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Gun control
House bill would revise federal law of 1968
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee
. on Tuesday sent to the House floor a compromise gun
control bill that the gun owners’ lobby argues would fall
far short of easing burdensome provisions in the his
toric safe streets law of 1968.
The committee bill, approved 35-0, would be the First
major revision to the nation’s 18-year-old federal gun
control law. House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-
Texas, said it could be scheduled for a vote as early as
next week.
The measure includes a provision for interstate sales
of rifles and shotguns — but not handguns — and a re
cords check, but no waiting period, for firearms cus
tomers.
The National Rifle Association, calling the bill too re
strictive for law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen,
vowed to continue backing a rival Senate-passed bill
which would significantly weaken the 1968 law.
Representatives of law enforcement and handgun
control groups said they could support the House Judi
ciary bill, although they said they prefer a waiting pe
riod before a customer could pick up the gun he had
purchased. Both sides said they’ll lobby heavily in the
next several days, when the committee bill will be in a
virtual race with a discharge petition that would send
the rival McClure-Volkmer Senate bill to the floor.
The petition needs 218 signatures, half the members
in the House, and reportedly needs about 10 to reach
that goal.
Both Republican and Democratic supporters of the
House bill said it would balance the needs of police offi
cers, who want to make it more difficult for criminals to
obtain weapons, and sportsmen and gun dealers who
seek to rid the current law of what they view as unduly
burdensome restrictions.
The major provision of the committee measure
would allow sales of rifles and shotguns from a dealer in
one state to a customer from another state, providing
that state and local gun laws from both areas are fol
lowed. Interstate handgun sales would be banned, as
they are under current law.
As a substitute for a waiting period, the measure
would require that when a sale is made, the information
filled out by the customer would be given to law en
forcement authorities for a records check. However,
the customer could immediately walk out of the store
with the gun.
Gun control advocate Sarah Brady, wife of presi
dential press secretary James Brady, called the bill a
“good compromise.” Her husband was shot, along with
President Reagan, in a 1981 assassination attempt by
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History today
Today is Wednesday, March
12.
On this dale:
In 1664, New Jersey became a
British colony as King Gharles II
granted land in the New World to
his brother James, the Duke of
York.
In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low
founded an organization in Sa
vannah, Ga., called the Girl
Guides, which later became the
Girl Scouts.
In 1925, Chinese revolutionary
leader Sun Yat-sen died.
In 1930, Mohandas K. Gandhi
began a 200-mile march to pro
test a British tax on salt.
In 1932, Ivar Kreuger, the
“Swedish Match King,” com
mitted suicide in Paris, leaving
behind a financial empire that
turned out to be worthless.
In 1933, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt broadcast the first of
his so-called fireside chats on ra
dio, telling Americans what was
being done to deal with the na
tion’s economic crisis.
In 1940, Finland surrendered
to the Soviet Union during World
Warll.
In 1947, President Harry S.
Truman established what became
known as the Truman Doctrine
to help Greece and Turkey resist
communism.
In 1969, Beatle Paul McCart
ney married Linda Eastman in
London.
In 1980, a jury in Chicago
found John Wayne Gacy guilty of
the murders of 33 men and boys.
In 1985, the United States and
the Soviet Union opened new
arms control talks in Geneva with
a get-acquainted session. Mean
while, Vice President Bush ar
rived in Moscow for the f uneral
of the late Soviet leader Konstan
tin Chernenko.
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Police said they shot dead two
teen-agers and wounded 81 other
blacks Tuesday in scattering a crowd
of about 2,000 outside a courthouse
near South Africa’s eastern border.
They said the blacks wielded sticks
and ignored warnings to disperse,
but the Star newspaper of Johannes
burg said riot squads fired after the
crowd agreed to leave.
The shooting occurred in Kabok-
weni, a black township near the Mo
zambique border, where thousands
had gathered for the trial of eight
blacks on riot charges, a police
statement said.
The statement said that after the
crowd refused to leave, police fired
tear smoke and then birdshot, killing
a 15-year-old boy and wounding 80
people. In two other cases, birdshot
killed a 14-year-old boy and
wounded a 17-year-old, it added.
On a day that saw authorities in a
conciliatory mood on some issues re
lated to the country’s anti-apartheid
unrest and unyielding on others, the
government:
• Lifted expulsion orders against
three CBS journalists accused of vio
lating a police ban on filming a black
funeral;
• Imposed tough restrictions on
two leading anti-apartheid cam
paigners despite a chorus of disap
proval from both white and black
communities;
• Permitted the Rev. Allen Boe
sak, an anti-apartheid activist facing
subversion charges, to travel to Swe
den for the funeral of assassinated
Prime Minister Olof Palme;
• Announced the arrest of Mar
ion Sparg, 27, a white South African
journalist who espoused the cause of
the African National Congress guer
rilla movement, on suspicion of
planting bombs in South African po
lice stations. Two officers and two
passersby were wounded in blasts at
two police stations last week.
The government served five-year
“banning” orders on Henry Fazzie
and Mkhuseli Jack, leading cam
paigners in the eastern Cape prov
ince against the system of racial seg
regation through which 5 million
whites govern 24 million blacks.
Banning means the two must stay
home from dusk to dawn and may
not attend political meetings or dis
seminate campaign literature.
The two men, prominent in the
multiracial United Democratic
Front, were banned as “a threat to
law and order,” the government
said. But the action provoked anger
and astonishment in Port Elizabeth,
their south coast home city.
Fazzie and Jack had played in
fluential roles in suspending black
consumer boycotts that were crip
pling white business in Port Eliza
beth.
The United Democratic Front,
South Africa’s largest anti-apartheid
group, said the banning proved that
lifting the seven-month state of
emergency Friday was “merely an at
tempt to placate international opin
ion.”
Jewish man lynched in 1915 pardoned
ATLANTA — The Georgia
Board of Pardons and Paroles on
Tuesday granted a posthumous par
don to Leo Frank, a Jewish business
man accused of murder whose
lynching in 1915 was a catalyst for
the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
The board, which had denied
Frank a pardon in December 1983,
issued a one-page decision which did
not address his guilt or innocence in
the 1913 slaying of Mary Phagan, of
which he was convicted.
The ruling said the action was
taken “in recognition of the state’s
failure to protect the person of Leo
Frank and thereby preserve his op
portunity for continued legal appeal
of his conviction, and in recognition
of the state’s failure to bring his
killer to justice, and as an effort to
heal old wounds.”
Frank, a pencil merchant, was
convicted and sentenced to death for
the murder of Phagan, who worked
in Frank’s downtown Atlanta pencil
factory.
Frank was lynched in 1915 after
then-Gov. John Slaton commuted
his sentence to life in prison. The
lynching has been cited as the worst
single incident of anti-Semitic vio
lence in the United States.
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