European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday december 6, 1991 Sam Epstein left who lost $65,000 in the collapse of Charles Keatings Lincoln savings and loan reacts wednesday in the courtrooms gallery As guilty verdicts Are announced. At right Keating listens As jurors Are polled. Jurors find Keating guilty of defrauding a amp a investors los Angeles apr Charles Keatingjr. Was convicted wednesday of securities fraud for deceiving the Public through the Sale of junk Bonds at his Lincoln savings and loan. Investors lost More than $250 million when the business collapsed in the largest Thrift failure in history. Keating was found guilty of 17 of 18 state securities fraud counts he faced in the Wake of Lincoln s failure. The failure Cost taxpayers More than $2.6 billion. Keating who turned 68 on wednesday donated $1.3 million to the a Keating five Quot senators and paid colossal salaries to relatives. Keating looked grim As the court clerk polled the jurors to make sure they All agreed with the verdicts. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 Fine because he was convicted of six or More of the counts against him. At one Point he looked sadly at two of his sons in Law Bradley Boland and Robert Wurzelbacher who sat staring at the floor. Beside them chewing  and also looking Down was Carol Cassick Keatings longtime Secretary. �?o1 firmly believe in myself my family my friends and i Vety much believe in my counsel a Keating said outside court. A i look Forward to the future unafraid sure that Justice will be  Jeri Mellon coordinator of a support group of Lincoln investors squeezed the hands of fellow bondholders As every guilty verdict was read. A bondholders who were traumatized by the loss of their Money have seen Justice done today a prosecutor William Hodgman said. Stephen Neal Keating s attorney a said he would Appeal. Both lawyers said a Federal indictment against Keating might come soon. A sentencing hearing was scheduled for feb. 7, and Superior court judge Lance a. Ito declined a request by Hodgman to raise Keatings Bond from $100,000 to $1 million. The largely Blue Collar eight woman four Man jury had to decide a complicated Case whether Keating was guilty of failing to make available to Small investors details of How his financial Empire was crumbling. The verdict came in the jury a 11th Day of deliberations. Jurors breezed past reporters and boarded a crowded elevator then laughed among themselves As they waved goodbye to camera Crews and scores of reporters begging for comment. In the elevator juror Betty shorts 43, said a it was Tough we u never forget it. One Guy got so stressed out he called for a neck  most of the deliberations entered on the Legal definition of the Laws Keating was charged with violating she said. The jury Foreman 21-year-old pharmacy worker David e. Murphy said the most important Factor for jurors was that the Bond sales pitch never changed even As Keating s financial Empire deteriorated Over the years. A a the knew of it and did no to Stop it a Murphy said of Keating. A the was aware of  the 20 investors named As victims were among thousands who lost $250 million when Lincoln collapsed. Woman 96, wins Over pregnancy Story Harrison Ark. Apr a supermarket tabloid should pay $1.5 million in damages to a 96-year-old woman it falsely identified As a pregnant australian newspaper Carrier a jury recommended wednesday the . District court jury found that the Sun invaded Nellie Mitchells privacy and committed actual malice by publishing a photo of her with a fabricated article. It recommended that Mitchell be awarded $650,000 in compensatory damages and $850, pm in punitive damages. Mitchells picture accompanied a 1990 article that said a 101-year-old australian newspaper Carrier quit her route because she had become pregnant by a millionaire customer. The Story did not mention her by name. Mitchell owns a newsstand and delivered papers until she was 90. She filed a libel suit seeking $1 million from the Sun based in Boca Raton fla., and the company that publishes it. Canada based Globe communications corp. She said publishing her photo with the article humiliated her. The tabloid s lawyers conceded that the article was made up As Are other Sun stories and that use of the photo was a mistake. But they said publishing Mitchell s picture did not harm her. During the trial the jury was shown a videotape in which a Sun editor said he selected Mitchells picture to accompany the article because he assumed she was dead. The editor said Mitchells photographs originally were used in 1980 by another Globe communications publication the examiner which published a Story about Mitchells newspaper route. The jury found that the tabloid committed outrageous conduct and committed actual malice by having reckless disregard for the truth. . District judge h. Franklin Waters must approve the award. .striking teachers Brave subzero temperatures from wire reports Rochester Minn. A hundreds of teachers went on strike wednesday and walked picket lines in below Zero temperatures cancelling classes for 14,600 students. No further meetings were scheduled after talks broke Down in the Early morning said state mediator Alan Olson. Wednesdays Low was 10 degress below Zero with the wind chill Factor in the minus-30 to minus-40 Range. The teachers had been working without a contract since july 1 and voted 813-16 on nov. 20 to authorize a strike. Teachers want a 10.3 percent increase in salaries and benefits while the District offered 5.93 percent. Annual salaries now Range from $23,555 to $45,750.. Sends medical Aid Washington a badly needed pharmaceuticals and medical supplies were being flown from the United states to the soviet Union for distribution to five hospitals in Moscow. The shipment is part of a humanitarian Effort launched a year ago by president Bush and is being carried out by project Hope a non profit health organization with . Government support. The shipment which was due to arrive in Moscow on thursday was donated by hospitals and health product manufacturers in new  students strike new Haven Conn. A hundreds of graduate teaching assistants at Yale University staged a one play strike wednesday. They were joined on the picket lines by More than 1,000 members of two University unions. The Job action led to the cancellation of dozens of undergraduate classes taught by graduate teaching assistants and to the closing of some dining Halls. The graduate employee and student organization a group representing about half of Yale s approximately 2,200 resident graduate students struck Over the University a refusal to give the group Union status. Members of two unions representing about 3,600 Yale employees including maintenance personnel custodians and clerical and food service workers joined the walkout in support of the graduate student group. The Yale administration has repeatedly said that it will not recognize the graduate student organization because it considers graduate students scholars in training rather than  loses suit Sacramento Calif. A the state did nothing wrong when it fired a transsexual for failing to reveal on an employment application that he was a Man a judge has ruled. The state employment development department fired Katherine Rosen in 1989 after learning Rosen was a Man and suffered from asthma when hired. Rosen 44, had worked for the department for four months As an accounting clerk. Rosen now female after undergoing a sex change operation this year contended she was fired solely for being a transsexual. Superior court judge Darrel Lewis said tuesday that there was substantial evidence Rosen was fired because of the a intentional and deceptive omissions not because of her asthma and  to visit byelorussian Washington a Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii has added byelorussian to his previously announced trip to the soviet Union and Western Europe later this month. Byelorussian declared Independence aug. 25. Baker will visit there dec. 18 after stopping off in the Ukraine. Both republics Are equipped with nuclear weapons and Baker is expected to discuss that Issue during his visits. State department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said byelorussian officials invited Baker months ago to pay a visit