European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Clinton rips Era stance against gun control push by the Washington Post Piscataway . A president Clinton has chided the National Rifle association for opposing gun control efforts in Virginia and new Jersey and he pledged to work for Quot sensible National controls. Clinton in new Jersey on monday to promote his National service program made the comments in an Exchange with local reporters. New Jersey gov. James Florio a Democrat who is up for re election this year is in a Battle with ther Republican dominated legislature Over his efforts to preserve the nations toughest controls on assault weapons. Clinton said the country Quot can to be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of Ordinary americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles that we Are unable to think about the reality of unsafe streets and violence throughout the country. Quot i Hope the leadership of the National Rifle association will go Back to doing what it did when i was a boy a providing information about Hunting and safety rather than fighting gun control proposals like those in new Jersey and Virginia Clinton said. He said it was an error for the Era to Quot oppose every attempt to bring some safety and some rationality into the Way we handle some of the serious criminal problems we  in Virginia and new Jersey Quot do not unduly affect the right to keep and Bear arms a Clinton said. Quot it s not going to kill anybody to wait a couple of Days to get a handgun while we do a background  Clinton recounted a Case of an acquaintance in Arkansas who sold a gun to a Man who used it to kill several people and said the Man regretted his action when it was discovered that the gun buyer was mentally ill. Waiting to Check on the backgrounds of gun purchasers he said would prevent such tragedies. Clinton added Quot i done to believe that everybody in America needs to be Able to buy a semiautomatic or an automatic weapon built Only for the purpose of killing people in order to protect the right of americans to Hunt and practice marksmanship and to be  the president called Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder a efforts to limit gun purchases and Florio a efforts to control semiautomatic and automatic weapons  he said that on the Federal level he would push for the Brady Bill which among other things requires a five Day waiting period to buy a gun. Florio is trying to fight off repeal of 1990 legislation that restricts the Sale of assault weapons and requires owners to dismantle or turn in such weapons if they have them. Republicans took control of new jerseys legislature in 1992 and under Era lobbying repealed the Law. Florio this year vetoed the repeal and lost the veto fight last week in the new Jersey Assembly. The Senate is to vote later this month. School bus crashes a bus that had been carrying 22 people mostly High through a Fence monday in Pinole Calif. Twenty people school students rests in the Pinole Creek after crashing were taken to hospitals. Pinole is near san Francisco. Food stamp Rolls hit record 26.6 million Washington a a record 26.6 million americans received food Stamps in december the agriculture department said in a report that one lawmaker called proof of the recessions a Long  lingering troubles with the Economy and the Onset of Winter brought people into the program a department spokesman said monday. More than one american in 10 get food Stamps. The program paid Sib billion in benefits in december 1992 for an average of $68.40 per person the department said. The previous record was set in september 1992, a when victims of hurricanes in Florida Hawaii and Louisiana and of typhoon Omar in Guam swelled the number to 26.4 million. Quot we done to have this excuse this time Quot said Phil Shanholtzer a spokesman for the departments food and nutrition service. Sen. Patrick j. Leahy Dot. And chairman of the Senate agriculture committee said the numbers show the need to pass president Clinton a economic recovery program. Quot what lies behind the food stamp numbers is the fact that the recession is still casting a Long Shadow a Leahy  government plans to spend $28.1 billion this year on food Stamps. The Clinton administration wants to increase food stamp benefits by $9 billion from 1994-97, the agriculture department said that Between november and december 1992, the number of food stamp recipients Rose by 244,126. Between december 1991 and december 1992, the number increased by 1.8 million. At the same time unemployment has hovered above 7 per cent. The number of recipients increased in All regions. But the highest rates from november to december were in the Mountain Plains Northeast Southwest and Western regions. Burt Richman director of the food stamp program in Virginia said the caseload there has risen 80 percent in three years. Quot we re still seeing people who arc losing jobs Quot he said. Quot we re seeing people who have found jobs but theve re jobs but they re. -j0 hours a and  still not enough to get them off food Stamps. J minimum wage jobs possibly less than 4o hours a week food Nasa consultant named biosphere science director from wire report # Tucson Ariz a operators of biosphere 2, the world under Glass named a science director for the project monday eight months after a now disbanded advisory panel recommended such a move. John b. Corliss a Nasa consultant with a doctorate in geology and geochemistry will head research for the $150 million private venture. Quot i think that we re going to create a research program that a unequalled a Corliss said from his Home in Tacoma Park my. The panel dissolved last month after More than half of its 11 scientists quit citing Lack of Progress and personality conflicts with biosphere a operators. Quot i just wish Corliss a lot of Luck a said Thomas a Lovejoy a biologist with the smithsonian institution who quit last month As chairman of the scientific advisory committee. Four men and four women were sealed into the 3.15-acre biosphere Structure in september 1991 for a two year stay during which time they were to grow All their own food and Recycle air water and waste As a potential Mode for life in space. The projects integrity has been questioned because air and perhaps other supplies have been brought , friends killed �?�4. Bagdad Fla. A a newlywed husband his Bride pregnant with twins and two friends were killed when the Many a car hit a tree. The state Highway patrol said the dead were Douglas Morrell 28, of Bagdad his wife Dixie 25 and their friends Daniel Lee Hudson 22, and Charles David Miller 20. V the saturday crash occurred just outside Bagdad in the Florida Panhandle. Officials said monday that they were awaiting the results of blood alcohol tests to see whether. Drinking was a Factor. The couple were wed on Valentines Day said Morrelles Mother Thelma Sanders. A party had been planned for sunday to celebrate their marriage and the news that Dixie Morrell was expecting twins. Quot we still have the bottle of Champagne on the table Quot Sanders  eagles use nest again Augusta a. A two Bald eagles were observed raising Young in a nest rebuilt by scientists after a 1989 storm that damaged the nest and killed an eaglet. The Birds had used the nest from 1986 to 1989. Quot Bald eagles Are sensitive to disturbance. We did no to know if they a use it or not Quot said Glen Gaines of the . Forest service. Quot this is very rare.�?�. The eagles returned last year and did some work on the nest but left without raising a Brood. Eagles nests Are about 4 feet across and up to 6 feet deep. Tvo eagles were discovered in the nest last week during a helicopter Survey of the two known nesting Sites within the Savannah River site a 198,000-acre nuclear materials Complex. The Birds which have wingspan that can exceed 6 feet Are endangered in every state except Alaska. Their numbers were depleted in past decades by agricultural chemicals that hampered  strike widening Huntington . A Union president Richard Trumka on monday told 1,700 More miners to join picketing by the United mine workers. The walkout began feb. 2 when the us we a contract expired with members of the bituminous Coal operators association the nation s largest group of Coal operators. The pact covered about 60,000 miners. Negotiations began nov. 6,1992, but both sides said nothing substantive has been discussed. The strikers include up to 9,200 ump members at selected mines in West Virginia Illinois Pennsylvania Kentucky and Indiana the Union said. The companies put the figure at about 7,700