European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 21, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 expert says army doctor did not kill family san Diego Calif. A former army doctor Jeffrey Macdonald was wrongly convicted of murder in his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1970, a psychiatry professor specializing in the psychology of killers said thursday. Macdonald convicted in 1979 of the slayings of his wife Coll Etc and their two Young daughters is serv ing three life sentences on one charge of first degree murder and two of second degree murder. He blamed the killings on a band of hippies who he said stabbed him several times in the attack. Ema  Tanay who began reviewing the Case two years ago presented his findings thursday to a meet ing of the american Academy of forensic scientists. The prosecution s scenario in the Case is a total fabrication Tanay said wednesday in a Telephone interview Tanay spent hundreds of hours reviewing 60,000 to 80,000 pages of court documents and psychiatric evaluations in the Case but did not interview Macdonald. He said he concluded Macdonald s personality did not match the profile of a family Type Kilter fling9 it cameras from Kodak fu/7 hitting Market Rochester. By. Up Eastman Kodak co. Plans to sell a 16.95 disposable Cam Era called the fling later this year the company said thursday. The Kodak announcement came one Day be fore rival Fuji photo film co. Ltd. Was to Intro Duce its Quick snap disposable camera which has sold successfully in Japan for several months. The fling will be unveiled at the photo marketing association s annual Trade show in Chi Cago beginning feb. 22 and will hit the . Market later this year said Henry Kaska a Kodak spokesman in Rochester. Peter Palermo a Kodak vice president and general manager of consumer products said the new camera is basically a 110-size Koda color film Cartridge with a plastic Lens shutter and manual film Advance when the Roll is used the entire camera is returned to the photo finisher for processing. Kaska denied Kodak s announcement was timed to steal the Thunder from the Fuji s Dispo Sable camera debut but Industry analysts Dis agreed what i think is apparent is Kodak s desire to pre empt Fuji s announcement said Eugene Gla Crof Dean Witter Reynolds inc. Fuji is expected to unveil a 24-Cxposurc, 35mm disposable camera that uses its highest Quality super hr400 400-snced film. List Price will be about 110, Glazer said Kodak s fling which is the size of a Box of 110 film takes 24piclu, using top of the line or a 200 film. The list Price of 16.95 is less than Fuji a but Kodak s 110-size film May not provide the same Quality enlargements As the larger 35mm dim Fuji is using experts said. Photo Industry experts Are optimistic about the Success of disposable cameras. The fling and Quick snap Likely will be sold at the supermarket checkout line with other disposable consumer products such As cigarette lighters and batteries. It does t fit the personality of Macdonald or his wife for a family Type killing said Tanay author of numerous studies on homicide and the 1967 Book the murderers and a professor of Psychia try Al Wayne stale univer sity in Detroit. Their s was no relation ship that would explode. This was.3 Loving couple. Everybody testified la that he said. Former Macdonald prosecutor Jim Blackburn now practising Law in Raleigh n.c., Dis counted Tanay s theory. The statement that his personality docs not fit the crime is now irrelevant inasmuch As that Type of de sense was presented to the jury in 1979. As for the government s prosecution it was Correct the jury believed that and it s been upheld on  Freddie Kassab Macdonald s father in Law said Macdonald thursday from his new Jersey office that Tanay was hired years ago to help Macdonald s Case. Tanay said his study was strictly a voluntary of  Kassab of Jamesburg n.j., said several other psychiatrists had said there was no Way a psychiatrist could say whether n Man was capable of committing a crime ahead of Lime. The physical evidence has always been extremely Strong that he committed the murders Kassab said. At the time of the slayings Macdonald was assigned to it special forces unit at fort Bragg n. A the army brought charges against him but dropped them based on insufficient evidence. Macdonald s fall or in Law pressed for a civilian probe and Macdonald was indicted in 1975. Tanay said the slayings of mrs. Macdonald and the Girts age 2 and 5, fit the pattern of a torture Type killing consistent with Macdonald s claims that they were attacked by a sadistic clan similar to that of Charles Manson and his family convict cd in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon talc and several other people Reagan plan to hike a loan fees voted Down in House committee Washington a president Reagan s proposal to sharply raise fees for a Home Loans failed its initial congressional test before a House committee that also recommended increased spending on Veter ans medical care. The House veterans affairs committee voting unanimously by voice thursday called for an additional $716 million in he veterans administration budget for fiscal 1988, included in the report to the full House budget committee was a recommendation thai $30 million be added to the a budget to care for the treatment of veterans with aids. The panel also voted unanimously to Send to the full House a Resolution saying Congress opposes Reagan administration spending recommendations that would eliminate Money to care for certain categories of mid dle income veterans. Unlike the president s budget we have recognized that the Veteran population is getting older and that As they Wilf chairman Reagan s proposed a budget included a provision to raise the fee for Home buyers under the a Mort Campaign against aids a m Oise a a inc get older they will seek can More often and they ill require longei1 lengths of stay said the panel s chairman. Rep . Montgomeryd miss Gage guarantee program from i percent to 2.5 percent of the loan amount. Critics said that would More than double the amount of Cash veterans must have when they gel a a loan and decrease the attract Ivan ass of the pro Gram to veterans. Lenders and Home builders have opposed the increase the committee s proposal would keep the fee at i percent and require an additional �411 million in out lays to cover revenues anticipated by the fee in crease. It also would add $246 million id allow the a s system of hospitals and other medical facilities to continue current services in fiscal 1988. The president s proposal would eliminate Money to care for veterans of moderate income and who Are not otherwise entitled to care because of military injury or other reason the committee estimated the administration s proposal would reduce a patients per year by More than 13,548. The committee also voted for More Money to House homeless veterans to build a hospitals and nursing Homes and to treat aids the deadly acquired immune deficiency syndrome. . To sep up condom Giveaway new York a the City health department will give away an additional 1 million condoms in the coming year to help fight aids a department spokes Man said thursday the department has been dispensing free condoms to family planning clinics health fairs and Community organizations for several years an additional $300,000 appropriation will allow the Slep cd up Effort said Martin Mcginley. He did not have figures on the number of condoms distributed in the past. The condoms will be dispensed at health clinics family planning clinics and social service organizations where there Are Large numbers of intravenous drug users Mcginley said. He said the City has had 9,000 cases of aids since 1981, and we Only Sec the problem gelling  the number of people infected with the aids virus in new York is estimated at half a million he said. The Only Way to prevent the spread of aids is educating the Public on How to prevent gelling aids and How not to engage in risk behaviour and to pro Mote the use of condoms which will prevent the spread of the virus he said. Arizona House oks Martin Luther King state Holiday Phoenix Ariz a the Arizona House voted 35-25 thursday to Cre ate a stale Holiday honouring the Kev. Martin Luther King jr., hours after a Senate committee rejected an identical measure in a straight party line vote. " think the House comes out of this As a class act House minority Leader an Hamilton a Democrat said after the vote. Eleven republicans joined All 14 democrats to approve the measure. A Holiday will have a Healing effect on divisions in this slate Hamilton said in Brief remarks on the House floor. Opponents in the Gap enl rolled chamber did not respond. Earlier the Senate s government committee Defeated the idea 6-3 in a Vole characterized by less temperate Lan Guage but supporters said they expected another vote later this year arc we going to be part of the United Stales or Are we going logo off with for Sylph county somewhere Senate minority Leader Alan Stephens a demo crat said after the committee vote referring to a Georgia county with no Black residents where klansmen disrupted a civil rights March last month the question of a state Holiday Honor ing the murdered civil rights Leader has been a controversy since the new Republican governor Evan much am last month cancelled the Day off for executive Branch employees that had been pro claimed last year by his democratic predecessor Bruce Babbitt. Mcchamp contended that Only the legislature which had narrowly Defeated the Bill last year could designate a holi Day. Congress adopted the third monday in january As the Federal Holiday honouring King and Observance began in 1986. In the debate in the Senate committee opponents said that among other things they objected to a provision in the Bill that would Combine the stale s washing ton and Lincoln holidays into one Day to make room for a King Day Al no additional Cost. The Bill was Defeated in com Mittee on a party line vote democrats for republicans against