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Show r A T&e Sait Lake Tribune, Thursday, June Army Chief May Ask West Point Study 3, 1976 the United States must maintain general purpose forces sufficient to assure defense and deterrence against conventional attack wherever and whenever U.S. security interests are involved. Carter Associated Press Writer By Malcolm N. WEST POINT, N.Y. W'Tgfl &? ns. M, : c- - rvO Vr. ? pCJ yZ'S ( gs . y & Jii6aTaP Jesse Owens holds up diploma and bag containing dollar from rstTVfrcixio'io each West Point cadet Owens graduated last in class of 835. I I - Army SecretR. Hoffmann said at graduation here Wednesday he is considering a Pentagon review of West Fouits beleagured honor systems. Under somber gray skies that mirrored the mood at the U.S. Military Academy as its cheating scandal grows. Hoffmann told 835 graduates and about 20,000 spectators there was no need for him to defend the academys honor code. This institution, however small, most continue in these troubled times to keep the flame of conscience alive, he said. "If West Point does not do it, where else will it lie done?" But he told reporters later there is a very likely possibility he would ask the Pentagons committee on Excellence on Education composed of the civilian secretaries of the military to review the code. services Outside Discretion This is a body that would bring outside discretion and a civilian perspective to the matter, he said. Hoffmann said the honor system may well have to be changed, but he declined to say how, when or if, in fact, it would be. Graduation ceremonies also were held Wednesday at the U S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Six cadets at the Air Force Academy resigned last week after being convicted by t student honor committee of cheating on a physics problem. There have been no such problems at the Naval AcAdemy since seven midshipmen were dismissed In 1974 for cheating on a navigation exam. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the last class at Annapolis ary Martin 79 remales Annapolis becomes I his summer when 70 female midship-wome- n take their place in the incoming freshman class. At the Air Force Academy, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said detente with the Soviet Union is necessary to develop a better working relationship between the superpowers. And at New London, Conn., the U.S. Coast Guard Academy held graduation ceremonies Wednesday minus one senior who resigned at the last minute after the academys executive board N.Y. Girl Gains $1.25 Million - A NEW YORK (UPD Brooklyn girl was awarded $1.25 million Wednesday in a malpractice suit which charged that her leg hod to be amputated below the knee because of faulty medical care. A Supreme Court jury found Brook-dal- e Hospital and two physicians liable for damages to Melissa LovagUo and her family as a result of an improperly administered blood test and lack of follow-u- p care. The girl was admitted to Brookdalc Hospital Aug. 4, 1972, for treatment of a kidney condition. She was 2V4 years old at the time. The suit charged that a resident physician. Dr. Jimmy Chid, took a blood sample from the girl's groin and injured an artery in the process, cutting off the blood supply to her right leg. all-ma- le I CLIP A - An Athens court ATHENS (API convicted 30 persons Wednesday on charges stemming from labor riots in the capital last week and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from five months to two years. Eighteen of the defendants charged with resisting police and damaging public property were freed pending appeals. Seven persons were acquitted of the charges. 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We submit written bids and proposals, signed contracts, and if you qualify, we can even arrange financing. two-third- 'o J o v n ES that Unconvinced Mayo was acting in his official capacity in three barroom incidents last year, the Senate voted 18 to 12 to acquit him on a charge of breach of duty as a peace officer. A s 20 majority would have been votes needed for conviction. Mayo, sheriff of Washington County, which includes Montpelier, had been charged with maladministration, the only ground for impeachment under the state constitution. votes, By separate the Senate had acquitted him last week on the first two articles which 20-- 8 Air Force Academy graduate yawns during Vice President charged he falsified re- cords and failed to perform the functions of his office by ordering his deputies not to cooperate with other police Rockefellers address to graduating class of 920 in Colorado. y Greeks Convict 30 On Riot Charg es Remodeling Goes Professional MONTPELIER. Vt. y. Mrs. Really nice and spacious, Clayton said. In fact you could get the whole population of the county in the courtroom and still have a lot of space left for visitors. The county doesnt have a district judge. They share Reeves County District Judge J. H. Starley, who rides a circuit like his predecessors did a 100 years ago. But there is work for the judge in Loving County, however. Last year one divorce case was heard in Mentone. Judge Starley granted it. e (AP) 40 his speech, Hoffmann noted, "recent observers have questioned the In modern relevance of the foundations of Another doctor was summoned when this institution." Referring to the the Injured leg became mottled and academy's motto, he went on: blue, but he did not respond until the When placed In its setting of what next day, when it was necessary to this Institution is at its soul and heart remove the leg to save the girl's life. the long grey-linduty, honor, country to timolessness its witness bears ... Indicated the Testimony at the trial to so attest in 20 blood sample should have been taken beyond our capability minutes here. from her arm. Indeed, I dare say the present public The second physician. Dr. Joseph in its criticism and often biting debate Blok, testified he was not given proper of the sincere hope medical information when he was commentary is born will endure in a summoned by Chin and said he would that these principles time. troubled have responded Immediately had he been aware of the true situation. Although West Points commenceJustice Irving Aronin denied a de- ment ended1 with the traditional joyous fense motion to set aside the verdict as tossing of caps, the honor controversy excessive. permeated the day. The jury also awarded the girl's When William Andersen, chairman of father $45,000 in damages. the cadet honor committee, got his The kidney condition for which the diploma, his classmates applauded. girl was originally brought to the Then they began to rise and the swell of hospital cleared up by Itself, trial their applause swept through the rest of testimony indicated. the cadet corps. Sheriff Wins Acquittal In Vermont Hardly as Wild As Famed Wide Open Spaces Csdctc found guilty of violating the honor code can appeal to a board of officers. In all, 94 cadets so far have filed such appeals. Toe first officer board cleared one cadet Tuesday and found a second guilty. The case of a third cadet was being weighed Wednesday. Conviction by the board means mandatory expul- tion. Modern Relevance Reuters News Agency Texas Wind additional cadets were accused Tuesday of cheating on the exam in what could be the worst cheating scandal in West Point history. Violated Code All involved are charged with violating the academys honor code, which Forty-si- x sion. CHICAGO The American Medical Assn. (AMA) Wednesday praised an W. says, A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate those who do. The code was challenged this week in a federal lawsuit seeking to halt its enforcement. But a U.S. District Court judge la Manhattan reused Wednesday to halt the disciplinary proceedings. The suit was filed on behalf of Cadet Timothy Ringgold, who has alleged widespread cheating at West Point and has charged that the code is unequally enforced in violation of the Constitu- Malpractice Suit Doctor Wins Countersuit In Malpractice Charge A Cook County Circuit Court jury Tuesday found two lawyers, their client and the client's husband guilty of misconduct in filing a finger-injur- y decision that unprecedented jury awarded a doctor $8,000 in a countersuit malpractice suit against Dr. Leonard filed in response to a $250,000 malprac- Berlin of suburban Wilmette. Dr. Berlin, a radiologist, had filed a tice suit charging Mrs. Harriet AMA President Dr. Max Parrott said countersuit, he hoped the decision would discourage Nathan had brought the malpractice frivolous malpractice suits that were action without reasonable cause and that her lawyers had failed to properly contributing to skyrocketing malpracinvestigate the case. tice insurance costs. Unprecedented Grounds Legal experts said in a statement: The Berlin case is significant, in part, because it serves notice that doctors intend to fight back against cases, and puts lawyers on notice that they are placing themselves In jeopardy if they do not adequately investigate a case before filing suit. Robert Hanley, head of the litigation section of the American Bar Assn., also About the praised the decision, saying: This is MENTONE, Tex. (UPD In falls the the time Loving the way doctors and other professional gavel only County District Court is when one of the people can fight frivolous lawsuits. Its local children slips through the oaken certainly going to have a happily dampening effect on such suits. doors to play judge. Claimed Negligence You might say we have a really Mrs. Nathan had charged Dr Berlin, quiet county, said county district clerk Edna Clayton. 41, with negligence because he failed to That may be an understatement. find a fracture in the little finger of her The fracture, According to a recently released Texas right hand in an Judicial Council report, grand jurors in suffered in a tennis accident in October, the west Texas county returned only 1973, was discovered later in another one indictment in the court throughout 1975. In his countersuit, Dr. Berlin said the The indictment was for the 1974 fracture did not show up on the first but contended that the treatment murder of rancher James T. Wheat and the trial was transferred 200 miles Mrs. Nathan received was the same as for a fracture. north to Lubbock. Trial of the two suits was to have been It was the first murder in the county concurrent, but Mrs. Nathan dropped since it was organized in 1931. her $250,000 claim when trial began last Another Distinction week. And last year. Loving County had the She has said she is still bothered by only district court in the state the did the old irjury and has promised to not have at least one jury trial in a civil appeal the decision awarding Dr. case. Berlin $2,000 in compensatory damages Well, it s real hard to get a jury even and $6,000 in punitive damages. when we do get a court case, which isn't Beneficial Effect? often, Mrs. Clayton said. Dr. Parrott said: "A major factor in The county, nestled the huge increases that doctors have to on a dusty prairie south of the New for insurance has been the vast Meixco border and north of Texas Big pay increase in the number of cases that Bend, has 112 residents at last count. have been filed. Everybody tends to know everybody If this case stands u? on appeal, it else, Mrs. Clayton said. And finding should discourage the filing of frivolous 12 jurors when you only have 112 cases and should or people, including children, to choose have a beneficial effect on the profeswell that kind of shuts court irom sional viability situation In the long down." run." The county has a very modern courtroom. convicted him of cheating. Five underclassmen at the Coast Guard Academy also were found guilty of cheating and have been asked to resign, the academy said. West Points cheating scandal began in April when 177 cadets In next years ' graduating class were accused of take-hom-e exam in a mi cheating electrical engineering. Four resigned, 65 were cleared and 48 appealed the rulings of cadet honor committees. Hospital Strike Looming Los Angeles Times Service Less than 24 hours after tuition was ordered for the city university system, municipal workers Wednesday pledged to selectively NEW YORK Aid Bill Gains Nod in House The House passed a $7 billion military foreign aid bill 255 to 140 Wednesday after supporting President Fords policies in votes on two key amendments. Reversing the action of its International Relations Committee, the House voted 241 to 159 to strike from the measure limit of $290 million on security assistance to South Korea for the period through Sept 30, 1977. The limitation would have meant a 40 percent cut in Fords recommended figure. Another amendment, adopted by voice vote, wrote into the bill $85 million for southern African nations whose economies might be endangered by their support of U.S. policies favoring d majority ruie in Rhodesia. The House, however, wrote some limitations into this amendment. The Senate, meanwhile, worked on its $6.7 billion version of the same measure. It approved a similar, but not identical, section on the southern African funds. The measure, a substitute for one earlier vetoed by Ford, will take final two shape in a conference between-th- e chambers of Congress. It sets limits on foreign aid spending, while the exact amounts will be fixed later by appropriations. While the House bill omits several features Ford cited in his veto of ar. earlier measure, it retains one, a $9 billion overall ceiling on the annual volume of arms transactions. Also retained in both House and Senate bills were provisions for phasing out grant military aid and winding down military assistance advisory groups by Oct. 1, 1977. WASHINGTON (AP) white-dominate- strike New Yorks hospitals are eliminated. alt 14 if 3,200 jobs Soul . fair gribaat Mato OtolSM-m- Ebltod ovary April IS. t W 1171. mjrrtri bv to own Cofuuralkto, Sail LaxaCffy, Utah 041)0 auod Lillian Roberts, head of the hospital Employes Union, said the strike would start Monday and would come in thi-estages with picket lines going up outside the first group of institutions next week. The union leader, representing nonmedical employes, would not say which hospitals would be hit first. Our people are geared to go, she said. It's sad. Its bad, but U's also very necessary if were going to reach a resolution to a problem that concerns the people we serve and ourselves. 18 Hospitals The citys Health and Hospitals Corp. operates 18 hospitals providing 90 percent of emergency medical services m New York. Both the imposition of tuition at City the first fees University of New York scheduled to be charged at city colleges and the hospital layoffs in 129 years were politically unpalatable measures. City officials agonized for months before making the announcements. And, these officials say, the outlook is for more of the same, with perhaps deeper cuts and deeper turmoil in the fiscal year that begins July 1. The Municipal Assistance Corp. has warned Mayor Abraham D. Beanie to prepare an additional $150 nnllion In budget cuts to cover potential problems in the citys $12 5 billion budget set to begin July I. The city already was committed to cutting $379 million in the next fiscal year. The corporation, which serves as one body overseeing Now Yorks finances, said preparation of the additional reductions was necessary because revenues might be somewhat smaller than anticipated and expenses higher. e Crucial Date 1 is a crucial date for another July reason. 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