European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page a team of mow sculptors from Japan took at their work a a Flaky idea that turned into a Snow Job before opening Melr lint major exhibit in die which May be the Only nation in the world to offer lit army in the it of now teat toe Whit stuff artists from Sapporo on the Island of up mandatory 2year term in Federal crimes Senate oks curbs on firearms use Washington up the Senate voted Friday to impose a mandatory two year jail sentence on anyone using beams in Federal crimes of violence against other but made an exception for legitimate acts of self the action came As the Senate continued work on a voluminous Bill to revise and modernize some Federal Laws into a uniform criminal in its seventh Day of before put Ting off further action until next the Bonns lower House passes record budget Bonn a the bundestag lower Bouse Friday approved West Germany record 1971 budget of billion Marks billion on a 252237 following a heated fou Day the 27 West Berlin deputies represented in Bonn were divided the 1978 figure represents a 10 per cent increase Over last years about 30 billion Marks billion or on sixth of the amount has to be raised through cred if approved by the bundesrat upper House the new budget can become Law on March Senate passed by voice vote a series of amendments by James to a new Section of the Bill making it a separate crime to use a weapon in the course of another the new code proposal would make the courts consider use of a destructive device or other dangerous weapon in the course of a crime As a separate punishable by a mandatory prison term of not less than two one of Mcquren amendments would limit the provision to offences committed against another not those against in Mcclure added a Section to free an individual from a mandatory jail sentence if it can be shown the weapon was used in self Madures amendment would deny a Sel defense plea if an individual killed an assailant and the judge or jury determined excessive Force was Mcclure said he wanted to make sure the plea was not available to persons who use excessive Force and take the life of another individual a third amendment ensures that the per son charged must actually have wielded the dangerous weapon in the course of a crime to be subjected to the mandatory jail the Senate engaged in another debate Over obscenity provisions in the Bill this one directed at a provision that would have made prosecutions impossible if pornographic material was Legal both in the state where it was produced and where it was Lames objected to the contending it would flood the country with a cesspool of Allen tried unsuccessfully to Knock the provision from the he also was Defeated in an Effort to Amend the Section soil would apply Only if a state had specifically made pornographic material rather than the current practice of passing Laws making specific by a 744 the Senate agreed to an Allen amendment making it possible to bring an obscenity prosecution if the material was illegal in the political sub division where it was being disseminated even if it was Legal in the Batman charged with fraud that biggest single amount in the budget is at of the labor ministry with Bil followed by defense expenditure total ing billion and the transport ministry new York a David once the Batman half of the Batman and Robin detective team and now a Brooklyn has been charged with defrauding the Federal government and a Bank of nearly a Federal grand jury in Brooklyn handed Down a 14c o u n t indictment Friday again St the 34yearold who was elec Ted to the state Assembly on u Lawa Dorder platform in in addition to the fraud Green Berg was accused of obstructing Justice by trying to influence witnesses to lie to a grand jury about the alleged Greenberg and his police Bob became National celebrities in the Early 1970s when their unorthodox ways of fighting crime were publicized by the Book super which was nude into a movie in their tactics included disguising them selves As waiters and if convicted of All 14 Greenberg could face five years in prison and in an Fri spokesman said Greenberg is involved in three realty companies and operates a private detective Agency in addition to his legislative the indictment charged that one of Green bergs realty companies provided falsified Bills to show How it had spent of a Small business administration loan issued for repairs on a Queens apartment another Greenberg Ruhy company was paid by the Independence savings Bank to make repairs on a Complex of Gar Den apartments in far Rockaway owned by the the indictment charged that Greenberg overcharged the Bank through false