European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday March 19,1988 insurer ordered to cover owners of cars with radar Baltimore a Maryland s largest Auto Mobile insurer Ean l refuse to insure motorists because icy own radar detectors a slate official ruled thurs Day. The company Greico corp., pledged to fight the ruling. Associate Deputy insurance commissioner Thomasp. Raimondi Purohi bed Greico from making Aulo insurance decisions in Maryland based solely upon the use or ownership of a radar detection device. The guideline constitutes an unfair Trade  Greico. Formerly government employees insurance co., is licensed to provide Aulo insurance in 48 states. The ruling covers Only Maryland and would no affect Gelco s nationwide guideline which was instituted last year. Greico vice president August Altai said the com Pany will seek an injunction against Raimondi s order and will Appeal in Baltimore circuit court "1 can t believe that the stale is telling people to go out and kill people and thai we can t do anything about ii Aligi said. Greico. Which insures about 220,000 Drivers in Maryland has received Only three complaints in Maryland about inc guideline he said. The Aulo insurance Industry in recent Yean has be come More concerned about radar detectors especially since the new 65-Mpti Speed limit became effective in some areas said John Cook vice president of the insurance Institute for Highway safety an Industry financed study organisation. Greico was believed to be the first Large insurer to Institute such 3 guideline said Cook and others. Other of affection Brady Wun 11, Geb a Klu my Giro her Cress ing Guild a Judea of  to the end of the school Day. Tom flick 78, who has been b guard  and n for 23 jeers b foodie of the schoolchildren who Oflyn come Back for visits even after they move to other schools. Companies have retained the system of . Risk based on driving records and convictions said Harvey Seymour vice president of the Industry funded insurance informal Ion Institute. The Maryland ruling stemmed from a 1987 complaint by radar an Ohio based Trade association representing makers end Sellers of the devices. Radio association defending airwaves rights Ine. Criticized Greico for dropping a Maryland policyholder who owned a radar Detector then refusing to take him Back even after he proved he had sold the device. The main purpose of a radar Detector is to help Driver escape speeding convictions Greico said in cancelling coverage for Ronald r. James. People wit radar detectors Speed and May never be convicted. Thus radar detectors prevent Greico from properly assessing its exposure to  Greico argued that owners of radar detectors Are comparable to Drivers with two or More speeding Vio lations. This supposition would have the commissioner take a quantum leap into the land Foz where suppositions and assumptions become reality the ruling said. Citing legislative opposition to Banning the devices Raimondi said he found no evidence to support Gei co s claim that the Mere Purchase of a radar Detector makes a Motorist a greater risk because motorists who own radar detectors Are careless Drivers who have More accidents than the  an estimated 80,000 motorists in Maryland and 4 million nationally use radar detectors which Are illegal Only in Washington d.c., Connecticut and Virginia. Soviets to Honor . Discoverer of Martian Moon Cape canaveral a. A a Sovil space Craft bound for phobos will carry a plaque commemorating the Martian Moon s discovery in 1877 by american Mart Iworner Aull Hall. The National aeronautics and space administration thursday said the soviets agreed to the idea inthe continuing spirit of cooperation in  the phobos Mission scheduled for launch in july should reach the Martian Moon in the Spring of 1989.there will be two spacecraft which will enter phobos orbit and release probes to land on the Moon. The two Moons of Mars phobos and deimos were discovered in August ib77 by Hall of the . Naval Observatory in Washington d.c., using a 26-Inch refracting ill scope. Nasa on thursday presented to representatives of the soviet Academy of sciences a photographic trans Fer on aluminium of Hall s Telescope Logbook Page dated aug. 17,1877. La was turned Over at a lunar an planetary science conference at the Johnson space Center in Houston. Hall first selected an object moving around Mars on aug. 11 and recorded it As a Star. The lag for the 17th records the position angles and separations of phobos and deimos and notes that phobos is faint and difficult to  three Days Laler inc naval Observatory announced the discovery of the Martian satellites and said they had been named for the horses of Mars the roman god of War. Nasa said the soviets have agreed to place an Alu Minum plaque on either the main body of one of the spacecraft of on one of the Landing vehicles. Stateside group issues apology involving Little Crow Minneapolis