European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. Decembers 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 7 senators vote to kill plastic guns Bill Washington a the Senate on Friday rejected legislation outlawing so tailed plastic guns that can escape detection by racial detectors and Airport a Ray Security machines. The Senate voted 47-j2 to i Able or kill an amendment by Sens. Howard act Chaum. A Ohio. And Strum thur mond r-s.c., which they hint attached to a measure authorising funds for the veterans administration. Police groups and others supporting the plastic gun legislation Are attempting to prevent the spread of weapons thai have Low Mia Content. They argue thai terrorists could carry the weapons with out triggering the detectors. Two guns currently being manufactured contain less than 8.5 ounces of steel the minimum Metal Content required in the legislation. The National Rifle association which opposes the measure argues that the weapons still can be Dulc Mitby existing equipment and that instead of Banning them Airport Security efforts should be intensified. Sen. James a. Mcclure. A Idaho who opposes the  Thurmond proposal said the legislation is pending in he Senate. Judiciary committee. This is hastily ill thought out legis  Mecl Urc said. It has not been considered in the proper forum. It should not be Here  before the Vole. Mcclure said Hal if his tabling motion were Defeated he would lit i Busler the gun legislation thus lying up inc veterans Bill and the. Entire Senate. Senators want to leave for a Christmas recess by dec. Is but must first pass a deficit reduction plan and a Money Bil to keep the govern ment running. Mcuen Haum said the plastic Jun prohibition is necessary if we want to do some thin about terrorism. It would do it  he said he had proposed to attach the prohibition loan airline safely measure hut withdrew it. Do Pilc support from the Bill s managers because of the threat of a filibuster by proponents Oft lie gun lobby. Mel Chaum said a judiciary Suk of Millet Ait my cd to take action on the Bill earlier last week but was thwarted by a parliamentary technicality. Enough is enough he said adding that officials irom the Federal aviation administration Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and the secret service is lifted in july that the amendment was needed to protect airline  twelve major Law enforcement org in a Lions including the International Otic it of police All say Hal he information is needed he said. So Why not have  the Only groups opposing this legis lation arc in the gun  Sarah Brady w Ife of White House press Secretary James Brady issued a statement expressing her outrage at inc vote saying today the nation has once again seen our elected representatives Cave in to the Politi Cal pressure of the National Rifle association. I m confide no Hal with the support of american s Law enforcement we will enact this critical legislation into  James Brady was shot and disabled in the March 30, 1581 a Templ on preside no Rea Gan s life. Mrs. Brady is vice chairwoman of hand gun control inc., a Cili cons organisation working for passage of legislation to restrict handgun Possession. Gorbachev protest members of the joint Baltic America committee Roll out a Trajan horse in Epsom n.ll., in route to a rally in Washington denouncing the week by soviet Lender Mikhi Chev. Visit his ill orbs 2 jetliners nearly collide on la Airport runway los Angeles a authorities Are investigating a n or collision Between a United airlines Jet  toward Takeoff with 189 people aboard and a Delta airlines plane that apparently taxied to the wrong runway Al los Angeles International Airport officials said. We faced colliding into the Delta aircraft or Possi Bly swerving off the runway into the terminal building or into inc Grassy area which could have resulted in a fireball United spokesman Dan Szechy said. The near collision in Tui Dav Between the United dc-1g and the Delia Boeing 737 was being investigated by the National transportation safety Board As d runway incursion the Federal aviation administration said. The Faa tabled the event a Pilot Devia Tion and said it also would investigate. Our Pilot docs nol deny thai the plane was Back on t in Active runway for a very Short Lime said Delta spokes Man Richard Jones. But he said the problem began when Eom rollers directed the Pilot to a blocked taxiway. The Pilot of Delta right 1605, carrying 82 Passyn Geis and a Crew of five from Albuquerque n.m., apparently became confused in the Maze of taxiways made a wrong turn and tailed onto the Edge of the same runway on which United right 14 to Newark n.j., was Rushing at 175 Mph toward liftoff said Faa spokeswoman Nellcy Breckke. Unable to abort the High without risking a disaster the United Pilot pulled his plane into the air and passed Over the Delta Airliner with about 200 feet to spare the Faa said. However Jones said the planes were 3, pm fret apart As inc United Jet first left the ground. Nosb spokesman Alan Pollock said it was unclear who was responsible. There is no Way to speculate until we find the Crews and Check All of the facts he said. The Nosb said in had received conflicting reports about the incident. It has requested the Delta s flight recorder and plans to interview the Crews of both air Craft and he air traffic control Pery Innel involved. The circumstances of tuesday s close Call were similar to history s worst airline disaster which kit 579 dead. In that 1977 crash in the Canary islands a Kim Royal dutch airlines jetliner without clearance for Takeoff sped toward Takeoff through dense fog and slammed into a pan american world airways Jel also taxiing for liftoff. Earlier this year at los angelas International a con Lirse Nial airlines Jet with 84 passengers lipid a Light plane with its wheels As the Small plane taxied across the runway the jetliner was using. The jetliner continued on its Way and no injuries were reported. In an unrelated incident two empty planes being taxied by mechanics ran into each other at the Airport damaging both aircraft but causing no injuries officials said. The on ground collision occurred Between a spa bae-46 jul an aircraft about the size of a Boeing 727, and an Eastern a Iii. No passengers or pills were aboard either plane. Neither plane was ready for  said an Faa regional duty officer. They were just being to cd around by mechanics. It a i not incidental to flight in was nothing  students protest faculty s anti Cia proposal Waterville Maine a Stu dents Al 1,700-siudent Colby College Are battling for inc Chance to interview with Cia recruiters on Campus something faculty members and College students across the country arc trying to ban. The debate has been called a reversal of 1960s activism with Liberal professors reliving their Days As anti War activists and conservative students taking the establishment role. And since it e