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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan D3l: & 15A Edition: 10/29/82 (Mount Clipping in Space Below). NARCOTICS MATTER or Submitting Office: Detroit amed doctor testifies in drug case. By TIM BELKNAP cursory medical examinations - were given written orders for Free PressStaff- Writer drugs and where bouncers were needed to keep order among A famous chest surgeon testified Wednesday that Dr. Ryan unruly junkies. Krebs,charged with conspiring with.Nellie Bell Kassim to operate Krebs was workingpart-time-for Kassim while in-his-medical amultimillion-dollar drug ring, was a "marvelous young man" residency at the University of Michigan.Kassim, who becamea who-he would.still welcome to accepta prestigious research.post. governmentwitness as part of a plea-bargainingdeal, described Dr..Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich.maneuver Krebs-asan initiallynaive.doctor who,once.he realized.the scope credited with saving the lives of many choking victims,testified of-theoperation,wanted to be.a.part:ofit.and "makea milliondol- in federal court Thursday that Krebs,29,is like my'son -he's lars' as fast as possible. absolutelyhonest,and'I.can't conceive ofhim straying....Ican't Heimlich,62, said he first met Krebs 10 years ago through accept any of the things that I've heard. charged against him." Heimlich's son, who was a classmate of Krebs' at Stanford University.Heimlich said he'd-followed Krebs' education and PROSECUTORs SAY Krebs, one of six alleged co-conspirators "was impressed with his intelligence and decency.'. on trial, wrote prescriptions that were used to get pills sold to Heimlich said Krebs visited the Heimlich family in Cincinnati Junkies and dope-dealers in Detroit and Washington, D.C.. between Dec.11 and 13,198i.Kassim had testified-earlier that They say Krebsopened the Jefferson MedicalClinic at 12874 she had seen Krebs writing prescriptions for her in Detroit that E. Jefferson with Kassim in October 1981 and worked at other weekend.' clinics owned by Kassim.Witnesses have described the:clinics-as .. Heimlich said during that weekend he offered Krebs.a job as! . prescription mills where customers - who at best were given SeeDRUG SUSPECTPage 15A SEARCHED INDEXED StnSLz FILEL F8/DO