European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday june 2, 1980 experts fear 80 hurricanes Miami Dpi weather scientists have a Gul feeling the 1980 Hurricane season which began sunday will give them a rough Lime. The big storms nature s most destructive Force have occurred at All times of the year but the official season is from june i to nov. 30. The incidence is highest in August through  indians according in leg end watched for the Early ripening Ofsa grass in the Everglades to predict when the big winds would strike. Modern science has not found a better  National Hurricane Center at Miami commands hundreds of millions of dollars Worth of photo satellites computers two Hurricane Hunter squad Rons three sophisticated weather planes and a far Flung network of manpower. But All of it is used to predict the move ments and severity of a disturbance Only after it pops up in the tropical Atlantic Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico. There s no Way to Tell what will Hap pen in any season said John Hope chief Hurricane forecaster. We have tried everything he said correlating Winter summer weather Pat terns around the Globe Sun spots histor ical statistics and the like. We can t find anything that works Hope said. But we have a gut feeling this year winds from Hurricane Frederick bsh the coastline of Pem Acob at dusk As last september tonn Begu to strike land. A photo because of the warm Winter in the tropics. That Means the water is warmer than usual and hurricanes feed on warm  the typical Atlantic Hurricane is formed  hot winds Roll off equatorial Africa pick up moisture and develop a tropical wave of Low pressure and rain squalls. The wave Heads Westward and in squalls intensify. When the winds begin circulating counter clock Wise weathermen Label it a tropical  when the Center of Low pressure be comes defined and the circulating winds attain a constant Speed of 39 Mph a tropical storm is born and Given a name. The storm becomes a Hurricane when its Center Eye of Low pressure is sharply defined and winds begin blowing at a sustained 65 knots 74.75 Mph. The first tropical twister this year will be named Allen followed by Bonnie Charley Danielle Earl Frances Jorges Hermine Ivan and so Forth to Walter if that Many develop. Responding to women a rights advocates the weather serv ice began using male names last year for the first time alternating them with female names. By coincidence the even numbered male names produced 1979 most dam aging blows David and Frederick. The male names occupy the Odd number sequence this year. Statistically the 1979 season was be Low average with eight named storms five of them hurricanes. The historical average is 10 and sin. But 1979 also produced David the most intense Hurricane of the Century to hit the Caribbean and Frederick a $2 billion wrecker and the most damaging Ever to hit the United states. Hope said weather forecasters have no new tools to Aid them this year but wait ing in the background is a group of scientists who believe that Man May some Day be Able to dilute the awesome Power of hurricanes by seeding them with heat robbing particles of Silver iodide. We re ready this year if the Opportunity presents itself said Peter Black of project storm fury. The last attempt was a Broad scale seeding Experiment on Hurricane Deb Bie North of puerto Rico in 1969. The results encouraged the weather specialists to think Hurricane modification is possible. But they Haven t been Able to try it since. A Hurricane candidate for seeding must be in the right spot at least. 24 hours away from any landfall after All seeding has been completed to pre vent any Chance of things going awry. Residents getting used to them new quake hits Sierra Nevada causes no damage Mammoth lakes Calif. Up a moderate earthquake the largest since last tuesday rocked the Central parts of the Sierra Nevada saturday but caused no apparent damage. It was virtually ignored by residents who have been shaken by hundreds of tremors in the past week. It was t that bad said a Forest serv ice spokeswoman. We re getting used to  were no reports of damage she  quake occurred at 8 16 . And registered 5.2 on the Richter scale according to the seismology Laboratory at Cal tech in Pasadena 300 Miles South of Mammoth Moro memorial Wreath set on fire in Rome Rome up a Large Wreath placed under the Blaque marking the spot where the body of Aldo Moro was found two Yean ago was set on fire police reported. They said the lire on via Caetani in downtown Rome we put out before it could reach other wreaths around the Marker and nearby cars. A similar fire was set May 9, the second anniversary of the Day Moro who was kid napped by the red brigades terrorist gang was found in the Back of a car 54 Days after he was abducted and his five Man police escort killed. Men s Wear pact signed Hong Kong up italian designer Gianni Versace has signed a multimillion Dollar agreement to manufacture at least 50 percent of his men s Wear in Hong Kong for the . Market the Hong Kong Trade development Council says. The agreement involves Parn Beach inc., a major garment group specializing in men s and women s ready to Wear clothing. Lake. Instruments at the University of Cali fornia in Berkeley put its magnitude at 5. It was followed by other quakes Register ing 3.5 at 8 20 . And 3.2 at 8 31 . Lesser tremors continued to Raulle the mountainous  would t expect much damage from a quake of that magnitude said us seismologist Robert Una Hammer. However it could cause some Rock slides and  the quakes were aftershocks of the Strong earthquakes which rocked most of California and parts of Nevada May 25 and 27, injuring at least 10 persons in the Sierra. Hundreds of earthquakes rattled the area last week. Another quake unrelated to the Mam Moth lakes tremors Shook the Central coast near the unfinished Diablo nuclear Power Plant thursday night but also caused no damage. Discord surrounds trial in teen s death Towson. My. Up the murder trial of an elderly Man charged with killing a teen Ager who was pelting his Home with snowballs has stirred a rumble of discontent in this Balti mom suburb. Roman g. Welzant 68, is charged in Baltimore county circuit court with the Jan. 4 shooting of 18-year-old Albert r. Kahl or. But some contend the real defendants should be the neighbourhood youths who Welzant says waged a reign of terror against him and his Home for More than a decade. A Legal defense fund started by elderly neighbors has received contributions from sympathizers around the country. At Issue is not whether Welzant fired but Why. He claims his life was threatened and he was shoved by the gang he con fronted outside his borne. Kahl s parents maintain their son did nothing wrong. They their friends and Law yer Judy Ritchey who has been attending the trial As their adviser say the reporters Are biased towards Welzant and Are trying the victim for causing his own death. Every Story uni come out against the kids and for or. Welzant the attorney told the Baltimore news american Las week. It s Juil made the kids look like a Bunch of Punk and they Aren t. They re Nice kids. The Media s finding them guilt without a  Kahl s Mother Frances says she is at tending the trial to show she is not ashamed of her son. She told the newspaper that when she visited her son s grave he told her go to that courtroom and hold your head up High because i did t do anything wrong. Welzant contends he fired in self defense because he thought his life was in danger. Both he and his wife Genevieve say their Home was a constant target of vandalism by Rowdy laughs. Welzant suffers from glaucoma an Eye disease and said he could t identify his antagonists for police because be could t see them Well enough. Wal Zane testified this past week that he Best Sellers by untied Pryll  fic11oh mom Wanoi a a Pion Al pm Stom by bom no love leu Hula it Van sort Satut Bourett Imit to i omit Luck pm to spec aloud it bord raw and Roberl Moil part oct Don jul la Kami tin pm to it Sukk Richard adapt int Onn Amr Nallif and vat fourth nonfiction tha riot War Richard he on thy new Fabor l who  Tala Law c. Gordon Ludsy my in toy Money Friday Jim full second Book it running Jim filler of m Cuoio Mirlon Frommon in Soumi Mol Tia Laar to. 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Welzant told jurors he fired his gun be cause i was afraid they were going to smash my head open and stomp on me be cause that s the Way it happens around  mrs. Welzant told jurors she saw one youth grab her husband shortly before the shooting. The Welzant Are the Only two witnesses who say the defendant was assaulted by Kahl and his friends. A neighbor testified that she saw it All and that Welzant Wai not shoved. Several of the victim s friends gave similar accounts