European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. September 24, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 real life rambos Tell stories Eye guns Las vegas a platoons of would be rambos arc shopping for exotic weaponry and fighting fashions taking tutorials on world terrorism and swapping War stories at the i oth annual soldiers of Fortune convention. At the Start of the three Day gather ing Friday conventioneers decked out in berets flak jackets and camouflage pants sat around the Pool of the Sahara hotel amid Bikini Clad sunbathers. Others rubbed shoulders with civilian gamblers at the bars and Slot machines. An estimated 10,000 delegates could choose from seminars on such hot Spetsas Central America and Afghanistan manufacturers displays and a shooting Competition at a desert Range. As usual the big hit was the annual display of weapons and apparel de signed especially for those spoiling for fight. It features a lot of things your Mother probably did t want you to play with when of were growing said Bill Brooks exhibition director at the convention whih is put on by sol Dier of Fortune Maga inc of Houlder. Colo. Elsewhere in the1 country people Are campaigning to rid the civilian pop Ulace of semiautomatic weapons. Hut in the hotel s main Chi Jitian Hall convention goers trooped to Booths featuring the latest in rapid fire armament. Street sweeper sales of Atlanta touted a line of automatic weapons with a Banner picturing an ominous looking weapon. The Street sweeper delivers 12 rounds in less than 3 the sign said. Buy american it Salesman Sherman Yarborough said the featured firearm is used mainly for police work and by Florida Law Agen cies against drug smugglers and dealers. Some Street sweepers Are used for self Protection Var Borough said adding it s like any gun. Each person has a different use for Yarborough said his company soils Only to licensed gun dealers. Several Booths including one set up by the National Rifle association urged attendees to fight efforts at gun control. Posters to shirts and bumper stickers carried a similar theme. One poster pictured a Man with a Cache of guns and a message make Al the Laws you want you Ain t taking mine nearby was a stack of bumper stick ers Reading War Mankind s oldest Contact camouflage was the uniform of the Day. Several Booths offered Camo clothing including pants jackets hats even Bikini swimsuits and women s lingerie. To shirt slogans ran along the lines of kill a commie for and i Don t dial 911" next to a picture of a gun. Among the hundreds of books offered were a manual on the care an operation of the ak-47 assault Rifle and a volume titled armed and female 12 million american women own guns. Should you Wayne s gun shop of Dublin Calif., showcased a new Bullet with enhanced destructive Power. The promotional literature described it on Impact a pre Cul precision forged Metal projectile opens into Whirlpool creating chop Ping priestess in sex cult sentenced As prostitute by Steve Padilla the los Angeles times los Angeles a California woman who claims to be the High priestess of an ancient egyptian religion that incorporates sex in its rituals was sentenced Friday on prostitution charges to 90 Days in jail fined $3,000 and ordered to undergo aids testing. Her husband who said god ordered him to re establish the egyptian Church was sentenced to 180 Days in jail and fined $1,000 for running a House of prostitution. Will Tracy 51. Of the los Angeles suburb of can Yon country received the maximum sentence pos sible from los Angeles municipal court judge mar Ion l. Bocra. She called him the Mastermind behind a prostitution service that operated out of a House in West los Angeles. The judge ordered Mary Ellen Tracy 47, to take an aids test and attend aids education classes atthe Sybil Brand Institute for women the county s jail for women. Tracy was convicted this month on two Misdemeanour prostitution charges and one charge of running a House of ill Fame. She could have received up to 180 Days in jail for each conviction. Her attorney Deputy Public defender Maureen j. Tchakalian asked the judge to delay the jail sen tence noting that the couple s eight children ranging in age from 5 to 19 would be without parental guidance. Tchakalian also asked Obera to dismiss the jail sentence adding that first time of fenders typically receive probation. There Are first time prostitutes and those who arc convicted for the first time Obera i feel mrs. Tracy is in the latter the tracks had tried to turn their trial into a debate Over first amendment rights arguing that authorities were prosecuting them because they practice an unorthodox religion which they called the Church of the most High goddess. In the Church women acted As priestesses who Mary Ellen Tracy smiles As she leaves court Friday. Absolved the sins of male followers during rituals involving sex. Mrs. Tracy claimed to have had sex with More than 2,000 men in the name of religion. She once told an interviewer anything god wants from me i will give him. If he wants me to be monogamous. I la be monogamous. If he says go have sex with 20,000 men i la do during the trial mrs. Tracy told How she had been raised a roman Catholic flirted with agnosticism in College converted to mormonism and finally took the name Sabrina act when she assumed the role of High priestess five years ago at the urging of her husband. The six Man six woman jury also heard Tracy acting As his own attorney Tell How god ordered him to re establish what he said was the world s oldest religion. Tracy once compared himself to Jesus Christ and the mormon Prophet Joseph Smith saying they too were persecuted because of their religious beliefs. But police said the Church was a scam because the male followers had to make Cash donations the tracks called them sacrifices to partake in the sexual rites. Prosecutors also noted mrs. Tracy unorthodox vestments fishnet stockings Black spiked heels and a strapless dress studded with red sequins. In court Friday she wore a simple White dress. Before pronouncing sentence Bocra rejected re quests by Tracy and Tchakalian for a new trial. They argued that a copy of the Hollywood press a sexually explicit newspaper which runs a weekly column by mrs. Tracy was included in a Box con Taining evidence reviewed by the jury. Since the paper was not officially entered As evidence it could have prejudiced the jury s deliberations they claimed. But Deputy City attorney Jinni Hoffman said the column Only set out the Basic tenets of the Reli Gion and did not Supply new information to the jurors. It was not at Issue that Mary Ellen Tracy enjoyed sex Hoffman said. Gabor contends trial is ruining my love life Beverly Hills Calif. Up Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday during a break in her cop slapping trial that her court appearances arc ruining her love life and suggested the officer she is accused of assaulting be shipped off to a Kibbutz. I m so tired when i get Home at six an exhausted Gabor said during an afternoon break on the both Day of her trial. Even if he wants to make love to me she said pointing to her eighth Hus band Prince Frederick von Anhalt of West Germany "1 say go away. It s ruining my love the prosecution spent much of the morning attempting to debunk the Testi Mony of defense witness Rosa cric who has publicly and unabashedly pro claimed herself to be Zsa Zsa s wit cric testified that she saw officer Paul Kramer roughly pull Gabor from her car handcuff her and slam her against the $250,000 Rolls Royce. Deputy District attorney Elden Fox on Cross examination appeared to ques Tion the reliability of Peric s testimony and the motivation for it. Cric Fox pointed out had twice this week been invited to Gabor s Bel air mansion and was even Given a Teddy Bear by the actress. The prosecutor said Fox also had been lavished with press attention since first making her eyewitness account Public. Cric did t deny the mansion visits the press attention or the Teddy Bear. But she stuck by her testimony. Cric who said she pulled her car up behind Gabor s Rolls and the officer s motorcycle parked on olympic Boule Vard on june 14, testified that she saw the 6-foot-4 Kramer yank the 5-5 former Glamour Queen to her feel and Tower menacingly Over her before she slapped him. He was looking Over her. And she was scared Peric said. Peric pressed by Fox agreed that she had been interviewed by several radio and to stations. And yes she said she had been to Gabor s mansion where she declared at the Gale i m Zsa Zsa s wit Ness on monday and tuesday evenings and discussed general details of the Case. And yes she received a Teddy Bear. Another defense witness Stephen Lopez testified that he was treated roughly by Kramer two years ago after an Accident. I Don t like to use the simile but he acted like a nazi said Lopez. I was sitting on the Hood of my car and when i stood up to explain he pushed me Backon the car and said shut up his tone was like he was talking to a dog giving a during the afternoon break. Gabor forgetting an admonishment from Jud Echarles Rubin not to speak to reporters said what i would do with or. Kramer is first Send him to a Kibbutz then to Iran or Iraq where he can shoot and Gabor maintains she slapped the Bev Erly Hills police officer because he swore at her and roughed her up during a traffic Stop. Defense attorney William Gray in said he expected the defense would res tits Case monday
