Wednesday, May 25, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three v No Pavulon in VA victim By KEITH B. RICHBURG Special To The DOaiy DETROIT -No traces of the poison Pavulon was found in the blood or liver of late Veteran's Administration (VA) Hospital patient Joseph Brown, VA Chief of Laboratory Services Dr. Lee Weatherbee told the jury yester- d at the VA trial here. This revelation may jeopar- due one of the government's two murder counts against defend- wntr Filipina Narciso and Leo- nora Perez. The government contends Narciso and Perez con- i red to murder two patients, including Brown, and poison seven others by injecting Pavu- Ion into the patients' intraven- ous feeding apparti. JOSEPH BROWN, an 83-year- old veteran, was suffering from uncontrolled diabetes, deterior- ating kidneys, an infected urin- ary tract, and was mentally "disoriented., "le thought Iis age was 53," one of Brown's doctors had pre- viously testified. Ie thought the present year was 1893." Brown was found dead Aug. 15, 1975, the same day four other VA patients suffered "unnatu- ral" breathing failures. Brown's death was at first thought to be due to natural causes, until an FBI toxicologist exhumed the, body and found evidence of Pavulon, using a never-before- used extraction technique. WEATHERBEE, h >wever, yes- terday told the jury that he sent a sample of Brown's liver and blood to the Rocky Mountain Lab in Denver following an au- topsy the day after Brown died. The laboratory was to test for Pavulon. e "'rhe results of that one came b a c k negative," Weatherbee said. Weatherbee testified they had used the Rocky Mountain Lab before this incident and had al- ways found them to be "reli- able." "THEN IT'S a reasonable an_ swer that the reason the find- ings came back negative," de- fense attorney ~ Edward Stein said, "was that there was nri (Pavulon) there to be ftrurnd.- "That is a reasonable an- swer,"' Weatherbee said. The doctor testified to there- part of the Laboratory despite a barrage of futile efforts by ihe prosecutionr to keep the repwlrt ouit. Prosecirtin lttriey Rich. ard lelwtis first tibjected to the- fact that lirky MutrItain was "an independent labtrrttrrry,'' not asscitited with VA. The prosecutor then had the jury excused while the twito sides argued the relevancy. DELONIS further qutesitinred the authenticity of Stein's photo- stated copy of the lab's finding. Defense attorney Stein replied "the government furnished the copy, they shouldn't be hard pressed to verify its authen- ticity." In a last ditch effort to keep the Rocky Mountain findings from the jury, Delonis said the report mnust first be nude an exhibit, in which case the gov- ernment would call a new wit- ness not on the original witness list for rehrtttrl. "I like to re- serve that right to myself," De- lonis said. When the jury returned and Stein again asked Weatherbee "What were the results of those tests?'', Delonis raised an elev- enth hour objection claiming the reprt had to be made an exhib- i "ia is entirety." The prose- crition staved atnd was success- ful only in stalling the proceed- ings for about ficv riintes. DURING the letil ir.g urents Pdge Ilh lrti qtestitired a tr why tie triginl cry of tire nat in Jlrosep hrtrrwn'-i rmedictri file. 'Il ett't explirti thrtt,'' Weittherbee said. lielernse tIttarines irate iunlt- cated that the prtrsecrttiar i.s expecre lid t crinclude their stage of tire trtt1l by next week. The defense will then tsk for a dis- mrisstrt tor at least sore of tlie counts against the two nurses Defense attorney Tom O'Brien told reporters that he expects to spend a few days arguing for dismissals of the governrent's weakest counts. O'Beien exirects the defense to conclude their stage of the trial by July 4. National Bank and Trust victim of morning robbery By SUE WARNER Customers and employes of the National Bank and rust Com- pany branch located at 510 E. William Street were distracted from going about their business-as-usual yesterday morning when an armed robber held up, and fled from the bank shortly after 10 a.m. At present, police have named no suspects in the case. The lone robber pulled off the heist by concealing a s wed off shotgun in a large box which he carried to a teller's window. The thief then opened the box and demanded an undisclosed amount of money which the tller handed over to him. IlIe did not, however, draw or aim the weapon. BANK AND police officitri are not discltrsitrg te aioutt of the robber's haul until they can complete further investigtirrs into the incident. Ann Arbor police said that the grrnmari is white and wii werrrrg a blue trench coat and a grIlf rat at the time of the robbery. AP Photo TWO DUTCH POLICE officers, stripped to their shorts so that they couldn't conceal weapons, escort a woman in Bonensmilde, Netherlands ye sterday away from a school where South Moluc- can terrorists are holding some 105 children and six teachers hostage. See related story Page 9. TODAY 'U' relents University officials decided yesterday to grant hack pay to four students who were dismissed from their East Quad food service jobs during the re- cent AFSCME, Local 1583 strike against the uni- versity. The students were dismissed because of their refusal to work in the dorm as a show of support for the walkout. As a result of yester- day's decision the four will receive back pay from the last day of the strike until the end of the winter term. The students went through the university's standard appeal procedure and yes- terday's decision came after an investigation into the matter by University Staff and Union Rela- tions officials. Not a blast Employees of -the Washtenaw County Building got a long lunch break yesterday afternoon when the building was shut down for two hours follow- ing a bomb threat. The threat was called in to the Ann Arbor News at 12:18, and the County Build- ing was immediately cleared. Undersheriff Curt Orsinger said six sheriffs, six deputies, two Ann Arbor police officers and several maintenance work- ers covered the building five times and found noth- ing unusual. The building reopened at 3 p.m. Lou Gordon The man who provided the stage for George Romney's famous Vietnam "brainwash" statement during the 1968 Presidential campaign, is dead. Flamboyant talk show host Lou Gordon, whose taped show was broadcast twice weekly in eight cities by the Kaiser Broadcasting Network, died in his sleep yesterday in Bloomfield Hills at the age of 60. The cause of death was not immediate- ly determined, but a WKBD spokeswoman said "it was heart-related." In 12 years on the air Gor- don acquired a reputation as a tough - if not out- right hostile - interviewer. Several political fig- ures refused to apper on his show, including Rom- ney, after an on-the-air argument with Gordon in 1973. In his last show and a newspaper column in the Detroit News, Gordon blasted the news de' partments of three major local television stations for trying to entertain rather than inform the pub- lic. Happenings .. . ...It's a pretty sparse day, with only two major occurances. The first is at noon, when the Com- mission for Women will hold a discussion regard- ing the proposed University maternity policy in 2553 LSA ... and the second is at 7:30, when the Del Monte Boycott Committee will hold a meet- ing at the People's Produce Co-op, 206 N. F'ourth, to make plans for picketing and leafletting to pro- test U.S. involvement in South Africa. That's itt 0 Son of Godfather Paramount Pictures made screenwriter Alexan- der Jacobs an offer he couldn't refuse, and Jacobs is now at work on the script for yet another is the "Godfather" series of movies. The new film will take place in today's underworld, with the sons of Michael Corleone involved in shady deal- ings. Jacobs is already an old hand at resurrect- ing cops and robbers - his previous film credits include "French Connection II" - but we wonder what will be left for Paramount after this movie makes its millions. Maybe the grandsons of Mich- ael Corleone running an illegal lemonade stand? On the outside If the rest of this season had been any different, we would describe today as "unseasonably warm." But it's just more of the same - sunny, a high of 82, an overnight low of 65. And tomorrow it'll be sunny with a chance of morning and afternoon show- ers and a high in the 90's.