European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 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 up 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 the labor opposition Bob Carr Easson said. A not enough not enough Quot 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. I he 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 i listed 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 Quot 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 1 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. A eighty percent of those who kill with guns done to have a history of criminal mental history Quot a police spokesman said. World Imelda 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 he 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 Quot Clear policy decision Quot from Manila on what to do with the  fined $23,500 Hamburg Germany a a Hamburg court has ordered Kremlin to Lycra 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  cafes employee Dies in Colorado at age 62 Kaiserslautern Germany a amps a retired army and air Force Exchange service employee died aug. 29 in Colorado according to a former co worker. Stanley Pesek who worked for the Exchange for More than 21 years died in Colorado Springs colo., said Mary Beckner an employee at the Kapaun As shop Pette. Pesek 62, was the former Kapaun As shop Pette manager. He retired in March and moved to Colorado. His is survived by his wife. Carmen two children and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held tuesday in Colorado  reported missing returns Home after 2 weeks Mannheim Germany a american civilian Arthur Cliff Jenner is Back Home in Hedd Esheim Germany. The 59-year-old had been reported missing since aug. 15. According to the Mannheim police presidium Jenner reappeared this past weekend. He claimed to have been living in Forest and Field areas for the past two weeks. Prior to his reappearance he was last seen in a Bank in Heidelberg around midday aug. 15.italian police uncover International swindle Rome up police disclosed details of an ambitious International swindling scheme that involved attempts to i in 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 Eon 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 Eon 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 embassy Quot 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 19.50 percent of the promised loan. Police denounced the Man to the Rome magistral 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 Quot embassy Quot 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 Quot police said. There was no indication when this appointment was made but police said that on june 12 a russian newspaper accused Yeltsin of Quot having let himself be deceived by an italian mafia Boss Quot an apparent 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. Quot 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 Quot the police spokesman said