European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 23,1994 the stars and stripes pages invention tracks bullets weapons lab announces from wire reports Livermore Calif. A a Laboratory that designs nuclear weapons says it has developed a device that tracks flying bullets and identifies their source. The invention at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could eventually protect soldiers and police from snipers and could Monitor High crime areas project Leader Tom Karr said saturday. Karrys team fashioned the invention called the lifeguard using a custom computer code and commercially available components. The device consists of a sensor that can be mounted on a Rifle and a Backpack sized computer that retraces within seconds the bullets path to its source. Karr would not say How the system detects moving bullets pending Patent applications. Livermore officials did say it does hot use sound. Doctor won t face charge Redding Calif. A a doctor who helped a dying aids victim kill himself with morphine wont be prosecuted even though the Many a death was ruled a homicide. A a there would have been no Way to win a it conviction of or. John Coe Shasta county District attorney Dennis Sheehy said Friday y. A the was moved by compassion. He is not trying to Campaign or act like a Jack Kevorkian a he said referring to the retired Michigan pathologist who has battled to allow doctor assisted suicide. Thomas Clifford Shell 33, died Jan 11 of an overdose of morphine. He was unable to move could not Swallow and was Blind in one Eye when the morphine was administered Sheehy said. The county coroners office ruled april 19 after an autopsy that Snell a death was a homicide because a a human agent was involved. Kevorkian details Art idea West Bloomfield Mich. A responding to a report that he had once tried to mount an exhibit of paintings by Adolf Hitler or. Jack Kevorkian said Friday that what he had really tried to organize was a major exhibition of Art by three world War ii leaders a nazi Germany s Hitler Dwight d. Eisenhower and British prime minister Winston Churchill. Kevorkian the retired pathologist who is Best known for his Campaign on behalf of physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients said a the idea a few friends and i were working on was to put together a show of Art by All the wartime leaders who painted to entertain people and to raise Money for Kevorkian displayed a sheaf of correspondence dated 1984 and 1985 from the Dwight a Eisenhower presidential Library and from the British National Trust. / a we were going to mix them up and have people try to guess who painted what Quot make it kind of a game a said Kevorkian who was living in Long Beach Calif., at the time. A unfortunately the whole thing fell through because we get use of the Churchill and Eisenhower paintings. They offered to sell us slides but not to use the actual rail crash spews toxin Brownsville Tenn. A a train hit a truck at a crossing saturday causing 35 freight cars to derail including one that spilled a chemical that spread a toxic Cloud Over Homes. The trucks Driver who was trapped underneath the wreckage was unaccounted for late saturday. People living within a half mile of the Accident site were told to leave their Homes. Authorities did no to immediately know How Many were evacuated. The Accident occurred saturday morning at a Roadway crossing in Rural Western Tennessee one of the trains boxcars then hit a Tanker car and phenol Moltin leaked from the Tanker an emergency official said. The chemical is used to make explosives and synthetic resins. Barry enters . Race Washington a Marion Barry former mayor of Washington described himself saturday As a the Only viable candidate to Lead the District of Columbia into a Bright and hopeful new Barry downplaying a past that included a 1990 conviction for cocaine Possession entered the race for mayor Only hours after District councilman John r the announcements portend a three Way contest for mayor. Incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly was preparing to declare her candidacy for re election. Aiming for a bulls Eye nine year old Celia Norgaard draws a Bead on her target with the help of an unidentified companion it an air gun Range saturday during the National Rifle Asso elation a annual convention in Minneapolis. After losing Battles in Congress Over the Brady gun control Bill along with House and Senate measures Banning some assault weapons the nral a 3.4 million members arc gearing up for their next Challenge they aim to vote congressional members out of office if they backed the we Pons curbing Bills. Police raid on bus nets anger a but no suspect Deerfield 111. Apr a police snarled Rush hour traffic for hours when they surrounded a greyhound bus with sharpshooters evacuated and frisked Passyn Gers and fired tear Gas to ferret out a murder suspect who was actually Miles away. State and Chicago police blamed each other saturday for the bus fiasco that left thousands of motorists and about 40 bus passengers fuming. In a very upset right now a said passenger Aaron. A eat cd i Conerly of Chicago a we be been treated like Crimi Illinois state police stopped the Chicago to Milwain Kee bus Friday afternoon on one of the Chicago areas busiest tollway. Passengers were ordered Oft one by one with their arms Over their Heads then frisked and herded against a Fence. When everyone a except the suspect a was believed to be out troopers fired tear Gas and stormed the bus with weapons drawn. The bus was empty. The suspect Gregory Anderson 24, of Chicago was later arrested 50 Miles away in Milwaukee in the slaying of his girlfriends Mother. Chicago police said they issued a bulletin alerting state police that the suspect might be aboard after they got a tip. But they never asked that he be pulled off the bus. A a a a a a. A a a a a a a a a a a a. But state police said the bulletin led them to believe the bus needed to be mayor Richard m. Daley acknowledged that officers a were being very he said the inconvenience was overshadowed by the importance of ensuring that officers were Safe. Some motorists who sat in Miles of traffic for More than three hours did no to buy the argument. A a in a like to turn this tollway upside Down a said Motorist Marie Graziano of Park Ridge a a it a by Scripps Howard news service Denver a the Denver based american humane association and other National animal Protection groups Are investigating a company that solicited dogs from hundreds of shelters for use As asian food. Dozens of animal rights groups also received the letter and wonder if the offer is a hoax. In 1992, 6.3 million dogs were euthanized in animal shelters. The one Page letter written in broken English with perfect spelling said that some people like to eat dog and that the company Kea so Joo inc. V"1 will buy All dogs for 10 cents a Pound. Of new York Mals in new York which is also investigating. A a we re hoping its a hoax she said. _ the Letterhead address in new York City is a Mailbox in a contract station. An answering machine took Calls Friday a woman speaking broken English asks for a name and number. In inc background dogs Are Barking. A Robin Duxbury director of the Denver based animal rights mobilization said she called the number thursday and talked to someone. Duxbury identified herself and said she is involved with animals. A i asked what i could do with dogs since in a in col Orado and they re in new York. He said a we have peo a Doe no suffer we have Quick death for dog a said pie that come pick them up from you even in co fora. .9. Do a a said Duxbury. Nicholas Gilman of the american humane association said the group asked the . Department of agriculture which handles meat inspections to investigate. The letter ends with a final sales pitch a your business getting very big. Need More dog. We do big business together. We have a big business already with Many dog breeder and Many dog the letter signed by Kim Yung Soo company president a we Cook dog in America. We can dog in America and sell some dog in America in asian Market place. A most dog we ship overseas. Lot of people cat dog a the letter said listing the chinese koreans filipinos japanese and cambodians As dog Consumers. A a we re taking it seriously a said Joan Paylo of the american society for the prevention of cruelty to Ani
