European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday january 29,1994 is to go Detroit apr freed from House arrest and two of the three charges against him or. Jack Kevorkian is taking his Case for assisted suicide to the voters. Kevorkian plans a petition drive to put that Issue on the ballot starting with a suburban rally sunday. A we have to put in writing what should have been an understood right a he said thursday night on in no a Larry King live. A unfortunately we have through All this trouble to put it in  Oakland county circuit judge Jessica Cooper on thursday became the third judge to Rule against Michigan a assisted suicide ban which was enacted a year ago to Stop Kevorkian. The judge also freed the 65-year-old Kevorkian from House arrest. He had been required to Wear an electronic ankle Bracelet for More than a month. Cooper dismissed charges in the deaths of a 72-year-old woman with Lou Gehrig a disease and a 61-year-old Man with Bone cancer. Both died in Kevorkian s apart ment building last fall. Kevorkian still faces a third charge involving the death of a Man with Lou Gehrig a disease in neighbouring Wayne county. Cooper struck Down the ban on technical grounds ruling that the legislature violated the Michigan Constitution when it tacked the measure onto a Bill establishing a commission to study the Issue of suicide. A this court recognizes that the concept of aiding and assisting a suicide is fraught with potential danger and abuse a she wrote. A the state has an obligation to ensure that the terminally ill person is not merely overcome by depression family or financial pressure to end  Oakland county prosecutor Errol Shifman said his office would Appeal. Kevorkian said on can that the right of terminally ill patients to end their suffering is a More fundamental than some other rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Puerto Picans fail in . Voting bid san Juan puerto Rico apr a Federal judge has rejected an attempt by a group of puerto Picans to win the right to vote in . Presidential elections. . District court judge Raymond Acosta ruled that such a right could granted Only if puerto Rico became a state or a constitutional amendment were passed similar to one allowing Washington d.c., residents to vote a in presidential elections. Puerto Rico is a . Commonwealth a status that entitles its 3.5 million residents to . Citizenship but exempts them from . Taxes. They May Send delegates to National political conventions but cannot vote in presidential elections. Its representative in Congress May not vote. In the stars and stripes n 10 years ago Jan. 29,1984 a hundreds of fires whipped up by Hurricane Force Santa Ana winds left a path of destruction through Southern California claiming three lives scorching dozens of Homes and cutting Power to More than a million people. 20 year Sago Jan. 29,1974 a president Nixon asked Congress for $13.6 billion in veterans benefits for the next fiscal year including increases in go Bill and pension payments to offset the rising Cost of living. 30 years ago Jan. 29,1964 a . Secretary of state Dean Rusk declared in Tokyo that the United states will never. Abandon Formosa to communist tyranny nor recognize a hostile chinese government. 40 years ago Jan. 29,1954 a soviet foreign minister . Molotov in a sudden shift of tactics proposed to the big four foreign ministers that a world disarmament conference be held within the year. 50 years ago Jan. 29,1944 a an unprecedented wave of anger swept the nation As the War and Navy departments issued a report on the ghastly Story of japanese atrocities against . And filipino soldiers taken prisoner on Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines. L world War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 29 1 a 9 a 4 4 with 69,000 soldiers 237 tanks and 508 howitzers ashore Tho allies go on Tho attack at Anzio but it is too late a Tho germans now have eight divisions dug in around the italian beachhead. Some 800 . Bombers Striko Frankfurt am main a Gorman factory Center. With an invasion Force nearing . Pianos hit the japanese in Tho Marshall islands. Source 219-1 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. Tho world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 a first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton listens thursday As Raymond of Keefe shows her the damage his los Angeles Home suffered in the quake. Con artists lining up for quake Aid los Angeles a some of the emergency food Stamps being handed out to quake victims on the Honor system May be going to scam artists who done to qualify social service officials acknowledged. Roughly 45,200 people have applied for the food Stamps since monday at 30 distribution centers in los Angeles county. About 5,000 people were in line by 11  thursday in the los Angeles suburb of Glendale. A a there a no doubt in my mind there a people in line who Are taking liberties with the system a said police sgt. Tom thate. A there Are not this Many Earth quake  a you want to help those in need but to do it without checking to take everyone sword that a just not the Way to do things a said Glendale mayor Larry Zari an. A a. Quot a \. A a a i can almost assure you that there Are Many people standing in line who done to need food  Mary Robertson who oversees the county food stamp program said Applier cants must sign a document declaring financial hardship because of the quake. But because applicants Arentt required to provide immediate verification there is the Chance of fraud she said. The food stamp Giveaway a $112 Worth for a single person arid up to $450 for a family a is scheduled to run through feb. 7. Meanwhile first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited a school and earthquake victims in South Central los Angeles. Although the school did no to appear to have been damaged its pupils were still feeling the shakes and rumbles. Children attending Hyde Park elementary school told the first lady thursday about shaking Beds screaming mothers and flying Glass. Some told her they still  sleep at night. Clinton held their hands listened and praised their bravery. She said she would have been scared too. Doubt cast on Foster suicide paper says Washington a a report in the new York Post suggested thursday the death of Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster might not have been a suicide. Several Clinton administration officials said they had no reason to believe Foster s death was anything but a suicide and forensics experts were Quick to criticize the newspapers report. The Post interviewed Fairfax county va., paramedic George Gonzalez an emergency service technician and unidentified homicide experts who found it unusual that Fosters body and clothing had few bloodstains and that a .38-caliber revolver was still grasped in his hand. The paper said these facts a raised the possibility that Foster May have been killed  . Park police maj. Robert Hines whose department investigated Fosters death last july disputed the conclusion. A we said then it was a suicide and that a what it was a Hines said. Attorney general Janet Reno whose department coordinated the investigation of the death said a i have heard absolutely no information at All that would indicate that it is anything but a