European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. November 18. T986 the stars and stripes Page 7 sex cabbie defends political Campaign St Paul. Minn. A a month to Mike or graph was earning most of in income driving a cab. But since being elected Minnesota next treasurer he has been accused of hiding thai Lack and misrepresenting his career the act of the matter is i do have the qualify Calion that i slated said Mccrath. 44. He campaigned on the democratic Farmer labor ticket on what he de scribed As 20 years of management experience and said anything else simply supplements  his election nov. 4 Over Independent Republican candidate John Drew with a 55 percent majority catapulted Mccrath into a j4s.760-a-year Job that already was controversial. The incumbent Robert Malison who lost to Mcgrath in the primary was widely criticized in 1983 when he spent most of his tint six months in office in Florida. Malison filed for bankruptcy in 1985, and was quoted As saying inc Job should be abolished. Mcgrath said he will spend the next four Yean proving that i am competent to be state treasurer and restore the Pride thai i bad  but since losing the election. Drew 46. A member of the is. Paul cily Council says Mcgrath has Given false representations of himself to the  Mcgrath s Campaign literature did not mention thai he was a part Lime taxi Driver but described him Only As a business consultant even though he acknowledges he earned More Money in the cab. It also did not explain that he left International Dairy Queen where he was a vice pics Ideal for eight years alter being asked to leave in 1982. He says he was asked to leave because a reorganization left him with responsibilities Hal did t justify his salary and he left 18 month later. His liver lure said he helped form a computer business in 1984. He said his partner supplied the Money and com Puter experience and i invested my self. My management  Mcgrath say he s eager to discuss his background and qualifications. He notes that his Campaign biography contained one error in saying he joined first Trust co. In St. Paul in 1969 while attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota. His successes there prompted him to leave the University and devote his full time Loa blossoming career in Busi Ness the biography said. Mcgrath says he actually dropped out of graduate school and found a Job because he was dissatisfied with the master s degree program. That is the Only Missal Emcil of fact and n s a Mailer of timing not a Mailer of Whai took place he said. Mcgrath said he was t trying to mislead but to portray himself in the Best Light possible. I did t think it would help to refer to his taxi driving bul when asked Aboul it 1 fully discussed it he said adding thai information on his cab business was contained in a Campaign disclosure statement filed with the stale last summer. I can i Sec Why i m obligated to in clude negative comments in my Campaign material he said. Drew said he would have made Mcgrath s taxi Job a Campaign Issue if he had known about it. "1 would have confronted him. I would have said arc you a business consultant or arc you a cabdriver " Drew said. I Don l think there s any thing wrong with being a  fugitives were caught completely by surprise1 Sacramento. Calif. A a con Man accused of breaking his Lover out of prison with a helicopter should i love you to her As they were driven away in separate cars by marshals who tracked them to a store where they bought wedding rings. Ronald j. Mclntosh and Samantha Dorinda Lopez were being held without Bond pending arraignment on hijacking escape and kidnapping charges said inspector Louis Stefanelli of the . Marshals office. Mclyn Losh was in Sacramento county jail and Lopez Al a women s jail in Elk Grove. The couple was arrested saturday As they tried to pick up the wedding ring Sci Al a jewelry store in the Birdcage walk mall in suburban Citrus Heights. We caught them completely by  said chief Deputy marshal David Sian on the two were placed in separate police cars. While wailing to be driven off Mclntosh leaned out a win Dow of his car and yelled i love you to Lopez. Mclntosh disappeared while on an unescorted trip from the Federal correctional institution at pleasant ton to another facility. Eight Davs Lacr on nov. A Federal officials say. He stole a helicopter landed Al the Pleasanton prison and flew off with Lopez marshals said Mclntosh a helicopter crewman in Vietnam who also worked As a lest Pilot rented the helicopter from a san Jose company. The Pilot. Peter Szabo said Mclntosh forced him at gunpoint to land the helicopter and to gel out. Mclntosh then flew 30 Miles soil theasle of san Francisco to the prison to free Lopez. Mclntosh and Lopez worked together Al the coun try club style Pleasanton prison and often walked to Gether Ana held hands practices allowed at the coed facility said Warden Rob Roberts. Marshals traced the couple to Merksamer jewellers by monitoring a checking account thai Mclntosh Kepi under an alias. They said they were alerted when a $4,600 Check to the store cleared the Bank. After idler viewing store workers Al the store marshals set up a stakeout. When arrested Mclntosh was carrying a leather briefcase containing a 9mm automatic a ,357-caliber Sunantha Lopez left and Ronald Mclntosh Are escorted after their arrest by marshals in California. Magnum revolver and 100 bullets. Officials said a Sec Ond 9mm automatic was found in the Glove Compart ment of the couple s vehicle. Marshal Arthur f. Van court said that just before his arrest Mclntosh tried unsuccessfully to open the briefcase. Marshals also found $ 1,180 on the couple. Carol Folsom assistant manager Al Merksamer jew Elers said the couple had visited the store twice previously. She said the Hasty Way the couple Bough about $5,000 Worth of jewelry including two Plain Gold wedding hands made Giorc attendants suspicious. Other purchases included a i Carat Diamond Pendant a Gold Chain and an engagement ring. Mclntosh 43, pleaded guilty earlier this year to slate charges in an $ 18 million futures scam. Lopez 37, was serving a 50-year term for aiding and abetting a 1981 Georgia Bank robbery. Washington audiences lukewarm to Reagan satire Washington a rap master Ronnie a revue written by a Gairy Trudeau and musician Elizabeth Swidas satirizing he Reagan administration is testing Washington s sense of humor and so far its Marks Are Low. Local reviewers blame the show but director choreographer Bill Casl Ellmo says it May be that Wash Tomans know the issues so Well they can t laugh Aboul them. In Chicago they re not dissecting the song the Way the Washington audiences Ere Castellino said. Rap master has played to sellout audiences in Boston los Angeles san Francisco and Chicago. But since the show opened in washing ton oct i a it a failed to Ful the 196-seat hotel lounge where it is performed. Trudeau said the show was written for general audiences and he had no preconceived ideas Aboul How Washington would take it though he admitted he hoped it would succeed in the capital. It was a nut we wanted to crack the doonesbury cartoonist said in a Tele phone interview from new York Trudeau said he had t read the Washington reviews bul i figured sooner or later we were due to get bad ones. He said the same week Washington reviewers were panning rap master Ronnie the show was receiving awards in Chicago. The show originally opened in new York before the 1984 election and. Was intend cd to be an eight week limited engagement. This is All just Gravy he said. He called the show s problems in Washington a combination of bad Luck and other intangibles Hal you can t spec ulate  we had a bad review in san Diego thai seemed politically motivated. How Ever we had four Good months because of word of Mouth he said. In Washington we put together our Best Effort to do what i believe is the most Clear focused and opinionated production of rap master Ronnie we All thought you would be Able to Deal with that Castellino said. The show consists of is musical num Bers tied together by Reagan Impersonator Jim Morris who a Washington critic said captured the president s voice and mannerisms right Down to the Blush on his Apple doll  one of the favorite lines from inc production comes during a mock news con Ference when reporters question the president s command of facts. The Reagan Impersonator responds if you re Nghil 90 percent of the time Why quibble about the remaining 3 percent the musical numbers performed by the six member cast take pokes at the invasion of Grenada the bombing of Libya the moral majority yuppies and the Reagan administration s approach to soviet relations civil rights welfare pro Grams and drugs. One reviewer called the songs too heavy handed while another said they Are not Sharp enough