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Show W 8 The kWy3B .ii Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, September ," 15, 1973 No Compromise Visible in Jr. New York Times Water President WASHINGTON By Warren Weaver - Nixon and Archibald Cox, the Justice Departments special prosecutor, failed to make any visible progress Friday toward an compromise of their dispute over the Watergate tape recordings, as proposed by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The White House declined all comment on the courts Part of the problem d cen- tered on a difference of opinion among lawyers as to what the Court of Appeals had recommended, in its effort to avert a constitutional confron authonties said this necessarily implied a prelimi Some Heart Devices Fail, Senate Panel Told i WASHINGTON (AP) In- - federal controls allow the sale and use in the United States of inoperative or ineffective medical devices, including heart pacemakers and respirators, witnesses told a Senate committee Friday f ; Artificial heart valves failed, '.heart pacemakers caused er- ; ratic heartbeats, oxygen cylin- ders leaked and a respirator ! was built on a design that re- ; wouldnt work, witnesses to Senate the health ported I subcommittee studying legisla- . tation in the Supreme Court. memorandum In a unanimously adopted Thursday, seven judges of the court proposed that Nixon submit portions of the tapes to Cox and the Presidents own lawAlan Prof. Charles yer, Wright, for the two men to examine and transmit, in part or in whole, to the Watergate grand jury. suggestion that the President voluntarily give Cox a role in screening the tapes. The special prosecutors office reported no contact Friday with the Nixon legal staff in response to Thursdays proposal. Lawyers Differ adequate i Carmichael : : Tape Screening Dispute Nixon-Co- x nary screening of the tapes by the President. Others, noting that the court observed that both lawyers would have to be satisfied with the portions made available, maintained that Cox would have the nght to participate in any initial censonng. The first view seemed to be supported by the courts statement that its solution of the dispute would follow the Presidents legal position that he alone should decide what is President Points Out 'Art Treasures9 to Council WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon gave 18 members of the prestigious National Council on the Arts a tour of his office Friday, and pointed out some of the art there. He wound up leading them to what he termed the finest piece of art work in the A crewel work repoffice, lica of the seal of the United States that was done by his daughter Julie Eisenhower ag a symbol of her faith in her fathers election in 1968. Heres one little girl who never lost faith, the President said, pointing out that there were many persons who didnt think he could make it to the presidency. K? DH M PH necessarily privileged should not be furnished and the grand jury." The second interpretation depends on the court's declaration that we contemplate an examination of the tapes by the chief executive or his delegate, assisted by both his own counsel . . . and the special prosecutor." The Cox staff, not surprisingly, read the Court of Appeals memorandum as rec the prosecutors presence at any examination of the tape recordings at which part of their contents was ruled to be not available to the grand jury. ommending No Unlimited Right It appeared extremely un- likely that Cox would agree to any compromise tht gave the President an unlimited nght to delete from the tapes or transenptions whatever material he regarded as privileged. 191 IMiDO gbumhi tion to regulate such devices. Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, head of the Health Research Group, a Washington-base- r-- consumer d organization, said the group uncovered four deaths since February in which failures of a structural element in one companys heart valves were involved. Based on the manufacturers records, he said, almost two peicent, or 28 of the 1,500 patients who have had the valve implanted in the last two years, might possibly de- -' velop medical problems, al- though these troubles would not necessarily lead to death Wolfe said the manufacturer had tried to notify surgeons who might implant the valve, but hadnt adequately notified other doctors who might treat patients using the device. i . Inspects Valves Food and Drug Administration officials said the manufacturer, Travenol LaboratOT ries, Inc., of Morton Grove, 111., last spring voluntarily inspected all the valves that had left the factory but not been Implanted. Those found defective were replaced. But FDA spokesmen said it couldnt immediately be determined If letters about possible defective valves already implanted had been sent to doctors other than heart surgeons using the Travenol valve. Travenol officials said Friday they would have no com ment until Wolfes testimony had been studied. Three bills to require premarket testing and clearance powers are before the Senate. has legislation Regulatory been sought in various forms, generally without success, in the past 10 years. Dr. Joel J. Nobel, head of S0 the Emergency Care in PhiladelResearch Institute phia, Pa., said his organization, testing 30,000 medical devices in the past five years, found: - Tribune Washington Bureau . WASHINGTON Rep. Gunn McKay, has " named a house conferee . on the annual appropriations bills for the Interior Depart- ment and related agencies. , ' Conferees iron out differen- ces between the Senate and House bills. - , .' 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