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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday. February 9,1993 the Rev. Jesse Jackson leads a March in Miami on sunday. We want a new policy. In Haiti he said. Jackson Calls on administration to help return haitian to office Miami a the Rev. Jesse Jackson leading a March by haitian americans and their supporters Sun Day urged them to keep pressure on the Clinton administration to return the Island nation s elected presi Dent to Power. Jackson addressed about 7,000 people who jammed the main Street in the City s Little Haiti neighbourhood and led a 20-Block silent March to the local Headquarters of the . Immigration and naturalization serv ice. The event commemorated the second anniversary of ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide s inauguration and the seventh anniversary of the end of the Duvalier family regime. We want a new policy aristids Back and Safe in Haiti Jackson said. Aristide sends this message a new Haiti a nonviolent Haiti and a Haiti in transition. No More false arrests no More  aristids became the first democratically elected president of Haiti seven months before he was ousted in a september 1991 coup. It. Gen. Raoul Cedras Haiti s military Leader now rules with prime minister Marc Bazin. Aristide had planned to be in Miami with Jackson but cancelled. The March followed a demonstration saturday by. Several Hundred people outside . Headquarters inner York. In a Friday meeting with Aristide and Jackson in Washington Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher denounced Haiti s leaders As holders of illegal Power and promised they will not prevail 1 Jackson said Christopher had assured him of support for the restoration of aristids to office. Virginia to get Tough on guns by the Washington Post Richmond a. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder fearing that his on handgun a month proposal was headed for trouble in the general Assembly agreed on sunday to a Compromise that he thinks will accomplish the same Goat and is More Likely to gain legislative approval. Although details of the agreement still were being worked out sunday night before an announcement monday morning the new version is based on an alter native offered by republicans. The Compromise would require virginians who want to Purchase More than one handgun a month to get a certificate from police who would have the Power to deny the request. The Bill would assure that the integrity of the one gun a month limit remains intact said Secretary of Public safety o. Randolph Rollins i i tier s chief lobbyist on the Issue. The aim of the legislation would be to end the state s Loose rules on gun purchases. Currently there arc no limits on the number of weapons someone May buy in Virginia and there is no waiting period. All that is is required is a state Driver s License and an instant Back ground Check. The agreement allows Republican lawmakers to have their fingerprints on the final product and As sures easy passage of the new version an aide to the governor said. It s armageddon for the aka the aide said. If Vir Ginia can pass this it s a step toward a National gun poli  the Compromise does indeed appear to set up a major defeat for the National Rifle association whose lobbying for years has kept Virginia gun Laws Amon the least restrictive in the nation. I Don t know How bad it is said Era lobbyist Charles h. Cunningham who did not know details of the agreement. Cousin joins fight Over teen s life support Akron Ohio a the Cousin of a brain Dum aged youth whose feeding tubes were removed a week ago is suing to have her life support restored. Lisa Myers the 21-year-old Cousin of Carla Myers 15, said she s seen improvements in Carla s condition. When i first went to the Hospital to visit Carla after the Accident both of her eyes were closed and she Wason a Respirator she said. Now she will shift a Little bit. She will squeeze your hand. She will open her eyes and look at  Carla has been in what doctors Call a persistent vegetative state since a car Accident in october. She had about a third of her brain removed during surgery to remove a blood clot and doctors said she has no control Over her actions. Carla s life support system was removed feb. 1 under a judge s order. A court appointed guardian recommended the action and the girl s divorced Parent Robin and Timothy Myers agreed. Carla was expected to die within three weeks of re Moval of life support. In december on orders from Timothy Myers who had custody of Carla the tubes were removed. But Robin Myers who Learned about it five Days late wanted them reattached. Summit county probate judge Willard f. Spicer was Likely to consider the latest request monday said the Rev. Joe Slovenec who was assisting Lisa Myers. Last week Spicer rejected an attempt by an unrelated couple to adopt Carla. Woman who lost Job Home hits $1.8 million Jackpot from wire reports Las vegas an unemployed bookkeeper who had lost her Home and business nit a record $1.8 million Jackpot on a Quarter Slot machine. Linda Thomas and her husband Dean moved Tolas vegas from the los Angeles suburb of Granada Hills recently to look for work said Bob Bugard of the Aladdin hotel and Casino. They were at the Aladdin on Friday night when Linda Thomas lost $2 on a Nickel Slot machine and decided to try $10 on the Quarter mania machines she said. Then lined up All the Jackpot symbols an asked my Friend what i had won and she said the whole thing Linda Thomas said. She won $1,881,552, beating the  Jackpot by More than $100,000, officials said. The Quarter mania system links More than 1,000machines in 134 casinos throughout the state. The Jackpot begins with $400,000, and a percentage of each Quarter put into a machine is added to the Jackpot he said. Reagan celebrates 82nd Simi Valley Calif. With a Little help from his wife former president Ronald Reagan blew out 82 candles on a multilayered cake at his Black tic birthday party saturday. Celebrities Jimmy Stewart and Myrv Griffin former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and former attorney general de Meese were among those at the party which doubled As a fund raising event for the Reagan Library. I m delighted that you were Able to join Nancy and me tonight to officially place yet another Candle on my cake Reagan said. After taking a look at it i now know what i plan to ask for next year a fire  Crews search for Pilot Miami a Small plane went Down in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Florida coast sunday and coast guard personnel were searching for the Pilot. The civilian Piper aircraft had departed from Borinquen puerto Rico and was headed to North Perry Airport in Florida when it disappeared said Petty officer Simone Adair a spokeswoman for the coast guard in Miami. Miami flight services which had been tracking the Craft said it disappeared from radar screens at 4 45 p.m., Adair said. The Pilot reportedly told the Agency that he was having engine trouble she said. The Pilot of a Cessna aircraft reported seeing the Piper go Down about 16 Miles East of opa Locka she said. The witness said the plane floated for afew seconds then Sank about two Miles offshore. Patrol boats and a plane from the coast guard station at Miami were searching for any survivors Adair said. She said that the Pilot was believed Mohave been the Only person on Board and that the Craft had been equipped with two life jackets and Alife raft. 3 Hurt in mall shooting Bloomington Minn. Three people suffered minor gunshot wounds at the mall of America on sunday evening after an altercation with three youths at an amusement Park within the shopping Center. The three people including a mall employee were shot in Knott s Camp snoopy and taken to a Hospital where they were listed in Good condition mall spokeswoman Maureen Hooley said. Police searched outside the mall for three Youn males suspected in the shooting said Bloomington police chief Bob Lutz. He said the incident included the three suspects the mall worker and four other people. It seemed to us that the two groups knew each other and they had some kind of altercation ii Olcy said. This was most Likely a very isolated incident that happened Between two groups of people who might have known each  Hooley said this was the first major incident at the mall since it opened in August. More than 16million people have visited the mall the nation s largest  
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