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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. March 12. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Marc oses named in new indictment. Alleged theft total raised to $345 million new York up former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos his wife to Meta and several associates Are accused in a new indictment of stealing $345 million. $77 million Marc thai previously charged authorities disclosed Friday. The six count indictment fixed in . Dis Ricl court supersedes previous indictments. The initial charge was filed oct. 21 this one brings to four the number of super coding indict men is since then. The Marcoss and their  initially were charged with tooting the philippine Treasury of si03 million be ginning in 1978, and defrauding Ameri. Can hanksof$65 million through fraud Ulen financing schemes.1. Among those named in he indictment Are Bienvenido Ganioco sr., former philippine ambassador to the Vatican and his wife. Gliceria. Documents Lisl the couple As owners of four Manhattan properties valued at some j400 million that he indictment said were purchased with stolen funds. Also named Are saudi arabian billionaire anon Khashou i Roberto 8en-Cdiclo, a major  a philippine Bank and chairman of the California overseas Bank which also was named and Rodolfo am Buto an officer of the California Bank named As in indicted co Rackl cars were be Roa of Munci executive Secre tary Anil personal aide of inc Fra Marcos Bienvinido Tantoco jr., and Karl Bock Peterson an associate and employee of Khash Oggi. An attorney for Marcos who is re ported to be near death in a Honolulu Hospital declined to comment on the new charges. Maida Marcos was arraigned in . District court in Manhattan in novem Ber and released on $5 million Bond posted by tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Marcos. 71, has not been brought to new York from his Home in Honolulu because of his poor  suffers from kidney and heart Dis ease and underwent two kidney trans plants the first of which was unsuccessful according to court testimony. He also suffered a collapsed lung and pneumonia earlier this year. The Honolulu Star bulletin said in an article thursday thai Marcos appears to lie wasting away in a Hospital and ills wife says he is dying. The article was written after a reporter visited Marcos in the intensive care unit of St. Francis medical Center where Marcos has been confined for sew weeks the newspaper said Marcos left Arm was atrophied and dotted with scabs and Needle Marks. Its tags were said to be childlike spindly with Little muscle mass or Lone. At a hearing feb. 18 on Marcos health judge John Keenan told attorneys in he Case you know and i know and everyone in this court knows that As of today he can t stand  another hearing on whether Marcos could be forced to appear in new York is scheduled for april 17. Photographer Mapplethorpe Dies of aids at 43 by he lat Angeles times Robert appt Thorpe. 43, praised As much for his exquisite photographs of Flowers As for his fetishistic  erotica died thursday of a of related complications at new England deaconess Hospital in Boston a spokeswoman for his gallery said. Appt Thorne was diagnosed with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to Mac than a year ago and was in Boston for special treatment Hon his condition wors ened unexpectedly said Susan Arthur of the Robert Miller gallery in new York City which represented him. He began getting National attention in tic mid 1970s As part of an offbeat culture that included Lone time Friend Rock Singer Patli Smiths he worked in several Media including collage and him. Commenting on the world of classic Beauty and sadomasochism that Mapplethorpe bisected throughout his Short career los Angeles times Art writer Suzanne Muchnic in i9s2 said Mapple Thorpe s work confuses expectation because it is a scatter shop assortment of everything from delicate Romance and Good humor to brutal initiation. The artist who emerges seems to have an extraordinary Talent and a dehumanizing  Mapplethorpe who was about to publish two new books of his work was probably Best known for the controversy surrounding his homosexual oriented photographs of the 1970s, his favorite medium was Black and  he also  sonic with color   Tures whelp Ttorp poll or Lair Evart lighted and pro Robert Mappy Tharpe in � 19so self portrait incr aphid so the Yappy Itras sculpture. I just want to be written about As a Normal  Happli Tom pc once said. I never wanted to be a photographer he Laid. It. Was sort of a mistake. Rally. I Only wanted 10 Mau a statement and photography ended up being the Vilii last August new York s Whitney museum of american Art featured 100 of his works in a one Man show. A new York weekly 7 pays reported thai map pc Thorpe. Visibly suffering from aids appeared at Ilic opening Dapper   for an hour he was propped up on a Couch. Surrounded by his picture then when the crush of Well wishers made the place too steamy he was whisked  photographer s recent work reflected his illness Arthur said. His pictures now were about what he a experiencing. That he was fighting dying makes them that much More timely in this age of Alps Arthur said. His self portraits published last year show his once Aura Ettic features drawn and emaciated. Many arc now on View in a current exhibition at the museum of contemporary Art in Chicago. Bom in 1946 the son of an electrical Engineer and raised in a Middle class Catholic Home in Horn i Ark  took to Manhattan s 42nd Street in the 1960s seeking subjects for what would become his often Bleak photographs in 1962, he enrolled at the Pratt Institute one of new York s top Art schools and studied there for eight years. Columnist will quits College Post by the Baltimore evening Sun Baltimore political commentator George will has resigned from the University of Maryland s Board of re gents after reports hat he read not at tended any meetings of the Board or ils commit lets in his letter of resignation will whose pol Cal column is nationally syndicated said the  pcs signal career Art incompatible with his obligations to the University of Maryland vol will submitted a resignation letter to nov. William Don Ald Schaffer after the. A Baltimore evening Sun reported that will had not attended any of the seven regents meetings held since july. The letter was dated March 2, the same Day a reporter tried unsuccessfully to Contact will  comment on his attendance record. Board of regents chairman Peter o Mulley said thursday that he had accepted Llic resignation but added he was disappointed by will s decision. A search it scat staff. To find a replacement for will s Reg will be conducted by schaefers o Mallcy said. Schaefer said that he appointed will who also serves As an Abc to network commentator to the 17-Mcmbcr Board july 13 because of the prestige of his name he s a very very smart Man the governor telephoned will last sum Mer to seek his services As a Regent and Wilt warned Schaefer then thai his professional schedule could conflict with Board duties. Will s resignation letter said. I be s a very decent Man the governor said. He knows everybody. He docs inter views with the greatest. He was just a good1 person to have on the. Board of regents even if he could t come to ail the Secl ine5 " will was the Only member of the Board who never attended a meeting a University spokeswoman said last week in addition. Will never attended any meetings of the boards educational , to which he has been assigned. O Mallcy said the shortsighted Media attention Given to will s poor attendance record  s value As a re gent. He would have been an enormous Assel whether he attended the meetings or Noto Malley said. By giving a single speech he would have enhanced the University s ability to reach its goals in our private fund raising Campaign. It is a significant loss to the University and to the state of  the University s fund raising Campaign is seeking to raise $200 million in five years the regents arc charged with coordinating  on the i  up the  schools were placed under the same umbrella last summer in an overhaul of the state s higher education sys tem. The Hoard oversees an annual budget of More than j500 million Britain ends separation of dec nationals at ports London a Britain took an  toward european Unity Friday by abolishing separate lines for British nationals m International air and sea ports the Home office said. Until now separate lines at immigration control separated British passport holders from citizens of the other 11 european economic Community nations the new arrangement sets one line for All dec nationals and one far other nationalities a statement said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 12, 1949 Otto Icahn. A 70-year-old German scientist who won the Nobel pric in 1944 for his Pioneer work in uranium fission said the soviets could a Uinci have enough i Uton Iuni to produce an atom bomb. 30 years ago today. March i2, i9w during a news conference in Washington president. Eisenhower said the United slates a cold not win an All out War in Europe with ground forces but would have to resort to other mean. 20 years ago  12, 1969 tens of thou s kinds of striking workers chanting Down with de Gaulle marched through he streets of Paris in an attempt to Force the French government into giving substantial wage increases. 10 years ago foday. March ii. 1979 Prici ident Carter ended talks with israeli prime minister. Menachem begin in Jerusalem saying important issues remain to be resolved in the quest fora Mideast peace treaty  
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