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...This change of emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis. Tucson Surgeon Jack Copeland, who helped pioneer the use of an artificial heart as a temporary measure, judged the Jarvik-7 "a monstrous thing that does awful things to people." The longer it remains in a patient, he said, "the more likely you're going to have trouble...
...effect, the nationwide so-called Sanctuary Movement will also be standing trial in Tucson. To date, the campaign has arranged for the housing of an estimated 3,000 Central American refugees in 270 congregations from San Jose to Boston. This activity has not only produced a tense and continuing church-state conflict, it has also disturbed some religious conservatives who accuse Sanctuary of exploiting the refugees for political motives...
...Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly. Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these Central American immigrants are deported to their native countries, they are often punished severely. Says Jim Corbett, a Quaker and Sanctuary co-founder, who is among those on trial in Tucson: "We are facing jail, but they are the ones facing torture, murder and violation of their human rights...
...asylum to 503 Salvadorans. In the same year agents apprehended 18,920 and deported 3,890, but thousands more remain while they complete the appeals process. By contrast, in the same year 45 Soviets were granted asylum and 43 were refused. Judge Earl Carroll, who is presiding at the Tucson trial, has already announced that he will not allow any defense based upon religious or political beliefs. Says Prosecuting Attorney Donald Reno: "It's going to be tried as an alien-smuggling case, not as a referendum on U.S. policy in Central America...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service gathered evidence for the Tucson trial during a nine-month operation dubbed "Sojourner," in which informants joined church meetings and sometimes even participated in transporting fugitives. An ecumenical coalition is pressing a civil suit, which will be heard in December in San Francisco, against INS Commissioner Alan Nelson and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, charging that government prosecutions interfere with Sanctuary workers performing their religious duties. Says Fife: "This is the first time in the history of our nation that the Government has acknowledged under oath that it has infiltrated church worship services and Bible study...