European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 19, 1990 the stars and stripes i amp Page 3looking for her mate Hilda the Hippopotamus wanders along and Exeter on wednesday after the knifed. The 3-ton beast was on her Way sized after she got free. Sadly she died a Highway that runs Between London truck in which she was Riding Jack to meet her mate but had to be tranquil on the Way Home. A year later scars from school shooting run deep Stockton Calif. Apr one year after shots from a semiautomatic weapon shattered playtime and childhood innocence at an elementary school Campus life appears to have returned to Normal but fragile immigrant families arc still Healing. The shootings helped Lead to the nation s first and Only statewide ban on the Sale of assault weapons. The buildings at Cleveland elementary have been Kain cd and the Blacktop repaved covering the Bullet Oles and bloodstains where five children died and 29 other children and one teacher were injured. Behind the school two boys dribble a basketball up the Steps of a classroom building near where 24-Ycar-old drifter Patrick Purdy on Jan. 17. 1989 fired 105 rounds from his ak-47 assault Rifle then used a handgun to kill himself. But while the Campus is free of noticeable scars the students and teachers Are not. Some still carry Bullet fragments inside their bodies and the wounded teacher limps because of a Bullet shattered knee. About 100 children still attend weekly group therapy sessions. Many teachers also receive counselling. Quot the kinds of things the kids arc expressing arc still some fears of strangers fears of loud noises difficulty sleeping and nightmares Quot said Roger Speed program chief for san Joaquin county mental health services. Those symptoms arc some of the same As for Post traumatic stress disorder a chronic ailment suffered by some Vietnam War veterans War survivors and victims of rape and torture. Quot it remains to be seen whether these children arc going to have a chronic problem or not Quot Speed said. Quot we done to know. Only time will  school and county mental health authorities initiated counselling for students and stall immediately after the shooting with Hopes of aiding the Healing process and preventing problems later on. A but mental health therapy is not a Miracle Quot Speed said. Quot it s not something that solves everyone a problems. We can t guarantee that All of these kids arc going to be  for Many of the children the shooting was the latest in a series of tragedies to befall their Fame a alies. About 60 percent of Rural Cleveland Elc Mcnary s 1,000 students arc from Southeast asian refugee families Many of them already traumatized by War. The live children who died by Purdys bullets were of Southeast asian descent a four cambodian and one vietnamese. An official report described Purdy As emotionally disturbed and full of racial hatred. The father of slain ram Chun 8. Frequently cries out for his dead daughter sometimes talking of suicide and occasionally requiring hospitalization. The girls 16-Ycar-old brother ran away from Home last april after being hospitalized for an emotional breakdown. The father of slain Sokhim an 6, has difficulty sleeping and worries about the safety of his four other children. Speed said the county a Tran cultural mental health clinic has seen its clientele double from 450 last year to nearly 900. A i can to say each one of those is directly related to the Cleveland school incident Quot he said. Quot but these arc All Southeast asian folks. I know they re All aware of the shooting. I think it affects their anxiety about being separate from the  a two week teachers strike Over pay issues that threatened to continue through the anniversary of the shooting created confusion for Many families officials said. The walkout ended monday night. Therapists also worried that widespread Media attention to the anniversary could reopen psychological wounds. The attention however also has affected society. Last May in the Wake of the Stockton shooting and escalating Street gang violence the California legislature passed the nation s first and Only statewide ban on the Sale of assault  teacher seeks ban of All assault weapons Washington apr a teacher wounded in a bloody shooting a year ago at a California elementary school called wednesday for a ban on All assault weapons Domestic and foreign. A How Many More people How Many More children must face the Power of a Bullet before something is done Quot asked teacher Janet gang. Who was wounded in the Jan. 17, 1989, attack by a Man wielding an ak-47 assault Rifle in Stockton. A How Many More must die How Many More must be disabled before Congress will act Quot Geng asked at a capital Hill news conference called by the coalition to Stop gun violence. A the gun violence must Stop  gang still limping from the wound in her leg. Said she would lobby Congress for Bills outlawing some domestically produced assault weapons. Her bid to meet with president Bush was unsuccessful. The Bush administration responded to the Public outcry following the Stockton shooting by Banning imports of 43 types of semiautomatic assault rifles including the ak-47. In the shooting a drifter Patrick Purdy opened fire at students on the school playground killing five children and wounding 29 others and Geng. The coalition to Stop gun violence says the government must go further and ban the manufacture and Sale of All assault rifles including domestically produced models unaffected by the import ban. Michael Beard executive director of the coalition said the group also supports a ban on imports of semiautomatic assault pistols As advocated by handgun control inc. In a petition wednesday to the Treasury department s Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms. A the importation of significant numbers of semiautomatic assault pistols and their increasing use by drug traffickers and other hard Core criminals is a relatively new phenomenon Quot says the petition prepared by handgun control inc s legislative counsel David g. Mengebier. Quot All of the factors which at considered persuasive in Banning the importation of semiautomatic assault rifles arc present and applicable to semiautomatic assault pistols a the petition says. One of the pistols that handgun control is especially concerned about is the israeli Uzi. Semiautomatic assault pistols arc virtually identical to semiautomatic assault rifles in terms of development design and intended use the petition said. Quot in fact because semiautomatic assault pistols have similar firepower but arc More concealable than their assault Rifle counterparts they present an even greater danger to Public  the at and the National Rifle association said it would be extremely difficult to ban the handguns because rules enacted under the gun control act of 1968 were designed to Rule out cheap saturday night specials not Well made sophisticated semiautomatic pistols. "1 Don t know How one would design criteria that would exclude the firearms they re talking about and not exclude All the other firearms Quot said Jim Baker the nral a director of governmental affairs. A i think that handgun control would like to ban anything that there s a political or emotional Opportunity to ban and this is consistent with that policy a Baker said. At spokesman Jack Killorin said he could not comment on the handgun control petition since he had not seen it. But he added that because of the extensive legislative history and Long standing regulations for handgun imports it would be More difficult to ten styles of handguns than to ban assault rifles for which there was virtually no legislative history