European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 mock Senate is real thing for students by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau ludwigs Burg Germany it in t every High school student who gets the Opportunity to debate issues on the floor of the Senate or advise the president even if the president is 20 years too Young to be president of the United states. Students from 17 department of de sense dependents schools proposed Bills and debated Many issues currently before the . Senate in the Model Senate sponsored last week by Stuttgart High school. Under the direction of vice president Jessica Voss a Stuttgart senior the 100 senators debated issues ranging from aids to Star  parliamentary procedures were strictly followed but often questioned by senators. Lobbyists lobbied interest groups tried to persuade and senators argued procedures and Points. The president played by Stutt Gart senior Danny Middleton signed some Bills vetoed others and was occasionally overridden by a two thirds Senate vote. Lenny Ornas playing sen. Phil Gramm a Texas told his fellow senators the Senate would be hypocritical if it passed legislation giving the government jurisdiction Over sunken ships found on the Continental shelf. The Aviano Italy High school student said taking jurisdiction beyond the 12-mile limit would com Promise the stand president Reagan has taken with Libya. Libya says they can do what they want right now in Sidra said Ornas As Gramm. And we re saying no you can t have More than 12 Miles out we will be the biggest hypocrites in the world today if we pass that legislation giving jurisdiction beyond 12 Miles the student said. We would have no Choice but to compensate the  the Point became moot when the senators decided to Shelve the measure be cause some believed the legislation would t meet the approval of the supreme court. John Mazzawi one of the organizers and a social studies teacher at Stuttgart said Many of the schools spent Long hours preparing for the mock Senate and ensuing debates. In some cases the social studies teach ers have integrated it into the class hold ing mock senates in classrooms to pre pare Mazzawi said. Heidelberg High school student Tracy Vanwormer portrays sen. Strom Thurmond is the Capitol press a daily newspaper published by the students while their mock Senate was in session carried Many of the arguments and positions of the 100 senators. I am for a substantial teacher pay in crease and for total ban of All cigarette advertisements said Todd Brickley of Stuttgart High school As sen. Ernest Hollings . In the first two Days of the we Klong session committees proposed about 70 pieces of legislation for consideration Al though the legislative body had time to consider less than half of them. Proposed legislation covered acid rain welfare abortion Star wars and individual retirement accounts among other topics. Shari Synder the 17-year-old com Merce Secretary said her primary Job was to advise the president but said she found that difficult if she did t believe in the president s position. It s so hard to get up in from of a lot of people and say you should do this and that when you Don t believe it she said. But Synder said she Learned a lot. We each had to know our departments a photo by Dan Wollam a during the Model Senate. Well enough to advise the president she said. We can t just say we Don t like a Bill we have to cite a Law or a  Secretary of defense Tracy Fisher a freshman did t have a problem support ing the president on giving Aid to the nicaraguan contras. She believes in provid ing the Aid. We can t afford to let communism come that close she said maybe we can t avoid it being close totally but we must keep it As far away As  thursday evening the mock Senate adjourned for easter vacation and for another year. 6 acquitted of complicity in 198 shooting of Pope d fax c / a dam t j., 1 _ a of a i ____., 4. Rome a an italian court saturday acquitted three bulgarians and three turks charged with complicity in the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul ii ruling that there was insufficient evidence for a conviction. The jury of two judges and six civilians which took up deliberations a week ago in the trial that began May 27, accepted prosecutor Antonio Marini s recommendation that the bulgarians be acquitted under a provision in ital Ian Law that does not amount to a Complete finding of innocence. Marini however had asked for prison sentences for the three turks. The court s action meant it believed the defendants might be guilty but that it did not hear enough evidence to support the prosecution s Case. However the court found one of the accused turks Omer Bagci guilty on a charge of smuggling a pistol into Italy and sentenced him to three years and two months imprison. Judicial sources however said Bagci will not have to serve the sentence because he was extradited from Switzerland not on the gun smuggling charge but on charges of complicity. Bagci has also been in italian jail since his extradition on oct. 15, 1982 Longe than his sentence. Papal assailant Mehmet a Aga the prosecution s Star witness also was found guilty of illegally import ing the pistol he used to shoot the Pope in St. Peter s Square on May 13, 1981 and was sentenced to one year in prison. He already is serving a life term for shooting the pontiff. As he had done frequently during the 10-month-od trial Aga shouted that he was Jesus Christ As he was being led into the heavily guarded courtroom. I m not god i m son of god in human form. I am Jesus Christ the Turk shouted. The Case was largely based on testimony from Aga who at first said he had acted alone when John Paul was shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter s Square. But after turning state s witness Aga claimed the shooting of the polish born pontiff was part of a conspiracy by the bulgarians and the soviet Kab police. In often contradictory testimony Aga had claimed that the plot was hatched in the bulgarian capital of Sofia that a soviet Diplomat offered $1.2 million for the shooting to be carried out and that it was to be done with help from bulgarian agents and fellow turks. John Paul s championing of the polish free Trade Union Solidarity was supposedly the reason for the alleged plot. In Moscow the official soviet news Agency Tass quickly reported the acquittals in a three line summary of the verdict. Giuseppe Consolo the italian lawyer for the Only bulgarian detained in Italy Sergei Ivan Antonov told reporters that he will Appeal the sentence As soon As possible. I am not satisfied that it was for Lack of sufficient evidence. I have to have full acquittal Consolo said. Antonov was the Rome station chief of Balkan air Bulgaria s National airline. Consolo charged that the court did not have enough courage to acquit Antonov fully. They preferred a com Promise solution and that smells fishy to  the other two bulgarians it. Col. Zhulyo Kolev Vassi lev an sex military attache s aide at the bulgarian embassy in Rome and Todor Ayvazov formerly the chief embassy officer Are in their East bloc nation under the Protection of diplomatic immunity. Consolo said Antonov accompanied by his sister will return to Bulgaria on a regular flight later in the Day. He has been held in Italy since his arrest in no vember 1982. But chief judge Severino Santia Pichi told reporters that the question whether Antonov or any of the Turk ish defendants could leave Italy immediately was under study because the prosecutor said he would Appeal. Marini said he would would Appeal the verdicts for turkish defendants Oral Celik Musa Serdar Celebi and Bagci. A fourth Turk charged in the conspiracy Case Bekir Celenk died while being held in a turkish jail on other charges. Marini had asked for life sentences for Celik a fugitive who also was accused of firing at the Pope and Celebi a reputed Leader of a right Wing extremist turkish youth movement the Gray wolves. He was charged with giving Money to Aga. Marini also had asked for 20 years in prison for Bagci on charges of conspiracy and four years for smuggling the gun. The sentences were read in a crowded courtroom by Santia Pichi and Deputy judge Ferdinando Attolico