European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars  stripes Friday August 30, 1991 German Hospital accused of nazi Era Type abuses Berlin apr germans Are riveted by accusations that former East Germany Stop Hospital tinkered with the hormones of Young girls to make them super athletes  prepared donors for Organ transplants before they were dead. Quot it sounds like a horror scene from or. Frankenstein a gruesome gallery a the Lii Becker Nach Richter newspaper said in an editorial on wednesday. Officials at East berlins Charite Hospital said the mounting Media allegations Are a product of a smear Campaign  threatens the existence of the 280-year-old Institute. Nevertheless the head of a physicians group demanded an investigation of doctors who worked under the old communist regime  said the reports evoke the hideous human experimentation of the nazi Era. A weeding out process is needed that is Quot analogous to the do Nazifi cation programs carried out after world War ii said Karsten Vilmar president of the Federal chamber of physicians. A in recent Days scores of Media reports have focused on allegations of medical abuse at the 2,000-bed Charite Hospital which for four decades was the showplace of communist medical technology. The news weekly Der Spiegel said in its latest edition that prospective Organ donors a people critically injured in accidents for example a were shuttled hundreds of Miles to the Hospital before they were clinically dead. The Magazine citing Hospital records  staff interviews said four severely injured people died shortly after they were taken great distances to the Hospital in 1988. Spiegel also said that adolescent girls were routinely used for experiments with male hormones in an Effort to produce better athletes. Or. Harald Mau the Dean of the institutes medical University  other Hospital officials denied the reports during a tumultuous news conference at the hospitals sprawling grounds in Eastern Berlin. Mau said at no time were hormone experiments conducted on children. He also told the packed conference room. A never was a patient forced to become an Organ  but he acknowledged that Quot Organ transplant irregularities had occurred in connection with Organ  he denied that any of the transplant donors were clinically alive when vital organs were removed or that they had died As a result of being moved to the transplant Center. He also disclosed that 30 of the 5,000 medical professionals at the Hospital have been fired in recent months because they had been employed by the now defunct East German secret police. He acknowledged that the secret police the notorious Stasi had helped finance  direct Organ transplant research at the Hospital. Mau said the accusations of medical abuse Coine at a time when the Hospital is facing severe financial problems As it tries to compete with leading Western German medical institutions. The Hospital has massive nursing shortages caused by defections to better paying jobs in the West. With the two Germany now unified accusations of bizarre medical practices in the former East German regime have become increasingly common. World american killed wife Hurt after cab jumps curb from wire reports London a an american Man was killed  his wife injured wednesday at harrods department store by a cab that jumped the curb  smashed through a display window pinning the couple underneath Scotland Yard said. The Man  his wife were in their 60s  believed to be on vacation in Britain. They were not identified pending notification of their families a Scotland Yard spokesman said. The couple was walking on the sidewalk in front of harrods at 1 30 . When the taxi went onto the sidewalk while making a turn the spokesman said. The taxi hurled the two through a display window of the store  pinned them underneath. Security guards  passersby freed the couple who were taken to Westminster Hospital. The woman was admitted to the Hospital in serious condition. The cab Driver was not injured in the  kills 52 in Turkey Dogu Bayazit Turkey a a bus loaded with lebanese passengers plunged into a Ravine in this town near the iranian Border on wednesday killing 52 of the 53 people aboard the provincial governor said. The survivor was injured. N the bus was travelling at High Speed  failed to negotiate a Sharp curve the sem official Anatolia news Agency reported. Gov. Mehmet Kuzgun said 48 of those killed were lebanese  the rest including the Driver were iranians. Kuzgun told the associated press the iranian bus was one of three carrying a total of 133 lebanese citizens who entered Turkey from Syria on sunday on their Way to an iranian City to visit the Tomb of a Muslim religious  of some of last Pompeii victims found Pompeii Italy apr they were among the last to succumb to the Wrath of Vesuvius. A teen age girl a slaves ring on her Finger  a handful of terrified companions trying to keep out the. Choking volcanic gases with a cloth to their Mouths. The latest glimpse of the final moments of this ancient City a habitats after Vesuvius erupted aug. 24, . 79, burying it under Ash  Stone came a few Days ago when the skeletal remains of at least five victims were dug up from a Bank of Ash Pompeii a superintendent of archaeology Baldassare Conticello reported wednesday. Conticello displayed casts made by pouring plaster  epoxy resin into cavities left by three of the bodies. The archaeologist said he believed the five were among the last to perish because of the height of accumulation of erupted material. Quot we found the bodies on a layer of lava Materia that had practically reached the roof of the houses a Conti cello was quoted As saying. The bodies were All facing the Mediterranean which nearly 2,100 years ago was about 200 Yards to 300 Yards away Conticello said. Archaeologists believe the five were victims of a second phase of the eruption. The italian news Agency Ansa reported that the first Skeleton found was that of a girl of about 14 years. She had a slaves ring on a Finger  her Skull was crushed by a roof tile it said. The other skeletons also showed signs of fractures Likely from falling objects or structures  some had pieces of cloth around their Mouths apparently to keep from inhaling some of the suffocating Ash Ansa said. Archaeologists examine a cast made of a Pompeii resident who is believed to be one of the last victims of  hikes pressure for Honecker s return Bonn Germany apr in its strongest demand yet for the return of Erich Honecker Germany charged wednesday that the soviet Union violated a key treaty by helping the ousted East German Leader escape trial. Honecker was whisked away to the soviet Union from a red army Hospital near Berlin on March 13. Officials of the russian Republic have said Honecker Likely will be sent Back As a result of the failed coup by communist hard liners in Moscow but no official decision has been announced. Slonecker ruled former East Germany with an Iron fist for 18 years until his ouster in 1989. He faces manslaughter charges for allegedly ordering Border guards to kill anyone trying to escape to the West. About 200 East germans died trying to flee. Federal Justice minister Klaus Kinkel said Honecker could spend the rest of his life in prison if he were convicted. But prosecutors say the 79-Vear-old Honecker could be deemed unfit for trial because of poor health. Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued a half hearted protest to the soviet Union after Honecker a flight apparently fearing anything stronger could jeopardize soviet promises to remove All red army troops from Eastern Germany by 1994. But Kohls Cabinet had harsh words for the soviets on wednesday saying the soviet military a involvement in Honecker a flight violated the treaty under which red army troops Are being removed