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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fumay  26, 1993 . The Staas and stripes Page t Buttafuoco pleads guilty to threatening teen agers from wire report Hempstead . Joseph Buttafuoco was Back in court wednesday his spirit and swagger left behind in his jail cell. Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to a harassment charge involving his threats against a half dozen teen agers who repeatedly drove past his House last  was sentenced to 15 Days in jail. The term will Start once he s done serving six months for haying sex within underage Amy Fisher. A handcuffed Buttafuoco appeared in court glum Pale and minus his usual snakeskin boots. He has served 10 Days of his sentence for the statutory rap of Fisher who later shot his wife. According to police Buttafuoco chased the teen with a baseball Bat on the Street of his Massapequa Home june 27. British teen charged Austin Texas a Man touring with a English military band has been charted with involuntary manslaughter in a fatal fight Over Pitcher of Beer. Austin police said Victor Aguilar 21, of Austi died sunday after falling and striking his head during the fight outside Scholz Garten a Bee Garden and restaurant. Robert Cross 18, of Southampton England was charged tuesday with involuntary manslaughter according to municipal court records. Cross turned himself in police said. Cross was touring the United states with military band from England called the Princess of Wales Royal regiment police said. Buried baby found alive Clayton Ala. A Newborn girl survive being buried alive by her 15-year-old Mother authorities  they can t find the body of another infant who the teen s 18-year-old sister said she buried. The baby girl was found monday afternoon buried about a foot deep behind a trailer near Louisville. The Mother had told a neighbor that the baby had stopped breathing and she had buried it while questioning the Sisters about the baby discovered monday investigators Learned that the 18-year-old had also been pregnant. She told the that she also buried her baby. Sheriffs Deputy Danny Bowen  baby found monday is now in satisfactory condition at University Hospital in  charges had been filed against either teen Ager As of wednesday morning Bowen said the Casenas still under investigation. Airlines seek Clinton help Washington More Thap 50 airlines wan the Clinton administration to Stop los Angeles from barring them from using the Airport unless they pay higher Landing fees by a dec. 4 deadline. The carriers seek a cease and desist order against the City for actions that would disrupt the National transportation  says the  protest was filed wednesday with . Transportation Secretary Federico Pena and the Federal aviation administration. The Clinton administration has been trying to mediate the dispute for months and Well continue to do so said Richard Mintz a spokesman for Pena fees were tripled jury i from is cents to $1.53per 1.000 pounds. That Means a Boeing 747 Landing costs an airline about $900.the airlines say the new fees Are higher than needed to pay Airport operating expenses. The dry contends that fees under a recently expired 40-year agreement were artificially Low. Officer says hands off new York you could say Boris Zavlunov just rubbed a cop the wrong Way. The 44-year-old new York City masseur who was stopped after running a red Light tried to bribe officer Gerard Napoli by offering him a free Massage police said. Napoli declined the Rubdown offer and arrested Zavlunov on third degree bribery charges after the incident tuesday police said. Report of grand jury in Jackson Case denied Santa Barbara Calif. A a grand jury never was convened to investigate child molestation allegations against Michael Jackson despite his attorney s claims a county official says. We did not Call a grand jury in this Case Collee Francisco Deputy jury commissioner for Santa Barbara county said wednesday. Santa Barbara county District attorney Thoma Sneddon or. Refused to say whether a grand jury had met in the Case. A grand jury can subpoena witnesses and hear Evi Dence acting with or without a District attorney initiating an investigation. It can Issue an indictment. Jackson civil attorney Bertram Fields seeking to delay a lawsuit brought by a 13-year-old boy alleging Jackson molested him told a los Angeles count judge tuesday that a Santa Barbara county grand jury was about to indict Jackson. Fields argued that since a criminal action appeared imminent the civil Case should be delayed because Jackson risked incriminating himself during the civil proceeding. But Jackson s criminal attorney Howard  told the judge that the attorneys had no firsthand knowledge of a possible indictment Only that witnesses had been subpoenaed for grand jury testimony. He then said that he had gotten information about the subpoenas from someone else and that evidently it turned out the Rumor was  Fields was out of the country and unavailable for com ment his Secretary said. Jackson 35, came under criminal investigation in Losangeles and Santa Barbara counties after the 13-year old boy in an interview with a therapist accused Jackson of sexual molestation. Jackson who has t been charged with any crimes maintains the allegations Stem from a failed $20 million extortion attempt by the boy s father. The Singer cancelled his dangerous concert tour nov.12, saying he had developed a painkiller addiction. He has been out of the country at an undisclosed location undergoing treatment Brady Bill hits gun target. _ g  " police chiefs group thinks president Clinton shakes hands with Janes Brady la the Oval office on wednesday. The Brady Bill was named after Brady president Rea Gan s press Secretary who was shot during attempt on Rafaa s life la 1981. Also present at the White House Art attorney general Janet Reno Foft vice president Al Gere Aad Brady s wife Sarah. Washington a a pol chiefs organization said it is pleased with the Brady Bill handgun legislation approved by Congress on wednesday Al though questions have been raised Over its effectiveness. The key measures of the Bill Call for awaiting period of five business Days and a background Check on handgun  Patrick legislative director of the International association of chiefs of police said a background Check is something that police agencies want to do whether or not funding will be made available to conduct the  re Happy with the Brady Bill unfunded mandate or not. The Money would be Nice but this the background Check is a tool Law enforcement wants to use. The unfunded mandate becomes  because of the language in the Bill questions have been raised outside Washington As to whether the background checks on handgun purchasers Are really mandatory. But Ooth supporters and critics spoke of it As a mandate during con Gressional  Bill says that in each state a chief Law enforcement officer. Shall make reasonable Effort to ascertain within five business Days whether receipt or posses Sion would be in violation of the Law including research in whatever state an local record keeping systems Are available and in a National system designated by the attorney  waiting period probes key to Bill by the associated press the basics of the Brady Bill handgun control Mea sure As it emerged from a conference of House and Senate negotiators requires a waiting period of five business Days and t background Check before an individual May buy handgun. This Rule begins 90 Days after president Clin ton signs the Bill and ends five Yean later. It would apply As a National minimum in states an communities that do not now require background checks. States and localities with longer waiting period would retain them. States and communities with a wait ing period of fewer than five Days would retain their Laws but Only if they require a background Check. Requires local Law enforcement officials to research state local and National of cords to Check whether the would be buyer is legally eligible to buy a handgun. Among the prohibited classes Are felons fugitives minors those adjudicated As mentally incompetent drug and alcohol addicts and illegal aliens. Records used for background checks Are to be destroyed after 20 Days. Authorizes spending $200 million per year i Grants to help states update or improve computerization of criminal records for use in a National Back ground Check system. Requires the local Law enforcement Agency to pro vide within 20 Days if asked by the would be buyer the reason that buyers bid to Purchase a handgun was rejected. Requires notification of state and local police of multiple handgun sales. Prohibits Labelling packages in interstate Commer Ceto show they contain firearms to deter thefts. Makes it a Federal crime to steal firearms from licensed gun dealers punishable by a Fine of $10,000 and 10 Yean in prison. Increases fees for Federal firearms licenses to $200 for the first three years and $90 for renewal  
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