European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday september 22,1994 raids net snakes reptiles 15 suspected poachers from the associated press Long Beach Calif. A game officials sneaked lip on 2,000 snakes and other reptiles and put the bite on 15 people suspected of illegal collecting and poaching. Tuesdays raids in 11 counties capped a two year operation aimed at crimping californians estimated $100 million a year illegal Trade in native reptiles. A poachers Are hammering California wildlife a fish and game director Boyd Gibbons said. A no species escapes the  officials arrested or issued citations to 15 people and were seeking eight More. They face charges of unlawfully Selling or buying native reptiles a Misdemeanour punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 Fine. The catches included Rosy Boas rattlesnakes a poisonous Pink and Black Gila monster snapping turtles a Piranha and various other fish. The raids were a follow up to an october 1993 operation that ended with More than 100 confiscated snakes and 14 convictions. It is illegal to sell or buy native California reptiles although licensed collectors can bag limited numbers generally two per species Gibbons said hoping for Einstein statue Princeton . A he reshaped the most fundamental ideas about time and space. Relatively speaking however Albert Einstein is unheralded in the town where he worked. Or. Melvin Benardes thinks its a shame that Princeton has no memorial to the physicist and he is pressing for a statue. However at a Borough Council meeting last month Only one of the six Council members voted in favor. The others abstained because of the opposition of residents who believe Einstein a modest Man would have opposed a memorial. Nonsense says Benardes who Points out that Einstein posed for a portrait bust in 1952 that was the basis for a 21-foot statue that now stands outside the National Academy of sciences in Washington. Einstein died in 1955,More than 20 years after he fled nazi Germany and joined the Institute for advanced study in Princeton. Ida Moon named dactyl Washington a the tiny Moon discovered this year in orbit around the asteroid Ida has been Given the name dactyl by the International astronomical Union. Dactyl is the first natural satellite of an asteroid Ever discovered and photographed. The pictures were taken aug. 28,1993, by Nasa s Galileo spacecraft which is on its Way to Jupiter but the photographs Only came to Light in March. The name comes from the dactyl a group of mythological beings who lived on mount Ida where the infant zeus was hidden. Child Law reinstated Washington a a Federal appeals court has reinstated a Law requiring people who produce sexually explicit films and photographs to keep records of the names and Ages of their actors or models. A three judge panel of the . Circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia said the Law the child Protection and obscenity enforcement act of 1988, and regulations linked to it do not violate free speech rights. The 2-1 decision reversed a Federal trial judges ruling that had struck Down the Law and regulations. They had been challenged by the american Library association american booksellers association american society of Magazine photographers and other groups. Ltd  r my a a ran. To a % �?T4 is it electronic equipment being used in Hendricks county ind., monitors parolees and tells if they be been boozing. Device spies on parolees at Home Danville ind. Apr big brother is phoning in Hendricks county and people who drink while serving sentences at Home have reason to worry. The county probation department has a new Revenue producing device that uses a computer and a special phone to Monitor up to 50 people to see if they have violated their parole by drinking alcohol. The Home detention system developed by digital products corp., keeps track of people electronically registering the whereabouts of their wrist or ankle bracelets with a Central computer. But this computer also makes phone Calls and a sen Sor built into the receiver analyses the persons breath. The device can to measure the amount of alcohol consumed Only say whether alcohol is detected. After calling Back twice to verify positive findings the computer automatically summons a probation officer to the Home for a More conventional test. Probation director r. Todd Mccormack acknowledges the technology is invasive but said a there is nothing that says. I can to be just As aggressive As any private organization out  program costs about $4,400 a month but generates twice that in fees paid by the detainees. Clinic killing suspect guilty of taunting Pensacola Fla. Apr a Man facing trial in the killings of an abortion doctor and his escort was convicted tuesday of violating a noise ordinance by shouting taunts at the same clinic where the killings took place a month later. The six member jury returned its guilty verdict against Paul Hill following a one Day trial and two hours of deliberation. The jury acquitted Hill of a second charge of disorderly conduct. Hill who advocates killing abortion providers was charged in both counts for Yelling a Mommy Mommy done to let them kill me and similar statements outside the ladies Center on june 17. The 40year-old former presbyterian minister also faces an oct. 3 trial in . District court on charges of violating Federal clinic Protection and firearms Laws and a Jan. 30 trial in state circuit court on charges of murder attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. A he is accused of killing or. John b. Britton 69, and retired air Force it. Col. James h. Barrett 74, As they arrived at the ladies Center on july 29. Barrettes wife june was wounded. Immediately after tuesdays verdict Escambia county judge Thomas Johnson sentenced Hill to 45 a Days in jail. He is already being held without bail on the Federal and state charges. Hills lawyer t. Patrick Monaghan said he expected to Appeal arguing that Hills conviction violated his right to free speech. A the Issue of abortion in this Case is whether we Are going to abort the first amendment to the Constitution of the United states a the new Hope ky., lawyer said in his closing argument. Assistant state attorney Gregory Marcille contended free speech was not a Factor because the Taw covers Only volume not the Content of what is being said. As the trials Only defense witness Hill admitted he was trying to be heard by patients inside the clinic not people on the  Mountain s name will stay Board says Meyers Ridge my. A it might not be politically Correct but negro mountains name will remain. The 30-mile Ridge that runs through Garrett county md., and Somerset county pa., was named in the 1700s to Honor a Black servant who lost his life fending off an Indian attack. He was named Goliah in some accounts and Nemesis in others. A they named it negro Mountain because they did no to know who it was a said Wes Slusher a retired Steelworker from Mckeesport pa., who in 1991 proposed to change the name to Black hero Mountain. A they should have named it after the Man. There is no such a thing As White Many a Mountain or red Many a Mountain a Slusher said. The . Board of geographic names has approved almost All of the 31 proposed name changes involving the word a a negro Over the past 30 years said executive Secretary Roger l. Payne. But after soliciting Public comment the Board voted against the change sept. 8. It said that there was overwhelming opposition to changing the name and that it was an Honor a not a slur a that has been in local use since the mid-18th Century. A if anything there should be a plaque on negro Mountain explaining the origin of the name a said Maryland state archivist Edward Papenfuse who opposed the change. A it reflects an 18th-Century sensitivity to the important contribution african americans made that is rarely so publicly