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A-11 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1997 Settlement gives Fisher $3 million FISHER FROM PAGE A-1 clear that we want truth and clarity. I want to make sure the regatta occurs again next year. I'm committed to making it work and being a success. We don't want to sink the regatta." "I'm comfortable with what I heard today," Ferlo said. "It's clear sailing for the regatta.

It's a great organization. We're going to put on a better event next year." Deputy Mayor Sal Sirabella, another board member, said he was confident the city will get the $330,000 still owed by the regatta for the past four events, but wasn't sure when the money would be paid. County Commissioner Larry Dunn, also a regatta board member, said, "It was a very positive meeting. The regatta doesn't owe the county any money. It's a very successful event It does a great job of attracting millions of people to Pittsburgh and Allegheny County." al officials, but they were criticized for not publishing a reanalysis of their research.

The falsifications did not change the conclusions of NSABP's research, which included a landmark study that found that many women with breast cancer could safely undergo the less disfiguring lumpectomy, with follow-up radiation, instead of total breast removal. Fisher and two colleagues were also investigated on charges of knowingly publishing research containing data they knew was false. They were cleared of those charges earlier this year. The agreement says Fisher will remain a Distinguished Service Professor at Pitt, without salary, and will have access to NSABP research data. He is currently sci- entific director for NSABP, which now has its headquarters at gheny General Hospital.

-t2 Another provision says that he-and Pitt officials "agree to speak- respectfully and truthfully of eacb-3 other." Fisher filed the suit in July 1994 because he believed he had been unlawfully removed as NSABP; chairman. Named as defendants- were Pitt, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the Office of Research Integrity, as well as officials at the university and the federal agencies. The suit sought unspecified money damages from Pitt, and attojv neys' fees from the federal ernment defendants. The trial wasf scheduled to begin Tuesday.

zy XV prevailed in his 3V-year battle to restore his reputation. In March 1994, he was forced to step down as chairman of the Pitt-based National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project in the furor caused by a Chicago Tribune report of falsifications in NSABP patient eligibility data committed by a Montreal surgeon. Fisher's staff had detected and reported the discrepancies to feder Judge John Brosky Hopes to have results of his panel's investigation by the end of September V1 Hi! REGATTA FROM PAGE A-l 0 tigate D'Errico. "In eveiy whistle-blower case I've ever seen, in addition to investigating the whist-leblower's allegations, people turn around and investigate the whistle-blower." Brosky is a close friend of Connellys and has served on the regatta board for many years, board members said. But Hunt pointed out that "most board members are close friends of Gene Connelly." Hunt said Brosky had "an impeccable reputation in this town," that he was an "honest and fair man" who understood the law very well, and that any suggestion that he would be influenced by his friendship with Connelly was wrong.

Brosky, who earned his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, is a retired Air Force brigadier general and a retired major general of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard: He has been in charge of the regatta's air events, including special flyovers by military aircraft. The coalition he led in 1995 on behalf of the 911th Airlift Wing saved the jobs of 350 civilians and their $14.3 million annual payroll. The wing's eight C-130 transports fly emergency military and humanitarian aid to trouble spots around the world. The planes are maintained and flown by 1,500 Air Force Reservists. Brosky, who is quiet and soft-spoken and prefers a low profile, marshalled hundreds of people in the public and private sector in 1995 on behalf of the Coalition to Preserve Military Presence in Western Pennsylvania.

He has a reputation as a stickler for detail who can be tough when he feels he has to be. He couldn't be reached for comment last night. Brosky was nominated to head the committee by regatta board member and City Council President Jim Ferlo, according to a board member who didn't want to be named. It isn't known how many members will be on the committee. Board members quickly left the meeting, and most didn't want to talk in detail to reporters.

Businessman Floyd Ganassi one of four board members on an inner circle of trustees said D'Errico's allegations were "not as big a deal as it looks. It'll pass the acid test. There's no hanky-panky here. If there was, I'd be a million miles away from it." Board member and city Council-woman Valerie McDonald said: "The board has requested a written report so that we have some accountability here. Frankly, I think the regatta's, financial arrangements were a little too loose, but it's not grand larceny.

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