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Show World&Nation Page 14 Utah's Hill Air Force base dealing with rash of suicides Members of assisted suicide network indicted in Ga. ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia grand jury indicted four members of an assisted suicide group Tuesday on charges they helped a 58year-old man with cancer kill himself. The four — the Final Exit Network's former president, its former medical director and two others — were formally indicted by a Forsyth County grand jury on charges of offering assistance in the commission of suicide, tampering with evidence and violating the state's anti-racketeering charges. They were arrested more than a year ago and charged with assisted suicide in John Celmer's death at his north Georgia home. The arrests came after an eight-month investigation where an undercover agent posing as someone seeking suicide infiltrated the group. Authorities say the network, which was also indicted, has helped dozens of people kill themselves. Some members already faced charges in a suicide in Arizona. Tuesday's indictment names former network president Thomas E. Goodwin, ex-medical director Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, regional coordinator Nicholas Alec Sheridan, and member Claire Blehr. The four are scheduled to be arraigned April 1, said Forsyth County District Attorney Penny Penn. The group and its attorneys have long argued members never actively assisted with Wednesday, March 10, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's Hill Air Force Base has hired a psychologist and others to deal with a rash of suicides, mostly among civilians complaining of harsh working conditions. Ogden Air Logistics Center commander Maj. Gen. Andrew Busch says two civilians and an airman have committed suicide this year. A Hill spokesman says that brings to at least 25 confirmed suicides since 2006 that were mostly committed off the base. Bonnie Carroll, a military widow who founded the advocacy group Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, says suicides also have been a problem at Fort Campbell, an Army base in Kentucky and Tennessee. She says the Defense Department has added thousands of mental health professionals to the ranks of the military because of a greater awareness of the problem. suicide, just guided people through the process. "We've been working on this case for a year," said defense attorney Don Samuel, who represents Egbert and the network. "We're confident in our defense and we expect a very favorable outcome." Other defense attorneys did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Goodwin and Blehr were with Celmer when he died, each holding one of his hands, according to court records. Afterward, investigators said they removed a helium tank and hood Celmer wore to help him suffocate. Investigators say Egbert and Sheridan evaluated him before his death and gave the OK for his suicide. The network bases its work on "The Final Exit," a best-selling suicide manual by British author Derek Humphry. Network members are instructed to buy two new helium tanks and a hood, known as an "exit bag," according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In court papers, investigators said the organization recommends helium because it is undetectable during an autopsy. The case highlighted a rift in the rightto-die movement. Final Exit Network leaders say the group helped not only people with terminal illnesses, but also those who were suffering but not necessarily dying. Goodwin told The Associated Press in IN A MARCH 17 file photo, Thomas E. Goodwin, former president of the Final Exit Network, is pictured during an interview with The Associated Press, in Atlanta. AP photo an interview last year that the organization's leaders believed that people with just months to live aren't the only ones who should be able to seek help committing suicide. "These people who are terminally ill are blessed in a small way — there's a finite time for their suffering," said Goodwin, who stepped down as president after his arrest. "But there are many, many people who are doomed to suffer interminably for years. And why should they not receive our support as well?" Pres. of Brazil quits smoking BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an interview with The Associated Press that he stopped with sheer willpower. No nicotine patches or gum, and no medication, the 64-year-old leader said. Silva was just about to take off in his presidential plane in January for the World Economic Forum in Switzerland when his blood pressure rose dramatically. He spent the night in a hospital. On Tuesday, he characterized the hospitalization as a nuisance, "but the good thing is that I quit smoking." He blamed the scare on an exhausting schedule over three days. Abuse: Brother of Pope Benedict XVI says he ignored incidents of abuse continued from page 2 Last week, the Regensburg Diocese said a former singer at the choir had come forward with allegations of sexual abuse in the early 1960s. And across Germany, more than 170 students have claimed they were sexually abused at several Catholic high schools. Ratzinger has repeatedly said the sexual abuse allegations date from before his tenure as choir director. Asked in the interview Tuesday whether he knew of them, Ratzinger insisted he was not aware of the problem. "These things were never discussed," Ratzinger told Tuesday's Passauer Neue Presse German daily. "The problem of sexual abuse that has now come to light was never spoken of." Jakob Schoetz, a spokesman for the Regensburg diocese, told The Associated Press that Ratzinger would not comment further on the issue. There have also been reports of severe beatings by administrators at two primary feeder schools for the choir, one in Etterzhausen and one in Peilenhofen. One director, identified as Johann M., who headed the Etterzhausen school from 1953-1992, has been cited in several allega- tions as being particularly abusive. Ratzinger said boys would open up to him about being mistreated in Etterzhausen. "But I did not have the feeling at the time that I should do something about it. Had I known with what exaggerated fierceness he was acting, I would have said something," he was quoted as saying by the German paper. "Of course, today one condemns such actions," Ratzinger said. "I do as well. At the same time, I ask the victims for pardon." He said he had administered corporal punishment himself. "At the beginning I also repeatedly administered a slap in the face, but always had a bad conscience about it," Ratzinger said, adding that he was happy when corporal punishment was made illegal in 1980. Ratzinger said a slap in the face was the easiest reaction to a failure to perform or a poor performance. How hard it was varied greatly, depending on who administered it. The 82-year-old pope and his older brother are close. Joseph Ratzinger had been planning to return to Germany and move his brother into a house with him upon retirement from the Vatican — a plan made moot by his election as pope. He refers to his brother as his trustworthy guide and companion and says his brother helps him to accept old age with courage. The Vatican moved to defuse criticism after the German justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, said Monday that a Vatican secrecy rule has played a role in a "wall of silence" surrounding sexual abuse of children. She cited a 2001 Vatican document —drawn up by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger —requiring even the most serious abuse cases to be first investigated internally. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi defended the main ecclesiastical institutions involved, saying they have taken up the matters "promptly and decisively." "They have shown a desire for transparency, in a way they have accelerated bringing the problem to light by inviting the victims to speak up even when the cases dated to a while back," Lombardi told Vatican Radio. He said "mistakes" within the church were deplorable and said the cases are pushing the church toward dealing with the problem. "While we can't deny the gravity of the anguish the church is going through, we cannot give up doing everything possible so that in the end positive results can also be achieved," Lombardi said, citing as goals better children protection and the church's own "purification." Lombardi declined to comment on the statement attributed to the pope's brother that he slapped people. He noted that in Canon Law sexual abuse of minors is among the most serious offenses, and said the Vatican's document in 2001 was "a fundamental signal in calling the bishops' attention to the gravity of the problem." A statement by the U.S. group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called the Vatican's claim that Catholic institutions had been timely in their reaction "depressing and disingenuous." "Sadly, the truth is just the reverse," said Peter Isely, Midwest director of the group. "Regarding pedophile priests and corrupt bishops, the church hierarchy responds only when forced to do so by external pressures." 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