European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                When military Medicine fail tragic tales take Issue with government immunity by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington maj. Michael Wall died of a heart attack after two inexperienced doctors allegedly ignoring his complaints of Chest pains and medical tests that showed abnormal results told him to continue full physical training. A i firmly believe my husband died As a result of negligence on the part of the United states army Quot Wall s widow Paulette tearfully told lawmakers of the House judiciary administrative Law subcommittee wednesday. A my husband did not have to  former air Force sgt. Willie Harris saw six professional basketball offers go up in smoke in the 1960s when he Tore ligaments in his Knees. But he said he was pressured by base officials who were backed by base doctors to take cortisone shots and keep playing on the services championship team. He later left the service because of a medical disability a his Knees. A i was 24 years old and had everything going for me Quot Harris told the subcommittee. A now my Knees Are so bad i have to have them replaced. In a looking at plastic  and then there is Marine corps chief warrant officer Martin Gaffney whose wife died of aids after she received a tainted blood transfusion at a Navy Hospital during what he called a a botched Quot childbirth. That child was stillborn. Another child bom before 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 service members be Able to sue the government for peacetime medical see military on Page 2gates shoots Back Robert m. Gates president Bush a nominee to head the Cia said the charges against him were a ridiculous Quot and rebutted the complaints sworn against him by former co workers earlier this week. See Story on Page 7. Unemployment news gives Bush More veto ammunition from wire reports Washington a president Bush is holding firm on his vow to veto a Bill extending benefits for the jobless aides said Friday. New unemployment figures out Friday morning appeared to strengthen his hand. Bush will unhesitatingly repeat his earlier veto of the unemployment legislation As soon As Congress sends it to him Fred Mcclure his legislative affairs Liaison said. A just let them Send it Down Here a was Bush a defiant comment according to Mcclure. Bush was expected to discuss the nations Economy at a news conference Friday with fridays 0.1 percent decrease in the unemployment rate a to 6.7 percent a casting a Shadow on democrats insistence that the Economy is not recovering. Marlin Fitzwater White House press Secretary said Bush also wanted to discuss other Domestic issues including the Progress through confirmation hearings of supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas and Robert m. Gates the Cia director nominee. The unemployment figures presumably bolster Bush a argument that the Economy is recovering. The latest government report snowed the unemployment rate edged Down to 6.7 percent in september the first improvement in three months. The rate had been Frozen at 6.8 percent since july and the decline came despite a failure by . Companies 10 hire Back Many workers during the month the labor department said. The department said the labor Market has not worsened since Spring but there still Are no sustained signs of a rebound in the labor Market. The jobless numbered 8.4 million in september about 1.6 million higher than when the recession started in july 1990, the department said. A once again the data we Are reporting this morning show no significant Over the month change a said Janet Norwood commissioner of the labor departments s a s in \   a a a   so . Of a Holt a president Bush Bureau of labor statistics. A while there has been no further worsening in either measure since Spring we have yet to see any sustained signs of a rebound in the labor Market Quot Norwood said. Still private economists had predicted that the unemployment rate would Rise to 6.9 percent instead of fall. The Surprise decline in unemployment was expected to prompt debate about whether Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan would use the authority he reportedly received this week to further lower interest rates in an Effort to boost the Economy. Bush has said he wants to help the unemployed but that he will not sign the $6.4 billion congressional unemployment package because it is a a budget Buster that will increase the Federal deficit. Before the news conference Bush was meeting with deposed haitian president Jean Bertrande Aristide who was overthrown earlier this week by a military coup. Bush is backing the organization of american states Effort to restore Aristide to Power. A multinational Oas delegation is travelling to Haiti with an 11-Point Oas Resolution calling on the Junta to allow Aristides return to Power. It also Calls on All member states to Cut Trade financial military and diplomatic ties with Haiti. Soviets plan 700,000 troop Cut link further reductions to talks Moscow apr the soviet Union plans to Cut its military personnel by 700,000 and does not Rule out further reductions in the framework of a worldwide a collective Security system the defense ministry said thursday. The statement appeared to refute remarks earlier this week by defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov a Deputy col. Gen. Pavel Grachev that deeper cuts were planned. The defense ministry statement said the soviet Union plans to trim its armed forces to 3 million Down from 3.7 Mil lion a in the foreseeable future and in the context of disarmament negotiations with the West. The soviet Union a is not ruling out further reductions depending on the development of military political situation and the formation of a new system of collective Security a the statement said. The statement came while the soviet military is weighing a response to president Bush a initiative to make deep cuts in the . Nuclear Arsenal. On tuesday an Independent news Agency quoted Grachev As saying the planned cutback will reduce the soviet military to Between 2 million and 2.5 million in the next three years. The newspaper Nezah Ishimaya gazeta on thursday however quoted a senior general staff official As saying he knew nothing of a coordinated reduction plan. Ministry spokesman Vadim Nikanorov explained that the number of military personnel a is not an arbitrary one. It depends on the general situation whether it develops in the same direction As now and to what extent the collective Security system that we want to create is  Holiday bazaars this who end in sunday Magazine