European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday february 1989 la Council bans semiautomatic weapons los Angeles not after a noisy one hour hearing the City Council of los Angeles voted tues Day to ban the Sale or Possession of semiautomatic weapons. The vote was 12 to 0. Mayor Tom Bradley signed the ordinance immediately and it was to go into effect wednesday. After another 15 Days owners of such weapons must either dispose of them or Render them inoperable to comply with the Law. The action in the nation s second largest City where 257 people were killed in Street gang shootings last year came two Days after the City Council of Stockton calif., unanimously passed a similar measure. Last month a Man killed five children and wounded 30 other people in a rampage with a chinese made ak-47 Rifle in a Stockton elementary schoolyard. Similar Bills Are pending in the California legis lature As Well As in Congress but the author of the City ordinance councilman Zev Yaroslavsky said he did not want to wait to act on what he called these weapons of War in the City. We Hope this will motivate the state legislature he said after the vote. If not at least we will be pro  the action made the two California cities the first major jurisdictions in the United states aside from Washington d.c., to ban semiautomatic rifles and pistols. These weapons require a separate trigger pull for every shot in contrast to machine guns which fire automatically and Are illegal under Federal Law. Semiautomatic weapons Are illegal in Washington if they use ammunition magazines of More than 11 rounds a of overs come of fhe Rescue when donors desert soviet troupe members of Donetsk Ballet practice in Baltimore. A Baltimore a donated meals and gifts poured in tuesday for a soviet Ballet troupe whose . Debut tour is in danger of cancellation after the pullout of top  of the 15-City tour announced the Donetsk Ballet from the Ukraine would give a thank you Baltimore fund raising performance wednesday so the dancers can continue their performances through april As scheduled. The tour s producer Jan Urdzik of California based heart of the Art inc., met with soviet embassy representatives troupe officials and a member of go Skont Sert the organization of soviet concert managers As meals snacks and gifts arrived at the downtown hotel where the dancers were staying. Vadim Pisarev the Ballet s Star soloist wearing fur leg warmers As he sat by a Flower filled russian Cham pagne bottle at the hotel expressed his gratitude. I am very Happy with the people of Baltimore he said showing a letter signed by an adoring Ballet fan in Baltimore comparing him to two of the greatest russian male dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev. With it the Man enclosed a Gold Pinky ring he d received years ago from his wife. Pisarev 24, earned the 1988 prize for Best dancer in the soviet Union and won the Gold medal at the prestigious International Ballet Competition in Jackson miss., in 1986. Despite his prominence Good reviews and standing ovations from Small Baltimore audiences last week mexi can and american investors withheld $200,000 from the tour when they Learned that stars from Well known soviet troupes such As the kirov Ballet could not leave the soviet Union to join the tour organizers said. The dancers were scheduled for performances i Detroit Chicago and Columbus Ohio. As Urdzik tried to extend the group s stay in Baltimore to thursday the Howard oilman foundation of new York pledged an undisclosed sum and worked to attract other donors to save the troupe from loss of face. This was one year in planning with no salary said Urdzik who also promoted a Moscow Ballet tour in 1987. My Home is on the line she said because she committed her own Money to the project. They the soviets Don t understand business in America she said referring to their decision to keep the kirov stars at Home and its Impact on private funding. Meanwhile the dancers had dinner tuesday at the Bel Vedere hotel Courtesy of Anne c. Dodds of St. Louis who donated $1,000. Baltimore fans dropped off cases of Vodka and Lyric opera president Robert m. Pomory said he would pay the group s hotel Bill for two Days. But they can be sold with almost no restrictions or even a waiting period in almost All states. The los Angeles ordinance covers semiautomatic with a detachable Magazine of 20 rounds or More. As examples it cited such weapons As the ar-15 ml6 assault rifles Uzi assault rifles and carbines Ingram models 10 and 11 assault carbines ak-47 As Sault rifles and Thompson carbines. The Law also covers All shotguns with a barrel Shorter than 18 inches and a folding Stock or Magazine capacity of More than six rounds All weapons that can readily be restored to semiautomatic Mode and the parts used to convert guns into semiautomatic Mode. Violation of the ordinance is a criminal mis Demea nor punishable by up to six months in jail and a Fine of up to $1,000. Stateside no High heeled strolling judge tells Condo Dweller West Palm Beach Fla. A a judge has warned Berenice Rogers to slip out of her High heels before strolling around her Condo. Palm Beach county circuit judge Richard Burk said tuesday that if Rogers persists in annoying her downstairs neighbors with her noisy footsteps she could be pacing inside a jail cell. Bernard and Sonja Arbuse who live directly below Rogers at the Sun and surf condominium said the problem began in 1984 when Rog ers had italian tile Laid in her $235,000 Condo. The couple s attorney Charles Nugent re Quested Burk to order Rogers to install carpet ing. Rogers said she has Laid Oriental and sheepskin rugs and removes her heels at the front door but she does not want carpet. I Don t believe mrs. Rogers is required to give up her right to decorate the judge said. And i Don t believe i can require her to Stop  Texas attorney indicted for killing whooping Crane Corpus Christi Texas a a hous ton attorney who fatally shot one of the world s few remaining whooping cranes last month has been indicted on a charge of violating the endangered species act. Mario Max Yzaguirre 28, was indicted by a Federal grand jury last week. If convicted he faces a maximum one year in prison and $ 100,000 Fine. He is to be arraigned feb. 17. Texas Parks and wildlife department officials have said the department will also seek $ 11,000 in restitution from Yzaguirre. Yzaguirre was out of his office tuesday and could not be immediately reached for comment his Secretary said. Yzaguirre has said the Crane was flying through heavy fog and he mistook the Bird for a Snow Goose. Only about 200 whooping cranes remain about 130 of which Roost each Winter along Texas Gulf coast. Before conservation efforts began there were Only 21 whooping cranes in Texas during Winter. . Leads in bigotry linked violence study shows Raleigh . Up North car Olina leads the nation in the number of violent incidents linked to bigotry according to a report issued wednesday triggering criticism that the state is riddled with  the report by North carolinians against racist and religious violence detailed 53 reported incidents for 1988, including five deaths 11 assaults four Cross burnings 20 threats two weapons charges and eight cases of vandalism. For 1988, the number of reported deaths and injuries tied to bigoted Vio Lence Rose significantly and Many of these incidents involved Young people said Rob Sikorski the group s executive director. While some of the figures May be higher due to better reporting the accelerating violence seems also a product of a changing social and political Environ ment Over the past decade that is More tolerant of bigoted acts he said. National reports on bigoted violence by the Center for democratic renewal in Atlanta and klan watch in Montgomery ala., say North Carolina led the nation in such incidents in 1986 and 1987, Sikorski said. I be talked with them and they say no one else comes close to North Carolina again in 1988," Sikorski said. Lynora Williams executive director of the Center for democratic renewal said her group released a study last year Span Ning six years of investigations into bigoted violence in each state. That study clearly shows North Caro Lina was at the top Williams said. The state is riddled with  Williams said she did not have a theory on Why the state is a Haven for such groups. We do know that since the 1979 kill Ings m Greensboro , by the klan and subsequent activities we be seen a continuing entrenchment of hate groups in North Carolina. Where you have hate groups organized you have violent Active  on nov. 3, 1979, members of the Kun flux klan and the communist workers party fought during a March in greens Boro. Five members of the communist workers party were killed during the incident. The annual report shows the 53 Inci dents in 1988 were a 10.4 percent in crease Over the 48 incidents in 1987 and a 32.5 percent increase Over the 40 Inci dents in 1986. The report said Blacks were the Vic Tims of 27 of the incidents and jews were the victims of eight