European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 26, 1385 Navy to court martial sex heart surgeon Washington a or. Donai m. Billip. For More the in i year the chief heart surgeon at Bethesda naval Hospital has been ordered by Navy superiors to stand rial on five a Mats of involuntary Man Slaughter in the deaths of patients. Late thursday the Navy announced an investigating officer and the chief of the naval medical coins had rejected efforts by Billig s attorneys to set aside the charges bringing to a close four months of Legal jockeying. Commodore James t. Sears after re viewing the evidence against Billip has recommended that the convening authority move Forward with a general court mar tial said . Cmdr. Bill Harlow a Navy spokesman. Rear adm. Joseph Cassells the chief of the  medical command has accepted the recommendation and has referred the charges to court martial Hur Low continued. He said prosecutors were to ask a military judge during a hearing Fri Day to set the Date for court martial. Al Salvador from Page 1 Billig 54. Is accused of culpable negligence in the deaths of five patients on whom he performed open heart surgery. The Navy also has charged he failed to disclose his serious loss of vision in one Eye. While pursuing the charges against Bil Lig the Navy acknowledged the surgeon was recruited in 1982 despite the fact his credentials had been called into question two years earlier by a new Jersey Hospital. Billig surrendered his new Jersey License in i98l rather than face an investigation by that state s Board of medical examiners. Farlich this week the Navy said it would court martial one of the officers involved in recruiting Billig. Billig who holds the rank of commander was relieved of his surgical duties last no vember and dismissed for incompetence in april setting off an investigation by a Spe Cial Board of review. That probe led to a june announcement by the Navy that it would court martial Billig on four Man Slaughter counts. Billig s defense attorneys immediately challenged the move successfully arguing that their client was entitled to a formal pretrial investigation and the right to Cross examine prosecution witnesses. Pretrial hearings were conducted last month before Sears. Harlow said thursday that scars deemed the testimony sufficient to recommend a trial on the four original manslaughter counts As Well As a fifth manslaughter charge filed sept. 23. Cassells immediately accepted those recommendations the spokesman said bringing to a close the pre trial mane vering. Besides those five counts Harlow said scars had recommended and Cassells had approved Billig s trial on 24 counts of dereliction of duty. If Billig is convicted on All 29 counts he could receive a maximum 27 years imprisonment. Efforts to Contact Billig or his attorneys late thursday by Telephone were unsuccessful. The physician repeatedly has refused past requests to discuss the allegations. Billig became the chief heart surgeon at Mem fur their wounded i Runsa Latina said. The group apparently included All 96 wounded and three of the 22 political prisoners released thursday As part of the Exchange agreement. The rebels freed the president s daughter a Friend. Ana Cecilia Villoda Sosa. 2.1, who had been held for 44 Days and nine of at least 23 kidnapped mayors who were included in the negotiations. The Prensa  dispatch referred to guerrillas wounded or mutilated in  Many in one plane thai slopped in Panama had lost arms and legs. The complicated Exchange took weeks of negotiations before agreement was reached Between Duarte s government and the re Bels who have been fighting the . Backed regime for six years. Army employee burned in Berlin digging Accident Berlin an employee of the army directorate of engineering and housing suffered Burns on 70 percent of his body Friday while working at the american shopping Center an army spokesman said. The Accident occurred when the worker was digging with a pneumatic Drill and struck what appeared to be a hot water line he said. Engineering and housing officials arc investigating the Accident. The injured Man whose name is being withheld was taken to Augusta Viktoria Hospital in Berlin. Doctors list his condition As serious. Wheat pact extended Washington a the Senate has ratified an Extension of the International wheat agreement a treaty calling for cooperation in wheat Trade including col Lection of Supply demand and Price data. The vote was 98-0 with no debate. Number of soviet ss-20s has f been Cut . Says Bethesda in june 1983. He held the Post until november 1984, when his privileges were suspended in the Wake of questions about his surgical  four of the five operations he is accused of bungling took place Between August and november 1984. The pc trial hearings last month produced conflicting testimony on Billig s surgical abilities. During one session a Navy Anaesthesiologist testified that the death of one patient probably was linked More to the dangers of the operation than to any Clum siness on Billig s part. During another session however an army surgeon described Billig As incompetent to perform such demanding surgery and dishonest in evading proper supervision. During closing arguments on sept. 27, Billig s attorney said the surgeon had per formed technically adequate operations and that prosecutors had failed to prove the patients deaths were caused by Billig s techniques. S. Africa from Page 1 Brussels Belgium of the United states asserted Friday that the so Viet Union had not altered its Force of 441 nuclear lipped ss-20 missiles despite pledges to dismantle part of the Arsenal. The . Statement set the stage for the dutch government to give the final go ahead for deployment of american made nuclear missiles on its soil. A dutch announcement is set for next Friday. In a move aimed at influencing the dutch missile decision soviet Leader Mik Hail s. Gorbachev said in Paris earlier this month that he would reduce the number of ss-20s on standby Alert and dismantle Boink missile launchers. Gorbachev also said the number of so 20s aimed at  Europe had been reduced to 243, although he did not say How Many were in place in the Eastern soviet Union. The dutch government has said that if the total number of ss-20s was 378 or less on nov. 1 of this year it would not accept the 48 . Cruise missiles. If the number was higher than 378, the deployment would go ahead. H. Allen Holmes director of political and military affairs at the . State department told a news conference in Brus Sels that 441 ss-20s still were deployed throughout the soviet Union. We Haven l seen any reductions Holmes said. Holmes spoke with reporters after Mcd ing with senior nuclear policy officials from the nato nations to review intelligence data on the soviet nuclear Arsenal and to discuss developments in .-Soviel arms control talks. Shultz from Page 1 Mission to the United nations. The soviet official in a statement to re porters said great Hopes arc pinned to that Summit meeting by literally All Peoples in the  he said that while there were certain Posi Tive moments in his meeting with Shutlz there also were differences. And yet he said both sides were dedicated to contributing to a successful outcome in Geneva. Shultz said he had a worthwhile Exchange with the soviet foreign minister and we will continue in this Effort to have our Geneva meeting Well prepared and pro  called the .-soviet or Summit talks so far intensive and searching and he said Progress in preparations had been made. At the same time Shultz said i would have to say there Are major differences that need to be resolved and we Hope that some of them May gel resolved before the meeting in  he said one objective for the Summit was to set out an Agenda for the future to have a sense of direction of where we think and they think this relationship should  Robert c. Mcfarlane the us. National Security adviser said in a television interview Friday we can t have much of a Prospect for a broader successful relationship unless this tendency of the soviet Union to seek to expand outside its Borders is  president Reagan in a . Speech thursday urged the soviets to sponsor negotiations Between warring parties in Afghanistan Angola Cambodia Ethiopia and Nicaragua. He accused the soviet Union of promoting warfare against the Peoples of those countries. Mcfarlane told the Abc to network s Good morning America program that no president can expect to sustain a serious Effort at arms control or bilateral issues or Trade unless the american people and the Congress see a balance in soviet behaviour that is compatible with reasonable  Reagan will talk to nato after Summit Brussels Belgium a . President Reagan will attend a special nato meeting in Brussels nov. 21 to discuss his Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail. Gorbachev nato announced Friday. A one sentence statement from the office of nato Secretary general lord carring ten said Reagan would attend a special ses Sion of the North Atlantic Council the Alli Ance s highest political body. The meeting would allow the allies to hear first hand of the results of the Summit noting in Geneva Switzerland on nov. 19 and 20 and to consult on the wider and longer term process of strengthening Security and improving East West relations the nato statement said. Months of bitter rioting. The unrest situation in the Western Cape. Has reached such proportions that the government has decided to de Clare a state of emergency in certain districts said Law and order minister Louis be Grange. He said president . Botha had signed a proclamation adding the eight districts to the 30 covered by emergency rules imposed july 21, effective at a min Ute past Midnight. Temperatures l h 33 62a 14 10 3 a n 67 71 5� 67 37 68 67 u o 67 56 63 57 61 is 70 51 60 66 of 63 70 5 71 65 75 61 75 m u 41 70 46 67 61 75 t m 60 � 68 74 17 70 b4 6 7167 ii is n50 ii Albany Aidau Esquo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic cil Baltimore Billing Birmingham Bolle Boilo outlaw Bulan Burlington Char Teiton . Charleston . 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