European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 26, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 5kennedy pledges to clean up lifestyle Washington a sen. Edward m. Kennedy took responsibility Friday for a faults in the conduct of my private life and pledged to Reform his lifestyle so it would not interfere with his work. In an extraordinary speech Kennedy sought to set aside lingering questions about whether his flamboyant social life was affecting his Senate performance. A unlike my Brothers a Kennedy said a i have been Given length of years and time. And As i approach my 60th birthday i am determined to give All that i have to Advance the causes for which i have stood for almost a third of a  for Kennedy it was a confession of sorts although he gave no specifics when acknowledging faults. It also was a dramatic Effort to restore his tattered standing at Home and As Liberal Leader of the democratic party. A i am painfully aware that the criticism directed at me in recent months involves far More than honest disagreements with my positions or the usual criticism from the far right a the Massachusetts Democrat said in the text of a speech he was delivering at the John f. Kennedy school of government at Harvard. A it also involves the disappointment of friends and Many others who count on me to fight the Good fight. To them i say i recognize my own shortcomings a the faults in the conduct of my private life. I realize that i alone am responsible for them and i am the one who must confront  Francisco buyback goes great guns police officer Dave Dolan inspects a bought Back Rifle. San Francisco apr eager gun Sellers lined up at a downtown police station this week to take advantage of the City a offer to pay $50 for each firearm turned in. The program was launched wednesday when $8,500 of the $9,500 allocated for it was used. A this was a great response so great we ran out of Money a police commissioner Pius Lee said thursday. Lee said the mayors office will free another $9,500 from the police departments narcotics fund so that the buybacks could resume monday. San Francisco is one of three cities that conducted successful gun buybacks since the summer. Among the 170 weapons sold Back with no questions asked were a .357-caliber magnum and world War ii Era revolvers but the response did Little to silence critics who say the offer Only dupes taxpayers into buying junk guns. The brisk first Day business included pistol toting High school students and one Man with a 34-gun collection said police capt. Tony Ribera. Some were motivated by the Cash but in most cases a a it a just a Good citizen Type of thing a he said. At least one gun was valued at $600 while others were virtually worthless Ribera said. All guns will be traced for involvement with crimes before being melted into scrap. A if you re someone who a shot by one of these the value of the gun is irrelevant a Ribera said. Supervisor Willie Kennedy who proposed the pro Gram said the buyback would mean fewer violent crimes and accidental shootings. She said up to $50,000 should be funnelled into the program until demand is depleted. A some people laughed at the idea when i first brought it up a she said. A but you see How people arc  some critics were still laughing. A a it san ignorant joke a said Jim Siegle owner of Sie Glens guns in Oakland. A a in a sure they re getting junk guns that Arentt working and Worth nothing. A Siegle said one customer asked to buy All his worthless guns wednesday presumably to sell to the police. A when i asked if that a what it was for he just grinned a Siegle said. Bob Posner owner of the san Francisco gun Exchange called the Effort political grandstanding that most gun owners Arentt taking seriously. A frankly most people just kind of chuckle at it a he said. A when someone buys a firearm they have no intention of giving it up for $50.�?� in St. Louis 5,371 firearms were exchanged in the first 10 Days of the police departments monthlong Effort. A a we re getting guns from Little old ladies working people people under suspicion a chief Clarence Harmon said. A i think the Public is being sensitized to the level of handgun  in Philadelphia a two week amnesty program this summer produced 1,044 weapons about tour times As Many As expected. A private group that put up $20 for each gun had to borrow $15,000 to cover payouts. In the stars and stripes10 years ago oct. 26,1981 a the polish government demanded an end to a mounting wave of local strikes and prepared to Send special military units into Poland a villages to help solve food troubles and local disputes.20 years ago oct. 26,1971 a typhoon Hester roared through South Vietnam leaving More than 100 dead including three american soldiers. Tens of thousands were left homeless refugee Camps were destroyed and . Military bases battered.30 years ago oct. 26,1961 a president Kennedy called for a a a truce to terror Quot and told the United nations that a peaceful solution of the Berlin crisis is possible. Meanwhile . Attorney general Robert f. Kennedy said the United states will use nuclear weapons if necessary to save berlins freedom.40 years ago oct. 26,1951 a . Truce negotiators in Korea proposed an armistice line giving the communists 200 Square Miles of hard won . Territory in North Korea. However . Allies would keep the a bloody Ridge Quot and a Heartbreak Hill Quot battlegrounds in Allied hands. Noriega got $5 million to shelter drug Cartel Bosses witness testifies Miami apr drug Barons assassinated colombians Tough anti drug Justice minister then paid Manuel Noriega $5 million to shelter them a witness testified at the former panamanian dictators trial. A Welcome Mouchachos you have nothing to fear a trafficker turned witness Jose Cabrera quoted Noriega As telling the assembled aug lords. Cabrera testified that Noriega had gathered the fleeing leaders of colombians Medellin Cartel on a Small panamanian Island in May 1984 shortly after Justice minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was gunned Down. Cabrera who is seeking to reduce a 30-year prison sentence in Florida said he was a major transporter for the Cartel in the 1980s. He was to continue his testimony on the stand Friday. On Cross examination thursday Cabrera 60, acknowledged that his Hope to leave prison soon expended on his testimony in the trial. He faces a mandatory 15 years without parole but state prosecutors have already agreed to review that sentence he admitted on the witness stand. A you Hope to be out before this trial is Over a Asl cd Lead defense attorney Frank Rubino. But prosecutors objected before the witness could answer. Noriega could get up to 140 years in prison on charges of taking payoffs to protect the drug Trade. Cabrera testified that in the Spring of 1984, the late Cartel chief Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha told Cabrera the group had decided to kill Lara Bonilla after colombian police raided a Jungle drug lab and seized 10 tons of cocaine. A what has to be done has to be done a Cabrera quoted Rodriguez Gacha As saying. Shortly afterwards Bonilla was shot by a motorcyclist on a uogot.1 Street and the colombian government retaliated by raiding Cartel members Homes and property. Cartel leaders fled to Panama a acre they had paid $5 million to Al Tigre As they called Noriega Cabrera said. The drug traffickers were met at Panama City a Pattilla Airport by Noriega intelligence officials and escorted to different locations depending on whether there were . Warrants against them he said. Rodriguez Gacha Pablo Escobar Jorge Ochoa and other ton Medellin Cartel leaders then moved to c on Tadora Island and were greeted there by Noriega Cabrera testified. Irate worker shoots 4 at Plant Bennington it. A a disgruntled employee shot four supervisors Friday at a Battery Plant police said. The shootings occurred at the Everea by Battery co. Plant in mid afternoon police said. An All Points bulletin was issued for Elizabeth Teague an Engineer at the Plant police said. She was reported to be driving through new York state police said. Bennington is located in southwestern Vermont near new York and Massachusetts. New York state police put up roadblocks on routes Between Bennington and the state line. Authorities said Teague set a Small fire at the Plant around 2 . And then took a gun and shot the supervisors three men and a woman. The fire was later doused without causing much damage. One of the men was in critical condition one was in guarded but stable condition and one was in Good condition said Amy Swisher a spokeswoman at the southwestern Vermont medical Center in Bennington. Swisher said the woman was listed in guarded but stable condition. The Plant has 358 workers. The Bennington elementary school is across the Street from the Plant and officials said the students were kept in the school building because of the uncertainties of the situation. A we tried to give them information that we had we were trying to talk to the kids. It was very Calm Here at the school a said Phil Hyjek superintendent of schools in Bennington