European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday january 23,1989 sales of ak-47 rifles surge due to fear of restrictions los Angeles a California gun dealers say the sales of ak-47 assault rifles have increased at some gun stores since one was used in a schoolyard Mas Sacre dealers said. One gun dealer said he plans to Stop stocking the weapon and concerns that distribution will be further restricted prompted the sales surge Sellers said. The gun was already a popular gun Al Campbell general manager of Western surplus said Friday. Now everyone wants to get it before the distribution is stopped. It s having a profound effect on  Patrick Purdy 24, used a semiautomatic soviet de signed ak-47 Rifle to shoot up an elementary school Yard in Stockton calif., on tuesday. Five pupils were killed. Twenty nine pupils and one teacher were wounded. Purdy fired More than 100 rounds from the Rifle and then killed himself with a handgun. Since then there have been Calls to either ban the Sale of such High powered semiautomatic rifles or subject buyers to the same background Check and waiting period required of handgun buyers. Campbell said he used to sell three ak-47s a week but now is Selling at least one a Day. Art Noroian who said he Sells the Rifle for $349 at Art s guns in Reseda estimated the Price could go As High As $800 if sales Are restricted or the California legislature passes a Law Banning the gun. It s trendy Noroian said. Everybody wants to buy the gun. They re fun to shoot. They re outstanding to shoot. It s exhilarating. It s just a lot of  he said his sales of the gun also increased after the shooting but declined to provide figures. Bob Kahn owner of by sales in North Hollywood and Westminster said he sold 4,500 ak-47s Over the last year. Most of the volume was wholesale to other dealers but there also were Many retail sales he said. Sales increased As soon As the Public perceived through the press that they might be restricted Kahn said saturday. Kahn said veterans of Korea and Vietnam buy a 47s As nostalgia items for display and Many people buy paramilitary style weapons because they Are the latest in technology and use them for family outings to shooting ranges. One Orange county dealer Randy Garell said he would quit stocking the Rifle at the Grant boys store in Costa Mesa. The handwriting is on the Wall that these types of weapons with massive firepower have Little True Pur pose said Garell who also Sells camping and outdoor gear. I believe they Are going to be banned eventual  soviet students welcomed two soviet Exchange students Marina Leonidova Levi China left and Svetlana Evgen Evna Glazunova Are greeted with Flowers and school hats on arrival in Boston on saturday. They Are among 10 soviet Stu dents who will attend the Buckingham Browne and Nichols Day school in Cambridge mass. Stateside High school team bus overturns 21 people Hurt Melbeta neb. A a bus carrying a High school boys basketball team went out of control on a Steep Road and overturned injuring 21 people one seriously authorities said. The bus crashed while coming Down a Hill in a can Yon area. It came to rest in a ditch about 7 /2 Miles South of Melbeta facing the opposite direction it had been travelling authorities said. The Minatare High school bus was returning from the championship game of the minuteman activities conference basketball tournament at Harrisburg. Min aware lost the game to Potter Dix 66-52. Gerald Doremus 16, was in serious condition sat urday with a head injury and cuts to the forehead and Scalp regional West medical Center nursing supervisor Kathy Jacobsen said. Rodney Jackson 16, was in Good condition with Back pain and abdominal tenderness she said. All others admitted to the Hospital at Scottsbluff were re leased overnight. Call from lawyer solves mystery of missing books St. Louis a thirty boxes of stolen books that mysteriously turned up on a Library Doorstep ear Lier this month have been traced to a woman who died last year authorities said. The boxes returned to the Thornhill Branch county Library Jan. 3, along with several More boxes and other missing Library items yielded 4,369 books and magazines Worth about $28,000, Library spokeswoman Joann Rogers said. The mystery was solved when a lawyer for the Wom an s estate called several Days after the initial drop off and asked that the Library pick up the remaining books Rogers said. The Library dispatched a Van to pick up the other boxes and staff members needed two weeks to count sort and return most of the materials to regular circulation. Rogers declined to identify the person who had taken the material other than As an elderly woman who was a heavy user of Thornhill materials. Dow deliberates decides to keep Middle name Midland Mich. A it took six months to Settle the Issue but Dow chemical co. Has decided to keep its Middle name As Well As the first and last. Frank Popoff Dow president and chief executive officer said Friday that an internal committee and a consultant had looked into changing the 92-year-old corporate identity and recommended against an change. Dow spokesman Tom Henderson said he did t know How much the study Cost and he would t reveal any alternative names that were considered. In october the company was said to be considering dropping chemical from its name to reflect Dow s expanding role in non chemical industries such As insulation and household goods. For years the Dow name was associated with napalm and agent Orange defoliant both of which were used during the Vietnam War but Henderson said i Don t think it was part of the consideration of changing the  we Are not inundated any More with negatives around the agent Orange Issue he said. Jackson s half brother ordered killing court told Greenville . A a Chi Cago Street gang member testified sat urday that Noah Robinson ordered a hit to kill a former employee but the witness admitted he was promised Money and leniency for cooperating with authorities. Robinson a Chicago businessman and the half brother of Jesse Jackson is accused of hiring the Al run gang to kill Leroy Zambone Barber in Greenville in january 1986. He pleaded innocent to murder and conspiracy charges earlier this month. Robinson has maintained that Federal authorities wanted to Frame him to Dis credit Jackson while the former demo cratic presidential hopeful said he had no recent Contact with his half brother. Henry Leon Harris jr., known As Loomba in the Al run gang also has been charged with murder in the 1986 slaying. Harris said he was the brother in Law of gang Leader Jeff fort who is serving time in a Texas prison on drug charges. Testimony has described the Al run As a violent organization making Mil Lions of dollars from narcotics sales murder for hire extortion and racketeer ing. Another former gang member Eugene Hunter testified Friday that Robinson was a close Friend of fort and wielded some Power in the organization. Robinson and Barber were childhood friends in Greenville and Barber once worked for Robinson in Chicago. . Circuit judge James Moore agreed last week to Combine in the same trial the charges stemming from the bar Ber shooting and the charge that Robin son conspired to kill Janice Denise Rose mond a witness to the murder who survived a stabbing attack. Harris said he met Robinson in Chi Cago in 1985, but did not recall the month. Robinson told us he needed hit duty Harris said. When solicitor Joe Watson asked if Robinson offered to pay for the murder Harris testified that Robinson mentioned $10,000." Harris said that As a general in the Al run he relayed the information to fort who told him and several other gang members to take care of  Harris said that during another meet ing at Robinson s Home the defendant gave gang members $2,000 in expense Money to travel to Greenville. He said a first attempt to kill Barber failed because several members of the gang argued Over How to execute the kill ing. A second trip to Greenville ended in the fatal shooting of Barber in front of a business owned by Robinson. During Cross examination by Robin son s attorney Robert Simone Harris admitted that he lived a double life and that he sometimes lied. Harris also said he was promised As much As $100,000 from Federal authorities for information about Barber an Robinson. Simone described Harris As a liar who makes deals to save his own