European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday october 30, 1985 record attempt Falls Short some of the water skiers who held on out of a starting group of More than 100, swoosh past san Francisco s Skyline in an unsuccessful attempt to set a record for pulling skiers behind a single boat. The existing Mark is 80 skiers. Slew probe ordered before Navy can court martial heart surgeon by Norman Black Washington a the Navy despite two earlier inv Slit Tymn was told monday it cannot court  one of ils heart surgeons on manslaughter charges until it conducts i Mither  probe. In a Victory fur attorneys representing or. Donal m. Billig. A military judge ruled the service had failed to ensure the impartiality of an officer selected to overseen earlier pretrial investigation. The ruling by la. Col. Hugh s. Atkins the military judge Means the Navy must re snarl ils pretrial probe and forgo ils plan to begin Billig s court martial next Moth said . Stephen Picl Roppoli a n avy spokesman. The spokesman said the Navy would move quickly to appoint a new investigating officer. He declined however to predict him lung the Case against Billig might be delayed. I Lillie is accused of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of five patients on whom he performed open heart surgery. The Navy has accused Billig of bungling the operations i has also charged Billig failed to disclose that he had Eye problems and that his vision was flawed. The Navy has also announced it will court martial at least one officer who was involved in recruiting Zillig into the serv ice. Monday s ruling came just four Days Afler the Navy thought ii had ended the Legal jockeying Over Billig s court martial. Last thursday inc Chico Fth naval medical com Mand. Rear adm. Joseph Cassells. Formally preferred five manslaughter charges against the heart surgeon saying he expected inc trial to get under Way next month. Last Friday however Billig s defense attorneys challenged the investigative report on which Cassells based his action. Afler review ing inc motion Over the weekend Atkins announced monday he was granting inc defense  defense Victory involved inc manner in which the Navy initially brought charges against Billig. A 54-year old physician who for More than a year served As the chief heart surgeon at the Bolh Coda naval Hospital. Last Spring following a determination by medical officials thai Hillig should be removed from his Post for a Lack of surgical competency the Navy created a special Board of review and ordered it to investigate Billig s medical performance As Well As the circumstances sur rounding his recruitment. That Board recommended in june Fiat Billig be court Marlia cd for negligence in the deaths of four patients. Similar charges involving a fifth patient were subsequently developed last month. The naval medical command citing the results of the Board s investigation ordered Billig to irial on june 19. But his defense attorneys successfully argued , under Mili tary Law. Billig was entitled to a formal pretrial investigation and the right to Cross examine his accusers. The Navy then ordered the pretrial hearings which were held last month with Commodore James t. Sears serving As inc investigating officer la was inc selection of scars that Atkins set aside monday. Sears was a member of the original Board of review and the judge agreed his involve Mcnol in inc Case raised questions about his impartiality. Before the Case can proceed Atkins ruled the Navy must appoint an impartial investigating officer to review the adequacy of inc evidence for irial. Although inc Issue has yet to surface publicly Navy attorneys arc known to be concerned that any length delay in Starling a court martial could allow Billig to argue he has been denied his right to a speedy trial. Pietropaoli and other Navy officials declined monday to discuss that aspect of the Case. The spokesman did Nolc How Ever that Navy prosecutors believe the previous sworn Testi Mony in the Case is still usable meaning a new investigative officer might be Able to avoid additional hearings. If convicted on inc five manslaughter counts and 24 older charges of dereliction of duty Billig would face maximum 27 years in prison. Stateside Mother says jury found Hustler liable in son s hanging death Houston a a Wom is is i jury found Hustler m in i inc liable for 5182.000 in the hanging death of her 14 year old son because the Public is tired of pornography. They re tired of what it s doing 10 their children their husbands their families. And Lac a just rather do Sutney i hip about it. Not sit  a d Buna Herceg. Who sued the Maga inc for $1  alleged that Troy Daniel Durway. Her son by a previous marriage accidentally lunged himself aug. 8, 1 jul after Reading orgasm of death a Hustler article on i he dangerous sexual practice of autocratic asphyxia or depriving the brain of oxygen to intensify orgasm. A copy of the Maga inc. Opened to the article was at Troy s feet when he was found hanging from a Bell on the door of his bedroom closet. Attorneys for Hustler argued the Maga inc was not to blame for the boy s death. They also said the article repeatedly warned readers not to attempt the often deadly practice. . Firm 4 officials charged in illegal dumping of wastes Trenton . A Ciba Gigy corp. And four officials of its Toms River chemical Panl have been indicted on charges of illegally dumping ionic wastes in landfills and the Atlantic Ocean for 10 years and lying about it prosecutors said. The giant chemical company faces up to $2.3 million in fines if convicted on All 35 counts stemming from the 14 month investigation stale attorney general Irwin Kim Mclean said. According to the indictment Ciba Geigey illegally dumped More than 55,000 Drums of  and toxic wastes at its three Toms River landfills and also illegally disposed of wastes in a waste water treatment system thai empties into the Atlantic. Richard i Arlo senior vice president and general coun Sel for the company called the criminal charges  nude sunbathe did t corrupt Public morals court decides , Fla. A a Man charged with Dis orderly conduct by sunbathing in the Buff at Playa Linda Beach on Cape canaveral has won his Case in court. Samuel i. Anderson cited june 20 by Brevard county sheriffs deputies in a crackdown code named operation cover up was acquitted by a four woman two Man jury. Defense attorney Lou Cianfrogna argued that nude Sun by think does t fit the corruption of Public morals requirement of the disorderly conduct Law because no one else on the sparsely occupied Beach and complained about the nude sunbathing the Day of Anderson s arrest. Anderson said he was delighted that he had been vindicated rather than the sheriffs deputies. This shows they were the ones who disturbed the peace there not us he said. Yugoslav put on probation in . For phony Tea Racket White Plains . A _ a judge has sen fenced a yugoslavian National to three years probation for his role in a phony magical medicinal Tea Racket that prosecutors said has bilked victims worldwide. Acting slate supreme court Justice Nicholas Colabell handed Down the sentence to arc Mynko Bulat. 37, who had pleaded guilty to larceny on sept. 6. The charge against Bulat. Who is reported to be also wanted in Yugoslavia on similar charges arose out of a scheme in Early 1983 in which restaurateur Nicholas Grbick paid $29.000 for 600 pounds of Tea that two other men assured him would cure numerous stomach disorders the Lea was Worth Only j600, authorities said. . Gasoline prices Rise More increases predicted los Angeles a gasoline retail prices edged up for the first time in 3to months and an Oil Industry analyst say that Means the Cost of getting inc Lead out of Gas has finally reached the pump anymore increases arc in store. Dan Lundberg publisher of the Lundberg letter said sunday that retail prices Rose less than a fifth of a cent in the last two weeks while wholesale prices Rose 1.08 cents per Gal Lon cutting into ret liners profits. A further retail increase will occur As dealers catch up to pass that wholesale in crease on to like Public he predicted. For the Survey period ending Friday the average retail Price of All grades of Gaso line self and full serve was il.204 per gallon almost a fifth of a cent higher than in the previous two week period Lundberg said. He surveys prices at some 17,000 serv ice stations nationwide every two weeks. He said he had expected the unseasonable Post labor Day Price Rise because of the reduction of Lead Content in Gas that too effect july i under orders of the . Environmental Protection Agency. Cutting inc Lead Content in gasoline increases the Cost of making leaded Gas because other octane enhancers arc More expensive. Lundberg said the Gas Price hike had been delayed because of the use of cheaper imported gasoline As Well As imports of in Sec Dionis used to make gasoline such As naphtha. Such imports now account for one in every 14 Gallons of Gas we consume in inc United states he said. The  Cal Lundberg Survey found hat the Clail Price of self serve regular leaded Gas averaged $1x181 per gallon up More Ihas a Quarter Conlin inc past two weeks. Self serve regular unleaded was si.157, up nearly a fifth Ofa cent while Premium unleaded was $ 1 288up More than a fifth Ofa cent. Full serve regular leaded was j 1.309 up nearly a to nah of a cent regular unleaded was $1.376. Up Only Ihrck hundredths of a cent and Premium unleaded was $1.447, up almost a Quarter cent. Self serve gasoline prices Rose More than full serve because there is greater demand for the cheaper self serve Gas which now accounts for 76 Pyrc Cal of All Domestic Gas lines sales Lundberg said. Another Epa Manda cd Cut in Lead contents due at the end of the year. Retail Gas prices probably will go up even More because of the next Lead cutback and increased a incr demand for heating Oil which causes producers to devote less of cach barrel  to gasoline production Lundburg said