European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july accused surgeon reportedly was praised patients Kin recall talks with Navy probe Leader by Norman Black Washington a the Navy Admiral who has been overseeing the malpractice investigation of Donal Billig told relatives of one of Billigs patients last fall that he was a Fine surgeon who would provide the Best of the relatives the Rose Genevieve died on the operating the recollection of her relatives conversations with rear William Mcdermott chief of the naval medical raises questions about the extent of Mcdermott knowledge about Billig and whether he had an occasion to personally Check the surgeons Mcdermott declined to discuss the matter with a re ten other Navy officers Are facing disciplinary or have already been for accepting those credentials As who now faces a court martial on four involuntary manslaughter counts and 28 lesser lost his privileges at a Hospital in Mon before joining the the Navy has also Learned that Billigs vision is Joanne daughter of and her Hus Thomas said they discussed Billigs abilities with Sims underwent open heart sur Gery on less than two months before Billigs privileges at the Bethesda naval Hospital were sus Pended because of doubts about his surgical compete Sims died after 12 hours on the operating table under circumstances that we always thought were said Thomas they told us she died of intractable he they said every time they tried to take her off the hear lung the stitches  if they had thought her heart was so bad that veins  be Why would they do it asked the four manslaughter counts on which Billig is to be tried do not involve the Navy released a Brief statement late Friday say ing Only that Mcdermott recalled having visited Sims before surgery at the Bilbo and that he reassured a Navy Steve said he could not elaborate on the statement and did not know if Mcdermott had discussed Billigs qualifications with the Bilbo before the the Navy confirmed that Billig had operated on Sims and that Mcdermott had known Bilbo for More than 25 the couple said in two interviews they assumed that Mcdermott because he was a family Friend personally knew Billig and his work and was not just offer ing general words of i talked to Mcdermott a couple Days before the and he assured us Billig was a Good Thomas Bilbo he said Hes a Fine sur Hes the dont worry about Shell get the Best of Joanne Bilbo also said Billig had talked to her Mother before the operation and told her he had never lost a when i asked to see some statistics on his a he said that  do any Good because patients came into the operating room in different she we just never thought that she would according to a formal court martial the charges against Billig say by culpable unlawfully killed four two before Sims sur Gery and two after the Date of her the charge Sheet was released last thursday after Mcdermott formally convened a lineman Board of Gen eral court martial to consider Billigs it was also Mcdermott who recommended disciplinary sanctions against the other on june when reporters asked Why the Chain of disciplinary actions stopped below the Navy responded while Comnas Melcom Mcdermott exercises Overall guidance in the operation of the medical it is the responsibility of the individual commands to follow published the culpability and responsibility within a command rests with that within the navys the Bethesda naval hos Pital the services premiere medical at be outside Washington is considered a sep Arate is scheduled to retire this summer after More than 20 years of Active duty Rofeh workers have Bright to Walesa tells crowd after Gdansk mass Warsaw a Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa told thousands of cheering churchgoers in Gdansk sunday that work ers have the right to but he avoided a direct endorsement of Calls for a on hour strike speaking Over loudspeakers from the Steps of a Church rectory following a roman Catholic made it Clear he could not publicly Back the strike Calls be cause of a prosecutors warning he risks arrest if he continues making antigovernment people should understand that i am not afraid to go to Walesa but these Are Walesa was interrupted several times by cheers and the mass was attended by an estimated worshippers in the Northern City that was the Birthplace of the first Independent labor federation in the soviet the mass was offered for the workers at the Lenin shipyard in Solidarity was declared illegal while martial Law was in effect in Poland Between 1981 and the Solidarity underground has called on workers nationwide to strike for one hour monday to protest increases in the Cost of meat and meat products imposed by the communist the averaging 1015 go into effect Mon Walesa read from a statement he issued last wednesday in which he said Price in creases without compensating pay raises place an unfair Burden on the backs of As far As tomorrow is Walesa told the people have the right to they should determine in each factory How this can be sources close to Walesa said the Solidar Ity Leader wanted to avoid giving the government any pretext to imprison they said it was not in their interest to have a popular figure in Poland and Winner of the 1983 Nobel peace in is under investigation for illegal Union activities and has been warned by a state prosecutor in Gdansk to Stop issuing antigovernment Walesa postponed a vacation scheduled to begin monday and decided to go to work at the Lenin it was not known if he would join any Andrzej Solidarity former Deputy told the crowd after Walesa spoke despite recent arrests of senior Union the Solidarity move ment remained we Are 10 and they cant lock up 10 million Gwiazda to Solidarity claimed a membership of 10 million nearly a third of the National before it was the Henryk a close Walesa said during the mass that workers must unite their efforts to establish a Solidarity of the a Man working hard for a piece of bread is not a master of his work but a Jankowski told the it was unclear How workers would re Spond to the strike appeals for general strikes by Solidarity have met with Only sporadic Success since martial Law was imposed in december the meat Price hikes Are the final install ment of a three stage plan announced by the government in february that has raised the Cost of most a 1015 percent increase in the Cost of which is rationed and in Short Supply is bound to have an Impact on the family budgets of workers in a country where the average monthly salary is Solidarity has called for a general pay increase of zlotys a month to offset the Price on the Price of a kilo of Chick for goes up from to and a kilo of Boneless beef rises from to Castro says brother is their apparent Washington a cuban presi Dent Fidel Castro says arrangements were made years ago for his brother Raul to succeed him in the event he Dies or is i Capaci in an interview with Playboy Castro said the government leadership decided during the first year of the revolution in 1959 that his brother should be the Suc it has been widely assumed that Raul Castro at is four years younger than the would be first in the line of so far As is this had never been made explicit Raul Castro is defense minister and Sec Ond Secretary of the communist party and holds a number of other party and govern ment posts As asked whether he has an heir appear Castro said plans were made for Raul Castro to succeed particularly when he became aware of Cia attempts to assassinate we suggested the prior nomination of another Raul Castro today the second Secretary of the party who would immediately assume he re in my the Comrade chosen is the most not exactly because Hes my brother but due to his experience and revolutionary Castro indicated he has no intention of stepping Down i dont have any plans for he adding he believes he can still be useful and make further contributions to the the interview was conducted in March by Jeffrey a freelance writer and Kli tical science and by Mervyn a democratic congressman from it is to appear in the August Issue of news update Pope accused Switzerland up rebel archbishop Marcel Lefevbre accused Pope John Paul ii Over the weekend of persecuting traditional catholics and recognizing a religion invented by we Are persecuted and chased from Catholic churches which open their doors to moslem and even the French prelate said in ordaining 11 new priests at his renewing his attacks on Vatican Lefevbre rejected acceptance by Rome of Equality Between the Pope himself went to Pray in the lutheran Temple in thus recognizing a false religion invented by he Luther is the most abominable heretic the world has Ever Lefevbre said in his he destroyed the 80yearold archbishop said the Vatican gives communion to anyone but then prohibits his Fol Lowers from celebrating mass Only because we want to reestablish the traditional service of earlier deportation upheld Cincinnati a a Federal appeals court has denied reputed nazi death Camp guard John dem Manjuk a new citizenship and upheld an order that allows him to be deported to the soviet lawyers for had argued that he was railroaded in a 1981 civil trial at which District judge Frank Battisti found that Demjan Juk concealed his death Camp activities in order to become a Battisti revoked Demjan Juks Cit and later ruled the Revo cation meant Demjan Juk could be deported to the soviet the 6th circuit court of a peal ii called Battistus orders and opinion is in a Federal Pris on in As he pursues