European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday May 5,1994 Afi assault Harp in ivs actor Charlton Heston holds a placard describing the accused fold Napper murder or of Polly Klaas Davis a As a True a assault weapon.�?�. A Richard Allen Heston says Washington apr the debate Over assault style weapons intensified tuesday on Capitol Hill and spotlighted actor Charlton Heston who accused those who want to ban 19 types of firearms of lying. A a in a amazed at.,. How much deception How much deliberate misstatement of reality is taking place in this debate a Heston said at a news conference arranged by the National Rifle association. Heston said a none of the Lead people pushing passage of the assault Stylc weapons ban including Pesir Dent Clinton a Are speaking the  a i think the degree of misinformation is More than simple ignorance Quot he said. A it has to be deliberate  a a a a. A a a on the other Side Lee Brown Clinton a director of drug control policy was joined by police officers shot at by criminals wielding weapons that would be banned and relatives of officers killed by such guns. A Banning assault weapons is a message that our Congress should have gotten Long ago without our help and without the personal tragedies of the people who Are Here with us today Quot Brown said. 1 Lisa Lally of Stanton ky., told of the deaths of her brother in Law Powell county ky., sheriff Steve Bennett and her brother Deputy Arthur Briscoe. The two were ambushed by a Man using an ak-47 Rifle equipped with a 30-round Magazine. Bennett a who did no to even have a Chance to fire his .357 magnum was shot in the Back three times As he attempted to take cover a she said. Briscoe ran out of bullets Long before his attacker did and was shot twice in the Back As he tried to run she said. The assailant then approached his prone body and a put one More Bullet in Arthur to the right Side of his head. We were unable to open his casket at the sen. Barbara Mikulsky did fright shows a Street sweeper Shotgun to rep. Leslie Byrne a a joint  the House is expected to vote today on legislation to Stop production and Sale of 19 assail i to style firearms and copycat models and to limit detachable magazines to 10 rounds. The Bill would exempt 650 named rifles and shotguns. Heston said the Treasury departments Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms has threatened to add 150 weapons to the list of those banned should the Bill become Law. The nral a Wayne la Pierre said the Bureau had added 40 to the list according to an at let Ter to sen. Larry Craig a Idaho an Era Board member. Senator assails social Security bonuses Washington apr a senator has criticized the social Security administration for spending $32 million on employee bonuses last year while it was pressing Congress for additional Money. �?o1 think this sends the wrong signal to More than half a million claimants who Are waiting for the social Security administration to process their claims a sen. Jim Sasser d-tcnn., said tuesday. Sasser chairman of the Senate budget committee said he was particularly disturbed that the bonuses were awarded in 1993, a year in which the Agency sought an additional $302 million to Speed up decisions on disability Benefit claims. A social Security spokesman Phil Gambino said none of the disability Money was spent on bonuses which rewarded employees stretched thin by a 20 percent Cut in the Agency s work Force coupled with record numbers of disability Benefit claims. Two thirds of the Agency a 65,000 employees collected bonuses based on performance and salary. The bonuses amounted to 1.15 percent of the Agency s $2.8 billion payroll Gambino said. Suspected child molester tortured to death in . From wire reports Sylva . A seven people have been charged with torturing a Housemate to death with a soldering Iron Nightstick Hammer and Locking pliers because they thought he had molested a 5-year-old girl. Investigators said Tony Queen 24, May have spent the last two weeks of his life bound with dog collars and gagged to muffle his screams. One of those arrested is the Mother of the child whom Queen was accused of molesting. The seven suspects were indicted monday and jailed without bail. All seven lived in a Mobile Home in Sylva a town near the Georgia line. Queen disappeared one Day after a social worker filed a complaint with police accusing him of j molesting the child. He died in the Mobile Home a. Police said. His body was found nine Days later when an informant led police to its hiding place in a Remote area. A police had not brought charges against him at the time of his death. \ charged with murder and kidnapping Are Vickie Fox 30 Michelle Shook Vinson 19 Kenneth Ray Fox 34 Carlton Eugene Henderson 18 Walter Thomas York,18 Robert Lee Trantham 18 and Michael Blaine Hagedorn 16. Deadbeat cuts Providence . A a Deadbeat dad who tried to collect on his late daughters $350,000 insurance policy has agreed to give up the claim in Exchange for being released from prison. A James Brindamour had been held at the states maximum Security prison for the past two months for failing to pay $66,000 in child support for his daughter Colleen who died last August at age 15. Brindamour who failed to attend his daughters funeral finally returned to Rhode Island from Texas last december after learning that his estranged wife was about to collect on the insurance pol icy. He claimed he was legally entitled to half of the settlement even though he had allegedly abandoned the family several years ago. Hungry Bear shot in town Foster . A a 6foot, 200-Pound Black Bear foraging for dinner in a populated Section of town was shot to death by state officials tuesday night after it mauled and partially consumed a family a pet Goat. Department of environmental management officials said that the Bear was displaying bizarre behaviour and that they would take the carcass to the department of health for a rabies test. A a when approached by people it showed no sign of fear Quot said Steven Hall chief of demos enforcement division a we were Able to get within 10 or 15 feet of the Bear which is very  plane s Windshield splits san Francisco a a cracked Windshield in the cockpit of a Delta air lines Jet bound for new York forced the plane to return tuesday to san Francisco International Airport without incident. An Airport spokesman said the crack began spreading across the laminated outer surface of the Windshield As the plane was climbing through 30,000 feet about an hour after its 11 . Put Takeoff. A fortunately the crack was Only on the outer surface and did not cause the Cabin to de pressurize Quot he said. A the Pilot dropped the plane to 19,000 feet and came Back to san  there were no injuries. Eye woe possibly inherited Bostons children whose parents Are nearsighted tend to have eyeballs with different. A shapes than those with Normal sight lending support to the idea that myopia is inherited researchers said tuesday. Even before the Onset of myopia which usually occurs around puberty youngsters destined to become nearsighted have eyeballs that Are longer than Normal investigators reported in the journal of the american medical association. In a study involving 716 schoolchildren Ages 6 to 14 in Orinda calif., investigators took various measurements of the children a eyes and vision and questioned parents about their own eyesight. They found that children with two nearsighted parents were less Likely to be farsighted than others and More Likely to have Eye characteristics typical of myopia