European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 27. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 tvs causing new problems in wild Fruita Utah not the new wilderness Trail rider shuns horses leaves the jeep Down by the Road and Heads for the High country on a Steed with fat Little tires. The Little machines mobility and ease of operation have opened Miles of new roads and millions of hitherto inaccessible acres of Public lands to their riders. Sales have risen from 136,000 in 1980 to 594,000 projected for 1986. But the explosion in the number of All terrain vehicles since japanese motorcycle makers developed them for Export inthe late 1970s also has brought new Wor Ries about their safety and new head aches for Public land managers and wild life specialists. The at machines which resemble motorcycles with three or four plump Knobby tires have been blamed for hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries and environmentalists charge they Are Only adding to already serious prob lems of torn up land rutted tracks crushed plants and harassed wildlife in the United states Parks National forests and recreation areas. The problem is getting worse said Kendall Johnson Range specialist with the Utah state University agricultural Extension service. If you go to the out skirts of just about any Range land town in the West you will find a Tot of torn up land and tracks on hillsides and  but the use of tvs and other off Road vehicles is hardly confined to the huge expanses of Public land in the West. Long Island officials report that driving along the fragile beaches is accelerating erosion. And researchers at Florida s big Cypress National preserve report the surge in the vehicles use is doing measurable damage. In general tvs tend to be less impacting on the area than other vehicles but the trouble is they allow More a Cess said Michael j. Duever a re searcher with the National Audubon society. While the soft balloon tires spread the machine s weight More evenly on the ground the tendency of rider to go in groups and to forge new tracks often makes their use As destructive As their off Road cousins the four wheel drive truck dirt Bike motorcycles and Snow mobiles. As to the safely Issue the consumer product safety commission told a con Gressional committee july 17 that at Riding contributed to 415 deaths and 185,000 injuries since 1982. The House government operations committee has urged the safety commis Sion to ban future sales of the three Croxie says Compromise reached of end crisis by the Washington Post Rome socialist prime minister designate Bettino Praxi Friday informed president Francesco Corsiga that he has reached a Compromise with four other political parties to end the four week political crisis caused by his resignation june 27.the Compromise will give Italy a coalition government nearly identical to the one Praxi had presided Over for almost three years a political longevity record in postwar  to the details of the com Promise the 52-year-old Praxi will Rule until next March when he will leave the government and return to head his socialist party for the remaining two years of the current parliamentary term. Socialist party officials confirmed sat urday that when Praxi does step Down a Christian Democrat will take Over the prime minister ship and receive the Nec Essary support from the socialists an the other three parties in the coalition until the parliamentary term expires in 1988. U the italian government has been Par Al Zed for the past four weeks because of Christian Democrat demands that some one from their party which is the largest in the country be allowed to head the government after three years of socialist Rule. Praxi opposed the Christian democrats on the grounds they had unilaterally sought to alter the coalition pact for no reason but it was their turn to  Strong willed often autocratic wheel models citing their Lack of stability compared with the More recently introduced four wheel version and to re Call the 2.1 million Ihrck who clerk already in use. The committee also voted 20 to 15 to Call for a legislative ban on three wheel models if the safety commis Sion did not act. But Many riders swear by their mounts and argue that properly used they present neither a danger to them selves nor damage to the county Side. Most of us just stay on the roads and trails and go sightseeing said Dan Pru Dence of Salt Lake City who was out on his new racing Model Honda three Wheeler on currant Creek Road in the Uinta National Forest. Sometimes some kids on dirt bikes might see a Hill and say what the Heck let go for it " said Kip Nelson a Friend who was Riding with him. Utmost people on tvs just ride the roads for Miles. But too Many riders find staying on the trails too confining says Lyle Gomm the million acre Forest s chief of recreation lands and fire management. He said that until recently riders were instead forging a Hundred Miles of Pioneer Road a year in the Forest s mountains and valleys. One Guy goes out and makes a track thinking Well if i go Here it won t really prime minister maintained his govern ment had Given Italy its largest period of political stability since world War Viand As a result had been a major Factor in Italy s economic recovery and growth in recent years. With every political poll indicating the italian people favored him Over any other candidate for the prime min ister ship Praxi insisted he should not be forced out of  originally resigned june 27 after losing a secret vote on a relatively minor local financing Bill. Though he did not have to submit his resignation because of the vote he had lost dozens of similar votes in the preceding month he chose to resign As a protest against coalition politicians who he said were pre tending 19 be his allies on floor votes while voting against him on secret bal , who was appointed caretaker prime minister until the coalition could be brought Back together expected to Force a Quick new mandate from his coalition partners and an agreement to do away with the sort of parliamentary secret votes that had so embarrassed him. Instead the Christian democrats use the resignation As an excuse to Advance their demands for an alte Manza or alteration of Rule in the coalition. He is to have a Summit meeting with his coalition partners tuesday to thrash out details of a new government and a new coalition program for the final two years of the legislature. Do any harm " Gomm said. Then the next Guy sees the ii a id allows it and pretty soon you have a  Gomm recently visited such a spot in the Foothills of the Wasatch Range in Provo where a rut Cut by successive trips by at and motorcycle had been wid ened to a Small Trench by water flowing off the Hillside. Because of this kind of damage the Uinta Forest has closed its off Road areas to All vehicles except those with a specific purpose such As gathering Wood or recovering fallen game. Cliff Johnson who is in charge of the recreation division at the Forest serv ice s regional office in Ogden recently started a tread lightly program to teach the Young the proper use of off Road vehicles. We re trying to educate Young people at the Junior High school level in Hope that a proper land use ethic will carry Over into their adult life and get the away from his unwise and irresponsible use of Public lands he said. The tread lightly program along with stiff enforcement of off Road travel and a closing of some trails has Cut Pioneer Road cutting to about 20 Miles year. Meanwhile Max Peterson head of the Forest service recently announced that Johnson s program would be expanded into a National Effort. But they Don t keep on ticking us photo More than 2,000 counterfeit Cartier witches Are crushed by a steamroller in new York. The counterfeits with Street value of More than $100,000, Are among thousands of watches made in Hong Kong that were seized by Law enforcement officers recently. The watches sold for $40 to $100 each. Congress physician released from Job Washington a the attend ing physician of the Congress or. Free Man h. Cary was released thursday from the Job he had held for 13 years and is being replaced by another military physician the Navy said. The Navy described the shift "j8.T" Lin pc. In rendition he East s suicide june 29 followed a lengthy illness during which Cary was one of his physicians. Cary 59, was informed thursday that Friday would be his last Day in his Capi Tol office according to a source close to Cary. The doctor did not accept a reporter s phone Call and his administrative assistant Robert f. Moran referred All queries to the Navy and said i m not  Cary is being replaced by rear adm. Or. William Narva the source said. Narva previously was vice president of the uniformed services University of health science a military school located at Bethesda naval Hospital. Cary a rear Admiral in the Navy re serves had been on Active duty in his Post. A Navy spokesman who refused to be quoted by name read the following statement it is our understanding that Admiral Cary is being released under the Normal practice of releasing Reserve offi cers when they reach age 60. Or. Cary will reach age 60 by  Dale Tate a spokeswoman for Senate majority Leader Bob Dole had no com ment. One of East s former associates said the late senator frequently complained in private that his physicians had failed to diagnose his hypothyroid condition soon enough. That thyroid deficiency led to his hospitalization in april 198s