European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 13, 1994 Albuquerque voters of term limits on City Council from wire reports Albuquerque . Voters in new Mexico s biggest City joined the throw the bums out movement and slapped term limits on members of the City Council. A proposal to hold members to two four Yea terms was approved nearly 3-to-l tuesday. Voters have enacted term restrictions in 33 state since 1992. State sen. Duncan Scott said the vote i Albuquerque with a population of about 380000, raises Hopes of getting term limits adopted statewide. One third of the new Mexico population will have already said we want term limits " he said. Shift in drug policy set Washington the administration s new anti drug Campaign will focus on eliminating overseas production instead of trying to keep illegal drugs out of the country a state department official said tuesday. We have to be realistic. We re going to have cocaine and heroin on the streets of the United states department Counselor Timothy Wirth said. What we want to do is to make it As difficult a possible for the traffickers to have it there and to focus As much As possible on a demand program inthe United states he said. Feds to try again in Vidor Houston the Federal government apparently will try again this month to move Black families into an All White Public housing Complex it seized for failure to integrate. Three single Black women with children and one single Black Man Are scheduled to move into the Complex in Vidor in Southeast Texas a source closet the Federal integration Effort said tuesday. Henry g. Cisneros the Secretary of housing and Urban development took control of Vidor s Only Public housing Complex in september after a previous integration Effort failed. Four Black families who had been living in the 74 unit project since february 1993 moved out complaining of constant racial harassment and threats. School privatization eyed Pinckney Mich. Members of a Small Detroit area school Board have asked a Minneapolis company to submit a plan for private management of the District s seven schools. But the Union representing the District s 175teachers opposes the privatization idea. The Pinckney District privatized its bus system Las fall and said tuesday that it is looking at private management As a Way to Cut costs and improve instruction. The latest proposal comes from education alternatives inc., which says it can save up to $3 million Over five years while boosting instruction and increasing the number of classroom computers. The company says it would improve teacher training and taxpayer accountability. The firm would subcontract Johnson controls to provide school maintenance and food services and hire Komg peat Marwick to handle finances. The Michigan education association opposes the privatization plan saying the District s education system can be made More efficient without such Radical action. Rodney King tests ordered los Angeles Rodney g. King must undergo physical and mental examinations As Parton his $50 million lawsuit against the City for the seating he received from officers after a traffic Stop. King s attorney Milton Grimes argued against the exams saying they were burdensome and  . District judge John g. Davics told King on monday that he would have to take the tests to determine the extent of his permanent injuries. The trial is scheduled for March 22. The March 1991 beating of the Black Motorist by White officers was captured on videotape and broadcast nationally. Four police defendants were acquitted of most state charges in april 1992, sparking three Days of rioting. Two of the officers were convicted last year of violating King s civil rights. They were sentenced to 2-year prison terms. A scene from the mortal combat video game shows two opponents squaring off for a bloody fight to the death. Video game mortal combat too violent lawmaker says by James Bernstein new Day. Oyster Bay . Now that the video game Industry has been forced to say Good night to a violent version of night trap new fire is being aimed at another controversial game mortal combat. Sen. Joseph i. Lieberman d-conn., plans to wage a Campaign to have the violent parts of mortal combat excised and video entertainment analysts say they be Lieve a new version will ultimately be issued because of ongoing criticism in Congress. But the games publisher acclaim entertainment inc. Of Oyster Bay ., said tuesday that it is sticking to its guns the bloody but enormously successful ver Sion of mortal combat which runs on Sega genesis machines will be neither withdrawn from retail shelves nor revised. Mortal combat was popular in the arcades for Overa year before it was released in september said acclaim spokeswoman Allyne Mills. It s a fantasy game. We have recommended it for older players Over 13. Not every entertainment product is for every player. This becomes especially True As technology becomes More sophisticated and you have games that look More like  however some Industry analysts believe that with monday s announcement by Sega of America inc. That it will withdraw the violent version of night trap pres sure will increase on acclaim and Sega to do the same with mortal combat. Nintendo of America Sega s chief competitor Sells a version of mortal combat that does not contain the violent sequences. Earlier this year Sega refused to withdraw night trap saying it was appropriate entertainment for adults. But critics in Congress and elsewhere pointed to the game As evidence that the Industry contributes to an atmosphere of violence. In the game hooded men grab a scantily Clad woman in her bathroom and attach a blood sucking device to her neck. Sega said the game will be released in a revised form. The Sega version of mortal combat includes a per son being decapitated. Bob Gerson editor of this week in consumer electronics a new York based Trade publication said the recent violent twist in Home video games is hurting the Industry. They May end up having to come out with a second version of mortal combat Gerson said. Mortal combat is a vicious kind of game bloody. They re ius looking for  not everyone agrees. Four millions copies of mortal combat have been sold in the four months since it was released and another 1 million Are expected to be sold before game players simply tire of it said analyst Lee Isgur of Volpe Welty & co. In san Francisco. It s getting a Little bit Long in the tooth but it s still Selling strongly Isgur said of mortal combat. No one wants to withdraw it. The kids of the world want it " Man reviving after fight Over life support Bennington it. A two months after state and Hospital officials tried to disconnect a near vegetative patient from life support the 30-year-old Man is eating communicating and operating a tape player. Ronald Comeau a drifter who tried to hang himself in a jail cell last summer has gained 12 pounds since the Vermont supreme court ordered him reattached to feeding tubes in november his brother said. Poking with his forefingers the brain damaged Man plays led Zeppelin and or. Hook on the tape player his Brothers gave him for Christmas. He is Able to eat custard and soup. And though he cannot talk relatives say he communicates agreement and disagreement an greets his Brothers by uttering the first syllables of their names. Family members say they Hope to see Comeau moved next week from the southwestern Vermont medical Center where he has been since his suicide at tempt to the greenery a rehabilitation Center i Brighton mass. We got him accepted at the greenery for four to six weeks evaluation his brother and Legal guardian read Comeau said monday. If he does improve they 11 keep him  Ronald Comeau had been arrested after allegedly assaulting and robbing another homeless Man in a Park. He was in a coma when he was brought to the Hospital in june. R a court appointed guardian argued that Comeau Scase was hopeless and in August a judge granted a re quest to remove a breathing assistance device and allow Comeau to die. Early  Ber the judge a need a second re quest cleared by doctors and the Hospital s ethics com Woleria hmuhh0d f�0dmfd water. Comeau had Ime Stative " stl11 described h m As near the judge s decision was contested by an Essex june Corne a the Rev Michael a Chi to found Comeau s relatives and helped them win a Vermont supreme court order three Days later directing tha Comeau be reattached to a feeding tube g Ina