 "wunllr I The House also decided lo maintain Ihe ailing of $100 per person on cash contributions to a candidate, to lower to $1,000 the threshold for criminal ' prosecution for a know mg and K 2 - The (UPI investigation into the biggest cash robbery in North American history was centered today on the American-madantiaircraft gun used to hijack a Brink's truck and its $2 8 million cash cargo. "We have a few leads we must follow, but there is nothing firm at this time." said Rondou, Inspector in charge of the city police force's Criminal Investigation Bureau. Ronuou added police are "cheeking different types of MONTREAL police 42-4- V l yew-tre- Hughes wrote. "We have no hesitancy in deciding that no external compelling interest of trie state could compel Karen to endure the unendurable, only to vegetate a few measurable months with no realistic possibility of returning to any semblantt of cognitive or sapient life." He added. "The ensuing death would not be homicide lr i l 7? ( - r,f Then his body was taken in a hearse to the little cemetery of the !2th century Church of the Holy Cross in the hamlet of Blasted near his country home in Hampshire and interred la the shade of a he often admired. The old soldier, who had preferred to live a solitary life until his death eight days ago at dignity." Chief WINDSOR, Utah-P- Investigation Into $2.8 Million Robbery Continues honor. oarty. "This was the decision we've been praying for from the time we entered the courts." said Joseph Quinlan in announcing his move to obtain the approval to let his daughter "die with Aboard Viplf Mm4 !iU U'Jf 14 U' m I'wi'k lw mdinc al I m Jinnju'H ht Ihr VtfMrul Wfmhrt vnirr in Sn Mn - apparently mixing alcohol and barbituates at a sought asylum "following reby the U.S. Railway ports from a dependable source and ConRail s that his arrest was imminent Association "activation teams" went into on 'concocted grounds' because the takeover and the of his persistence in asking for the convening of the interim rehabilitation schedule. ConRail has been granted $2 assembly and to 'frighten billion of federal funds, but supporters' of his proposal." The press release quoted most of its money must come from its own operations which Macapagal as saying he sought but rather expiration from it hopes will begin turning a refuge in the embassy because existing natural causes." it "is preferable to an unlawful The court said doctors who profit after 1979. arrest by an authoritarian originally refused theQuinlans' ConRail operates a basic government tandi because of request to remove the respira17.000 mile system plus about my conviction that the United tor may feel differently 3.100 hundred of light density Slates remains as the hope and because "we assume that she is branch lines which the states haven of liberty and protection now even more fragile and federal of human picked to receive rights to freedom nearer to death." subsidies. loving peoples " If they still disagree, the The system stretches from In a book entitled "Democracourt said, her father may find Uie Eastern seaboard and cy in the Philippines," other southern Canada to the Ohio acceptable doctors "w ho Macapagal. 65. called on the a different view ." take and Missouri Rivers, and is the may armed forced to step in to end dominant railroad in the East Quinlan told reporters he martial law if Marcos does not wanted the respirator disconIt carries about one fourth of either call elections or convene nected in the presence of Ihe the nation's total rail freight the interim national assembly. family and their priest. Copies of the book were sent State Attorney General Wilto Marcos and to members of liam I lyland called the decision the foreign press earlier in the "highly compassionate'' and day. Macapagal was president said an appeal to the U.S from 1961 to I9ft5 Court was unlikely. Supreme After a scathing indictment The state supreme court of of Marcos declaration overruled a superior court law as a "naked limiting it to advisory opinions martial decision thai to allow Miss of "general applicability." usurpation of power and Quinlan lo die would be wrote homicide. Rep. Bill Fraud. R Minn., authority," Macapagal had attempted to eliminate the that Marcos should hold a "real martial veto power. But Rep. Wayne plebiscite without law convene the interim of the Hays. OOhio. chairman Ayres assembly op hold elections for House Administration CommitlloIJ.YWOOl) tlTli-Ix- -w tee which wTote the bill, the regular national Am--s will play former CIA .assembly." insisted on it. If not. he says. "The people director Allen Dulles in "The Krciucl said congressional should not and by God's grace Francis Gary Powers Story." control would weaken the will not tolerate his forcible and Majors in the title starring irdptndenoe of the FEC. Havs law less dictatorship " role. said that's what w as needed, to avuid giving the commission "the power lo rewrite the law " The House adopted another Fmuel amendment, by lo eliminate a proposed shield for Ihe staffs of federal officeholders U'fl alone. Ihe bill would have allowtxl the officeholder lo bar FEC investigations of whether his staff member w as working illegally on a campaign by certifying that he or .she was performing regularly assigned duties Temperature Readings Across the Country H England (UPI) Britain today gave Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery a funeral befitting one of its greatest war heroes but he was buried as privately as he chose to live once his days of military glory were over. The nation said farewell to the victor of the battle of El Alamein, credited with turning the tide in favor of the allies in World War II. in Royal St. George's Chapel with dignitaries civil and military from many countries to pay him after Decisions Seen Today On Federal Vote Law WASHINGTON (LTD -- The House, in reaction against the To xMonty' Miss comatose April 1, 1976, THE HERALD, Provo, btillrtmilK or trrmh brriiit. iibiIhW i:c ai.io |