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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april inmates give up after 11hour uprising up convicts armed with knives and Kitchen utensils released the Warden and 21 other hostages they had held during a bloody 11hour prison uprising after police threatened to storm the maximum Security sixteen people were including at least two who were beaten unconscious by rampaging inmates at Clair state prison Warden Larry was hospitalized with a facial laceration and possible broken Deputy Warden Jerry Mur and two other prison employees were beaten unconscious and hospitalized with More serious Alabama corrections commissioner Fred who flew to the modern prison after the riot erupted monday gave the convicts an ultimatum shortly before i told them my patience was running Short and i would not go past Smith 1 had been giving them a 10minute then a 5minute the last time 1 told them this would be the last deadline and we would be going that when they started releasing hundreds of state swat teams and of duty guards rushed inside the barbed wiretapped Walls to prevent escapes and were prepared to storm the cell blocks before the Aerial photo of Clair state prison in a photo convicts George Wallace put the National guard on the lawmen were lashed by a violent thunderstorm that pelted them with blackened the sky and spawned at least two tornadoes in the those injured during the siege at the 2 year old facility in Rural Woodlands 25 Miles East of Birmingham included nine employees and seven the 22 hostages released monday night included 10 Smith said none of the women was seriously about 200 most of them in the prisons g armed themselves with baseball Broom handles and other weapons and took control of the two Story Brick prison at after the guards confiscated a trash can full of including a Caliper Derringer that Smith said one in mate fired at another who wanted to release the the shot that when we knew we were wearing them Down when they started fighting among Smith before returning to their the convicts were allowed to make a videotape out lining complaints about late night searches and failure to control Homo sexual they had a list of demands ranging from wanting to grow beards and Long hair to getting More Freedom inside the Smith one prison worker said the convicts wrecked the Kitchen and set a Small fire shortly after the rioting five including were released by the inmates monday morning after being beaten and Cut by the monday after several hours of 17 employees who had been hiding All Day were allowed to leave unharmed and 15 convicts surrendered after breaking into the pharmacy and taking some two inmates were hospitalized for drug sub builder denies keeping 2 sets of books the Gener Al dynamics top financial officer monday denied under oath that the company kept two sets of books on Navy submarine projects during the 1970s in an Effort to mask Cost but a congressional subcommittee re leased company documents that Wil Liam said demonstrated that general dynamics electric boat Divi Sion at had maintained sep Arate accounting systems while building 688class attack Gordon who was general manager of electric boat from May 1976 to october 1977 and who is now corporate vice president for told the joint economic subcommittee on International Trade that the company had never Given the Navy either a delivery schedule or a Cost estimate that did not represent senior managers Best while acknowledging that company files contained records showing widely different estimates on the submarine Mac Donald maintained that these were a result of different people working from different perspectives and operating on different As he maintained that these documents did not amount to a second official set of Proxmire was not your Deni als just dont he among the files released by the subcommittee was a june 1976 report by a member of electric boats Industrial engineering the report concluded that costs on the 688 program were out of control and that the Groton shipyard had two separate cos accounting asked about these conclusions by prox Macdonald in a Large Cor there Are people who have judgments that Are not necessarily he added that the report represented Only the analysts not that of the top general dynamics built 18 of the 688 class the last one was delivered 46 months behind schedule in Decem Ber the Navy paid billion for the Summa including about billion in Cost Over runs and million in settlement of claims filed by the company to recover on april 2 the International Trade sub committee and the Senate judiciary sub committee on administrative practice re leased a staff study of some general dynamics documents related to the submarine work and the the study found that general dynamics had kept two sets of records about employee work hours and de livery schedules for the with holding from the Navy those records that would have raised greater concerns about contract Macdonald denied monday that the claims were fraudulent or that senior Man agers had masked overruns to keep the company Stock from Richard the joint economic committees general said monday that Proxmire would give the company Doc staff study and Macdonald Testi Mony to the Justice the documents support conclusions that there were two sets of records and that re ports to the Navy contained false inform Kaufman there Are also contradictory statements involving Macdonald interpretation of what the documents Kaufman stopped Short of saying that Macdonald or other company officials might have committed theres no Way anybody at this Point could make a judgment about he Goetz will ask for funds in newspaper ads new York a Bernhard whose Legal fees stemming from his shooting of four teenagers on a Manhattan subway could exceed plans to run ads in major newspapers to raise according to a published Joseph one of Getzs said the Cost of preparing the Case against four counts of attempted Mur Der and other charges will surpass Goetz had received hundreds of unsolicited contributions following his surrender to new Hampshire authorities for the 22 and they Are in a special defense he said the fund is not sufficient to meet his i want to thank everybody who made a we Are very Goetz told the new York but it is necessary that we make another in addition to the criminal charges against two of his victims have filed civil suits seeking a total of million in who has turned Down several offers for books or movies about his told the Post i dont want to do anything that would exploit this Kelner would not give the Post a figure for the amount of contributions Goetz has already but called it insufficient Nickels and there was no word from Goetz or his lawyers on what newspapers would be running the car maker John de Lorean made a similar Appeal for Public contributions to offset his Legal costs in a highly publicized drug morphine overdose leaves in coma up an 84year old Man was in a coma at Auburn memorial Hospital after being injected with 10 times the Correct dosage of Doc tors Thomas an internist treating Carl Smith of said Smiths medical charts show that a nurse mistakenly gave him 30 milligrams of morphine thursday instead of the prescribed 3 Milli the morphine was prescribed Foy Walter Prokopiw of Weedsport after Smith arrived at the Hospital suffering from fluid in his Prokopiw said the morphine caused Smith to go into an apparently irreversible Hospital administrator Andrew Walker would say Only that a patient had a medi cation error out would when asked if Smith will Maher i dont think Hes not done very Maher said Smith was Given injections to counter the morphine but 4hey did not make a substantial difference in his Condi he said Smith is not on a Respirator but is being fed through intravenous tubes because he cannot he said he believes Smith will have further respiratory prob the poor nurse Here is ready to have a nervous Maher think it was a mistake and we can All make mis Hospital officials have refused to identify the nurse who gave the a retired Auto bad been hospitalized for five Days last month for treatment of Maher said Smith had refused to Complete the treatment and left the Marjory sheets of Smiths told the Syracuse pos Stan Dard that Smith had signed himself out of the Hospital because he Felt doctors haunt done anything for she said the family is considering Legal Smiths injection was the latest in a series of medication errors involving Hospital a on physicians at the Albany medical Center Hospital improperly injected a cancer treating drug into the spine of Lillian who lapsed into a who was months preg Nant at the Cave birth March 16 to a baby the infant died last tuesday and Cedeno remains comatose and in critical Miami Herald photographer Bob East died March 6 after being mistakenly injected with a toxic chemical in the operating room at a Florida  
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