European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 9, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Pago 3 la Esperance quilts in 1988 photo Are Back Row Raymond Danielle Veronica and front Row Erica and Alexandria. Quint so parents open hearts Home to 3 nieces for a total of 11 i Davisburg Mich. Apr Welcome to the la Esperance Home where kids will be kids will be kids will be kids will be kids. And that a just the quintuplets who arc the nations first test tube set. Besides the 2 k year old quilts Michele and Raymond la Esperance have three sons from previous marriages and now Are caring for three nieces at their Home North of Detroit. That a 11 kids if you re counting. It Hasni to been easy. Food costs $350 a week and the Telephone was briefly Cut off last month for non payment. The couple worried that their electricity was next and had to hand their limousine the Only vehicle that could carry All the kids Back 19 the finance company. Raymond 29, is a Macomb county jail guard bringing in $26,000 a year his wife 36, works at a shelter for battered women. Recent publicity Over the couples tight finances upset the family mrs. L Esperance said. She says they can care for their children but need a Foster Home License a and the increased state Aid it would bring a to care for her Sisters Brood. A Why take them from family a she said in an interview outside the family a two Story Home. Oakland county probate judge Barry Grant was angered at a hearing last week concerning the License that was requested five weeks ago. He ordered the state department of social services to explain Why it Hasni to acted on the couple s request to waive rules that normally exclude a family with eight or More children from being a Foster Home. A this is government bureaucracy at its worst a Grant said. As Foster parents the la esp Rances would receive about $1,000 a month for their nieces rather than the $295 in welfare they now get. The la Esperance told Grant that private donations will let them keep their nieces regardless of the government s decision. Outside court they wont talk about Money. The couple apparently once expected that commercial endorsements would offset the sudden costs of Erica Veronica Danielle Alexandria and Raymond jr., who were bom 10 weeks premature in january 1988. A no endorsements occurred. Multiple births had become a lot More common Quot said attorney Thomas Plunkett who was hired to negotiate contracts. Even being the country s first quilts to be conceived through in Vitro fertilization did no to land offers Plunkett said. There were donations a limousine rides from the Hospital cribs clothing and toys. And Gerber products co. Still pays for any Gerber baby food clothes or other company items that the family uses. It will do the same for any quilts company spokesman James Lovejoy said. The la esp Rances married in 1986, using $4,000 for in Vitro fertilization rather than holding a fancy wedding. In that procedure a woman receives Fertility drugs to stimulate ovum production. The eggs Are surgically removed mixed with sperm and re implanted. Last year mrs. L Esperance a nieces Ages 6, 10 and 13, moved in. Their parents who Are unemployed told the court last week that they would receive alcoholism treatment according to Grants clerk John Chamberlain Belfast Northern Ireland apr the top British official in Northern Ireland has set a three a Cyk deadline for protestant and roman Catholic parties to agree to terms for negotiations on new political arrangements for the province. Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke said on saturday that he hoped to announce an agreement before Par Siam Cut began its summer recess on july 26. Negotiations would Likely begin in the fall. A if i Haven to made a statement by the time the House Rose i think eyebrows would be raised a Brooke told reporters in Redcastle Ireland where he met saturday with Irish prime min Istir Charles haughty. The Irish governments role in the negotiations appears to be the main Issue. Leaders of protestant unionist parties insist that Dublin has no legitimate role in the provinces affairs while the Irish want to be involved Early and often. A we Are dealing with positions that have been entrenched for centuries a Haughey said a therefore to get this sort of process under Way requires sensitive flexibility by us  Brooke and Haughey met in county Donegal for the official Start of a Cross order social and economic study. For the past six months Brooke has been holding a talks about talks Quot with leaders of the two main protestant parties a the Ulster unionists and the democratic unionists a and the social democratic and labor party supported by a majority of the provinces roman catholics sinn fein the Legal political Wing of the Irish Republican army has been excluded from the discussions. The talks would be aimed at restoring a measure of self government in Northern Ireland which has been directly ruled from London since 1972. Brooke had hoped to announce plans for negotiations last week but told the House of commons that some issues remained. He has said he is aiming for an agreement that is acceptable to the political parties and the British and Irish governments. Unionists Are intent on replacing the Anglo Irish agreement signed in 1985, which guaranteed Dublin a say in Northern Ireland a  film bolsters terrorist harbouring charges Budapest Hungat apr state television saturday showed what it said was footage of a 1980 meeting in which communist  agents tried to persuade International terrorist Carlos to leave Hungary. The footage appeared to Back up allegations made three weeks ago that Hungary a former communist leaders had harboured terrorists and allowed Carlos also known As a the jackal a to use the country As a base for his attacks. The report did not indicate How Long Carlos allegedly stayed in Hungary. Carlos remains at Large. A former communist official interviewed on the program claimed that the communists tried to oust Cartos As soon As they discovered he was operating from their country. The nations communist party disbanded in october. Carlos a Moscow University graduate began his life As a terrorist in 1973 and topped Interpol a most wanted list by 1975. In december of that year he allegedly organized an attack in Vienna Austria on open 01 ministers three people were killed in that attack. State television said the meeting shown in the film took place in 1980 in an office of the Interior ministry a department for the supervision of foreigners and was filmed without Carlos knowledge. There was no indication of How the film was obtained. Interior minister bala2s Horvath said on june 27 that he had instructed the chief prosecutor to investigate former communist party officials who allegedly provided shelter and a training ground for Carlos whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez and his terrorist group. The Man identified As Carlos in the film spoke fluent but accented English. The two hungarian agents spoke hungarian among themselves and English to Carlos. The conversation was poorly recorded and difficult to make out at times so the film was subtitled. One agent told Carlos that he a must liquidate your base of operations Here must Stop using Hungary from where to direct your group because there is danger. Your operations May be compromised. Quot also if you were to continue the interests of the hungarian Peoples Republic May be jeopardized if you Are associated with  the hungarian attempted to mollify Carlos by telling him a you can travel through Hungary or even stay for Brief  Andras pet Rescics one of the agents said in an interview on the program that the terrorist accused him of being a an imperialist agent Quot and of acting without the knowledge of his superiors to get him to leave. The former communist chief of counterintelligence Miklos Redei also was interviewed in the program. Redei who also met Carlos said a the gave the impression of being paranoid afraid but he was not  Horvath said last month that recently discovered documents implicated the late communist party Leader Janos Kadar former Interior minister Andras Ben Kei former president Karoly Nemeth and Antal Gyenes former head of the communist party a foreign relations department in the Carlos Case. One of the documents produced by Horvath was a letter allegedly written to Kadar by Carlos in 1980, the same year the terrorist apparently left Hungary. A from our base in Hungary we have developed our International ties getting in Contact with the revolutions of every nation without any hindrance on the part of the hungarian authorities a the letter purportedly said. Yenkei Nemeth and Gyenes have denied any role in sheltering terrorists