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KASsIM SAID she andCohn-opened several more clinics in downtown De- Four guilty, troit and on the east side.Pills shipped to Washington on Greyhound buses. 2 acquitted netted a fortune of several million dol- larsfor Kassim, who once pulled $23,000from a paper bag to pay for a new Lincoln, testimony indicated. of conspiracy Heimlich - author, television per- sonality and inventor of the Heimlich maneuver designed to savethe lives of in drug ring choking victims - testified thatin the decade he had known Krebs, he had foundhimto beabsolutelyhonest...a KA$sIMfromPage 3A maryelous young man," and a brilliant. medical student.Heimlich sald he had of Kassim's testimony. However, she met the doctor through Heimlich's.son, disappeared'in mid-trial,the jury was Krebs'classmate at StanfordUniversi- toldby Ken Robinson, Krebs' attorney. y. Kassimhowever,depicted Krebs as A PLUMP, often smiling woman, an initially naive young intern who, Kassim grew up in New York City and oncehe learned the scope of thedrug movedto Detroita dozen yearsago. The operatlon, wanted to be part of.it and former nurse testified that her.criminal "make a. million dollars as fast as, areer started with welfare fraud and Dossible. flim-flam schemes and evolved into a The government claimed pharma- pharmaceutical drug ring that chan- ist Levine aidedtheflow.of drugs.from neled hundreds of thousands of pills egitimate pharmaceutical.manufactun from.severalclinics to drug dealers and rstojunkies onthe.street.Danner.an junkies in Detroit, Washington, New icks were employes in Kassim's clin York and North Carolina. Ics. Kassim said she started her drug empire in 1979 with a group of over. weight women she sent to doctors to obtain prescriptions for stimulants. Kassim's testimony tended to exon In.March 1980she saidshe and her ate her lower-level employes in th friend and former attorney, Robert qlinic.U.S.District Judge Anna Digg Cohn, opened a diet clinic at 3800 laylor dismissed charges against two, Woodward that soon attracted hun- Curtis Hicks and Sam Fields.Jr., while dreds of junkies. Cohn has not been I the trial was in progress. indieted, but has said federal prosecu- Diggs-Taylor declared a.mistrial for. torshave told him he is a target of an another defendant pharmacist Stanley isvestigation. Iczovitz, early in the trial when a government witness gave prejudicial restimony the witness previously had een instructed not to give. Iczovitz46,of Birmingham, and JohnParker, 50, of Detroit, who be- came ill just before the trial, will be tried on consipiracy counts later, prose. weaid.