European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday March 3, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 la. Assault gun ban becomes Law los Angeles a military style assault weapons and Short barrelled shotguns became illegal hero wednesday under a disputed Law that critics say has turned thousands of citizens into lawbreakers. The ban in the nation s second largest City which look effect at Midnight tuesday Psi driven by pub Lic outrage Over Street gang warfare waged with Mili tary arms and the Jan 17 slaying of five schoolchildren in Stockton calif., some 200 Miles North of Losangeles in California s Central Valley. The Stockton Kilter Patrick Purdy used an akm 47 assault Rifle a semiautomatic version of the gun used around the world by soviet bloc troops to gun Down the children. Purdy then killed himself with another weapon. On tuesday Albert Edward Gulart jr., 20, Purdy s half brother was arrested on weapons charges after his Home was staked out by officers who had questioned him following the schoolyard killings. Police seized a semiautomatic 9mm Ingram Mac-10 machine pistol an my carbine ammunition artillery shells blasting Caps and other explosives from Gulart s Modesto Home. 25 Miles South East of Stockton. Los Angeles police have said they will not actively look for owners of guns defined As illegal under the City s new Law and by midday wednesday there had been no arrests reported As a result of Fth new Mise Meanor offence. Gun shop owners aided by the National Rifle association have challenged gun Laws passed in los Angeles and Stockton. Gun owners were left confused by the possibility that the Law they might be violating could be Over turned or displaced by a state Law. It puts he gun collector or owner in an awkward civic and economic position said local gun owner Steve Lovinc. There could be a considerable invest ment involved. There has been no compensation addressed in the Law. They re just telling people you have to gel rid of Deputy City attorney Byron Borckman suggested owners of the illegal weapons not take them outside of their Homes except to Lake them to the los an gears police he recommended that gun owners ask officers to keep custody of Fth weapons until the Issue is decided in court. The Era Challenge filed with the state supreme court contends that the slate rather Ihan local government has the right to legislate gun ownership. Borckman said the state has failed to show a Clear intent to regulate assault rifles leaving it open for local legislation. Even As those arguments were put Forward the Assembly Public safely committee approved a Banon the Sale of two dozen specified assault weapons including the ak-47. Later the Senate judiciary committee narrowly approved a broader Bill. Both Bills would allow anyone who lawfully possesses assault weapons before oct. I is89, to keep them by registering them with the department . Both Bills were sent to fiscal committees the last Stop before the floors in each House. Richard Gardiner assistant general counsel Tor the Era said the organization was contacting Law makers to lobby against the legislation. Reagan s Star wars stays intact by the new York times. Washington the defense department is shaping president Bush s new military budget without making cuts in the disputed plan to build a space. Shield against nuclear missiles. Pentagon officials said wednesday. When Bush told Congress he would scale Back the 1990 military budget pro posed by former president Reagan the Star wars shield was widely thought to be a prime target because it had so Man enemies in Congress. Now after an intensive two weeks of study Pentagon officials say the request for the anti missile plan stands at the same $5.6 billion proposed in the Reagan budget for the fiscal year that begins oct. I. Officials said who Lucr Hal and other budget decisions will hold up will de Pend on two factors the continued uncertainty of who will be Secretary of defense and when Hewill take office the review of the National strategy military posture and foreign policy or dered by Bush. The officials said the armed forces recommended that the number of service members and their 3,6 percent pay raise be protected. " Navy officers said their service would seek a modest increase in the number of Dei in by Tosca $350 .300 s50 200 .100so o. 196 Esti Chiea source Odb sense. /. Lions of dollars per year Reagan Budzol _ Al s v11 / i � i 1 a 1 1 1 s i i 1 t r5 / i / i re s i 1 1 tl1 1 / Busl Buff f Al a Jet 82 b4 6g 83 b0 "92" 81 83 85 8789 9f male proposed go Tribune graphic a office of management budget sailors about 5,000, to a total of ,598,000.army officials said they proposed keeping the Force at the same 772.000men and women As now but reducing some training the officials said procure ment of my tanks Bradley righting vehicles Apache helicopters and multiple rocket launchers would be reduced. The air Fence which has expensive items that Are targets for congressional budget Cut ters has suggested it would prefer to buy fewer weapons and to Cut the number of people than to sacrifice readiness. Fiscal panel split along party lines Washington a a hopelessly deadlocked National economic com Mission failing to reach a grand Compro Mise to solve the nation s fiscal prob lems issued a final report wednesday that split essentially along party lines. The commission s seven republicans and the one Democrat appointed by president Bush endorsed the president s 1990 budget calling it a workable plan for eliminating the deficit without re sorting to higher taxes. But the commission s six Democrat refused logo along with the majority re port and instead issued a minority document that castigated Bush s tril lion budget charging thai it employed unrealistic economic assumptions and foiled to distribute the pain of deficit reduction equally among different Seg ments of society. The Bush Budge rules but any Dis Cussion revenues and relics heavily on hard and disproportionate reductions in Domestic spending Many of which have been rejected repeatedly by the Congress and the american people the democrats wrote. However the democrats did nol offer their own plan for dealing with the Defi Cit and they did not specifically endorse higher taxes although Many of them have stated the need for higher revenues. The 14-Membcr commission which leading Seattle rabbi sentenced in huge Money laundering ring Newark new Jersey a a rabbi and Leader of Seattle s Luba Vilch hasidic Community was sentenced wednesday to 30 Days at a Halfway House and fined $10,000 for taking part in a s25 million International Money laundering ring Sholom Levitin 42, was the first of 10 people who admitted participating in be sentenced. The ring was broken up in March 1988 with arrests in los Angeles Seattle and new Jersey Levitin who founded and operates the chabad House Community cent Erin Seattle pleaded guilty in december to conspiring to evade reporting requirements. He had faced five year in prison. . District judge John Bissell also gave Levitin a two year sus Pended sentence and put him on pro Bation for three years. The government claimed Levi in laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars for ringleader Adi Tal a 27 year old israeli former airline worker by using a chabad House Bank account for the Central organization for jewish education Tal also pleaded guilty. Five other people charged remain fugitives in Israel and Colombia. Budget deficit in billions of dollars i Reagan for fiscal years Bush a b9 91" 1982 i 86 88 90"92" 0 estimate proposed Chicago Tribune graphic sources . Department of the of management and budget How goes out of existence was labelled huge disappointment by Suppo ners who once believed it offered the Beu Hope inthe Early Days of a new administration of crafting a workable Compromise of spending cuts and tax increases that would balance the government s books. Democratic co chairman Robert Strauss and Republican co Ziair Mrtin Drew Lewis admitted their disappointment. 2 top officials resigning state department posts Washington apr l. Paul Bremer the state department s senior terrorism expert reportedly has sub mined his resignation to pit silent Bush. Rozanne l. Ridgway assistant Secre tary of slate for european affairs also quit sources said. Ridgway in choosing to retire after 31years in the foreign service asked Secre tary of state James a. Baker to take her name out Orco Lention for ambassador to the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion or for any other overseas Job. T former ambassador to East Ger Many and Finland she told Baker she wants to remain in inc Washington area Wilh her husband. Coast guard Cap Theodore dining. Ridgway attended All five Summit meetings former president Reagan held with Mikhail a Gorba Chev and was considered a senior expert on soviet affairs. Or Emir a 48-year-old career ambassador reportedly will remain at the depart Merit temporarily to conduct a Docmer is a former envoy to the Netherlands and in a 22-year diplomatic Ca reer served As chief assistant to three secretaries of state William Rogers Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig or. There is speculation that Bremer will Lake a Job with Kissinger s private consulting firm Bremer headed the office to counter terrorism for 2w Yean
