European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january Navy denies coverup in in data relating to Hospital in Oakland by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington Lisl the Navy has denied that 11 covered up and deliberately suppressed information contained in an is report into the deaths of seven a shortages of critical care equipment and allegations of neg i wrongdoing and malfeasance at the Oakland naval Hospital in Hie charges were levelled by former Diplomat Robert Murphy Dies in new York new York a i Robert career Diplomat and former ambassador to Belgium and is dead at age ill since suffering a stroke last died monday night Athis Park Avenue Murphy was credited with planning the Allied invasion of North Africa during world War he served in government for 41 he helped Richard Nixon select his diplomatic appointments in 1w9 and was named by the president Nixon in 1973 to head the commission on the organization of the government for the conduct of foreign about five years Murphy retired As Board chairman of coming Glass internal which he joined in 1960 after leaving full time government he is survived by two actress Rosemary Murphy and Geoffrey and a Gregory his the former Mildred died in Thomas a member of the House armed services who has been investigating the naval regional medical Center there since june vowed tuesday to take the matter to the full the Secretary of the Graham denied any wrongdoing in a letter he sent to Downey 1 am unable to concur in your assess ment of the summary and efforts by the Navy to provide information about the naval regional medical Claytor report summary the summary of the ids Claytor by could not specify every detail that was included in the full nor was it intended to do according to the intent of the summary was to convey accurately the opinions and recommendations of the i believe this was he All the substantive deficiencies that have been raised regarding Oakland shortages of equipment and morale and leadership and specific Case histories were disclosed and discussed in the Claytor Downey asserted that not Only did the Public summary differ substantially in context from the private official but the precede no of giving an official com Mittee of Congress a summary sanitized and Replete with glaring omis must be took no action according to the Navy officially knew of critical shortages at the Oak land facility As Early As september yet took no action to Correct the the new York congressman contends that the equipment shortages directly resulted in inferior patient care and May Well have contributed to the deaths of at least seven patients Over a period of sever Al the in the in admitted that those shortages compromised Over All patient care at the the Navy summarily deleted their Ini tial reference Point of september 1975 from the summary version of the distributed widely to the Public and to the and used exclusively by the military personnel subcommittee in their official probe into the according to he said that the deletion made the navys response to the problem appear to be More expeditions than in fact it really Downey said in Point of Given an extra year to be aware of this serious prob the Navy actually acted in a most irresponsible and unprofessional Downey said that in Bis mind not Only was the information but it contained other very serious on Downey had demanded an explanation concerning the omissions by the j Southwest Sophomore win tint  Anthem before the super bowl football game sunday in new Orleans ii win be Ber second appear Nice in the she Sang before a crowd of on a previous Carter to deliver state of Union address 19 Washington up president Carter will deliver his state of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on the White House said the thursday evening address before the House and Senate will come on the Day the 05th Congress convenes for its second press Secretary Jody Powell also said Carter will Send his which report edly lops the billion to Congress on the president will begin a series of Pri vate meetings with members of the Senate and House to Lay out his 197s which is expected to focus heavily on Pas Sage of his Energy legislation and the pressing problems of the White House officials confirmed reports that the administration plans to expand its current Public service jobs aides assessing the results of Carters seven nation journey said the the tour is beginning to show they cited the visit of the Shah of Ranlo Egypt to give support to president Anwar Sadat peace they also noted Brit ish prime minister James Callaghan announcement of significant Progress in efforts to win India acquiescence to inter National inspection of us nuclear facilities if an agreement is reached on a comprehensive test by by the United the soviet Union and barter had urged India to accept Safe guards As a condition of More purchases of enriched uranium from the 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