European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday september 28, 1987 Florida s new gun Law is target of hot debate Miami not a new gun a goes into effect this week in Florida and suddenly it with be a lot easier to carry a weapon legally. Under the new Law which supersedes More restrictive local ordinances the stale can Grant virtually any one a per Mil to carry a hidden pistol knife club or tear Gas gun. Guns in Plain View will carry no restrictions at All. The increase in violence in Florida helped persuade legislators 10 liberalize the rules. Victims of crime must also have rights said stale rep. Ronald c. Johnson of Panama City the Law s chief sponsor. But Many of to Kos in charge of combating the crime increase including the state attorney general and Urban police chiefs in South Florida arc among the Law s most Adamant opponents. National lobbyists on both sides of the Issue say the Law is one of the most Liberal in the United Stales they Are watching closely to see if there is any effect on crime statistics a change either Way could influence gun control efforts in other slates. Attorney general Robert a. Buller Worth noted this month Hal the Law passed overwhelmingly in the Spring by the legislature has left the area of unconcealed manual Possession of a firearm lot Aliy a Naregu  the Gap has created " he possibility of openly armed youth gangs hanging around Street Corners and gunmen parading through a shopping mall the attorney Gener Al wrote in a letter urging that the Law be amended in the current special legislative session. Gov. Bob Martinez who signed it gun Bill in May called the special session to debate the state sales tax on services. So far there has been no talk of amending the gun Law. But its Cit acts continue to be debated around Testate even As thousands of Florid ians prepare their applications for the new concealed weapons permit. David Register director of licensing in the Secretary of state s office said More than 130,000 permits arc expected to be issued in the fiscal year that begins oct.  figure said John j. Katon president of the to Miami gun shop in Miami is Jusi a tip of the  the gun shop offers a two hour firearms course to help applicants Mecl requirements for the concealed weapon permit. In addition to taking a safety course applicants must pay si46 and submit to a fingerprint Check. Anyone at least 21 with no felony convictions who has lived in the stale for at least six months is eligible. By contrast. Dad county gave concealed weapons permits Only to applicants who had a valid reason for needing it and had passed a background Check and a tiring Range lest. The county permit fee was about triple inc stale fee. One Issue crime shapes arguments on both sides. According to figures compiled by the federa Bureau of investigation Florida s crime rate has been among the highest in the nation for years. In 1981, the Bureau said Florida Hod 7,574 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. Last year the figure was 8,228. By comparison the slate of new York had 5,588 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 1985 and 5,776 in 1986, the Bureau reported. America $ first woman in space say Rife ends career of Nasa Cape canaveral Fla. Up Sally k. Ride America s first woman in space ended an illustrious 10-year Nasa career saturday that included two shuttle flights and a role in the challenger disaster investigation. Ride who is 36 and has a doctorate in physics announced in May thai she planned to return to her Home state of California to work As an arms control scholar at the Independent Stanford University Center for International Security and arms control in Palo Alto. Saturday was her last Day on the payroll with the National aeronautics and space administration before taking on her new assignment in Cali fornia said Nasa spokesman Edwar Campion in Washington. Ride and five other women were accepted As ride astronauts in 1978 and her launch aboard the shuttle challenger five years later formally opened up what had been a males Only fraternity of right stuff rocket pilots. Ride s last major Job was completed in August when she delivered to Nasa administrator James Fletcher a report on a study she directed of Long Range goats for the space Agency. The report called for establishing a manned outpost on the Moon As a prelude to a More ambitious flight to Mars in the 21st Century the idea is we would like to return to the Moon this time to build a science outpost to continue the exploration that we started during Apollo 20 Yean ago she said. This really is an initiative that Demon Strates a seriousness of  the ride report also called for an ambitious pro Gram to study Earth and its environment from space along with advanced interplanetary probes to study the outer solar system. Ride joined Nasa in 1978 after answering an and in her school newspaper. Being an astronaut was never a lifelong dream she said there was an advertisement in the Stanford newspaper that Nasa was accepting applications t thought Why not " she became the third woman in space when she blasted off june is 1983, aboard challenger destroyed last year in the launch explosion that killed seven astronauts. The soviets sent up Valentina the Ryshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in August j982. Ride also flew aboard challenger in october 1984 for an eight Day Mission to study Earth s  said it was easier the second time around. Ride married fellow astronaut Steven Hawley in july 1982. They divorced a Short time before she left Nasa. Texans posted in Tomato War twin lakes. Colo. A blame it on the Alti tude or on the Home Field advantage but Colorado whipped Texas on saturday in the first Day s Competition of he sixth annual Tomato War. The texans were outnumbered 300 to 50. And it was such a Quick massacre that the Texas troops dubbed their Field commander la. Col.  after the doomed general of Little big Horn Fame. An overripe splat on your to shirt is tantamount to death in this War and sends the dripping combatants on their Way to a Mash unit for a bloody Mary. The texans who have woo Only one of the five previous Tomato wan fell quickly. On sunday survivors anyone with a Dew shirt were scheduled to participate in a bloody shoot out. At Point Blank Range to determine the final Winner and bragging rights for another year. The War grew out of Tex Atis fondness for Colora do As a vacation spol which has Given Rise 10 a Host of Tynan jokes across the state. Beautify Colorado put a texan on a bus was a popu Lar bumper Slicker seen at the Tomato War parking lot. Some of the soldiers were not partisans subscribing to anarchic or other revolutionary creeds. We believe in no War said Robert Vincent of Denver Field commander of the society for the preservation of overripe tomatoes spot. We want to cause As much chaos As  they did. Colorado and Texas soldiers alike were victims of these Tomalo snatchers. Stateside Florida woman burned during ritual was hoaxes fort Lauderdale Fla. A a woman who suffered serious Burns Over 30 per cent or her body when a Candle set her hair afire during a voodoo ritual was the victim of a hoax authorities said by ttys Safold 40. Of Riviera Beach was in fair condition at Good Samaritan Hospital Laid a nursing supervisor who did not give her name police interviewed a 33-year-old nun who apparently performed the Tual at Saffold i re quest but no charges had been filed and the Cue wit be presented to the stale attorney s office capt. Jim Diggs said. The suspect agreed to perform the ritual for$73 but knew nothing about voodoo dog go said. To was All a con he said. He saw it As a Opportunity to make a Little  airports Are changing diapers with the times Windsor locks Conn. A in a con cession to changing limes a major Southern new England Airport has decided to install diaper changing tables in men s restrooms. We d like to see one in every bathroom said Belinda Soj Ricly. Operations supervisor at Bradley International Airport about Midway be tween Hartford and Springfield. Mass. Traditionally diaper changing areas in air ports have been found in women s restrooms. Bradley International has Only two Tablet. A number of men today have custody of their children and there Are More men who Are Raveling alone with their babies Svi Recty explained. Men Are taking their kids into the men s room but i Don t know to they Are Ryan  change them without the  a few airports including those in Newark . Pittsburgh Orlando a. And Portland Maine have installed diaper changing rooms or nurseries open to men and women. Widow of Wii officer gets medal 43 years late san Antonio up the 91-year-Oldwidow of a world War ii army officer was presented a Bronze Star in a ceremony 43 years after her husband died in the hold of a sunken japanese prisoner of War ship. It. Gen. William h. Schneider 5th army commanding general presented Catherine Warner Compton with the Bronze Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster for bravery in front of a Colo guard at Normandy Terrace nursing and retire ment Center. La col. Irving Corn Plon was killed when the unmarked japanese prisoner of War Chip Oroku Mam was sunk in Subic Bay Philippines by . Navy bombers in 1944. We re correcting an oversight of some 43 years Schneider said. It s fortunate we live under a system where we con Correct  drive in condom store closes for Lack of business Hollywood Fla. Up Safe sen in t Selling As Well As Richard Schulman thought it would. Schulman said he had to close his drive a but survived Only a month. Schulman said he thought the store would gel customers who were embarrassed to shop for condoms in drugstores. He said he expected publicity about aids to create a Market for the service. Customers who drove 10 the Booth received information about equally transmitted diseases and instructions on How to use the products sold there. Everybody thought it was a great idea said a publicist for Schulman s company. I Don t know if it was the location or