European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday september 4, 1991 placard waving demonstrators protest against guns outside the parliament House in Sydney Australia on  state tells protesters it will ban Sale of assault guns Sydney Dpi a the conservative government of new South Wales on tuesday tried to counter thousands of anti gun protesters massed outside parliament House by announcing a statewide ban on the Sale of All military style semiautomatic weapons. About 9,000 demonstrators earlier chanted their Way Down Macquarie Street in the Center of Sydney and called on the government to ban the Possession of semiautomatic weapons and handguns police said. A the government has today banned the Sale or resale of All military style semiautomatic weapons throughout new South Wales a Secretary of new labor Council Michael Easson told a jeering audience. The decision by the conservative coalition government had been endorsed by the Leader of Tho labor opposition Bob Carr Easson said. A not enough not enough a screamed the protesters. A ban All guns All guns a the demonstrators chanted. One of australians largest Banks West Pac gave some of its tellers time off to March in tuesday s protest because it sympathized with the need for tougher gun Laws. Catholics were urged by Church leaders to join the March. The demonstration was called after 13 people were killed by guns a 11 murders and two suicides after murders were committed a in the past 17 Days. On aug. 17, a berserk gunman killed six people As he blasted and hacked his Way through a crowded Coffee shop in a suburban shopping Center before turning a chinese assault Rifle on himself. A these things Arentt supposed to happen in Australia. We re getting like America a a protester said. The massacre was australians second worst shooting tragedy surpassed Only by Melbourne a Queen Street Slaughter in which nine people died after a 22-year-old student ran amok in december 1987. The Public and Media called on new South Wales Premier Nick Greiner to ban All guns in the state. There Are 1.8 million firearms in new South Wales police said. Over the past two weeks Greiner rejected claims he was being secretive about his proposed changes to gun Laws. Greiner was accused by protesters of being frightened of a political backlash from the gun lobby. A there is a need for a breathing space there is a need for some Short term action and then there a a need for a bipartisan approach to Long term reforms that look at a whole Range of issues a Greiner said tuesday. A if i looked at every solution that has been offered to me by Media pundits and others in the last two weeks id have 27 different solutions a Greiner said. The sporting shooters association has proposed establishing a registry listing people with psychological problems or criminal records to prevent them from owning guns. Quot eighty percent of those who kill with guns done to have a history of criminal mental history a a police spokesman said. World mrs. Marcos will face trial if husband can be reburied from wire reports Manila Philippines a Imelda Marcos said tuesday she will return Home to face trial on graft charges if the philippine government agrees that her husband can eventually be reburied in his Homeland. The former first lady said she has been hesitant to return to Manila to face charges out of fear that the body of former president Ferdinand Marcos which has been placed in a temporary crypt in Hawaii will not be allowed Home. A i am willing to go to Manila now to face trial even without the body of president Marcos if that is the first step to bring Home the remains of my husband to the embrace of his motherland a Marcos said. She spoke in an interview from new York that was broadcast in the Philippines by a local radio station. But the former first lady of the Philippines said she would not return without a a Clear policy decision from Manila on what to do with the  inaugurated Dyamonte Spain a government ministers monday officially inaugurated a recently opened Bridge spanning the Guadiana River to link Southern Spain and Portugal. Spanish Public works minister Jose Borrell and his portuguese counterpart Joaquim Ferreira together crossed the 2,200-foot Bridge on foot to inaugurate it on the portuguese Side. Officials had hurriedly opened the Bridge on aug. 22 in a bid to ease traffic bottlenecks on both sides of the River even though new customs facilities on the portuguese Side were unfinished and the area was still littered with construction equipment. The Bridge which joins the Spanish town of Dyamonte with Vila real de Santo Antonio in Portugal supplements an overburdened ferry service that caused delays of up to five hours for the 15,000 people who used the crossing on a Busy  fined $23,500 Hamburg Germany a a Hamburg court has ordered Kremlin flyer Mathias rust to pay damages of 40,000 Marks $23,500 to a student nurse he stabbed in november 1989. Rust who astounded the world in 1987 when he flew to Moscow from Finland and landed on red Square was found guilty of stabbing 20-year-old Stefanie Valura a student nurse at a Hamburg Hospital where the two  Calls for socialism Cape town South Africa a Angela Davis a Leader of the . Communist party says socialism is the solution to South africans problems despite its failures elsewhere. She is on a 12-Day visit As a guest of the african National Congress the largest Black opposition organization and the South african communist party. Davis said monday hat communist parties collapsed in Eastern Europe because they were a a undemocratic and expressed Confidence that socialism could be successful in South  police uncover International swindle Rome up1 police disclosed details of an ambitious International swindling scheme that involved attempts to bilk Nicaragua and Argentina out of millions of dollars and apparently also claimed bogus ties to russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. A Rome police spokesman said monday that the 79-year-old con artist who devised the scheme posed As the head of a phantom Charity organization called the Sovereign and military order of St. John of Jerusalem. The con Man offered to loan Large sums of Money to foreign governments in return for Advance kickbacks the police spokesman said. The Man operated out of elegant offices in a residential District of Rome which he claimed comprised the Rome embassy of the fictitious order. Police said when they raided the so called a a embassy they found the con Man about to sign a contract with a three Man delegation from the nicaraguan government for a loan of $2 billion. In return for the Money the nicaraguans would have been required to pay in Advance 19.511 percent of the promised loan. Police denounced the Man to the Rome magistrate re for a attempted fraud against Nicaragua and Argentina and aggravated fraud against  they allowed him to remain free however pending an investigation. Similar accusations were made against two accomplices a Frenchman and a belgian. Investigators said that among the documents found in the a a embassy was one indicating that the head of the tricksters was negotiating terms for a loan of $10 million to the Argentine government. Also found was a bulgarian diplomatic passport issued to the con Man As a ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary for Charity in Middle East  other documents purported to show that Yeltsin and his russian Republic foreign minister Andrei Kozarev had appointed the con Man the federations a proving ambassador for Charity a police said. There was no indication when this appointment was made but police said that on june 12 a russian newspaper accused Yeltsin of a having let himself be deceived he an italian mafia  an Addarena reference to the con Man. The documents made no mention of Money being involved in the russian Leader s alleged dealings with the con Man a or whether Yeltsin had Ever met him. Yeltsin visited Italy about a year ago in connection with the italian publication of his Book. Police said documents indicated that in addition to Nicaragua Argentina and Bulgaria the Man had dealings with the governments of Algeria Nigeria Angola the Solomon islands Gabon and equatorial Guinea. A we Are faced with a personage of surprising ability capable of convincing government representatives of various countries that he was in a position to Grant Loans of exceptional amounts a the police spokesman said