European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday. April 3,1987 British lawmakers vote against death penalty world today London a the i Ipuy to common voted to the 19th time in 12 years against restoring the death pen ally Tor murder despite polls that show the Public overwhelmingly support bringing Bock hanging the legislators voted 342 to 230 against capital punishment m what the parties designated a tree Vole one in which lawmakers were to vote their conscience without pressure to follow a party position. Home Secretary Douglas Hurd Lold the commons in the debate before the vote return of the death penalty will not help to catch murderers convict murderers or retain respect for the political system,1 the death Penally for murder was abolished for a five year trial period in ism and was confirmed by Law in 1969. Under the 1969 abolition Law hanging which in modern times has been Britain s Only form of death Penally remains theoretically in effect for High treason and piracy with violence but has not been carried Mil since then. Gallows Are kept in working order in South London s Wandsworth prison. A loud cheer filled the packed chamber when the re Silt of the commons Vole was announced Hartline in and order legislators in prime min Uter Margaret Thatcher s conservative parly sponsored the Tate so bid to restore the death penalty arguing it would deter would by murderers. Thatcher who voted in favor of capital punishment in a 1983 fulled commons motion to restore it re turned from a five Day visit to the soviet Union too late wednesday night to take part in the vote. Introducing the Bill in the commons conservative legislator sir Tan a arrival said it would allow judges to impose he death penalty where a 12-member jury returned a unanimous Gulij verdict Tor n murder committed in circumstance which a Cit Sonatane person would consider to be  Percival Lold the commons that Britain win experiencing a rising tide of evil the like of which 1 have not seen in my  we Don t claim that it restoration of this death penalty will resolve All the evil violence with which our society is beset but we do claim it has a role to Piny in lessening it he said. Police reported 662 homicides last year com pared to 616 in 19s5 and 600 in 1974. The police federation representing 120,000 offi cers backed the commons motion. Amnesty International the human rights organization opposed it the last britons exc Fulcd were Peter Allen and Gwynn Evans hanged on aug. 13, 1964, for killing a Milkman during a robbery under present Law a i5-2 jury vote is sufficient to convict in a murder Case and the maximum Penally is life imprisonment. The Star newspaper wednesday said a Telephone poll the Day before snowed 22.228 of its readers favored re storing thed Cath penalty while 1,211 opposed it people were asked to dial one number to show sup port and another to show opposition. A similar poll in another pro tory tabloid the Sun found 24,491 people favored the death penalty and 1,180 opposed it. Destruction duty a 60-Lon chieftain tank rumbles into the front of an for National housing week tuesday by Dent Lishing old building Siuhing doors and crunching boarded the former married quarters of the British Tony at windows. The soldiers and their Unk did their part Gordon England in make Way for new housing. Blacks Given observer role in a african College Senate grahams own South Africa api about Joo students most of them Black occupied part of the  building at multiracial Rhodes univer sity thursday to demand a role for Blacks in the University Senate. After More than two hours of negotiations univer sity officials agreed to give the Black students move ment observer status in the Senate enabling it to participate in the deliberations of the All faculty administrative body. The Black students sought a role in the Senate in order to press other grievances including alleged racial discrimination in the University s sports program and. Scholarship policies. The Black students announced their plan to occupy the administration building on wednesday and the building was mostly pm pay when the protesters rushed inside thursday. About 630 of Rhodes 3,200 students arc Black mixed race or asian. The University in Eastern Cape province near port Elizabeth was founded in 1855. Italian Baker loses clients after aids accusations Venice Haly up alarmed at a loss of Busi Ness he blamed on Rumor mongers who claimed he was suffering from aids a Baker posted 200 leaflets thursday on Walls in cd Loggia an Industrial port at the Southern end of the Venice  leaflets carried a photocopy of a medical certificate slating that Baker Giordano Villan is not suffering from the fatal ailment. The medical certificate slated tests for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome Retro virus in Villan s blood were negative Churchill s Cousin gets Fine driving ban for speeding Thame England a magistrates on thursday fined the Marquis of Blandford heir to the Duke of Marlborough and a Cousin of sir Winston Churchill 200 pounds about $320 and banned him from driving far six months for speeding up to 120 Mph. The 31-year-old heir to a 50 million Pound $80 million Fortune appeared in court three weeks after being Given t two year suspended jail sentence for co Caine Possession. The Marquis whose full name is Charles James Spencer Churchill drove himself from he court after lodging an Appeal against the driving ban. Defense lawyers said he needed to drive to get to drug rehabilitation clinic and to operate tractors on the family s 13.000-acre estate near Oxford. He pleaded guilty to driving on a Highway in West pm England before Dawn on nov. 27 at speeds be tween 116 Mph and 120 Mph soviet underground tape ridicules mrs. Gorbachev new York. A a videotape being circulated in the soviet underground shows the Wile of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev shopping in French boutiques and buying jewelry with an american express card the new York times reported thursday. Tic tape depicts Raisa Gorbachev As an extravagant woman and seems intended to make her an object of scorn the times said. The newspaper quoted russians in Moscow who have seen the video. It said the tape contained scenes of mrs. Gorbachev shopping in boutiques during he husband s visit to France in 198.1. And it showed her buying jewelry with an american express credit card evidently in London a year earlier. Dutch Center reports mercy killings of aids victims Amsterdam Netherlands a dutch doctors have performed Euthana Sia on As Many As 11 aids victims who chose death Over prolonged suffering a spokesman for the academic medical Center said. The academic medical Center in Amsterdam is the Only dutch Hospital with Ward for acquired immune deficiency ijndromt1 Multeri is. The Center disclosed wednesday that one of its aids patients died in in ifs As a a Sull of euthanasia. The terminally Ili patient Chow to die rather than continue to suffer Hospital spokesman Roy Baize told the associated press he refused to give further details by time also said As Many As 10 other aids victims were thought to have died in mercy killings. He said the cases did not occur at the Hospital and precise Fig ures on the instance of aids Rich cd cases of euthanasia were not available. Dutch courts have Laken a tolerant stance toward Culhan Asiu which the Cen Ler right government of Premier Ruud Lubbers is moving toward legalizing under strictly controlled conditions. Meanwhile Deputy health minister Dick decs wednesday said his ministry will provide funds to bolster a 2-year-old aids hot line Vilh is pan Lime counsel ors and a full time coordinator. Expanding Lii hot line is part of a s15 million Goit rom Cal Campaign to combat the spread of the fatal disease which destroys lit body s  and leaves it open to a v Wilc variety of infer Lions and cancers. There is no known cure. The government also has pledged $6million this year to finance aids tests for blood donors health ministry spokesman Henk Van Der Hie said. The government recently gave the Aca Demic medical Center $2 million to double the capacity of its eight bed aids Ward. The Gui Frnnk tit says 21s dutch peo ple Hac. Contracted aids As of dec 31, and 126 had  disease.  Moil commonly is transmitted through Btu jail Contact und skiing of contaminated Needles by drug abusers