European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. April3, 1988 the stabs and stripes Page 7 12-year-o/d fakes peace game on . Trip . Calif i a since i Karld Mich Elle imtnu1 ii a peace a chant i rec ears i n. She has Plavetic her Hoard Agassi Midi world Ilasi compel mrs is Andrei Firo m Koan Javier Ivr a de c uellar."1 Al ways she us units cheerfully. Hut then winning is nut in Point of the game which me to educate a Lavers a Mil Nihil relations. Mijail no inv Mcd Rue peace a Chance Hircy years ago As ,1 pm acct fur her third Grade class. It s 3 Hoard game similar la monopoly. 1 layers use Small markers Tarry a nation s Flag and they Art rewarded for con Peral Ion Vith other countries. Winners create nuclear free zones share scientific Witch and invite children s peace delegations to their countries. Losers invade smaller countries or refuse to negotiate treaties. The game includes a version of the go directly10 jail card but with an apocalyptic twist nuclear warfare he tween countries. Game is Oser for All hut Hie fallout from give peace a Chance has been All positive for Michelle. Afr her game inn first place in the 1985 inter children s peace prize Competition. Mich Elle was selected for .1 world Lour sponsored by Chil Dren As teach makers foundation. Last week. Michelle and her Mother Roberta left on her second peace Mission to the soviet Union where her game is being translated into rus Sian the soviet sponsored foundation for social inventions is paying for the trip during which Michelle Hopes to play her pins with soviet Chil after thai Michelle will receive the world Chil Dren s Day foundation award Ai the United nations on april 24. Then address children delegates at the . General Assembly. Almost All children Hait a Hobby and to some thing that they milk want. I realty want world peace. It s a Hob he of she said in an inter View before she left for the soviet Union. Michelle has played her game with Grimy to the former Soviel foreign minister in. Secretary general Perez do c Uellar chinese vice. President Ula Nhu and Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Lle Alexander warms up far her trip by playing a game of give Ptack a Chance. Maryland Law will ban Sale of reverses of saturday night specials Annapolis Mil. Api the first state Law in the nation to ban the Sale of cheap handguns l no in As saturday night Sci ills cleared the Maryland Gener Al Assembly monday. Cov. William Donald Schaefer has promised to sign the Hill which would make it illegal to sell any weapons not on a list of approved guns hat will be prepared by n nine member stale review Hoard. This seems la be a first. I giant step House speaker Mitchell said after the vote. Charles h. Cunningham a lobbyist for the National Rifle association who headed the fight against the Hill said no other stale has such a la although the uis Inci of Columbia bans the Sale of All handguns. The Bill is intended to halt the Sale of the kind of cheap aun used in the assassination attempt on presi Dent Reagan. 1 Ohee say saturday night specials at i Are favored weapons of teen agers and some Street level drug pushers. The Bill which Poi final approval in the Home of delegates on a 95-41 vote wiil set up a handgun Ros Ier Board headed by the Sime police superintendent lode Termine which weapons ran be sold in Maryland. The Board is directed by the Bill to withhold approval of guns that arc poorly made of poor Quality mate rials and can be defined As saturday night specials. Guns made mostly of Plasmic or Ceramic materials that can t be readily detected by the Type of Security systems set up at airports and Public buildings. Guns in which the manufacturer s serial number has been obliterated or altered. The prohibition on Sale would extend to private go owners As Well As to manufacturers Anil gun dealers. The ban will Lake effect on Jan. I 1990. And inc Board will be required to Complete its list of approved guns by july 1. 1989. The Bill provides for fines up to $10.000 for manufacturers who make or sell ilk Gal handguns and up l $2,500 for licensed dealers and individual gun owners. Mass child care program proposed Boston a an umbilicus plan to make Mav Sach Usem the first stale to guarantee affordable child care for every child under 14 was unveiled monday although its sponsor said he l know How it would be funded. We Are in the midst of a child rare Aid slate Kep. David h Cohen co chairman of a special child care cumin Minn. It is a crisis which Alferis our children our families Ardour Cohen chief sponsor of the Hill to create an executive office of child c Ait in Oser Sce and expand cur rent child care services said Ihrck out of five Massachusetts children need child care because both their patents work or they have a single Parent w to works. Currently the stale is providing services to about 80.ixx children Al an annual Cost of is 10 million. Primarily through subsidies to the poor lie said but Cohen said estimates Point to a other 80,000 children whose families cannot find Donld car sen ices and More whose parents can t find services at a Price they Ean afford. This crisis will Only grow in the Cohen Lold a is Alehouse news conference. Cohen s Bill does t say exactly How or when the male will meet the needs the measure would create a 21 member Gubernator really appointed advisory commission to counsel the child care Secretary on How of accomplish inc Man Dale. Cohen said the proposal could double or triple cur rent state spending on child care programs. Self will keep 37 Roth units Washington Al l the air Force batted Down monday from n cosi i mint decision to close or consolidate 37 of its 151 College Reserve officer Tram ing corps units. The air Force announced in january in was closing 30 units and consolidating another seven in of pro Grams at nearby schools in an Effort to slash 21 0 positions and save More than $10 million annually. In a letter monday to sen mud Lien san l Texas who objected to the plan la. Col. Timothy i. Tilus of the service s legislative Liaison staff said while the decision will delay those savings the air Force Secre tary is sensitive to if Impact of the prior decision Titus said tic decision to Cut the programs would be reviewed again at inc end of the Spring term in i but that plans would go Forward to reduce the number of a froth commissioned of tigers by 15 percent Over the next two . The air Foree had planned to phase in the closures Over is months to allow 1,147 juniors and seniors in the 37 affected programs to Complete their studies and earn their commissions As second lieutenants. The affected units have a current four sear enrolment of 4.-149. Mentsen wrote air Force Secretary Edward c. Audridge or. In january to complain the closures would have a disproportionate Impact on Texas which along with North Carolina six Al to lost the most programs four in each slate. "1 am also concerned that reductions in the number of newly commissioned officers is a shortsighted response to budgetary pressures said bin own who is chairman of the Senate finance committee. Without a St Cidy inflow of Bright energetic younger officers particularly from the a froth uni i the air Foree May lose some of Iti vigor and diversity bunt san wrote
