European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a a Page 7 House ties gun control Bill to crime Imp it. / Quot a i Quot buggy race Purdue University students Kim Cullen left and Jennifer Mcmahon cheer As 3-Inch Gigantes cockroaches Scurry from the Center of a ring to the Edge during cockroach races at the schools entomology department in Lafayette ind. In this heat. Hot to Trot won base Board came in second and Mold biscuit crawled to a third. Wash 1 Egton a a seven Day waiting Oei Iod for handgun purchases cleared a first legislative / hurdle wednesday As the hush  raised the Prospect  veto unless con Gross also passed its crime Hill. The. Veto threat was made in a letter by attorney general Dick Thorn Burti As the so called Quot Brady Bill Quot was approved �?~>-4 by the House judiciary crime subcommittee which sent the measure to the full committee. Thornburgh said president Bush might refuse to sign the handgun Bill unless Congress also passes the admin stration s Carnie Bill. Supporters of the Bill hailed the attorney general s letter As representing what they saw As a Cigar signal that Bush had embraced the concept of gun control something he has Long opposed. In the letter Thornburgh said Quot if the Congress acts favourably on the Percsi dents comprehensive crime Bill the president will accept As part of that Bill appropriate measures to identify felons attempting to Purchase  but such legislation a a must be presented to the president As part of or together with his crime Bill a the attorney Genera said in a letter delivered on the eve of the markup to the Suboni Mitteer a chairman rep. Charles Schumer . Thornburg Sai d a a t he a do i Nistra t Ion will not accept a watered Down version of Bush s crime Bill. Otherwise a a the president s senior advisers will recommend that he veto any Bill. That is no part of legislation consistent with his comprehensive violent crime control proposal Quot the attorney general said. Democrats supporting the Brady Bill dismissed the seriousness of the Veio threat and hailed what they called a significant Concession by the administration a i am pleased that this letter indicates for the first Linie that the president is not opposed to the concept of the Bill per be but rather is in favor of enhancements which he believes would facilitate lie / identification of felons attempting to Purchase handguns a Schonier said. A while i Ain Happy Abonit this shift in position i continue to believe that the president should move out of the caboose and become tie Engineer of the train by clearly and unequivocally endorsing the Brady Bill in its current  the Bill is named for former White 11 ouse p r c is Sec re t a by j a me s s. B r Ady who was shot in the head and left part Al Zed by a gunman who tried to kill president Reagan in 1981, Reagan last month gave the Brady Bill added momentum with his Surprise endorsement of the proposal that he had Long opposed. Thornburgh said Congress should Amend the Brady Bill so it  apply to states that set up Over the counter checks of computerized criminal records to screen out felons. Only three states a Virginia Florida and Delaware a have Point of Sale checks. Quot a a a a Thornburgh has noted repeatedly that the Brady Bill would have limited Effee live Ness because 83 percent of guns used to commit crimes by felons were purchased on the Street not in gun shops. Rep James Sensenbrenner r-wis., was the Only gop member of the subcommittee to vote for the Bill which supporters predict will pass the. Judiciary committee later this month. A full House vote on the measure is expected later this  hears concerns on safety of bottled water Washington apr the govern memos failure to adequately regulate the bottled water Industry Means Consumers May be paying More for water that is less Safe than tap water congressional investigators and lawmakers said thursday. The Genera accounting office issued a report that said bottled Waters May contain potentially harmful Levels of contaminants the food and drug administration a can do More to ensure the. Safety of bottled water the report said. The watchdog Agency prepared the report at the request of rep. John Dingell d-mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee. The panels subcommittee in oversight and a Vestiga Lions held a hearing thursday culminating a yearlong investigation. A numerous authorities. Have expressed concern regarding the amount and effect of microbiological contaminants found in bottled water which is stored indefinitely at room temperature a Dingell said a moreover. The consumer is subject to confusion or worse arising from the Lack of regulation and Overly aggressive marketers a he said. Fred Shank an Fra official scheduled to testily later in the hearing said in Advance that the Agency a has no reason to question the safety of bottled  he defended the Agency a record on responsiveness and said the Fra records indicate a bottled water has a Low Poten till for contamination or for causing sick Ness. A the investigation began after Perrier and great Waters in France withdrew its product temporarily when benzene a cancer producing chemical was detected a t 1 Eveis four t Imes higher Ihan ill m a x i mum established by the environmental Protection Agency for Safe drinking water Dingell said. The Gao report said the Fra is primarily responsible for ensuring the safety of bottled water while the Epa regulates most other drinking water sources. A Washington apr Nancy Reagan is encouraging her friends to go out and impugn a critical new biography that alleges she ran the presidency and carried on with Frank Sinatra. A she said anybody who wants to say anything she would be grateful a Sheila Tate a former press Secretary to the first lady said wednesday. V a certainly correcting the record in the name of accuracy is not a bad thing to do a said Bill Garber a spokesman for president Reagan and his Wile. Mrs. Reagan also consulted a Public relations firm on How to handle the negative publicity about a Nancy Reagan the unauthorized biography a sources said. Friends and associates of the reagans have made themselves available for interviews to. Challenge allegations in the gossipy biography by Kitty Kelley. Among them Mitchell e. Daniels jr., former White House political director said it was a impossible to imagine that mrs. Reagan could have had a secret relationship with Sinatra in the White House As the Book alleges because of the a minute by minute presence of staff and  he said Kelley a claims that mrs. Reagan really ran the country Are  Reagan s son Michael Reagan whom Kelley portrays As a Stepson mrs Reagan All but shut out of the family said wednesday on in no so a crossfire that the affair with Sinatra a never  he conceded that mrs. Reagan sent his son As a gift a Teddy Bear the boy had left behind at the White House As Kelley reported but said the reagans also sent their grandson a $50 Check to go with it. Tate who now works As a Washington Public relations consultant said the Book had numerous factual errors. Included is material about How Tate was hired How she granted interviews with the first lady and about the wedding gift mrs. Reagan gave her. The decision to let surrogates go out and defend the reagans was made after a Media frenzy greeted sundays release of the Book. With the immense interest created by the Book mrs. Reagan changed course from initial plans to refrain from drawing attention to the Book said Tate. Before its sunday release the feeling among Reagan loyalists was Quot we All sort of spontaneously said we should keep our Heads Down a late said. A i talked to Nancy Reagan last saturday. That was the general feeling then and she agreed. A was things got worse and worse we All finally agreed. You can to leave some of these things unchallenged because they re wrong. They re such character assassination a said Tate. At that Point Tate added a she said anybody who wants to say anything she would be