European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May 1985 Maryland passes Laws for Federal insurance mandatory a Harry Hughes signed into Law saturday seven Bills he said will provide a framework for protecting depositors in Maryland troubled saving Sandlian i am very optimistic about the outcome of much More than i was two Days the governor said at a Bill signing ceremony shortly after the seven which took effect imme were approved in a one Day session of the general the session capped a hectic eight Day Effort by state officials to halt a run on 102 privately insured the governor said the new Laws give the state the tools to keep the operating and to restore Public the main goal of the governors plan is to Force the thrifts into the Federal insurance the larger with assets Over will have to make applications for the Federal savings and loan insurance by june 1 and will be in most to have Federal insurance by the end of the smaller will have up to four years to change Over to the one of the Bills creates a state of Mary land Deposit insurance fund to in sure All existing accounts in All 102 associations up to while the state has no first such trial in Harry Hughes addresses an emergency session of the Maryland legislature to Deal with the crisis facing the states s photo Legal obligation to pay off Hughes told legislators Friday that there is a moral obligation to the depositors who invested about billion in the Maryland the legislature authorized a Mil lion Bond Issue to fund the new state insurance Agency and to help meet the 5 percent net Worth Standard for membership in the Bills approved Friday were part of the governors response to a run on the Sav Ings and Loans that began last week after an announcement that old court savings and the second largest privately insured had serious management the run spread to other institutions and continued until Hughes issued an executive order tuesday limiting withdrawals to per account each 30 the legislature will return the governor has said he will then submit a plan for easing the restriction on withdrawals in hardship Chicago apartheid protesters acquitted Chicago not eight people accused of trespassing at the South african consulate Here were acquitted Friday in a trial that was the first undergone by defendants arrested in the past six months for protesting South Africa policy of racial More than such protesters have been arrested around the nation since demonstrations began in november outside consulate businesses and the South african embassy in but in virtually All the cases the charges were Dis missed without a defense lawyers Here carried what could have been a Short Misdemeanour trial into a new Legal Arena by Basing their arguments on an Illinois statute that excuses criminal conduct if it can be expected to avoid a greater according to the conduct which would otherwise be an offence is justifiable by reason of necessity if the accused was without blame in occasioning or developing the Situa Tion and reasonably believed such conduct was necessary to avoid a Public or private injury greater than the injury which might reason ably result from his own one of the jurors in the Matilda said the jury was initially after Reading the decided the defendants had to do what they the necessity argument is for sex when a police officer speeds to Chase suspect in slayings charged with murder a a 27 year old Parachute his family at his was arraigned on first degree murder charges Friday in the slayings of an air Force captains wife and two Timothy Bailey Hennis stood at at Tention during the five minute and answered when asked by District court judge Lacy hair whether he understood the Hennis did not enter a his wife and infant daughter were in the the stationed at fort has been held without bail since his arrest thursday in the stabbings of Kathryn wife of air Force Gary and in the stabbings of two of their three and who were killed the night of May 9 or Early May he also was charged with sexually assaulting the youngest 18 Mont hold was found unharmed when the bodies were discovered in the House by a sheriffs Deputy responding to a neighbors report of a baby authorities have said a witness reported a Man fitting Hennis description drove from the Eastburn Home at Hennis surrendered after he Learned on television that police were seeking the Man who picked up the East Burns dog two Days before the in an Hennis said he got the dog in response to a newspaper and placed by and that the Only other time he heard from her was Early on the night of the when she called him to ask about the a fleeing criminal or a person is lost starving and Breaks into a Shack to steal we have a to act reasonably to prevent the commission of greater crimes in South said Timothy a lawyer representing the to substantiate their lawyers argued that the government of South Africa has been committing crimes by its policies of racial segregation and that the defendants acted reasonably in their efforts to prevent the continuation of these a jury of our Peers acquitted us but indicted the government of South said Steve International vice presi Dent of the american federation of state county and municipal one of the defendants arrested earlier this this is a Victory for us said another Dennis a South african poet and professor at Northwestern univer sity in the Case stems from two incidents at the South african consulate each the defendants sought to meet with the South african Consul to discuss that coun try but he refused to see the defendants refused to move from the corridors outside the consulate police were called and the defendants were the which owns the Michigan ave nue office building that houses the Consul ate filed a complaint against the protesters and refused to drop it As had happened in similar cases throughout the the City argued that the Case was a Sim ple matter of in closing arguments assistant corporation counsel Dan Walker said that the defendants had other Means open to including contacting their elected As a reasonable Means of the defendants have said they used the jury trial As a form to make Public the policies of racial segregation in South Afri news update fight against aids Atlanta a consultants to the world health organization have recommended that the International health Agency join efforts to develop a vaccine against the published by the National Center for disease was one of several coming from a three Day conference last month in Atlanta on acquired immune deficiency sponsored by the who and the depart ment of health and human the who consultants also recommended that the a Agency with about 150 Mem establish a network of aids research centers and coordinate glob Al reporting of the which cripples the body ability to fight has been re ported most often in the United primarily among homosexual men and intravenous drug More than cases have been reported in this country since Charity donations up new York a americans donated More than 2 percent of their personal income to Charity in the highest percentage since the but that was not nearly enough to compensate for govern ment spending an association of fundraisers has the group also cautioned that tax proposals by the Reagan adm Nistra if could result in a 20 percent decrease in contributions by reducing incentives to organizations and individuals donated billion to More than gift supported groups and in an percent increase Over making 1984 the fourth consecutive year in which giving outpaced in