European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday december 15, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 it s to born in the . Reginald Larkin stands beside a 1991 Honda Accord Wagon fresh off the Assembly line at the automakers Assembly Plant at Marysville Ohio. Company officials Are touting the car As the Only Honda assembled entirely in the United states although some of its components Are imported from Japan. The car was designed at the company a studios in Torrance Calif., and built at Honda a Plant Iti Marysville 35 Miles Northwest of Columbus. Honda a station Wagon which went into production nov. 20, has arrived at stateside dealers. Scott fab ii. Up a . Marine reservist who said last month he would riot join his unit when it left for the persian Gulf was arrested Early thursday officials said. Lance Cpl. Eric Hayes 24, of University City mo., a suburb of St. Louis was arrested at 2 . Thursday at his apartment on the Campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwards Vilic a University spokesman said. Mayes did riot resist arrest on a deserter Absentee warrant by two military police officers and three . Marshals said Willie Greason chief Deputy for the . Marshals office in East St. Louis. Hayes was taken to Scott fab about 20 Miles cast of St. Louis where he was held until a Marine corps air Craft picked him up a base spokesman said. Marine officials were expected to take Hayes to Camp Lejeune n.c., where his combat unit was rider going training. His unit the dragon platoon of the 3rd in 24th Marine Reserve div is being deployed to saudi Arabia As part of operation desert shield. A spokesman for the Marine corps said Hayes would be assigned a lawyer As soon As possible and that he probably would face court martial at Camp Lejeune. Hayes a senior majoring in psychology at s1u-Edwardsvilic and president of the Campus Black students association held a news conference at the University on nov. 30 to announce he was refusing orders to report for Active duty and would seek status As a conscientious objector. A i refuse to be a Pawn in americans Power play for Oil profits in the Middle East a Hayes said at the hews conference. �?�1 refuse orders to activate me into the regular marines. I declare myself a conscientious a a. On the same Day some 200 members of his unit reported for Active duty at its command Headquarters at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. The dragon platoon is an anti tank assault unit. The reservist has continued his studies at the University since his announcement. Final examinations for the fall Quarter Are being held this week. Hayes enlisted in the Marine reserves in August 1986 for six years of Active service and two years of inactive service. With his announcement Hayes became one of about 30 members of the armed forces publicly refusing to report for Active duty in the Middle East. A murderer rapist in Richmond a. Up buddy Earl Justus who was under a death sentence in three states was executed thursday night for the 1978 rape and murder of a pregnant nurse. Justus 38, was pronounced dead at 11 06 . In the electric chair at the state Penitentiary in downtown Richmond Justus was sentenced to death for the oct 3,1978, rape and murder of Ida Mae Moses a nurse of Ironto va., who was 8vt months pregnant when Justus broke into her Home and shot her in the head. Justus had asked gov l. Douglas Wilder to either commute his sentence to life or watch the execution in person but Wilder refused. A Justus also was under death sentences in Florida and Georgia for the murders of Saleswoman Stephanie Hawkins in Tampa fla., and Rosemary Jackson a House wife in Mountain Park a. His lawyer Janies copa Cirio claimed Justus suffers from brain damage but in an interview with Roanoke radio station fir Justus accepted responsibility for the crimes. A a i was Able to forgive myself. Pm at peace with myself in a ready to go to a better place a he said a in order to be Era asks court to reverse on machine guns Washington a the National Rifle association is pushing a suit that would overturn n government ban on civilian ownership of new machine guns but police groups supporting gun control want the supreme court to ignore it a machine guns Are designed to kill Large groups of people and do so quickly a Don Cahill of the National fraternal order of police said during a thursday news conference. A drug dealers and others Bent on violence arc the Only ones who need machine at Issue is a 1986 amendment to the gun. Control act. A /. The Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms says the amendment prohibits private ownership of a machine guns made after May 18, 1986. But an estimated 125,000 civilians own machine guns purchased before that Date and such weapons tire not illegal under the statute. Transfers of the older weapons require permission from at. /. A. To own an old machine gun a person must he fingerprinted undergo a background Check obtain in arsenic it from the local police chief or sheriff and pay a $200 fee per weapon. But Era attorney Richard e. Gardiner said the gov can mint is misinterpreting the 1986 legislation. A what it says is that any machine gun made after that Date can be. Possessed under the authority of the United states a Gardiner said in an interview. A while the government said it limits ownership of new machine guns to Law enforcement agencies and the military Gardiner said it Means ownership is open meeting at standards such As those established for individuals buying the older weapons. A a a there a a Section in the gun control act that specifically exempts Alt government agencies from the act a the Era lawyer said. A it would be meaningless for Congress to create two exemptions for the same peo pie. A a. is supporting a Case brought by Gunsmith Quot . Farmer or. Of Smyrna ga., against at director Stephen e. Higgins. Farmer wanted to make and own a machine gun and he gave at a All the documents needed for Possession of an old weapon. The Bureau rejected the application saying the 1086 legislation was the sole reason for doing so according to Farmers petition to the supreme court v a \ . District judge j. Owen Forrester of Atlanta ruled in Farmers favor in january 1989, hut a Turco member panel of the 11th circuit court of appeals unanimously overturned that decision on july 11, 1990. The supreme court has not decided whether to hear Farmers Appeal the Center to prevent handgun Vio tence and seven police organizations submitted a Brief thursday urging the top court not to take the Case. David b. Mitchell police chief of Prince Georges county md., noted that a More than a dozen cities have already it broken All time murder records and Many others Are approaching these frightening inia prison forgiven you be got to forgive earlier this week Wilder who has refused to intervene in two previous executions this year indicated be would allow the execution to proceed unless some startling new evidence emerged. Justus was the 11th person executed in Virginia and the 143rd in the United states since the supreme court lifted a Bun on capital punishment in 1976. Corvallis Ore. Apr two women who baked cookies for troops stationed in the persian Gulf Are using because the sweets ended up in California homeless shelters. A a a a Gina Root and Deborah Lien of Corvallis spent bout $75 to Send 150 pounds of cookies about three weeks ago to Stephen Butler in la Mesa Calif. The a a Omen thought the cookies would soon be on a flight to he Gulf. This week Root received a letter from a Volunteer m i homeless shelter in la Mesa thanking her for the location. A a in a furious a Root said thursday. A these cookies Are for Pur service people not for the homeless in California. It just Butler said he distributed the cookies and Many others he received to homeless shelters because he was deluged with treats for the troops and never intended to become the National organizer of operation cookie. He said he volunteered to organize the local los Angeles cookie Effort but after talking to a reporter and the Story being picked up by newspapers across the country he was awash in cookies. For weeks his living room has been full of cookies. Root said if Butler had More cookies than he could handle he should have refused to accept shipment. Butler said he a a scrounged to find a Way to get the cookies overseas. He said military planes take the cookies Only on a space available basis and most flights have been full. A it was either give them to homeless shelters or throw them in the trash a Butler said v a a in be been deluged by angry old ladies giving me tons of suggestions of what i should have done with the cookies. From now on Vii just let them spoil or throw them away. In a fed up with
