European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                ,1y, april 3\. 198?. The stans and stripes Page 9 it . Mark Russell satisfied hunger a an eating contest at vots a Japan  Phulo of his Tal  efforts soiled i i Lasle of the judges and won Hetty officer . Gloria Montgomery second place in he feature Gnu Surj in i hi1 Milr i Liolu Grapher of the year conic Montgomery is a Navy journalist. Large rally planned on . Policy Washington Al t Cir  opposing american policy in Centra Amer Ica Ami Southern Africa arc planning ,1 demonstration nest weekend perhaps the largest since the Vietnam protest Day culminating in what is billed As civil  it the entrances of the Cia. As of now there arc 1.000 buses scheduled to arrive saturday and we have 200 coalitions nationwide sending people said Ned Gruenberg of the National mobilization for Justice and peace in Central America and Southern Africa. A similar program is planned for san Francisco the Washington demonstration will extend Over three Days. Saturday is taken up with two rallies one on the Ellipse behind the White House in the morning  other at the Capitol after a mile Long March. The sponsors set sunday aside for classes in civil disobedience in preparation for the demonstration planned Mon Day at the Cia Headquarters in nearby lung Lcy a. Even in the Vietnam Days demonstrators did t venture into that area. We will have hundreds of people Ris King arrest Green Borg said. The dam Onsi razors plan to be on hand at the iwo Entrance gales to  Headquarters. The object of  demonstration is to disrupt activities at  Cia but or Cinberg said he did t know whether the protesters will try to Stop employees going 10 work. Another group plans a demonstration of a different sort. Since we arc pan of the mobilisation we have asked our people not just to bring their bodies but to beg and borrow trucks and bring humanitarian Aid also said Maureen Fiedler of the quix ote Center which has a program called quest for peace. She said she expects 40 trucks from 21 slates loaded with clothing non Perisha ble food Medicine and medical supplies. And educational materials. Their Eon tents will be loaded saturday aboard cargo containers and shipped to Nicara Gua. The ones for peace. Fiedler said set out last summer on a program to raise $100 million in humanitarian Aid. To Dale it has collected $32 million. Businessman gets revenge $ 15 million Worth Portland Maine a when his Bank Cul off his credit five years ago Joseph j. Ricci a new York Street kid who moved to Maine and became a million Aire businessman Gal mad. Last week he got even. A . District court Iury returned a $15 million judgment in his favor again is key Dank for breach of contract defamation and emotional distress. It was  largest civil award in Maine s history capping a seven week trial laced with testimony about cocaine use rumoured mafia conned ions Loose tongued Fri agents and High Slakes Bank mergers. The jury agreed with arguments by Ricci and Hii business partner Massachusetts pay Chialin Gerald e. Davidson thai the Bank had severed their $1 million credit line on he basis of erroneous reports that Ricci was linked to organi cd crime. The bunk maintained dial ii acted prudently after it received derogatory in formation annul Ricci from fill agent and a slate investigator the jul Jear old Ricci insisted from the Noiset that he had Noi fixed his ski million lawsuit fur monetary gain. Me said he sought to Resl Urc his reputation and to Force hankers cd by Piliere la think twice before Violat ing the civil rights of Oiler customers who might have neither the Means nor the will to  Hick. I m going 10 sleep so until. Knowing that my Community believes me Rich said. Me said lie plans to use pan of lie award to establish a Maine Center for civil rights and to help bankroll this year s referendum Campaign by anti nuclear activists who want the state s Only nuclear Power Plant closed. The Bank plans to Appeal the verdict As both excessive and against the weight of evidence. Ricci s Law yers in turn will Appeal the trial judge s ruling that set aside an additional jury award of $12.5 million in punitive damages against the Bank. At the Center of the Long and bitter dispute is the mercurial and flamboyant Ricci a former juvenile delinquent and teen age heroin addict who overcame Hii drug habit and teamed up with Davidson 10 develop a drug rehabilitation program that made them both millionaires. Ricci and Davidson own the thin treatment centers for troubled adolescents As Well As a Maine harness race track. Scarborough Downs. Ricci was a democratic gubernatorial candidate in 14116. The two men were the sign Rel customers of depositors Trust co. Of Southern Maine a 1 ii Riland Bank  in ivis1  undergoing an Ink trial investigation inn in Dii n irregularities. Depositor later merged with another Hank and the consolidated institution was liken a to ill i9sj lib Tkv slurp a Bank hulking company Bawd in a Ian.  when Ricci s name Iii Ned up i n a list of depositors Trust s Large customers it Hud a familiar ring Lubi agents mho were called in As part of Hie investigation Ott  Loans. Apparently mistaking the Maine businessman for another Man who is from Massachusetts the investigators left Bank officials with the impression thai the Ricci they dealt with had mafia tics. According to trial testimony agents passed along word on the Street information that Ricci was the no. 2 or no. 3 Man in organized crime in new eng land had ordered the 1978 Gangland killing of mobster Michael j. Little Joe Napolitiano and had used the Scarborough race track to launder Money from the mob s illegal  Bank Noi Ifird Ricci in january 19k2 that n would Grant him no More Loans but it did not inform him of the damaging information it Hud received. In Slead it dispatched a letter citing changes in the Bank s management and lending philosophy. The Bank s action triggered a Legal Batlle thai raged for nearly five years. The Bank sought to shift liability to  Federal investigators who supplied the information Hul the courts grunted them immunity the Bank defended its actions by slating thai it sought to protect the assets of its depositors in the lace of devastating information from the most reliable source in the United slates the Fri. The Bank also argued that Kim s credit line had already expired and thai the credit Ai Lnu l expressly slated Thill borrowers would have no recourse if a loan were turned Down. Ricci s lawyers said the Hank teared Llinat is association kill hive i mthk1 Jen Pardi a its merger plans. Link Willie us denied tins saying Alliey were concerned hum pcs Siulc loss of loan collateral under Federal Aioli Rucle leering Laws