European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 20, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 polls say 72-80% Back assault Rifle ban by the associated press an overwhelming majority of americans favor a ban on semiautomatic assault rifles although there is no consensus on How such a ban should work Accord ing to two polls released saturday. A nationwide Survey conducted by the los Angeles times found 80 percent of americans favored Banning such weapons. A Newsweek poll showed 72 percent favor a permanent ban on Selling them while 21 per cent opposed such a ban. The times poll found opposition to the Sale and Possession of the rapid firing weapons across political ethnic gender geographical and educational lines sur vey director . Lewis said. However Given several suggestions for How to re move the guns from society respondents split three ways. Twenty four percent said the guns should be confiscated from present owners 30 percent supported buying the guns Back and 30 percent said present own ers should be allowed to keep their guns but would ban new sales. More than half of the 1,158 people polled in the times Telephone Survey said Only Law abiding citizens would obey the ban leaving the weapons mainly in the hands of criminals. According to the Newsweek poll 58 percent of americans believe a ban would reduce the number of killings by unstable people. However half of those polled said they did not believe such a ban would reduce drug or crime related killings while 45 percent said they believe it would. Seventy eight percent of those surveyed said they believe people should be required to provide More information to police before they arc allowed to buy any kind of firearm while 15 percent said they believe current Laws Are adequate. News Wick s Telephone poll of 756 adults was con ducted March 16-17. The Issue gained National prominence in january after a gunman killed five children and wounded 30other people in a Stockton calif., schoolyard before taking his own life. The California Assembly has approved a Bill ban Ning 40 types of assault weapons and the Bush administration has imposed a temporary ban on the importation of foreign made assault weapons. Utah police find Bones at site recalled by Bundy Capitol reef National Park Utah a searchers who followed directions Given by now executed killer Ted Bundy have found Bones and the tattered remnant of a Blouse near a site where Bundy said he buried a 17-year old girl he killed in 1974. Wayne county sheriff Kerry Ekker Wayne said saturday the Bones were re covered from three separate Sites jus outside the boundaries of this Park 200 Miles South of Salt Lake City. At one site searchers found widely scattered Bones and what appeared to be a piece of a Tan coloured Blouse with lace Ekker said. We have our suspicions that the Bones from the two locations arc not human but there will have to be a positive identification on All three Ekker said. Inone Ocafon we did find some Teeth so we re sure it s an  sheriffs chief Deputy Lacon Brinker Hoff said the remains would be turn Dover to the Utah slate crime Laboratory for analysis. If any arc found to be human the site swill be carefully excavated to preserve evidence. However Ekker said a positive identification would be possible Only if a Skull and Teeth Are found so they can be compared with the dental record of the victim Nancy Wilcox. The Bones were in the general area described by Bundy As he was inter viewed by detectives at Florida stat prison just before his Jan. 24 execution. Bundy was convicted of Only three murders in Florida but before his execution he confessed to More than 20 kill Ings and is considered a suspect in More deaths and disappearances. Eight of those he confessed to killing were i Utah but he gave descriptions of Only two burial Sites. If the Bones found arc not human Ekker said his office will make Only one More Effort to recover the remains of Wilcox who disappeared from her Salt Lake City neighbourhood on oct. 2, 1974.the search conducted was the fourth since Bundy s death. Bundy confessed that he killed the girl and buried her just outside the National Park s boundaries. Terry Anderson on her Paintbrush artist Maureen Seeba of the Wood lands a suburb of Houston works on one of Many drawings she s done of hostage Terry Anderson. The chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press thursday began his fifth year in Captivity since his abduction in Beirut Lebanon. Koop assures parents App is Are Safe for children Washington a surgeon general c. Everett Koop has joined other Federal health officials in trying to assure the Public it is Safe for children to cat apples. I wish to Send a message to mothers across the coun try it s of mom apples arc Good for your kids " Koop said in a statement released Over the weekend. Last week officials of the food and drug administration the environmental Protection Agency and the department of agriculture went to Capitol Hill in efforts to Case Public fears Over the chemical alar used by some Apple growers to retain the crispness of their fruit. Many Apple growers say they Don t use alar which has been linked to cancer in animal tests. But the Industry is reeling from reaction to a recent environmental group s report that children Are at especially High risk from alar because they cat so Many More apples than adults. Many parents reportedly have stopped giving apples to their children and some school districts Are no longer serving apples in their cafeterias. Trying to allay their fears Koop said that in 1988,Only 5 percent of the Apple crop was treated with  sex Rae i officer sentenced in scheme Newark new Jersey up a former israeli air Force Captain was sentenced Friday to 14 months in a . Prison for a by coastal Money laundering scheme that shipped millions of dollars to Colombia and Panama. Moshe a Crim s lawyer told the judge his client now a los Angeles resident believed he was helping funnel Cash from the mos sad the israeli secret service to anti communist guerrillas in Central America. But . District judge John Biss Elsaid he concluded a Crim was Well aware he was doing something illegal. Or begin is Young but he s not inexperienced Bissell said adding that by Gim s military superiors described him As someone neither naive nor easily  Bissell also sentenced Baruch ocl tzar an israeli citizen living in Seattle to 14 months in prison. The judge disregarded a plea from a representative of an Israel prisoner rehabilitation organization who asked him to allow Zeltzer to return Toan israeli Kibbutz if i take him Home with me he can serve the country Herat Lapid said. I m sure you Don t need him As much As we need him. I will ask you to give him to  a Clizer s lawyer a Public defender argued that his client believed he was handling Money from jews in South Africa who wanted to Send it to Israel. Prosecutors said the Money laundering group was organized by Adi Tal a former Al Al airlines employee who moved fro los Angeles to new Jersey shortly before his arrest in Early 1988. During about year of operating Tal supervised the ship ment of about $6 million to Banks in Panama and to two men in Colombia. A Crim cooperated with a . Cus Toms service investigation after his arrest last year. Assistant . Attorney Stuart Rabner said a Crim helped per Suade the group s leaders to plead guilty. Rabner described a Crim and a Clizer As the leaders of the los Angeles and Seattle branches of Tal s operation. Two other Seattle men received Short prison terms Friday. Sergio Dias a Bra Zilian accountant was sentenced to nine months and Avshalom Kazan another israeli Veteran to four , described As coming from a Rich family in Rio de Janeiro was the Only person arrested in the scheme who did not claim israeli  other people were sentenced earlier this month. Rabbi shalom Levi tin. A Leader in Seattle s hasidic Community and founder of chabad House a Community Center where Ziltzer lived was ordered to spend 48 hours a week for 15 weeks in a drug treatment  Marom a school and military Friend of a Crim a living in los Angeles received a 14-month sentence. Alon Rudko also of los Angeles was sentenced to four months in a Halfway  and his suspected lieutenant Nir Goldshtein Are scheduled to be sentenced later this month. Their wives were arrested with them but were Al Lowed to enter a pre trial intervention program. As surgeon general i support my colleagues in inc Federal government and scientific Community in the belief that it is Safe to cat apples he said. Fra commissioner Frank Young has said that even in those apples containing alar the level is Nomore than 10 percent of the level found acceptable under Epa regulations. Public juror Over the alar controversy was intensified last week by the unrelated ban of fruit from Chile after two grapes were found to have been injected with cyanide. Quadriplegic gets $10 million Miami a a woman who was left severely brain damaged and a quadriplegic after going to a Hospital for treatment of a broken leg has Bee awarded $10 million in a medical Mal practice suit. The jury award to Blanca Lilliana Naranjo 21, was handed Down following Atwo week trial in which she alleged negligence on the part of South Miami hos Pital and its doctors and nurses. Naranjo then 18, was Riding a bicycle when she was struck by a car on april 22, 1986. She was admitted  Hospital with a broken leg and developed a com plication known As fat embolism syn drome which causes a buildup of fluid in the lungs. Her lawyer Michael Mullen said Doc tors failed to identify the condition until she had gone into cardiac arrest. He said Naranjo owes $1,1 million in Hospital Bills and will need care the rest of her life