European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 1, 1993 . The stars and stripes Pago 5 Congress gears up for crime Bill debate Washington a after years of frustration Congress soon will try again to enact crime legislation con Taining controls on handgun purchases an expanded Federal death penalty and limits on lengthy death Row appeals. President Clinton s imprint on the measure will be an attempt at meeting his Campaign pledge to putt100,000 new police on the streets. The legislation being written on Capitol Hill with administration advice could be introduced As Early As this week although no final action is expected for months. I predict nothing but problems said Senate judiciary committee chairman Joseph r. Biden jr., a Del who a been negotiating with prosecutors Over the pro vision to curb court appeals by death Row inmates. Well have problems from the. Left an the right which Means we re probably on track in Large measure the Bill will be a re fined version of the legislation that died in the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 1,1983 a Bank robber who tired to frighten tellers with threats of bombs or guns now was writing menacing notes claiming he was dying of aids new York police reported. 20 years ago aug. 1,1973 citing the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969 and 1970, rep. Robert f. Drinnan d mass., introduced in the House a Resolution calling for the impeach ment of president Nixon. 30 years ago aug. 1,1963 communist China reacting to a recent nuclear test ban Accord initiated by the United states Britain and the soviet Union proposed a world Confer ence to discuss the Complete prohibition and destruction of nuclear weapons. 40 years ago Aua. 1,1953 sen. Robert a. Taft or. Republican whose party never gave him the Opportunity to run for the presidency once held by his father died of cancer in new York at age 63. World War u 50 years ago today aug. 1 19�43 . Bombers Knock out 40 percent of the refining capacity at toes to in Romania s Oil Fields but 54 of 177 attacking b-24s Are lost. American British and Canadian soldiers meet Sliff resistance at Troina Regalbuto and cent Ripe in northeastern Sicily. In the Pacific us. Troops push to the Edge of Japan s Munda Airfield on new Georgia. Source 2194 Days of War a h. Smith publisher inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. 1981 a last year in of Campaign season struggle Between democrats and former presi Dent Bush. Officials involved in the draft ing say this year s measure will include a  the so called Brady Bill named for former White House spokesman James Brady who was wounded in an assassination attempt on then president Reagan in 1981. It includes a require ment for a five Day wait on handgun Pur chases designed to provide time for background checks on would be buyers. In addition officials say the measure would restore the death penalty for fed eral crimes that existed before the supreme court overturned capital punish ment in 1972, including the murder of certain Federal officials. It would add new Federal capital crimes such As murders for hire and drive by shootings. Attorney general Janet Reno s influence will be reflected in the elimination of most if not All of the dozen new mandatory minimum sentences that were contained in last year s Bill. High court won t. � Tot s Transfer Washington a the supreme court refused Friday to delay a state court order requiring that a 2-year old Michigan girl to be handed Over monday to her biological parents. The High court denied two emergency requests to lift the deadline. They we refiled by Jan and Roberta Deboer a Michigan couple who raised the girl since birth and by lawyers representing the toddler they Call Jessica. This is a Case that touches the raw nerves of life s relationships Justice Harry a. Blackmun wrote in dissent for himself and Justice Sandra Day o Connor. While i am not sure where the ultimate legalities or equities lie i am sure that i am not willing to Wash my hands of this Case at this stage with the personal vulnerability of the child so much at risk Blackmun wrote. Blackmun noted that the Michigan supreme court deferred to a decision by courts in Iowa to give custody to the biological parents Daniel and car a Schmidt although the Iowa courts did not consider the child s Best interests. The schmidts live in Blairstown Iowa. The schmidts attorney Marian Fau Pel praised the decision but said she wished the deboers had accepted much earlier the fact that they could not keep the child. This feels like a death for them she said. Faupel said her primary concern is maintaining privacy about monday Transfer. Jessica has lived with the deboers from Ann Arbor mich., since a few Days after she was born feb. 8, 1991. The schmidts have been trying to get the girl Back since she was several weeks old. The deboers have managed to keep the girl through a Long series , first in Iowa and then in Michigan. The argued that it would be cruel to take her from the Only family she had known. The schmidts were married in april2992 and had another daughter Chloe a month ago. Iowa courts said that Daniel Schmidt never gave up his parental rights and that Cara Schmidt did so Jonly under duress. The Michigan supreme court ordered the Iowa court ruling enforced on grounds that Michigan courts have no authority to hear the Case. Violence in Bridgeport Conn., finally caught up with Alicia Sloan whose preg Nancy has prevented doctors from removing Bullet from her uterus. Drive by shooting leaves Bullet lodged near fetus Bridgeport Conn. A Al Icia Sloan is used to running for cover when she hears the pop of gunfire inner neighbourhood. Twice she said she narrowly missed being shot. The third time she was t so Lucky a Bullet meant for someone else nit her and lodged in her uterus less than an Inch from he unborn baby. Doctors decided that removing the Bullet would be too dangerous. So Sloan 25, will have to carry her baby and the Bullet until she gives birth. I m scared she said. When you be still get a Bullet inside you Youdon t know what s going to  Sloan who is seven months preg Nant lives in a 24-unit Brick apart ment building in Bridgeport s East end a neighbourhood where drug dealing is done on Street Corners in Broad Daylight and gunfire can behead at almost any hour. Despite the violence Sloan said Shehas no plans to leave Bridgeport a poor Industrial City o 139,000. Connecticut s largest City it consistently has the High est murder rate and May set a record again this year. There were 63 last Yea Rand 41 through this month. I know you can t leave  s not just Bridgeport. It s All Over the place. This is mtg Hiom and Idon t want to leave she said. Sloan lives on state Aid and barely has enough Money to buy food and clothing for her 3-year-old daughter Waltenia. Her 8-year-old son Kashon lives with Sloan s Mother. She said that two of her brother Sand the father of her unborn child also have been shot and that they too were innocent bystanders. Police said Friday that Sloan was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was shot the morning of july 19 when she went outside to escape the stifling heat. As she sat around a card table with a group of neighbors women drove by and opened fire a 20-year-old Man was arrested monday and charged with attempted murder. Fri probing handling of Foster note by the Washington Post Washington Fri agents Friday began interviewing White House staff members about the handling of a note found in the briefcase of Vincent w. Fos Ter or. To determine Why they waited 30 hours before giving it to police probing the Deputy counsel s apparent suicide. The note has been described by Whitehouse staff members and . Park police As containing evidence of Foster s de Section Over his Job and problems that have Arisen in the White House counsel office such As the travel office affair. Foster 48, was found dead of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound july 20 in a Park overlooking Washington. Although the note was discovered by an aide to White House counsel Bernardj. Nussbaum on monday afternoon it was not handed Over to the Park police until tuesday evening after a series of High level debates that ultimately involved attorney general Janet Reno. The delay aroused concerns among Park police investigators that the Whitehouse was withholding evidence in the Case. But White House officials have said the delay occurred because they wanted to first provide a copy to Foster s widow