European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2. The stars and stripes saturday August 27,1994 at a glance French citizens cruise along in a Vintage citroen during thursday s 50th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Paris in 1944. See Story on Page 11. Weather slows exit rain wind and Choppy seas Fri Day kept cubans on rickety Home made rafts close to Shore. Page 4 contributions studied Campaign reports for an Illinois congressman fail to list thousands of dollars in contributions As required by Law a review shows. Page 6 staff blamed agriculture Secretary Mike Espy says his staff supplied information on the value of four super bowl tickets for his financial disclosure form. Page 7 family transplant a Michigan father was faced with a question of life and death this week should he accept the heart of his dead daughter for transplant in him pages Good Samaritan slain for the second time Christina Vaccarino has buried a son who was slain trying to prevent a crime. Page 9 smoking crushed Delta air lines has banned Tobac co products on the airline s flights across the Atlantic. Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 25 classifieds. 28-33 comics. 25-27 commentary. 17 crossword. 25 faces a places 24 focus. 19-22 Horoscope. 3d Jumble. So letters. 16 Money matters. 18 religion. 14 sports. 34-40 to listings. 39 weather. 15 crime Tyd from Page 1 tempt to open up the measure to last minute  61-38 vote was one More than the 60 needed. There is no doubt about it Senate gop Leader Robert Dole of Kansas said As he tried unsuccessfully to Force votes to reduce spending and toughen mini mum sentencing requirements. I know of nobody who does not want a Tough crime Bill but i think this has become Abig big spending Bill.". Signalling that the Issue would Resier a " the fal1 election campaigns Dole said Well have some examples in the 30-second spots an apparent reference to Campaign commercials. Democrats said the measure was Plen Tough As written. Sen. Joseph Biden,-del., chairman of the Senate judiciary committee called it a straightforward Bill that the cops want the prosecutors want and the people  in the final words of debate Senate majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine said seventy seven percent of the american people favor an assault weapons ban the very thing that for six years has been the driving Force in opposition to this Bill right to the very  the Bill Aims to put 100,000 More police officers on the streets build More prisons and ban 19 assault style firearms and numerous copycat weapons. The weapons ban becomes effective with Clinton s signature. The measure also expands the Federal samples from Page 1 destroy the samples. What was revealed to the court in a course of this hearing was a picture of con fusion miscommunication and non comm Nica Tion Between the prosecutors and the land los Angeles police department Ito wrote. Such conduct while less than exemplary does not Rise to the level of bad Faith or  the judge said he was relying on established California Law that says there is no violation of a defendant s due process rights if a piece of evidence is consumed by the prosecution through testing. Before Ito s ruling experts said his Deci Sion May someday serve As a precedent about whether defendants have the right to independently test genetic evidence. "1 Don t think the Public understand what s at stake Here said forensic scientist Kigali from Page 1 death penalty and imposes mandatory prison terms on third term violent Crimi nals and drug offenders in Federal cases. The Era perhaps the Bill s strongest critic called it a pork and bans crime Bill Laden with social welfare spending and victim disarmament schemes. Tanya k. Metaksa the group s chief lobbyist warned that the Era s 3,4 Mil lion members will now turn to the ballot Box in november to Send a message to members of the . Congress which they cannot  the National organization for women wasted no time extolling a $1.6 billion Section of the Bill called the violence against women act which increases penalties  crimes keeps embarrassing inquiries into a woman s sexual history out of a trial and creates Federal penalties for spouse abusers crossing state lines. At a rally at the Capitol now presi Dent Patricia Ireland said the Law no recognizes for the first time Ever that gender based violence is a violation of women s civil  it has been six years since Congress last passed a crime Bill and Clinton made it a Centrepiece of his Campaign forthe White House. F the Senate late last year then the House earlier this year overwhelmingly enacted separate measures followed by a two vote Squeaker in the House approving the assault weapons ban. Compro Mise talks dragged on for months and when the final Compromise came before the House two weeks ago republicans democratic gun control foes and Liberal opponents of the death penalty combined to sidetrack it. In a frenzied series of negotiations Edward Blake. This is a fundamental philosophical Battle which involves our Basic constitutional rights.". The question is whether prosecutors own evidence or Are merely custodians of the evidence for the people said Blake who has worked in Dan testing since 1986. Simpson 47, pleaded innocent to Mur Dering Nicole Brown Simpson 35, and Ron Aid Goldman 25. The trial is scheduled Tosian kept. 19. Ito s ruling concerned six newly revealed blood swatches that police kept in their crime lab without  defense. The blood was collected from the ground near Nicole Simpson s Brentwood condominium and at Simpson s estate. I it nil Guad dressed Only How much blood should be made available to the de tense and if prosecutors were remiss in their failure to Tell Simpson s lawyers about the samples. The ruling did t address whether the blood was contaminated As evidence be cause it was mishandled by Rookie police Clinton and democrats agreed to minor changes that attracted enough moderate Republican support to Send the measure to the Senate on a vote of 235-195. There republicans trumpeted their desire to Cut spending and toughen sentencing provisions setting the stage for a classic showdown Between the parties a scant 10 weeks before the midterm elections. Gop amendments included Calls for minimum mandatory sentences for Selling drugs to children and were designed to show they favored a leaner tougher crime Bill than the democrats. Democrats retort that republicans we redoing the Era s bidding. At one Point 41 republicans backed Ole s drive to open the Bill for change enough to prevail. But when Mitchell offered republicans a vote in cutting spending an option Dole rejected As insufficient Sens. John Chafee of Rhode Island John Danforth of Missouri and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas voted with the democrats and sent the measure toward a final vote. I am disappointed that a majority of the Republican party rejected an offer to vote Oil an additional,$5 billion Cut in so Cial spending programs Kassebaum said in a statement. On final passage democrats Russ Fem Gold of Wisconsin and Richard Shel by of Alabama voted against the Mea sure. Republicans in favor were Chafee Danforth Kassebaum Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania Jim Jeffords of Vermont William Cohen of Maine and William Roth of Delaware. Wyoming Republican Malcolm Wallop did not vote. Technicians. Simpson attorney Robert Sha Piro told Ito that Misla Beling and mishandling May have tainted the evidence so much that it should not be admitted at trial. The sparring offered a glimpse of future Battles Over Dan which is expected to con sume weeks of court time during Simpson trial. R in another development Simpson s attorneys claimed that District attorney Gil Garcetti misused the Power of the grand jury to seek evidence against Simpson. Garcetti has suggested that evidence uncovered during the grand jury s investigation of Simpson s Friend Al  cowl a Difore the Bronco duri Gsimpson s Highway Chase the Day he was charged with murder could be used against Impson. A defense motion suggested that the Cowlings probe is a thinly veiled Effort to get More information on Simpson from his closest fiends who would not talk unless hey were subpoenaed. Ito set a closed hear ing for Friday afternoon. The station s Rwanda and be executed. The location of the renegade radio Sta Tion has become the object of a multinational search. Its source May be a Small Mobile station officials said. The . Has actively looked for it the station Reponte said the French have attempted to find it wit their radio detection equipment but no location " to combat the misinformation Campaign . Officials have developed a Campaign of their own. H they the . Developed a leaflet "gst1? a lifestyle that fugues could the no return id Reponte the United nations has already air dropped the leaflets into Camps but us soldiers returning from the Goma Zaire they the . Opened a radio station too in an Effort to draw refugees Home te16 said Lucre Are repeat Power relays across the country boosting the . Message to All who will listen. The mysterious renegade station nth own 2T?cpmT� which mean thousand Hills in French May be somewhere near Goma Reponte said the 12 of Kicidis told the americans that the station had been operating for a Long time. Hony Ever us. Officials said they Oidne learn from the French about the smear Campaign and the radio station until aug. 10. Pore Singapore a smoking was banned Friday in factories and common areas of apartment blocks tightening one of the world s strictest anti smoking Laws. The Law is intended to protect the in Terest of the majority of singaporeans who Are nonsmokers environment min ister Mah Bow Tan told parliament be ens curbs on s to Kin q passed the Law. Fore it passe e Law. Smoking is already banned in Public places such As government offices sub ways buses taxis movie Heaters an Barber shops. Violators Are fined up to the equivalent of $666. The new Law leaves it to managers to guarantee that employees do not smoke in office or factory floors. If they Don to they face the same Fine As smokers f smoking will also be prohibited in enclosed air conditioned common areas of rest entail premises such As the lobby Reading room or games room. J however smoking will be allowed incur Parks gardens and sports courts