European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday october 29, 1994 Kennedy gop rival debate policy Points Holyoke mass. A the second and final de Bate Between sen. Edward Kennedy and Mitt Romney produced few Sparks to ignite the r Republican Challenge or s Campaign. Romney needed a burst of Good publicity because he trailed Kennedy by 20 Points in a pol taken after their boisterous first debate tuesday. But the debate thursday night at Holyoke Community College provided few opportunities for attention grabbing conflict. Instead it had the air of a Public pol icy forum As the candidates gave detailed answers to Long sometimes rambling questions from a 12-member citizens panel. They were pretty evenly matched said Dale her Beck a Sonimun cations professor at Boston College and former president of the american forensic association a National society of debate coaches. Romney needed More than that. I did t sense him getting a big momentum  Kennedy a Democrat has been in the Senate for 32 years. Romney presented himself As an agent of Chang while deferring from Many partisan attacks. I m not going to Washington to toe the line. That snot what i m doing. Look i be Given up top much in running in this race to think i m going Down there to become party politician for any party. I m going to Washington because i care very deeply about what s happen ing to our country Romney said. Romney repeated his charge that Kennedy was soft on criminals. I m not yielding to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about them or. Romney Kennedy said alluding to the assassinations of his Brothers John and Robert. That s the last resort every time this question comes up Romney retorted. Romney a venture capitalist from Belmont elicited laughter from the audience with a remark that May come Back to haunt him in Boston. He said he had been in the City s Dorchester Section when somebody told him that he was in Kennedy country. And i looked around and i saw boarded up build Ings and i saw jobs leaving and i said it looks like it he said. For telling lies new York a former first lady Nancy Reagan lashed out at . Senate candidate Oliver North calling the former National Security aide a liar. Ill be Happy to Tell you about Ollie North she said thursday in new York. I know Zilic North has a great Deal Oft Buble separating fact from fantasy. And he lied to my husband and lied about my husband kept things from him that he should not have kept from him an that s about what i think about Ollie  North who is running in Virginia against democratic sen. Charles Rabb inthe nov. 8 race had to immediate com ment a Campaign staffer said Friday. The Republican has said he was Fol lowing orders when he orchestrated the Reagan administration s plan to Supply arms to anti communist rebels in Nicara Gua despite a congressional ban. In a Book and in subsequent inter views North has said that then president Ronald r  knew about the secret operation to funnel Money from arms sales to Iran to the contras. Also North has said that he was ordered to lie to Congress and that he believed his superiors had Reagan s authority to Issue the. Orders. " .-.". \ Ronald Reagan fired North when jus Tice department lawyers discovered North s diversion of arms Sale proceeds to the contras. He was convicted in 1989 of three felony counts in the scandal. Buthis convictions were set aside by an appeals court Cuomo pulls even with foe poll shows by new Day democratic gov. Mario Cuomo appears to have closed the Gap on his re publican challenger new York state sen. George Pataki according to a poll. The new Day Channel 7 eyewitness news poll indicates that if the gubernatorial election had been held during the sampling period 40 percent of the state s Likely voters would have re elected Cuomo while 38 percent would have backed Pataki. The difference makes the nov. 8 race a statistical dead heat. In new Day s last poll conducted in mid september Pataki held a five Point Lead 42 percent to 37 percent. Police officers remove one of six Caiman found in a Brooklyn apart mint on thursday. The reptile Lair was discovered by a fire inspector during a routine fire prevention inspection. Police in Brooklyn raid House full of reptiles by new Day ,. New York the Caiman were the Best known secret on Boe rum Street in Brooklyn for two decades. Hardly a kid had not seen them. On thursday the crocodiles became a police matter. After firefighters discovered the veritable reptile House with two Ponds in a fourth floor loft police a zoo expert and animal rescuers moved in for a Roundup. They left with a menagerie that included six spectacled Caiman ranging from 4 to 6 feet in length a Turtle and an iguana. They left be Hind an angry iguana and an assortment of Small reptiles that made their Homes in the Jungle habitat created for them. Police said the loft s owners Michael and Betsy Gimbel both 50, would be cited for health code violations. Michael Gimbel who works for the new York City department of environmental Protection rushed Home after hearing of the Roundup. He said he was angry that authorities did not wait for him or his wife before the Caiman were taken to the Prospect Park zoo. Michael Gimbel said the loft was an educational Oasis for neigh boyhood kids but acknowledged that he had no permits. He complained that police had ripped out plants and scattered be longings. Look what they did Here utter destruction 1 he said. But most of All he said his wife a disabled amputee who was in Pennsylvania for therapy would be heartbroken to hear that the Cai mans Panama Rica Nicki Buenos Rio and Louie had been taken away. These were her children he said. Number of . Inmates goes Over 1 million Mark from the associated press Washington the United states hit a grim landmark this  than 1 million people were behind bars for the first time in history. Of the 1,012,851 inmates As of june 30 this year,919,143 were in state prisons and 93,708 in Federal prisons the Justice department s Bureau of Justice statistics reported thursday. That Means one of every 260 people in Amer Cawas imprisoned and that does t include the approximately 440,000 in jails Many of whom Are awaiting trial or serving Short sentences. The total behind bars is More than double the 462,002 prison population of dec. 31,1984. Final pipeline capped Houston the last burning pipeline was capped thursday on the san Jacinto River a week after flooding ruptured lines and spilled thousands of Gallons of crude Oil and gasoline. The last of the spilled Oil about 11,000 barrels was cleaned up on the River. Oil eating microbes will clean the Shoreline. At least four pipelines burst oct. 20 in flooding that left 20 people dead forced 14,000 from their Homes and damaged Homes cars and property in 35 counties. \ " hanging trick goes awry Corpus Christ Texas a Man who pretended to hang himself during a haunted House Earty was in critical condition Friday after the ropes had rigged malfunctioned. The Accident occurred thursday night a Shoreline physical therapy where William Chadwick 31, works As a technician. The party was for employees and patients. Police said Chadwick was wearing a rubber monster mask and had a Large rope running from around his neck to the ceiling. A smaller rope connecting the Large rope to his ski Vest was supposed to support his weight. Police said they think the knot on the smaller rope slipped causing the larger rope to tighten around Chadwick s neck. Abortion Pill tested new York the French abortion Pill ru-486is now being made available to 2,100 american women in a study but the organizers won t say where because they fear anti abortion violence. You May have noticed there Are some nuts out there who do bad things to people who deliver abortions said or. C. Wayne Bardin research director at the population Council the nonprofit group sponsoring the study. He said the study is being conducted at More than 12 and less than 20" centers across the country. More than 100 women have been Given the drug so far As part of the $8 million study which could help make the abortion Pill routinely available in the United states by 1996, Bardin said. Immediately after the news conference planned parenthood federation of America announced that its clinics in Aurora Colo. Cambridge mass. Des Moines Iowa Houston san Diego and Williston,vt., Are participating in the study. Dumin trix acquitted new York a 300-Pound Dominata May spank All she wants and not even get a slap on the wrist. /. ". -. That s what judge Laura Jacobson ruled when she acquitted a woman known As Georgia a. Of prostitution. The sadomasochistic acts described by is. A foot Licking spanking domination and submission do not appear to fall within the category of sexual conduct referred to in the prostitution statute wrote Jacobson a judge in Brooklyn criminal court. The details of the May 2 trial were reported Inthis week s new York Law journal. Officer John Fisher of the Public morals division called Georgia on Jan. 12 to arrange a  testified that he came to her apartment and offered her Money for sex acts but she declined these and the Money. Instead she directed him to the bedroom and told him to remove his clothes. Georgia was t surprised when Fisher refused. Typically she testified men involved in the so experience needed to be dominated and ordered around Jacobson wrote