Thursday, May 20, 1976

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Five

Thursday, MQy 20, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five


Doctor charged in N.J. hospital deaths

HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP)-A
surgeon was charged with five
counts of murder yesterday in
the "'Dr. X" case involving a
series of mysterious deaths in
a hospital a decade ago. Prose-
cutors couldn't prove murder
then, but they say medical ad-
vances make it possible now.
Traces of curare, a muscle-
relaxing drug that can kill when
given in large doses, reportedly
were fo n i in laboratory tests
of tissues from the five bodies
after they were exhumed this
year. Authorities would not say
whether the surgeon, Dr. Mario
Jascalevich, is charged with gi-
ing the vic. ms this drug.
JASCALEVICH, of Englewood
Cliffs, was arrested yesterday,
en route to work at Christ Hos-
pital in Jersey City. He plead-
ed innocent at an arraignment,
and was held for several hours
before being released on $150,-
000 bond. He was not available
for comment.
During much of the investiga-
tion, news accounts had referred
Harriman:
U. . sho uld
cop image
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Democratic party was asked
yesterday to draft a platform
casting the United States as a
world leader instead of global
policeman.
"We cannot, and should not,
attempt to be a world police-
man," Averell Harriman told
the platform committee, "but
we can and should give the
world inspiration.
"WE EXERT the greatest in-
fluence when we adhere to our
national ideals of freedom and
respect for human rights on the
world scene," testified Harri-
man, a former U.S. ambassador
to Russia and one of the coun-
try's leading authorities on the
Sos-iet Union.
Former Chief of Naval Opera-
tions Elmo Zumwalt also de-
nounced those who seek "to cast
Uncle Sam as a cop on the in-
ternational beat.
"Fostering such impressions
undermines the cause of strong
defense and lends credence to
the moralistic assertions of those
who incline toward national iso-
lation," said the retired admiral
who is now seeking a Democrat-
ic senatorial nomination in Vir-
ginia.
ZUMWALT SAID the United
States has a "morally and prag-
teatically inescapable duty to
play a leadership role in the
tternational community, but he
also said "formulators of U.S.
foreign policy should abandon
their superpower status.
"Our interests would be bet-
ter served if these officials per-
ceved America more as a dem-
ocracy tan as a superpower,"
Zmwalt said.
Harriman said detente means
literally a relaxias of tensions
and not an automatic solution
1o world problens
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to the doctor under investiga-
tion only as Dr. X.
The story began in 1966 when
13 unexplained deaths at River-
dell Hospital in Oradell prompt-
ed an investigation that was
eventually dropped when it was
impossible to prove foul play.
Eighteen vials of curare were
found in Jascalevich's locker at
Riverdell Hospital during that
investigation, but he said he
was using it for experimental
purposes with dogs.
BERGEN COUNTY Prosecu-
tor Joseph Woodcock said the
probe was reopened following a
similar case in Ann Arbor,
Mich., and an investigation by
a reporter.
"My chief of detectives asked
if he could pull our records to
see if any of the same people
were involved," said Woodcock.
"At the same time, Myron
Farber of the New York Times
asked if he could see the file.
We let him, and he supplied
some missing information. We
then sat down with a forensic
pathologist to see about the pos-
sibility of exhumation."
WOODCOCK SAID one of the
reasons the case was reopened
was "the medical arts have ad-
vanced in the last 10 years in
determining the cause of death."
He added the bodies of the oth-
er eight persons involved in the
case would not be exhumed.

"We went after those where
we felt we could establish a
cause -of death other than that
appearing on the death certifi-
cates," Woodcock said.
The prosecutor laid he did not
expect the trial to begin until
late this year.
WOODCOCK REFUSED com-
ment on whether he would seek
suspension of Jascalevich's med-
ical license. although he would
inform the. Board of Medical
Examiners of the indictment.
The state's chief medical ex-
aminer, Dr. Edwin Albano, said
yesterday the board would not
act immediately to suspend Jas-
caievich's license.
There was no immediate word
from Christ Hospital on whether

Jasenevich would retain his
staff privileges while under in-
ietment. He hasn't worked at
Riverdell !or several years-his
departure was not conncct.'d
with this case.
V1 OODCOCK SAID he wo-ld
not oppose a request by Jas-
calevich's attorney, Raymond
Brown, for re - exhumations.
Brown made the request yester-
day to Superior Court Judge
Theodore Trautwein, who re-
served decision.
A county grand jury handed
up a sealed indictment Tues-
day that charges Jascalevich
with murdering Carl Rohrbeck,
72; Nancy Savino, 4; Margaret
Pearson, 26; Frank Biggs, and
Emma \. Arzt, 70.

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