European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Gorbachev warned on keeping treaties Wasington not a group of powerful Liberal and centrist democrats in the House of representatives has sent a private letter to Mikhail Gorbachev warning that the soviet Union must comply with existing arms treaties or risk the most serious consequences for the future of arms the main purpose of the letter to the soviet several of the signers was to Send a message to mos cow that arms control advocates As Well As critics will insist that existing arms limitation pacts be honoured before future ones can be the highly unusual form of communication specifically stated that prospects for a limit on space based which is widely seen As Moscow major goal in the arms control talks in would become much More difficult without strict treaty Twenty three representatives signed the including three powerful House members who will Deal with future arms treaties Dante Fascell of chair Man of the foreign affairs committee Joseph Addabbo of new chairman of the appropriations commit tees subcommittee on defense and Les Aspin of chairman of the armed services the most pointed reference in the letter was to the radar under construction near Krasnoyarsk in Central is like the these democrats contend that the when it starts working in two or three will be a violation of the 1972 treaty on ant Ballis tic or abm if the Krasnoyarsk problem is not resolved in a satisfactory the letter it will have serious consequences for the future of the arms control including eroding substantive and political support for the abm treaty itself in the Congress and among the american several of the signers said the Model for their letter was one sent to the South african ambassador Here last de Cember by 35 House members who had not previously spoken out against critics of arms control sending this kind of message could be dismissed by the said Stephen but they might take the Point More seriously when it comes from Liberal democrats with a Long track record of support for arms Aspin and Norman Dicks of washing ton were the prime movers in writing and organizing sup port for the which they said was delivered to the soviet embassy on Aspin and Dicks have also been instrumental in building House backing for the my administration officials welcomed the letter As a sign of congressional they did so although they know As Dicks Saio in a Telephone the signers Are hopeful for a strengthening of the existing abm treaty and that the administration will agree to limits on presi Dent reagans strategic defense these will be hard to sell to the administration if the soviets Are in violation of the present he so Reagan has insisted that his strategic defense which is popularly known As Star will not be subject to negotiated the president says he believes defences Are Good and and the administration has also cited purported soviet treaty violations such As the Krasnoyarsk radar As factors in the the administration says the Krasnoyarsk radar violates the abm treaty because it is not located on the Periphery of soviet and because it faces toward what would be the trajectory of incoming rather than As for the satellite tracking that is permissible under the a recent analysis of this radar by British intelligence experts concurred that it was a probable but also observed that the treaty language on allowable radars for satellite tracking and monitoring of arms control treaties did not make it an Operand shut the analysis was first disclosed in an article in the National a Washington the letter says we write As members of Congress who Are deeply committed to the arms control process in Gener Al and to the abm treaty in we believe that the latter was a significant achievement and that its preservation is in the interest of both our we also believe that adherence to existing treaties is a necessity in order for future agreements to be experts in the it who have served in both Republican and democratic administrations have come to the deeply disturbing conclusion that the radar system currently being constructed at once it becomes will violate the abm the letter says the Issue must be satisfactorily resolved if we Are to maintain the existing treaty on anti ballistic missiles or make Progress on other important arms control temporary insurance is proposed for Ohio Ohio a a group of major insurance companies will hear a proposal this week to provide billion Worth of temporary insurance for Ohio privately insured savings and loan according to a published report state officials have been working with the insurance Industry on the plan that is to be presented to the group by Marsh and the worlds largest insurance brokerage consulting the Cincinnati enquirer no Rick spokes Man for the state Commerce said sunday when asked about the the policy would last Only until the institutions Are covered by Federal Deposit insurance or Are merged with companies that already Are federally the same As guidelines for reopening set by an emergency state Law enacted last week after a Bank said Frank Mayfield Man aging partner of Marsh and Mclennan Cincinnati fifteen of the 69 privately insured closed by the state have been approved for the Federal insurance since last for most of Ohio privately insured Sav Ings and saturday was their first Day of business since Richard Celeste or dered the 69 thrifts closed March 15 Fol savings Loans assets mortgages mortgage backed securities other assets government securities other debentures consumer Loans mortgage lending k commercial Loans service buildings and equipment real estate development and real insurance and discount 1977 78 securities brokerage preliminary Chicago Tribune graphic sources Federal Home loan Bank Board league of savings institutions 79 80 81 82 100 teens Rob subway passengers Boston up1 authorities Are investigating a weekend subway rampage by More than 100 youths who punched and robbed at least five sending them running to the Drivers cab for protect transit police said Massachusetts Bay transportation authority police said Between 100 and 150 teenagers attacked a handful of passengers aboard an Orange line subway train about Midnight Friday but none of the victims was seriously an undetermined amount of Cash was police the rampage is under investigation but no arrests have been the Boston Herald said the teenagers had just attended a showing of Friday the part a horror film about a de ranged murderer who kills More than a dozen no official confirmation of that was the attack occurred aboard a single sub Way car passing through the cites Roxbury an area of rundown three deck apartment buildings and High the subway running through Roxbury has been plagued by such gang incidents some of them racially motivated for childrens fund Marks sponsorship up a Guate Malan who spent six years under the care of the Christian childrens fund unleashed multicoloured balloons As the world wide Agency celebrated sponsorship of its the at the Headquarters of the largest childcare Agency in the was a special kind of Homecoming for Yolanda who is now living in Florida while studying English and nearly 150 staff members of the fund gathered on City streets to cheer As the 19 year old Kcf alumnus helped release the balloons Over downtown it All happened in a matter of minutes while the train was moving from Essex Sta Tion to Dudley said Meta spokes Man Listo toward the end of the ride it just police said passengers pounded on the Glass and Metal Walls of the Drivers compartment during three passengers crowded into the tiny cubicle until the youths Meta police Fisher said transit police were called to the Essex Street station shortly after mid night by a Token Booth attendant who said a number of youths had boarded trains with out leaping Over the youths left the train at the Dudley Street station but police arrived too late to make any transit police have routinely been As signed to Orange line trains in an Effort to Cut Down on assaults and other types of crime on the but no officers were aboard the train Friday Meta officials lowing runs on deposits at several Cincinnat Tiara customers were reacting to the March 9 closing of the Cincinnat based Home state savings which is now for institutions already federally insured were not Home states closing was triggered by the March 4 collapse of est government securities a fort securities firm that was a major Lender to Home state and held the thrifts securities As Home state was the largest member of the Ohio Deposit guarantee which insured the thrifts affected by celestes As the reopened Thrift officials reported  activity but no Rush of the Cincinnati enquirer reported sunday that Mayfield and James Man aging partner of Marsh and Mclennan Columbus approached state officials last week with the idea of the temporary Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago March 1945 troops of three american armies were reported to have broken out of their Rhine River Bridge Heads for the thrust into Central on the Loose again behind enemy americans have captured a Bridge intact Over the main Southeast of Frank 30 years ago March 1955 Britain foreign condemning repeated soviet leaks during firepower disarmament said that Russia is All out for pro Pagan 20 years ago today March 1965 the West German bundestag has voted to extend the statute of limitations on murder by five years and thus continue the search for nazi War criminals until 70 years ago today March 1975 saudi arabian King spiritual Leader of the worlds moslem and head of the richest of the Oil producing was assassinated by his mentally unsound Nephew in