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THE OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1996 NATION Gun rentals investigated Thousands gather to clean world's coasts Louis Caldera, a Los Angeles Democrat. Caldera is considering introducing gun rental restrictions in the legislative session that begins in January, Reeves said. "We have no problem with hunting and target shooting. And we don't want to take away what are seen as some good oF American pastimes," Reeves said.

"But when you're randomly renting out handguns to any Tom, Dick or Harry, then it's a real problem." Still, Reeves isn't optimistic about prospects for such legislation, given the vigorous opposition to gun-control measures by such groups as the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of California. "Very few people want to take on the gun lobby in Sacramento," Reeves said. One opponent to rental re Suicides occur at California shooting ranges, despite safety checks of range employees SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) Arthur Kampf gave no sign he was about to kill himself. He calmly signed the appropriate forms, listened to safety instructions and paid $18 to rent a revolver at the Bullseye gun range.

Kampf even joked and laughed with Mark Baradat, owner of the range, as they discussed the basics of target shooting. "I studied the guy. I mean, I looked him up and down because I was nervous," said Baradat, who moments before had been talking about a suicide kk bottom line is they're really, dedicated to The that if MJ-W H'V tj5i'V ttU 3. ft 'i If 5. Hi ft ii.

really ceasing their existence strictions says it shouldn be a government issue since similar limits aren't placed on other methods people use to kill themselves. "Every year, we have a number of people who use leased automobiles to commit suicide and yet the rental car companies continue to rent them," said Kyle Kirwan, an attorney who has represented sporting gun manufacturers in liability suits. Although jittery about copycat suicides, Baradat says at another San Francisco Bay area shooting range three days earlier. "I was looking for any reason not to rent to him, but there was nothing zero," Baradat said Friday, three days after the 62-year-old Kampf put the gun to his head, fired once and died shortly after. Kampf was one of three men to commit suicide this month at gun ranges in the San Francisco Bay area, including two at one range in South San Francisco.

New Orleans reports less trash and more volunteer cleaners MIAMI (AP) It was a work day at the beach for thousands of volunteers who cleaned up the world's shorelines of everything from cigarette butts to car dashboards. People in 50 states and 80 countries pitched in to rake through the sand and dive into oceans and lakes to recover garbage as part of the 8th Annual International Coastal Cleanup. More than 250,000 were estimated to have participated in Saturday's event. "This is the only Earth we have and if we don't take care of it, it's just going to be ruined," said 11-year-old Will McCarthy, a Boy Scout who took part in the cleanup at Rock Hill, S.C. Volunteers at Key Biscayne off Miami were joined by U.S.

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who said the cleanup "is about preserving the environment for our children." "I bet I picked up 150 cigarette butts today," said Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, one of 400 to 500 volunteers who picked over the coast of Port Aransas, Texas. John Maltby, from South Africa's Natal Park's Board, led 1,000 volunteers to scour the northern KwaZulu-Natal on this planet, they're going to do it. Dennis Holmes Milpitas, Police Lieutenant ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKIE PICHARDO, 10, bends down to pick up trash with the aid of, from right, Bruce Babbitt, secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Jackie Montes, 11, and Florida Park Service Director Fran Mainella at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Recreation Area on Key Biscayne in Miami Saturday. coastline, east of Johannesburg, where the trash included car dashboards.

Months ago, Maltby said, a foot washed up inside a steel-toed boot. "But nothing quite as dramatic as that this time," he said. About 7,000 people volunteered for the cleanup near New Orleans. "Every year the trash gets less and less and we get more participants," said Dawn Boudreaux. "We've reached maximum capacity for the shoreline." Florida changes AIDS info collection he prefer to handle the suicide issue on his own.

He and the owner of the Jackson Arms gun range in South San Francisco, where two people killed themselves this month with rented guns, have voluntarily halted gun rentals. Range owners in South San Francisco and in Milpitas, where six gun-range suicides have been recorded since 1984, also have worked with city officials to draft guidelines that help employees turn away those who appear at risk. And South San Francisco Mayor Jack Drago wants to take it a step further with an ordinance restricting or banning rentals. Baradat, who's had two suicides at the San Rafael range since it opened three years ago, says both were "one-timers kind of spur-of-the-moment guys." But he thinks a member registry would be better than a waiting period. After things cool off, he plans to resume rentals but only to regulars who carry membership cards.

Milpitas police Lt. Dennis Holmes has been searching long and hard for a common thread in the six suicides in his city anything that would help him prevent others. Some of the Milpitas victims had physical ailments or histories of depression or mental illness, but none fit particular profiles of likely suicides. "The only one thing that was a straight line through all six was a rented firearm," Holmes said. But that doesn't convince him that restrictions on rentals would help stop suicides.

"The bottom line is that if they're really, really dedicated to ceasing their existence on this planet, they're going to do it," he said. An Associated Press review of news archives, backed up by interviews with law enforcement officials, found that in the last 19 months, there have been at least seven gun-range suicides and a murder-suicide in California, a double suicide in Arizona and single suicides in Oregon and Oklahoma. Had Kampf wanted to buy a handgun, he would have faced the five-day waiting period and background check required by federal law. At shooting ranges, however, rented guns usually are available on the spot as long as the customer is sober, lucid and age 18 or older. Additionally, many gun range owners are instructing their employees to look for any sign of depression or risk of suicide.

But Dr. Alan Brauer, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, says intent to commit suicide often is impossible to spot. A calm demeanor, for instance, is typical because most people relax once they've made the decision to kill themselves, he said. A ban on handgun rentals or, at the very least, a multiple-day waiting period would save lives, Brauer suggested. "If they are not able to just walk into a range and get a firearm, it will take some greater planning," Brauer said.

"And the longer time required to plan, the more likely the decision will be altered." Some California lawmakers discussed rental restrictions last year after a man with a history of mental illness fatally shot another man with a rented gun before killing himself at a gun range in Stockton, said Dan Reeves, who oversees gun-control issues for Assemblyman Scripps Howard news service County list, on a computer disc, was received last week by the St. Petersburg Times and the Tampa Tribune, along with an anonymous letter. The letter said the disc which contained nearly 4,000 names along with personal and health information had been carelessly circulated by one of three Pinellas employees with access to the information. "They took it with them when they went into the field. It helped them to know whether they collected that information before," said Bil-lie Pryce, a district AIDS coordinator with the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.

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Now the only things regularly frozen and brought back are sperm, embryos and some small blood vessels, like veins and arteries. Freezing at the temperature of liquid nitrogen has been the goal of cryobi-ologists worldwide for decades. It's the coldest attainable temperature, scientists believe, and would presumably immobilize anything that could invade an organ. So far, however, no one has been able to do this without triggering massive damage. frosted organ is transplanted into a human and functions, they say, celebration is premature.

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