European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. August 11. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bloch not ducking his Media Shadow a a a my Mil to 3hmwt to mob us aet la intr i Adi Dunn ton will Lyhl re Mil n Lime when tic will f Jelp of a life ,. By i to i tool Washington a people in Felix Bloch s position often put a coat Over their Heads or run the other Way whenever a news camera is pointed at them. But Bloch the most visible spy suspect Ever uses a different approach. He makes himself available to every Lens and microphone. I be developed a real symbiotic relationship with the Media said Bloch who has not by Choice been Lead ing a caravan of Fri and  since it was revealed he is suspected of spying for the soviet Union. Bloch s walks around Washington arc attracting attention the Way those of president Truman once did. Bloch went fora 22-mile hike tuesday and caused a co Terie of Bloch watchers to go huffing and puffing along. Wednesday was an easier Day. Bloch made a trip to the cleaners and it was recorded by cameras. Me then sat on a Park Bench for two hours enjoying the Cool Bright Day As much As anyone can with microphones brushing his lips. He reached Down to pet his poodle my Philo and a dozen cameras whirred. He stretched Back hands behind his head and microphones stretched out too. People stared but Bloch paid them no mind. It s Lovely Bloch said. I assure you that were it 95 degrees and 70 percent rela Tive humidity i would not be out  but i won t say anything about the  will there come a time when he will  s that possibility and the summer doldrums that causes to networks and other news organization to continue the expensive stakeout. The circus atmosphere around Bloch attracted a persistent heckler and he finally said i m not saying another word As Long As you arc  the Fri agents who were keeping an Eye on this year s Best known spy suspect finally Felt compelled to Tell the Man to Back  government has brought no charges and Bloch is free to do what he pleases when he  m amazed that people have nothing better to do he said to a reporter who was doing what his editors expected him to do. Bloch a High ranking Diplomat at the . Embassy in Vienna Austria for much of the decade is on leave from the diplomatic service while the government investigates his conduct. His new Bond with news Cople was cemented tuesday when he hiked into the Maryland Countryside trailed by his Tentou  normally Don t take walks like that but i had the time and the weather was propitious Bloch said. "1 had the inclination. It was time to prove to myself perhaps that i could outlast the Media and the  they cheated. They Rode part of the Way. They rented bikes they brought in other teams. They May even have been in a helicopter  Felix Bloch is confronted by an unidentified heckler in a Washington Park corps Captain Kristin Baker a 21-year-old is. Military acad Emy Cadet from Burke va., meets the press at West Point n.y., after becoming the first woman selected As Captain of the 4,400-Mtmbtr corps of cadets. Shell serve As commander for the 1989-90academic year. Women were first admitted to West Point in 1976. Art forgery ring Roundup includes prolific Faker los Angeles a an artist s discovery of imitations of his works in a gallery led to the breakup of a nationwide Art forgery ring and the arrest of the Man called the single largest forger of artwork in the United  against a backdrop of colourful paintings that mimicked those of Dali Picasso Miro Chagall and others District attorney Ira Reiner wednesday detailed How the Case against Anthony Tetro was made last month. The pictures Reiner said actually were the work of Tilro. 39, a prolific Clar Cronl artist who drove Rolls Royce and sold his alleged forgeries for $20,000 apiece. Hiro Yamagata a 34-year-old japanese born artist who lives in Bel air was credited by Reiner with breaking the Case. Yamagata who attended the news conference with Reiner said he was escorting relatives from Japan on a tour of Beverly Hills last year when they stopped at an Art gallery. His relatives excitedly told Yamagata his paintings were on display but when the artist saw them he exclaimed i did t paint that Yamagata whose watch colors sell for $6,000 and up went to Beverly Hills police who contacted the District attorney. What followed said Reiner was a cloak and Dagger sting in which investigators posing As Art buyers swept through galleries across the country placing deposits on works of Art then returning with search warrants and seizing the frauds. The yearlong undercover investigation resulted in the seizure of 250 forged paintings Reiner said. The forger in this Case is the single largest forger of artwork in the United Stales said Reiner. He s been in business for a Long  Yamagata went with investigators to new Yor where the Brooklyn District attorney s office helped retrieve forgeries of his work from a major Art gallery. The investigation then led directly to the forger. Or. Tilro said Reiner who noted it is almost unprecedented to find the actual Painter of fake Art. He displayed a paper Tablet found in Tetro s Home which allegedly showed he had been carefully copying the signatures of Dali Leroy Neiman and Norman  fake Rockwell was found among the 250 paintings  of the fake paintings were recovered from Japan Reiner said indicating the forgery network May have been  stood before a massive copy of a Dali painting entitled Lincoln and Dali vision which he said would sell for $2 million if it were the original. It was painted by Tetro he . Arrested last month and freed on $10,000 bail was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit grand theft and 44 counts of  along with him is Mark Henry Sawicki 31, an Agoura Art dealer who ran a gallery in Sherman Oaks and allegedly distributed Tetro s forgeries to galleries in Beverly Hills new York Chicago and Boca Raton Fla. None of the galleries was charged and Reiner said they apparently were unaware the paintings were forgeries. Even the most sophisticated and honest gallery can be duped he , who Speaks halting English said he has been painting since he was 7 and has worked since then to develop his distinctive style. Raise Money Supply Cut spending report says Washington a Congress i being advised that cooperation by other countries could bring the United states Only $10 billion closer to balancing its worldwide accounts by 1994, and that the cooperation would be hard if not impossible to  congressional budget office is estimating that under present Laws the United Stales will spend $75 billion More in other count pics than it takes in from them in 1994. For this year the figure is $129 billion. These arc estimates of the current account deficit the widest measure of in come and outgo. They include nol Only Trade in goods but Money up Cal for serv ices such As banking and airline fares an Money paid Oul As interest on debt. The report policies for reducing the current account deficit suggests the deficit could be brought Down most by cutting government spending and in creasing the Money Supply. Its calculation is based on a spending Cut that amounts to 1 percent of the total the United Stales produces that is More than $40 billion. Ii suggests a 4 percent increase in the Supply  changes would reduce the $75 billion deficit by $29.9 billion in 1994, i figures. The report also looks Ai what would happen if other countries also increase their Money Supply by 4 percent and increased their govern Mcnol spending Byi percent instead of cutting it. Such increases would provide the additional $10 billion Cut in the . Inter National balance bringing it Down to$45.1 billion in 1994. But Stephan Thurman an analyst inthe office called the suggestions for other countries action unrealistic