European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 first lady Barbara foes off own or like guns Washington a Barbara Bush says guns scare her and she does t own one because i m to afraid i d shoot the wrong  she said military assault rifles like the one used in a California ram Page that left five children dead should be outlawed. The first lady said Friday she did not want to discuss the politics and policies surrounding hand gun ownership. President Bush opposes new Federal handgun controls and is a lifetime member of the National Rifle association. I myself do not own a gun she said urging a interviewer to talk with her husband about his position on handguns. I choose not to get into that. I am afraid of them. I m too afraid i d shoot the wrong  Nancy Reagan before moving to Washington eight years ago revealed she had owned a tiny Little gun that she kept by her bed for Protection while her Hus band was away. In her first White House interview in1981, Reagan said she had gotten rid of the weapon. Marking the end of her second week in the Whitehouse Bush spent part of Friday afternoon giving her first interviews since her husband became president. I feel at Home Here she said sitting on a Couch. In a town torn by debate Over a 51 percent pay increase for members of Congress Bush was asked i she had been Able to live on her husband s salary when he was a House member from Houston in the1960s. No she replied saying that they had relied on Money he earned As an oilman in Texas. Could we have lived on it we probably could have she said. However she said they would have had a very different lifestyle and would not have been Able to maintain two Homes or Send their Chil Dren to private schools. Asked if her husband had changed in any Way since becoming president she replied i Don t see a difference with  to several peo ple in the room she said i see a difference in you and you and you. Not me. I meant s just different when you re president. Every body treats you differently when you re presi  joking about her Hus band s former status As vice president bus said i spend half my life saying could you mrs. Bus please get the vice president on the phone and the operator says do you really want Dan Quayle or Don t you know Dan Quayle s in Venezuela " More seriously she said one big difference Forbush is that everything you say becomes major and it is major. He is the president of the United  and yet she said of her husband i think he exactly the  she said Many people who used to kid with her husband had stopped doing that briefly but after a while they All became Normal again. It just took a Little while. I Call him or. President sometimes when i needling him. To tease him yes or. Presi Dent " the first lady was asked if she favored enactment of Laws Banning Sale to the Public of military assault guns. Measures to outlaw the manufacture Sale or Possession of a variety of rifles Are pending in con Gress and dozens of states. It was a chinese ak-47assault Rifle that a gunman used in the rampage in which five children were killed and 29 other Chil Dren plus a teacher were wounded in Stockton Calif in january. Bush said she thought such weapons already were outlawed. They should be absolutely she said. While refusing to discuss her position on hand guns Bush said that she does not like to go Hunting As does her husband an avid outdoors Man. I went Hunting with George once Bush  told me to follow the Bird and i followed the Bird and his head came right through that Little Circle the Rifle scope. I put Down the gun and said that s it. I m not going to do that again " earlier Friday Bush visited the United Community ministries inc. In the Washington suburb of Alexandria and praised the Center s staff of volunteers. It reinforces my belief that we have got to Hel the working poor she told reporters during her 40 minute visit. The first lady helped carry from the trunk of he limousine seven plastic bags full of clothes and toys that she and members of the White House staff donated. The Center is a private non profit organization whose programs include a Thrift shop food pantry medical clinics Day care counselling and financial assistance. Bush posed for photographers with four children from the facility s Day care Center. They included 4 year old Amber Daniels who handed Bush a mock voting tally from the preschool class showing presi Dent Bush with a Clear margin Over Democrat Michael Dukakis. That just makes me feel wonderful the first lady said. Actor director Cassavetes Dies at 59 los Angeles a actor director John Cassa vetes known for his freewheeling improvisational style in such movies As faces and a woman under the influence died Friday. He was 59. Gena Rowlands his wife of three decades and the Star of most of his films was at his Side when he died at Cedar Sinai medical Center his publicist said. He died of complications resulting from cirrhosis of the liver the publicist said. Cassavetes was one of Only four entertainers Ever to denominated for an Academy award in three categories. He was nominated As Best writer for his original screenplay of faces in 1968 As Best supporting actor in the dirty dozen in 1967 and As Best director for his original film a woman under the influence in 1974. Among Cassavetes Best known acting roles was As the husband of a woman whose baby Falls into the hands of satanic cult in Rosemary s baby a 1968 film directed by roman Polanski that also starred Mia Farrow. Faces was a personal probing study of  film won three Oscar nominations and five Venice film festival awards. A woman under the influence is the Story of the souring of a Middle class marriage which starred his wife. I think they both had a great fondness for woman under the influence " the publicist said of Cassavetes and Rowlands. It was certainly his most commercial  his first movie As a director was shadows filmed John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands in a 1980 photo. From 1957-60 on what amounted to pennies using hand held 16mm camera. Technically the film was a mis fit. But As an Art form it has been referred to by film Buffas a masterpiece. The movie is about a fair skinned Black girl living in new York with her two Brothers. The Type of films we do Are different Cassavetes once said. Commercial movies have no feeling no sensitivity. Most people Tell me that people won t understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. I think people Are very stiff. Money makes people stiff and we want it and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define Success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I m a revolutionary but not in the political  Cassavetes a native of new York grew up poor. His break in acting came when he played a brooding Youn bullfighter in a production of the old omnibus to series in 1953. That led to roles in playhouse 90,""studio one Kraft theater and  his film debut was As an extra in "14 hours in 1951. He starred in taxi in 1953 and was in the night holds terror in 1955. He remained an Independent filmmaker who marched to the tune of a different drummer. If it came to a Good film or what makes feeling i d take feeling he once said. He and Rowlands were married in March 1958 an their careers were Seldom separate. They had three children Nicholas Alexandra and Zoe. Removal of Vietnam photos causes juror in Conn town new Haven Conn. A the mayor ordered 11 photographs in a Viet Nam War exhibit that made some people literally sick to their stomach moved from City Hall lobbies to a less travel corridor an official said Friday. Joseph Carbone an aide to mayor by Agio Dilieto said the rest of the exhibit 56 photographs remained in the lobbies. Dilieto feared the material was Topographic for children who regularly visit the building on Tours the aide said. I addition he said 591116 City employees complained after seeing the photographs. Some were literally sick to their stomach said aide  11 photos show the bodies of dead or wounded soldiers and civilians including the body of a vietnamese lying face Down on a mud Flat and another of a medic attending to a Young girl with whole in her thigh. But veterans said the Point of the trav Eling exhibit is to illustrate the horrors of War and that moving the offending photographs undermined the message. I think the exhibit is the most Power Ful anti War statement i be seen. If peo ple have to be made a Little uncomfortable to understand what War is about think that s Fine. It s Worth the Jolt said Ernest Amabile director of the Newyork state Vietnam memorial. All 67 photographs were taken by news photographers who were killed in the War or Are listed As missing in action. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 5, 1949 the . State department discounted press reports from Seoul South Korea that 1,000 North korean troops had attempted to invade South Korea. 30 years ago today. Feb. 5, 1959 after negotiations Between . And soviet political advisers in Berlin the russians released a Convoy of four american trucks that they had held on the route Between Berlin and West Germany for 54 hours. 20 years ago today. Feb. 5, 1969 Secretary of Interior Walter j. Hickel requested the suspension of Oil drilling by five companies under the Santa Barbara Channel because of extensive Oil leakage off the Southern California coast. If 0 years ago today. Feb. 5, 1979 chinese vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping wrapped up his week Long visit to the United states with a trip to Seattle to tour a Boeing co. Aircraft Plant already a major supplier of planes to China