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A2 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1994 CLirJTOiJ Continued from Page 1 WEAPONS Continued from Page 1 Assault weapons A bill passed Thursday in the House of Representatives would stop future production and sale of 1 9 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons. Features of the basic types: "SrWr How they voted Here's how the Indiana delegation voted on the assault weapons ban: Pete Visclosky, D-1st, yes Phil Sharp, D-2nd, yes Tim Roemer, D-3rd, yes Jill Long, D-4th, did not vote Steve Buyer, R-5th, no Dan Burton, R-6th, no John Myers, R-7th, no Frank McCloskey, D-8th, no Lee Hamilton, D-9th, no Andy Jacobs, D-10th, yes AK-47 (Soviet Union) I TEC-DC9 (u About 200,000 from this group manufactured Holds 9mm ammunition and has a 36-round magazine; can hold more. Includes TEC-9 and TEC-22.

About 100,000 have been imported into the U.S. Equipped with a 30-round magazine. Includes Norinco, Mitchell andPoly Technologies models. SteyT AUG (Austria) Banned from importation into the U.S., about 10,000 remain in circulation. Either a 30-or 40-shot magazine.

1,000 Colt AR-15 (u ''mJ but Beretta AR-70 (Italy) Banned from the U.S., but about remain in circulation. Equipped with a 30-round magazine; can hold a magazine of up to 150 rounds. About 400,000 manufactured; cannot be reimported. Comes with a five-round detachable box magazine; usually fitted with a 30-round magazine, with capacity for more. i U7J (Israel) 4, Banned in 1 993, but about 1 0,000 from this group are in circulation.

Has a 25-round magazine; can hold more. Includes IMI Galil; UZI assault rifle. Street Sweeper LJ'Kj' M-119 (U.S.) ers, like Rep. Maxine Waters, referred to the weapons as "killing machines" that have no place In society. "Their only purpose is to kill human beings," she said.

"The killing of children in America is breaking my heart and our citizens' hearts. We cannot survive In a society that does not protect our children and our families." But foes, like Rep. George Ge-kas, characterized the move as a misguided effort that Infringes on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. "It aims at the criminal and hits the law-abiding citizen right in the face," Gekas said. "It's the law-abiding citizen that will be hurt.

The criminal can commit any crime that the criminal-intended mind sets out to do." The legislation specifically Identifies 19 different semiautomatic weapons including AK-47s, Uzis and Street Sweepers that would be banned from domestic manufacture and sale. It exempts 650 sporting guns like Browning and Remington rifles. Supporters contend the measure doesn't stop owners and collectors from possessing legitimate sporting guns. The weapons addressed in the measure, Schumer said, are those manufactured for the specific purpose of killing people. A 1991 House vote on a similar ban failed, 247-177.

arguments on both sides of the issue. As Jacobs left, Murphy voted no and Applegate voted yes, giving the White House a razor-thin victory and handing the National Rifle Association a defeat. Not once was Jacobs lobbied. "Emphatically, no. I can assure you that leaders of neither party were silly enough to talk to me to change my vote.

I kept my own counsel to the end," Jacobs said. The legislation would stop the production and sale of 19 assault-style firearms and copycat models. It also would limit detachable magazines to 10 rounds. The bill exempts 650 named rifles and shotguns. Similar provisions were in the Senate crime bill passed in November, but the House crime bill passed two weeks ago did not address the assault weapons issue.

Indiana's congressional delegation voted 5-4 to oppose the ban. "In California, where they have literally faced riots, earthquakes, mudslides that state has made a decision to Include at-risk children in this program," Morris said. Bayh's plan to remove at-risk children in Indiana and to charge some parents of disabled children for early-intervention services is particularly frustrating given the state's apparent cash position, Morris said. About 1 00,000 have been manufactured. Equipped with a 32-round magazine; can hold more.

Includes the M-10, M-1i and M-12 models. Today's Star Contents WORLD American teen who pleaded guilty to vandalism receives four lashes in Singapore. A3 Palestinian autonomy is delayed by snags in the transfer of policing responsibilities. A11 NATION Senate considers a ban on almost all the freebies that lawmakers receive. A4 President Clinton promises $600 million in aid and more to the United States' "new partner," South Africa.

A6 Whitewater special prosecutor subpoenas the late Vincent Foster's files from the White House. A8 Hillary Clinton tells a live TV audience she chafes at the confines of White House life but loves to see what's getting done. A10 CITYSTATE John Shaughnessy: Tim Burke walked away from a sport that paid him millions and into a family life that has rewarded him richly. B1 The remains of an MIA from the Vietnam War are identified as those of Marine Cpl. Terry A.

Hoffman of Hendricks County. B1 Johnson County health officials seek the cause of an illness that's struck a large number of North Grove Elementary School students. B1 Fire investigators are looking for a car seen in the area around the time a Black Panther Militia leader's house was torched. B1 Fort Wayne's Baer Field, not Grissom Air Force Base, will be the site of an air tanker wing. B2 Student who testified against a former coach in Clay County is roughed up in school, his mother says.

B3 Pillow fight resulted in the death of a Westville inmate, prison officials say. B3 Hoosiers lobby their congressional delegation on health care reform. B6 WEEKEND Herron artists Dennis Weddle and Natasha Young will show off their works in an exhibit at Details, on view through May 31. D1 Star movie critic Bonnie Britton says Clean Slate combines screwball comedy with parody. D3 Steve Hall: Country superstar Garth Brooks goes all out in a new TV special tonight.

D15 BUSINESS Labor costs, a gauge of wage inflation, surged ahead 5 percent for the first quarter of 1994, surprising economists and the Clinton administration. E1 Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's International, says mentors taught him everything he knows about success. E1 Human resource executives must deal with managing diversity in the workplace. E2 SPORTS Trainer Jack Van Berg is not superstitious about drawing the No. 13 post position for Blumin Affair in the Kentucky Derby.

C1 The forecast for this morning's 18th Indianapolis Life "500" Festival Mini-Marathon calls for perfect weather conditions and a pair of new'winners. C1 Thousands in Brazil say farewell to their beloved racing hero, Ayrton Senna. C3 OPINION Stifling protest argues the fairness of making it a federal offense to block abortion clinics or intimidate staff or patients, but not restricting abortion rights protesters, and Saving jobs, money comments on the decision to keep the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center in Indianapolis. A14 Cal Thomas, William Satire and Thomas Sowed are today's featured columnists. Friday Forum letters comment on a proposal to deregulate the local taxi industry.

A14 and A15 Fabrique Rationale FKC (Belgium) Banned from importation, but about safer." Schumer's bill has the support of most police organizations. Clinton, who lobbied lawmakers In dozens of telephone calls, said the House rose to the occasion. "They stood up against the madness that we have come to see when criminals and terrorists have legal access to assault weapons and then find themselves better armed than police, putting more and more people In increasing danger of their lives," Clinton said. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said those same legislators "led Americans down a blind alley of make-believe crime control." Rep. James Sensenbrenner, who led the opposition in the House, charged that Foley deliberately delayed calling the vote to an end so proponents could turn the tide.

He also said Clinton's strong support for the measure played an important part. "We had an administration that was doing nothing but twisting arms for the last four or five days," Sensenbrenner said. "We had to fight all the king's horses and all the king's men, and they managed to eke out a very close vote." Schumer acknowledged that proponents couldn't have won without the steady support of the White House. He accepted a phone call from the president shortly after the victory and told him: "We couldn't have done It without you. You were there right from the start." Both chambers of Congress now have passed similar weapons bans.

The final language must be worked out In a House-Senate conference. Most of Thursday's debate covered ground well-trod In previous debates over the Issue. Support- JACOBS Continued from Page 1 of weapons used to massacre people." Jacobs said, explaining that if a gunman has to reload, victims can scurry to safety or others can overtake the shooter. Jacobs said that after he Initially cast his vote against the ban, he remained on floor thinking about the ever-Increasing numbers of bullets that are available in large magazines. "In the last few moments I realized I was in a fateful position, and it was a chance to ban those large magazines.

So I persuaded myself I should take the opportunity," he said. While Jacobs was thinking, two holdouts, Reps. Austin Murphy, and Doug Applegate, D-Ohio, sat listening to last-second WINDFALL Continued from Page 1 Some think stingy is a better word. Sally Morris, a lobbyist with the Association for Retarded Citizens of Indiana, Is among those trying to convince the Bayh administration not to cut early-intervention services for infants and toddlers at risk of incurring developmental disabilities. HOMECROFT Continued from Page 1 be in Jeopardy.

Controversy pays return visit "There was an indication that we needed to do this some time ago." said Indiana State Police Detective Dan Logsdon. alluding to past complaints that questioned the legal standing of Homecraft police and calls for an Investigation. State law requires all police officers hired after July 6, 1972, to complete a course of law enforcement training approved by the Law Enforcement Training Board. Under the law, Bosworth and other Homecroft officers may be acting without legal authority. Those individuals are not a target of current inquiry, however, Logsdon said.

Logsdon said said Bosworth may have lost his police authority almost 20 years ago. Logsdon is trying to determine Bosworth's legal status as the final element of an ongoing Investigation into the Homecroft Police Department. An earlier review by several state agencies Involved suspected tax violations in police vehicle purchase and leasing arrangements. The state's department of revenue. Bureau of Motor Vehicles and State Board of Accounts have Joined forces in the police investigation.

Results of the probe will be turned over to Marion County Prosecutor Jeffrey Moisett. bright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a House panel Thursday. The peacekeeping policy Is a big step back from the idea once enthusiastically embraced by the administration of turning the United Nations into the spearhead of a new world order. Administration officials maintain that the more cautious stance stems from the confused and sometimes unsuccessful multilateral operations In places like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia, Rwanda and elsewhere.

The administration's critics, however, see the new policy as buckling to pressure from conservative forces, notably In the Pentagon. The president "will never relinquish command authority over U.S. forces." the directive states, although the United States would consider placing "appropriate U.S. forces under the operational control of a competent U.N. commander." In Thursday's House testimony, Albright said the past year has made the administration acutely aware of "the value and the limits of U.N.

peacekeeping." Albright and other U.S. officials leveled careful but clear criticism at the United Nations. The U.N.'s diplomatic credibility is usually high, Albright noted, "but It is of less help when military credibility Is required. For reasons that may be inherent in the institution, the U.N. has not yet demonstrated the ability to respond effectively when the risk of combat Is high and the level of local cooperation Is low." Critics of the new approach said It showed the administration was simply not ready to become engaged in international peacekeeping.

The new policy contained a self-fulfilling prophecy, said Daniel Nelson, a political scientist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. "If you don't give the United Nations the help it needs, of course it will fall," he said. During his presidential campaign. Clinton called for a U.N. "rapid deployment force" that would stand guard "at the borders of countries threatened by aggression" and prevent "mass violence against civilian populations." Secretary of State Warren Christopher backed the Idea of a permanent U.N.

force during his confirmation hearings, and drafting a presidential directive on the subject was said at the time to be one of the new administration's first priorities. The idea quickly came under quiet but effective attack, however, from the Pentagon and its supporters on Capitol Hill. The Pentagon, in particular, has been deeply reluctant to have Its troops Involved in potential quagmires. The U.S. military has been even less willing to allow Its troops to be placed under foreign command.

came in." Legislative leaders. Democrats and Republicans alike, have sided with Bayh on the Issue of what to do in the face of the higher revenues. They have said it is best to wait until lawmakers debate a new two-year budget In 1995. "No one would be happier than I would be to say the recession is over," Bayh said. "But I think we have to take a responsible approach." The town's attorney, F.

Robert Lively, said he also thought Bosworth was hired in 1972. "We paid the marshal, and the marshal ran his department, and the marshal made his own payroll out," said Lively. "The marshal would be the only one having the records." But former town marshal Sims could not recall when Bosworth was hired. "I would definitely say he was there before 76," Sims recently said, agreeing that specific details would be In records of the marshal's office. Despite requests, none of the three provided any official record to support their recollections.

"Bosworth was not there in 72 according to my records," said Robert D. Barber, who as Sims' executive officer in 1989 had access to police personnel files and wrote a similar recommendation to Quayle for Bosworth. Barber's relationship with Sims and Bosworth has changed since then. He is suing them and Town Board members, claiming he was wrongly fired in 1991 because of his role in developing the state's probe. Barber also claims he would know if Homecroft employed Bosworth from 1972-76, regardless of town records.

Barber was a policeman in neighboring Southport in the 1970s. "You remember who your backups are," Barber explained. "He wasn't there." tqutpped with a 30-round magazine; can hold more. -i Includes FN-FAL and FN-LAR. Associated Press Karl Gude, Eileen Glanton, Wm.

J. Castello, Stan Kohler Rep. Tim Roemer. was away from anybody In this coun- among the supporters of the ban try. It does not retroactively go even though he voted against sim- after the guns owned by legitimate ilar legislation in 1 991 gun owners of this country." "This bill is very different." Rep.

JM Long, who was attend-Roemer argued Thursday on the mg the funeral of a family mem-House floor. "It does not take guns ber. did not vote on the measure. (U.S.), Striker 12 (South Africa) About 18,000 manufactured domestically since 1988. Has a magazine capacity of 12 shotgun shell rounds.

Includes USAS 12. .1 30,000 remain in circulation. reduction he was making to Medicaid spending. No restoration of those cuts is yet in the offing. On the contrary, Bayh said his fiscal conservatism has served the state well and helped explain why revenues now are coming in better than expected.

"That's the cake," he said of the $680 million worth of spending cuts he imposed. "The icing on the cake is the extra revenue that "we've never had any reason to question it." In theory, the board's action resolved any question of Bosworth's police authority and cleared the way for him to succeed Sims as marshal. However, contradictory evidence suggests Bosworth was not hired until late 1976, more than four years after the statutory deadline for waivers. If that is true. Logsdon and Raney said, both Bosworth and the town of Homecroft could face civil lawsuits for unlawful arrests and an effort by defendants to expunge their driving records.

"His authority as a police officer would have been contingent on what his police status was," explained Raney. "If he was hired In 1976, he would have lost that authority one year later." Referral spurs questions Ironically, evidence of a 1976 hiring Includes another Sims letter. In 1989, in a letter to Vice President Dan Quayle, Sims recommended Bosworth for a federal security post. The letter Identified Bosworth as a 12-year employee hired in October 1976. Asked recently about his date of hire, Bosworth was quick to answer.

"It was in June of 72," he said. Bosworth said Sims' earlier reference to 1976 may have referred to some change In status. "I can't remember. I'll have to get with the town attorney on that. Homecroft prcba I The tiny town of Homecroft is the focus of sizable controversy.

State officials investigating alleged improprieties by town police now wonder if the chief law ij enforcement officer is legally entitled to any police powers. i I BantaRd.W 3. 5 ztr-jjwx' Loretta Dr I Maynard Dr. fi MARION COUNTY A -ly Southview Dr. I rVN J- Soutrt-fqTT "We're not saying go hog wild and spend this money willy-nilly," Morris said.

Bayh isn't doing a thing until the fiscal year ends June 30 and he gets a better look at what rising interest rates do to the economy. After the legislature passed a budget over his veto last year, Bayh ordered more than $180 million cut from state programs. That was in addition to a $500 million Star Staff Map According to the board's executive director, Arthur R. Raney the date is important because any Indiana police officer hired after July 6, 1972, must complete formal training offered or endorsed by the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy at Plainfield. Under the law, police lose their arrest powers if the training is not finished after one year.

New marshals face the same requirement and penalty. Bosworth never obtained the Instruction, which prompted him and Sims to seek the waiver as Sims prepared to leave office in 1992. "For all the contacts we've had with Tom Sims," said, Raney, Bosworth, who commands about a dozen policemen, has been one of the few paid police regulars employed by the town. Just how many years he's worked for Homecroft is the pertinent question now facing Logsdon. Situation seemed clear in '92 Thomas H.

Sims, a longtime Indianapolis Police Department detective and Homecraft's town mar-shal more than 25 years, addressed that question in December 1992. In a waiver of training application to the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board. Sims stated that Bosworth was hired by the town before July 6, 1972. CALL THE STAR If you have suggestions, comments or criticism regarding the news content of The Indianapolis call 633-9284, or if outside the Indianapolis area, toll-free (800) 669-7827. Correspondence should be directed to Charles G.

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