European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Gao urges Steps by Congress to Cut handgun use Washington a Congress should Wyrtle restrictions on the availability of handguns because of the link Between Access to them and violent crimes in which guns Are a government report said on the general accounting con Rains end drought in far West Washington a the Geo logical Survey says California and the Pacific Northwest staged a remarkable in january from a severe two i year Carroll chief of the surveys cur rent water conditions said Friday some Stream water Levels jumped into Ilse excessive Range far the first month and coastal reservoirs quadrupled their storage volume in list two he said water Levels were running Well a above Normal in Many parts of the com although some drought pockets persist Arizona and but even i these areas the heavy Mountain Snow ack holds Promise of future improvement nine water Saboe the Survey reported that ground water i improved sharply in the but in depressed in some Western areas result of the drought and heavy pump Zopf underground s water Content of the Snow pack was Ted running Well above Normal for i february in Many of the coun Ness auditing and investigative suggested in the report thai two possibilities taking Steps to increase the uniformity or gun control Laws at the state and local initiating a National handgun control the report indicated Hal in 1sj6 some percent of All percent of aggravated assaults and percent of robberies in the United Stales were committed by persons using the relationship Between the availability of guns and crimes committed with guns seems to be a circular an increase in one results in an increase in the Hie Cao there has been a direct link be tween the two since the the report present stale and local handgun Laws consist of a Patchwork of different stat utes and requirements and unless there Are uniform state Laws and enforcement of state residency require handguns will still be available for most individuals who Are determined to acquire he Gao restrictive stale Laws seem Only to push the firearms retail business toward a stale with less restrictive the tighter he local gun the More Likely thai a gun used in a crime will have been Pur chased in another the report the Gao said thai Congress should con Sider requiring that an individuals identity and Lack of criminal background be verified in order for him to own or buy a other elements Congress should consider in developing a handgun control program include regulating transfers from the exist ing private inventory of mandatory sentencing As a Penally for crimes committed with the re sults from scattered attempts at such a program Are not yet conclusive and the r pogrom to so be term known Gao periodic evaluation of any handgun Oryx proves Success san Diego a a 13year meat to save the arabian a rare Spe cies of desert appears to be on ring Success with plans announced by the Sao Diego wild animal Park to ship four of them to a desert Reserve in expected by the ship ment will be the first return of arabian a species considered extinct in the to its natural habitat and the goal of operation the program was launched in 19e2 by the Fauna preservation society of London and the International society for the conservation of nature and natural re sources of curator of the says Ibe Oryx Are being sent wildlife deserve in Azrat National Park through a cooperative agreement with the the jordanian Royal society for the conservation of nature and the world Herd of arabian Tea four travellers Art offspring of i Herd maintained by the wild animal Park the world Herd Lai composed control on Lrol Trie National Rifle the chief lobbying organization against Slitter gun control could not be reached immediately for comment on the authors rehabilitated be tirade Upit Shakespeare and Mark Twain have bet rehabilitated by the chinese government and jul soon re appear in 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