European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                California quantum leap by Wayne King new York times Eleveny Earold Eric had had a Little experience with once before firing a pistol a few but this was his first time with heavy firepower like the Ingram Mac 10 Summa Chine the wicked looking Little weapon was modified to fire Only As a since machine guns Are but it was still quite a ripping off Cliber slugs As fast As its operator could pull the bracing it against his Eric took a let it out slowly As he had been and squeezed off a crack the heavy slug kicked up a spurt of dust in front of the a Silhouette of a Eric pulled off another Hal dozen rounds in several on deadly shots tearing through the close to the Swastika that marked the spot where the heart would the youngster was among about two dozen peo Many of them taking part in weapons training organized by the jewish defense a Small militant group known for confrontation tactics condemned by More traditional jewish such weapons training has become commonplace in to the growing alarm of Law enforcement in a report to the state legislature last attorney general George Deukmejian said California has be come a Haven for paramilitary groups and most of which View themselves As separate societies above the Laws of the before the morning was besides the Mac a command Type weapon capable of being fitted with a 11 year old Eric had fired a German made hk91 semiautomatic military assault a automatic pistol and a 12gauge it was he a kid playing but the guns Are and his handsome who candies them like a combat takes it More in he for what he were trying to it can happen said Irving the groups National who acknowledged that he had been arrested More than 30 times in confrontations with Kun flux klans arabs and never again will jews go submissively to their the California attorney generals report described the growth of the paramilitary groups As phenomenal and said that weapons and explosives training has reportedly taken place in several Remote California unlike the arms training by the jewish defense weapons training organized by jewish defense league near los Angeles includes Rifle which is done openly and with Legal some groups reportedly Are training with heavy arms and military in Many Deukmejian weapons Are often stolen military and members Are trained in explosives and guerrilla warfare Terry an analyst for the Bureau of organized crime and criminal intelligence in the California department of said there had been a a quantum leap in armed Cults in califor Nia in recent if i could keep track of them id be a great new she they Are getting larger and larger and although the Bureau is cautious in monitoring religious groups for fear of violating constitutional Guaran tees of religious Mcinnes said a number had been brought to the attention of the department through court cases and surveillance by local Law enforcement we have Many groups of which we dont know the in fact very Little at All except that they have she she noted for example a group calling itself the legion of Zion which describes itself As a Christian preparedness group entered in its flyers predict the imminent collapse of society socially and the people will turn to mob the groups Litera Ture and civilization will be to prepare for that apocalyptic the group pro poses to meet collect dues and and with those monies outfit and train ourselves in a military fashion against predicted outbreaks of general insurrection or foreign attack upon our such survivalist groups Are spreading in California and the Pacific stockpiling medi Cal supplies and including heavy although Law enforcement agencies Are increasingly concerned about the proliferation of armed religious Cults and other armed there is new York times David 5trick 2 weapons training has become commonplace in alarmed officials nothing illegal per be about Possession of even such High powered semiautomatic military As Sault weapons As the hk91 s and hk93s Are so Long As they Are not modified to fire a simple procedure can transform them into machine but is illegal under Federal Law except under licensed in a los Angele based sect called the healthy Happy holy a group of Radical american has members licensed to Trade in firearms in Ari Zona and the with several thousand turbaned owns Large amounts of property and teaches spiritual discipline through yoga if armed adherents shun tobacco and drugs the sect operates a drug rehabilitation program and has had no problems with Law enforcement but what does a religion need to Arm itself for asks in almost All the groups themselves say the answer is Sel defense and Protection against harassment and religious a few years a group called the brotherhood of the a commercially monastic communal group engaged in growing and marketing organic food near Santa was found to have amassed an Arsenal of including semiautomatic Wear the group said the weapons Cache was intended As a show of Force to deter increasing the weapons were voluntarily returned to a firearms and a weapons charge against the groups Leader was Law enforcement officials uncovered a Cache of weapons and ammunition at a Hare Krishna farm in Lake county in Northern California last and an adherent at the farm said the weapons were for Protection of the lord and members of the the Berkeley police seized another Cache of weapons in a car outside the Krishna Temple including a sub machine a Leader of the later deposed in the Wake of Adverse was initially charged with illegal Possession of the but the charge was dropped when another devotee said the weapon was Krishna officials maintain that such incidents result from the actions of often de scribed As former or and Are not the policy of the which professes nonviolence and is a legally recognized the drug rehabilitation group which once was based in California but which recently was reincorporated As a religion in was reported in court documents to have once amassed enough weapons to Arm and train 150 the group said the weapons were a defense against no joke candidate Michel alias clowning for the presidency w up c by Richard Eder new York times Sluche is a politicians Are he which makes it logical that a should run for president of a metaphor is a serious verbal and the French take their As Well As their after Frances most popular announced his candidacy last what initially seemed a joke came to be treated with some apprehension by the the press treats it with some so does a portion of the French which either excludes jokes altogether or elevates them into a system As with Descartes i therefore i whose real name is Michel is a slightly Pudgy Man in his dressed in striped he pads stiff legged around the stage of the gymnast music Hall in flapping his hands like a tired he picks up a reads out the and comments on it with lacerating he is the Pari Sian taxi Driver bullying up to his neighbourhood bar to announce in a scabrous growl that he has heard it before and Doest believe a the old and shabby its plaster Gilt columns topped with lascivious cherubs and tired is filled with furs and designer jeans these couches presidential straddle Between a political joke and a political threat has made him Chic As Well As his show is sold out for the next six and his candidacy has gone As High As 16 percent in one prefer ence this puts him in fourth place and one Point behind Georges the communist the figure is but its significance is debate Cluche does not claim to have any real although he talks of making the Constitution More demo he has no he of except insofar As his nightly show is a he has no political the citizenry faces the Prospect of seeing and hearing much More of candidates according to All it would like to see and hear much neither president Valery Giscard the Flag Ging and increasingly savaged nor Francois the socialist nor Marchais nor Jacques a stirs it is a Fertile time for and the easiest form of protest is to join Cluche in mocking the political world by announcing an intention to vote for Between that and actually voting for him is a considerable distance especially since the voters May never have a Chance under the electoral system in nobody can be inscribed normally As a candidate unless he or she receives the signatures of 500 elected officials members of the National co Luche says he has More than 500 but he is the first to Point out that a Promise is not a the government is said to have made it discreetly Clear that a mayors signature for Cluche would be regarded As so comical that officials in charge of giving Money for drains or roads would be found paralysed with laughter the next time the particular mayor asked for possible pressures there a More profound fac even though there Are a number of politicians who like couches impudence and sympathize with his Ges France is not a country much Given to confusing political satire with political in an interview the other Day at his House in the South Ern part of Cluche made the he was asked Why he painted his nose red when he went it was pointed out that a Mort Sahl or a Lenny Bruce his style somewhat resembles the letters would never have hidden behind a Clown if i didst do he i might be taken journals such Asle Nouvel observe eur began by drumming up what they called the Cluche having decided that there was a vacuum left by the widespread popular feeling of being fed they decided that he filled they wrote reams of solemn sociological and psychological analysis on the having vigorously pushed it be Nouvel which is moderate left and pulled Cluche was taking himself too serious it some of his specific pronouncements about the political scene were to exist he must be As transparent As it he is Only a the candidacy of Cluche not that of Michel the nose was becoming suspiciously More red was Page 14 the stars and stripes january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 15