European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes Friday october 4,1991 at a glance thirty four commissaries throughout Europe Iceland and saudi Arabia will stay open longer because of results collected in a defense commissary Agency Survey. See stories on Page 19.cheney backs budget defense Secretary Dick Cheney fending off Calls for deeper defense cuts said plenty can be saved if Congress will Only leave him alone. A Page 4national guard under fire the army has failed to prepare its National guard combat brigades Quot to be fully ready to deploy quickly Quot the general accounting office charges. A Page 5bushes attend awards Singer Garth Brooks was voted entertainer of the year by the country music association with president Bush and the first lady watching from the second Row. A Page 6north tapes aired Abc news broadcast tape recorded excerpts of bargaining sessions Between former National Security aide Oliver North and iranian negotiators in the arms for hostages deals. A Page 7germans celebrate the North sea port of Hamburg was chosen As the site of the main National party for German Unity Day. A Page 8bhopal terms dismissed the India supreme court threw out terms of a 2-year-old settlement and ordered new criminal proceedings against Union Carbide in the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster which killed More than 3,800 people. A Page 9charges denied an army sergeant faces a court martial on charges that he says were concocted because he refused to Stop preaching to soldiers in saudi Arabia. A Page 10 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 comics. 21-23 commentary. 13 faces in places. 24 letters. 12 Money matters. 18-19 sports. 25-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 first woman in 25 years wins Nobel prize for literature Stockholm Sweden a Nadine Gordimer a White South african novelist whose denunciations of apartheid caused some of her works to be banned in her Homeland won the 1991 Nobel prize in literature thursday. She was the first woman in 25 years to win the prize. The Royal swedish Academy which awarded the prize to Gordimer said her Complex and sensitive human dramas set against the backdrop of South africans racial Divide have been a of very great Benefit to the prize is Worth about $1 million. A a in a really tremendously surprised and thrilled a said Gordimer 67, reached by Telephone in new York where she has been lecturing. Some of Gordimer a works which include 10 novels and More than 200 Short stories have been banned by South Afri cars White minority government because of their political Content. But she refused to leave her Homeland once telling an interviewer that a to go into exile is to lose your place in the her most recent novel published in 1990, is my songs Story about a married Black Man who Falls in love with a fellow activist a White woman. Her most recent collection of Short stories jump was published this year. Gordimer Quot writes with intense immediacy about the extremely complicated personal and social relationships in her environment Quot the Academy said. A at the same time As she feels a political involvement a and takes action on that basis a she does not permit this to encroach on her a nevertheless her literary works in giving profound insights into the historical process help to shape this process Quot it said. In december 1989, in a dramatic demonstration of her convictions she testified As a defense witness for 11 Black activists on trial for treason and terrorism. The last time a woman won the prize was in 1966, when German swedish writer Nelly Sachs shared the award with israeli author Shmuel Agnon. The Nobel prizes Are endowed by the 1896 will of swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel. The Nobel peace prize will be announced oct. 14 in Oslo Norway. The other nobels to be announced in Stockholm Are Medicine monday physics and chemistry oct. 16 and the economics prize funded by Sweden scentral Bank on oct. 15.military from Page 1 Gaffney a wife knew of her infection died at 13 months. Gaffney himself who testified at wednesdays hearing via a closed circuit television Hookup is also infected. He is now bedridden waiting to die. Those tragedies focus on the same question should servicemen Ibers be Able to sue the government for peacetime medical negligence in military health care facilities. Rep. Barney Frank d-mass., says yes. Last week he introduced the latest version of a Bill he has pushed for at least four years that would Amend the Federal tort claims act to allow such suits. In doing so the Bill would alter the so called a Sferes doctrine a the result of a 1950 Legal Case that the government has used successfully to have service Mem Erst medical malpractice suits thrown out of court. The same Legal ruling has been used to prevent survivors and family members from winning such lawsuits filed on behalf of the service members. Frank has had no trouble getting the House to Back his Bill a his colleagues approved it overwhelmingly in both 1988 and 1989. But it has repeatedly stalled in the Senate primarily because of Strong opposition from sen. Strom Thurmond . The ranking minority member of the Senate judiciary committee. Frank and co sponsors of the Bill also face stiff opposition from the Pentagon which maintains that abolishing the feres doctrine for medical malpractice suits would open a a a Pandora a boxy of administrative morale and disciplinary problems in the military. Terrence of Donnell the Pentagon Stop lawyer told the subcommittee he would advise that president Bush veto the Bill if Congress approves it because it would disrupt military operations without any significant Benefit to the Pentagon a most prominent concern is that allowing such lawsuits would adversely affect military discipline and morale by inviting judicial second guessing of military command decisions. In making decisions commanders often rely on determinations by military health care practitioners and changing the feres doctrine might make any such decisions open to lawsuits of Donnell said. He gave the following examples a a Pilot is removed from flight status or not allowed to Fly because of a medical condition diagnosed by a flight surgeon. Instead of following orders the Pilot files a malpractice suit alleging that the diagnosis was improper. A a commander denies a Security clearance to a Soldier based on the soldiers mental health examination. The Soldier sues alleging misdiagnosis and mental anguish. Subjecting such routine command decisions to judicial scrutiny would adversely affect the discipline of service members who would see medical personnel and commanders hauled into court to justify their decisions of Donnell said. A this situation would Foster the belief that no order is lawful and final until the courts have ruled that it is a he said. Medical malpractice suits also would create unfair distinctions Between various groups of military personnel of Donnell said. For example a service member paralysed through medical negligence could sue but a service member paralysed after being hit by a government car driven negligently by a motor Pool Driver could not sue although he or she would have virtually the same disability. Another problem is that the Federal tort claims act applies Only in the United states meaning any service member stationed overseas who is a victim of medical malpractice would not be Able to sue the government of Donnell said. He argued that there is already an elaborate system of no fault compensation for those who receive service related injuries. Lawmakers he urged should improve that system if they conclude the current compensation is inadequate. Congressional action on the Bill is the Only realistic Means left of reversing the feres doctrine since its Basic tenets have withstood repeated Legal challenges including a number of cases that have reached the supreme from Page 1 began breathing in minutes Lebak said. The turkish swimmer whose name Lebak never Learned later thanked the sergeant. Quot then he asked me Why i hit him a Lebak said. In 1981, Lebak used car to save his nephews life. He was on leave from in Ciurlik a Turkey visiting his Mother in Pittsburgh. His Nephew Robert Chuba Rov 5, and the boys Mother stopped by. Robert seemed Fine. Moments later the boy was having severe convulsions. Lebak went to Call 911 As the boy choked on his Tongue. When Lebak began working on the child Robert had turned Blue had stopped breathing and did no to have a pulse. A i began doing car on him even though 1 had Only seen it on television a and it worked. After a few minutes he had a pulse and was taking shallow breaths Lebak said. Later at the Hospital a doctor told Lebak that Robert had experienced a High temperature convulsion and the technique had saved his life. That experience was enough to convince Lebak he should learn car. He has taken courses and become a car instructor he said. His Nephew Wasny to the first child Lebak saved. About a year earlier in 1980, while visiting Mersin Turkey to scuba dive Lebak saw a 7-year-old girl fall into the Mediterranean from a 30-foot Cliff. The Waves pushed the youngster toward the rocks. Lebak jumped in and carried her to a Beach 600 or 700 feet away. Lebakos saved his first life much closer to Home in his own neighbourhood in Pittsburgh. One Day As Lebak walked to school a woman who ran a Small grocery store rushed by him Yelling that there was a fire in the store and her husband was still in the building. As she tripped the alarm on a firebox Lebak ran into the establishment entered the couples apartment behind the store and tripped Over the woman a husband who was lying unconscious on the floor. Lebak pulled the grocer from the building and proceeded to school where a because he smelled of smoke a he was reprimanded for playing with matches. Lebakos father thought the same thing when the sixth grader went Home for lunch. The Young hero got a spanking. But rewards whether medals or spankings Arentt Lebakos motivation for his heroic deeds. A i done to know Why i do these things a he said. A a they re just things i do. This is just the Way 1
