European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday january. 1995 study takes shot at firearms training Chicago a training gun own ers in firearms use is unlikely to get them to keep their weapons unloaded and locked up which most experts agree is the safest Way to store them researcher say. A Survey of 800 gun owners found that those with training were More Likely to have a loaded gun Handy in the House than those who had t been trained. Fifty six percent of the nationally representative Sample had received formal firearms training usually in the military Twenty seven percent of those wit training kept a loaded unlocked gun. Only 14 percent of people without train ing did so. Trained gun owners May keep loaded guns accessible because they have a Keener interest in firearms or believe they Are most in need of Protection the researchers said. Training also May increase owners Confidence that they can handle a weapon the researchers said. The Survey which had a margin of error of 4 percentage Points was commissioned by the Harvard school of pub Lic health. Results were published in wednesday s Issue of the journal of the american medical association. Some individuals advocate mandatory training As a Way to improve gun storage practices said the researchers led by David Henenway Deputy director of the Harvard injury control Center. Our study casts doubt on whether firearms training will substantially reduce the inappropriate storage of  the authors suggested trying to change the Way guns Are stored through Educa Tion changes in liability Laws and the addition of safety mechanisms to guns such As childproof devices and a mechanism to indicate if a gun is loaded. The National Rifle association the gun owners of America and the head of a doctors group that reviews research on Dole hints at 96 presidential run while Cheney decides against it by new Day Washington More than a Yea before any voting starts the Republican presidential contest for 1996 suddenly began to shake out tuesday Bob Dole said he s probably in. Dick Cheney said he s out and Likely candidate Dan Quayle was ailing again admitted to the Hospital for an appendectomy. Dole the Senate majority Leader said he probably would move by Early next week to take the initial step toward his third bid for the presidency. Well be meeting later this week Early next week on whether or not we should move ahead with what we Call an exploratory commit tee which is the next logical step the Kansas Republican said in an interview tuesday on fan am radio. And i assume Well probably do  Dole 71, who ran for the Republican nomination in 1980 and 1988, has had his presidential ambitions fanned by encouraging hypothetical matchup in National surveys including a Newsweek poll published this week that showed him beating president Clinton 48. Percent to38 percent that show him to be the strongest Republican contender. Meanwhile after months of testing the Waters across the country Cheney the former defense Secretary issued a sur prise three sentence statement announcing that he had decided after careful consideration not to become a Candi Date. I look Forward to supporting the Republican nominee for pre ident in1996," he said. Aides refused to elaborate but other republicans said the 53-year-old forme Wyoming congressman had found the Prospect of raising millions of dollars and organizing a credible National Campaignio be daunting i Don t think their Rolo Dex was that Strong and they knew it Republican consultant Eddie Mahe said. And Quayle also considered a Likely is Dick Cheney. Will support Republican nominee contender was admitted to Indiana University medical Center pit monday afternoon with an enlarged appendix. In remarks relayed by a spokeswoman Quayle said he just wants the thing out adding i Don t need it anyway Anne Hathaway executive director of Quayle s political action committee is sues 96, said he would undergo the sur Gery wednesday or today and remain in the Hospital about a week. He was Dis charged from the same Hospital a month ago after undergoing treatment for blood clots in his lungs. While aides said he has almost fully recovered from that episode he is still taking anti coagulant drugs which briefly delayed the surgery. Huntsville Texas a a Man who confessed Taabor acting and shooting to death a 25-year-old woman was executed Early wednesday. Jesse Dewayne Jacobs was put to death by lethal injection hours after his final Appeal was denied by the . Supreme court. I have news for you he said in a final statement. There s not going to bean execution. This is premeditated Mur Der. I Hope in my death i m that Little bitty snowball that starts to Bury the death  Jacobs whose sister also was convicted in the Case confessed to abducting an fatally shooting the woman in 1986, then burying the body just North of Houston. But at his trial Jacobs recanted and said his sister fired the single shot that killed Etta Ann Urdiales the sex wife of his sister Friend. It s a bizarre and unfortunate situation cobs Robert said a attorney me Duff. He was convicted because the state argued he was theone who pulled the trigger. The jury believed it. The prob Jacobs Jem is the state has Ooi gone Back an undone this  prosecutors however argued before the jury that Jacobs could be found guilty As the trigger Man or As a co conspirator. Bob Dole. Ahead of Clinton in one poll doctors discovered his appendix was swollen during a checkup Hathaway said dismissing any political repercussions. Basically they be gone Over every Inch of his body and Affer they take out the appendix i think hell be a pretty healthy Guy she said. Quayle has said he expects to decide sometime Early this year whether to run for president. The first formal announcement apparently will come from Texas sen. Philor Arnern who is scheduled to launch his Campaign feb. 23 in his Hometown of College station followed by a swing through Georgia new Hampshire Iowa and Arizona All states with Early Pri Maries or caucuses. Court rejects it is possible the jury took no Stock in history about his sister Bobbie Jean Hogan. I.-.  Way or another at the very least he was a party to the offence Kathleen Hamilton the Montgomery county assistant District attorney said tuesday. He fully conspired with the  Jacobs attorney asked gov Ann Rich Ards for a 30-Day reprieve and filed a last ditch Appeal essentially a repeat of the motion the supreme court denied Mon Day by a vote of 6-3. The High court rejected the  As Well wit the same three justices John Paul Ste vans Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer dissenting. Hogan was convicted seven months after Jacobs with Jacobs testifying against her. She received a 10-year term. Firearm safety complained that the Survey is based on a wrong Assumption that a loaded unlocked gun is always danger Ous. According to the Harvard researchers studies document that Many firearm deaths occur when children handle loaded guns at Home during Drunken Domestic arguments or from suicides by people going through what otherwise would be temporary crises All firearms experts urge that guns generally be stored unloaded and locked and Many experts urge that guns in the Home always be stored unloaded landlocked the researchers said. Rapist wins disclosure reprieve Newark . A a newly released rapist won a re Prieve tuesday from a new Law that requires authorities to inform his new neighbors of his history and whereabouts. . District judge John Bissell issued a preliminary injunction blocking the disclosure saying it would subject the released Man Carlos Diaz to stigma and  the judge agreed with Diaz s court appointed lawyer who argued that the notification Law amounted to additional punish ment. Vav the harm that would be visited upon or. Diaz is greater. Than the immediate harm to the Community Bissell said. The ruling was the first Chal Lenge to Megan s Law which was passed by state lawmakers in response to Public outcry Over. Thex rape and killing of 7-year-old Megan Kanka. A released sex of fender who lived across the Street from her family in Hamilton ., charged with her murder. Bissell said the injunction applies Only to Diaz who was re leased sunday after serving 12 years of a 20-year sentence for kid napping and raping a 20-year-old woman. The Law requires schools and Day care centers be notified when a released sex convict consid ered a moderate risk moves into the neighbourhood. In the Case of High risk offenders police Are required to go door to door notifying neighbors. Diaz 46, had been classifieds moderate  Texas has a Law that makes a German eligible for the death penalty in a capital crime. Several of the 85 inmates executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying put the death penalty in 1982 were not trigger men. Whether they found that he actually pulled the trigger or not at the minimum they found he was a party to the of sense Hamilton  who had a Long criminal re Cord told authorities that his sister paid him $500 to kill the woman who was seeking child support payments from Hogan s Boyfriend. Jacobs said in his confession that he kidnapped the woman from her apart ment drove to a wooded area and shot her once in the head then wrapped her in a sleeping bag and buried her