European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 12, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Booby wrapped loot foils robber twice in i hour Wilmington Del. A a Bank Robbe foiled by an exploding packet of Dye and tear Gas concealed with the Money he took apparently went to a second Bank Branch minutes later and was foiled the same Way again authorities said. In one Case the exploding packet spewed Money on a downtown Street setting off a lunch time scramble for Cash witnesses said. But a Bank spokes Man said most of the Money was returned. Cars were stopping and people were jumping outland grabbing Money Brenda Johnson a witness said after the robbery turned into a free for Al wednesday. Cash was flying around she said. Two branches of the colonial National Bank about 1 la Miles apart were robbed Between noon and 1 . Wednesday police said. In both crimes Aman wearing a Blue jacket and a red Scarf across his face demanded Cash from a Teller. Authorities said they suspect the same Man was involved in both robberies but planned to compare pictures taken by Bank cameras to be sure. After the first Bank was hit the robber dropped the Money bag he was handed when a packet of red Dye and tear Gas in it exploded. The second time the robber asked that the Money not be put in a bag police said. The Teller handed Over wads of Cash with the explosive pack concealed inside. After the robber left the Bank the device exploded in a Flash of red smoke sending the Money flying on the Street. The Man fled a witness said. The sight of $50, $20, $10 and $1 Bills prompted shouts of hallelujah from one pedestrian. Johnson said she gave police several Hundred Dol Lars that she retrieved after the explosion occurred within 5 feet of her. Bank spokesman Al Jacobson said All but an in significant amount of Money was recovered. He declined to say How much was stolen. Alleged astronaut Falls from Grace with wife Publ n Boston a Robert Hunt scorched som Kitchen tiles and told his wife they fell off the ill fated challenger space shuttle. That police say was just one prop in Hunt s pose Asan astronaut during a period of make believe that car ried him through several states speaking engagement Sand marriages. Now his wife is leaving him and he faces fraud an larceny charges for taking his make believe too far. State police arrested Hunt on Jan. 28 in suburban med Ford. The 27-year-old plumber s son from Everett is accused of swindling his fourth wife and Bride of five months Ann Sweeney of up to $50,000 on her company issued credit card without her knowledge and for taking$4,000 from a Saugus family on the Promise he could get their 18-year-old son out of the  Jan. 6, calling himself Marine capt. Robert j. Hunt the fake astronaut spoke before a group called the experimental aircraft association. He was a very Good speaker he entertained us. Beheld us spellbound for 2 /2 hours said greater Boston chapter president Lou , 23, a former optical Engineer also believed Hunt was an astronaut. I love the person i thought i was married to she added. Recalling the Day he was unmasked Sweeney said i was shocked. It was almost like watching someone die. He just dissolved  is being held on $ 100,000 bail in a Boston jail. His Case in East Boston District court was continue to feb. 17 after a request for reduced bail was denied. Hunt s lawyer James Cipoletta said Friday he has urged his client not to speak to reporters until the Case is settled. But he said Hunt denies the criminal charges.  is eager to dispel any misconceptions that he portrayed himself As something he is not for the Pur poses of personal profit Cipoletta said. Investigators compiling the Story of Hunt s allege stories say for the past eight years he has been fooling Many people in imaginative ways in Massachusetts Florida Pennsylvania and even in Ireland. Montour pa., township police chief Robert Light said Hunt allegedly Rode around Pennsylvania in a limousine seeking models for baby powder pretending to be powder maker. He said Friday that he was investigating charges that Hunt swindled his third wife out of Large amounts of Money. He would not elaborate. Authorities say Hunt is believed to have been mar ried to two other women. Harry Doan the owner of an air service in Dayton Beach fla., was convinced by Hunt that he was a Navy helicopter Pilot. Last summer Hunt chartered a Jet to Fly with his alleged astronaut Robert Hunt right sits with unidentified guard during a hearing in a Boston court. Wife to Montreal allegedly charging it on his wife credit card while telling her the flight Cost nothing because he was a space shuttle Pilot. In Ireland oct. 8, he was granted a 10-minute inter View with Benjamin Briscoe lord mayor of Dublin. Briscoe s spokeswoman said the meeting at mansion House the official residence was arranged after Bris Coe was told Hunt was a visiting astronaut. The spokeswoman said when Hunt told the lord mayor that British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was arranging for him to be married at Westminster Abbey Briscoe realized Hunt was not the full Shil Ling but politely said nothing. During Hunt s arrest police searched the apartment and found assorted military paraphernalia flight jump suits and a helmet bearing the insignia of the National aeronautics and space administration. Or. Park Dietz a forensic psychiatrist who is an feb consultant and a professor at the University of Virginia said there Are cases in Legal circles falling under the category of the so called impostor phenomenon. It s generally believed that people who Are Able to dupe others into believing that they have some professional status that s untrue most Likely suffer from anti social personality disorder said Dietz who is on leave in Newport Beach Calif. He said a recent National Institute of mental health Survey found about 5 percent of adult Urban men and nearly 1 percent of adult Urban women suffer from the disorder. Dietz said the ailment can be hereditary and that people who practice such deceptions tend not to have the same depth of emotions of empathy an warmth despite their  Why Are so Many duped it takes Energy thought mental work to be Skepi Cal about the myriad claims to legitimacy we come upon every Day he said. It s easier to take people a their word particularly when it conveys some status by associating with  Texas lawmakers threaten to Cut salary of governor Dallas a  Cut fever has apparently spread from Washington to Texas where several lawmakers have threatened to slash Goy. Bill Clement salary by $84,000 to bring it in line with their own incomes. State rep. Keith Oakley has drafted Abill to Cut Clements $91,000 salary to $7,200, and the measure has won sup port from other Texas House members who were upset by an Exchange betwee the governor and House speaker Gib Lewis. During a luncheon wednesday at tended by both Clements and Lewis the governor said he would not support legis lation for a raise for state legislators who Are paid $7,200. When Lewis reminded Clements of the Gap Between his salary and that of legislators the governor said and i Hope that Gap gets  Lewis a Democrat from fort Worth is co sponsor of a constitutional Amend ment to raise legislators . However he said he was t angered by the Republican governor s remark. I think it was an attempt to be cute and funny and we All get in trouble whence do that he said. But state rep. David Hudson said Many lawmakers were appalled and Dis gusted by the governor s remark. I am not amused. And members of the legis lature Are not amused Hudson said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Feb. 12, 1949 testifying before the House in american activities committee former communist Whittaker Chambers said that he had recruited americans for soviet espionage in Japan during the mid-19 30s. 30 years ago foe a. Feb. 12, 1959 the Heads of the greek and turkish governments agreed to the establishment of an Independent Cyprus Republic and sent their foreign ministers to London to urge Britain to support the plan. 20 years ago foe a. Feb. 12, 1969 helicopters were used to drop off food and grounded jetliner were used As movie Heaters and dormitories As John f. Kennedy International Airport remained covered by Snow for the second Day in a Row. 10 years ago today. Feb. 12, 1979 speaking on lbs face the nation sen. Henry Jackson d-wash., predicted Long lines at gasoline pumps and Dollar a gallon prices within a year As a result of upheavals in Iran