European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes i thursday. November 11,1993 Bon on gun sales to by the los Andetat times Washington the Senate voted overwhelmingly tuesday to prohibit virtually anyone younger than 18 from possessing handguns or ammunition and to forbid the Sale of both to juveniles. The provision was among an array of measures including some to combat gang violence and others to make gun re Latch offences Federal crimes that were approved As the Senate continued its work on an Omni bus crime Bill. So intense was the chamber s anti crime sentiment that senators seemed to compete with one another to Sec who could propose the toughest penalties. Quick passage of the gun Possession amendment on a 99-1 vote May signal that a similar Bill in the House also will be approved laying the groundwork for the first major gun control measure in a Quarter of a Cen Tury. Sen. Herbert h. Kohl d-wis., drafted the Amend ment with the help of the National Rifle association which staunchly opposes gun control and explained the group s cooperation by saying kids with guns Don t makes Ensei under the measure youngsters under 18 would be permitted to own handguns Only with written Permis Sion from a Parent or guardian and Only for use on a farm or ranch for safety instruction or for Hunting and marksmanship training. The unexpectedly Large vote on the restrictions came after senators discussed an emerging trend in which children carry guns to school and teen agers Are killed in drive by shootings. Several lawmakers spoke of an 11-year-old girl from the gun plagued District of co Lumbia who was reported to be so bereft of Hope that she was planning her own funeral. The vast expansion of Federal authority Over major crimes including much stiffer sentences of drug Deal ers who exploit children to sell narcotics Drew a warn ing from sen. Joseph r. Bide i jr., d-del., chairman of the Senate judiciary committee. Biden said the Effort could swamp Federal courts with cases now handled by state and local prosecutors. Despite his opposition solid bipartisan majorities backed the enlarged Federal Rote As lawmakers apparently responded to a perceived demand by voters in  elections nov. 2 to get Tough on criminals and lock them up longer. The Senate by a 58-42 vote approved an Amend ment by sen. Alfonse m. D Amato r-n.y., that would make it a Federal crime to use a gun in the commission of another crime if the gun had at any time travelled across a state line. D Amato said that definition would cover about 90 percent of All guns. Another d Amato provision would allow a Federal death penalty to be imposed for murder with a gun and would impose a mandatory 10-year sentence for using Agun in a crime. It would impose a 20-year sentence for discharging a gun in a crime and 30 years for using machine gun or Silencer in a crime. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 11,1983 . And israeli jets came under attack Over Leb anon and . Marines exchanged Small arms fire with militiamen amid growing tensions with Syria. 20 years ago nov. To 1973 israeli prime minister Golda Meir said she had instructed maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv to sign the american initiated cease fire agreement with Egypt. 30 years ago nov. 11,1963 the official death count in Japan s twin disasters a Coal mine explosion and a triple train wreck stood at 608, with some miners still unaccounted for As officials feared the toll would Rise. 40 years ago nov. 11,1953 a member of the House in american activities com Mittee said that body had issued a subpoena to former president tru Man for questioning in the Harry Dexter White spy probe. 50 years ago nov. 11,1943 wholesale Ger Man withdrawals in the soviet Union were indicated by a nazi controlled scandinavian news service which said the entire German front from Nevel to Kiev was yielding in the face of greatly Superior soviet forces. World War ii 50 years ago today nov. 11 1.9.4.3 warplanes from five . Aircraft carriers pummel the japanese naval base at Rabaul new Britain sinking one destroyer and reducing to hulks a Cruiser and destroyer damaged in a raid a week earlier. On the Southern soviet front the red army carves out a Small Bridgehead on the Tetrev River strengthening its position West Kieu source 2194 flays of War. W h. Smith publishers me. Wort almanac Book of world War ii Boon books corp. 1931 a Robert Burnbaum Center voices his opinion tuesday As fellow protesters stand in front of John Demjan Juk s Home near Cleveland. Protesters at Demjan invoke memory of Juk Home night seven Hills Ohio a the Les sons of a Crista nac if a night of nazi violence against German jews 55 years ago must not be forgotten a protester. Said while demonstrating outside the Home of suspected death Camp guard John Demjan Juk. Kristal nacht. German for Crystal night was a night of anti jewish rioting that ushered in the holocaust. Looters burned and plundered hundreds of Homes shops and synagogues the night of nov. 9, 1938, killing and injuring jews. The German name refers to the Glass that littered the streets after the nazi assault. I Don t want the world to forget that we were the innocent victims my family said Tamara Horowitz 33, As she marched outside Demjan Juk s Home in suburban Cleveland on tuesday. Horo Witz said her Grandfather was arrested on Kristal nacht and killed in the Dachau death Camp outside of Munich. "1 Don t want the same thing to happen Here that happened in Germany. I want the world to remember and to know that we re not Safe anywhere As Long As peo ple like Demjan Juk go free she  the anniversary was commemorate with services and memorials around the state including the March outside dem Manjuk s Home. The 73-year-old former autoworkers returned to the United states last summer after spending More than seven years in Israel fighting charges that he was the brutal nazi death Camo Euard Ivan the terrible.". The israeli supreme court overturned Demjan Juk s conviction and death sen tence after defense attorneys produced evidence suggesting another Man was Ivan. The justices said they still believed Demjan Juk had worked in nazi Camps but refused to order a new trial despite the pleas of holocaust survivors. Dem Manjuk has said he is a victim of mistake identity. The protesters said any involvement in the holocaust should be grounds for bar ring  the United states. There was not a Good Ivan. There was no Good guard said protester Robert Burnbaum. Elsewhere the Hillel jewish student Center in Cincinnati dedicated a Monument to the 1.5 million jewish Chil Dren who died in the holocaust. The Monument is a Tombstone in United jewish cemetery engraved with a cry ing child dragging a doll. The child swearing a yellow Star which the nazis used to Mark  were children Iwho were never mourned appropriately in a final Way said Center rabbi Abie Ingber we Are at Pivotal Point in terms of holocaust remembrance. We Are running out of the Days when survivors of the holocaust eyewitnesses to the Holo Caust will still be Able to Tell their Story Ingber said. We must rear a generation jewish and otherwise who must at least know that the Story was  the City club of Cleveland a Cleve land state University philosophy professor called for the continued prosecution of suspected nazis. Allowing War Crimi nals to escape is to Send the message that the slide Down the Slippery slope to barbarism is All but inevitable said associate professor Alan Rosenbaum author of a new Book on prosecuting nazis