European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. September 12. 1935 the stars and stripes England Wales adopt mail in traffic tickets . Kimi Cruger . Bureau Starling on. I. Police in eng ind and Wales will Issue on the sent lewd penalty tickets for most traffic often so a the mail in it Kris. Similar to parking tickets will be issued by police for nearly 250 driving offense1. Officials said the by sick is intended to reduce Lime Laken by police and courts in dealing Wilh the number of less serious driving offences Mure than 6 i Minn a year according to news reports. Home Oitice officials estimated that caseloads would be Cut by up to 20 percent although More serious offences will can Linurd to be prosecuted in coun As is the current practice for nearly All driving ing offences. The new system applies Only in England and Wales a similar one  been operating in Scotland mainly for Speed inn. For three years. Officials stressed thai inc fixed penalty tickets will not be on ill Spur fines which have been strenuously opposed by ranking police officials. Police will not be permitted to accept Money. Police chief constables arc warning their officers to be sensible about issuing tickets and to continue to give offending motorists verbal cautions where possible. John Over a chief Constable in Wales and Secre tary of inc association of chief police officers said the police would have great discretion Aboul whether to impose a fixed penalty lick i or to report .1 Driver for prosecution he daily Telegraph reported. We very much hone that if a police Constable in the past would have Given a verbal warning he will continue to do so and not reach for his fined penalty  said Over in the daily Telegraph report there will be two types of tickets. Yellow tickets carrying a Fine of 7.4 pounds Aboul s36 will be issued for speeding and More than 50 other offences carrying License endorsements of up to three Penally Points. The offences include ignoring red lights and Stop signs and operating wild defective brakes steering or tires. Once a Motorist Lias accumulated ii Penally Points through Condo usable offences inc Driver s License can be revoked non and Orsahl offences for which there will he White penalty tickets and a Fine of 12 pounds about si8. Include failure to display a current tax disc having dirty windows and failure to Wear a Seal hell. Accepting inc ticket will he regarded As an admission of guilt Hul Drivers will retain the Riff in to refuse it and go to court to plead Dot guilty after accepting the ticket nolo risks will have 28 Days to mail in their Fine. If they fail to pay fines will be increased by 50 percent. Failure to pay the increased Fine could result in arrest a stiffer Fine or even jail. The new enforcement Powers will also cover exist ing parking tickets which carry a 12-Pound Tine. Two in five Drivers ignore their tickets bul from nest month these too will go up to in pounds after 28 Days. Drivers Given yellow tickets will have to give their Driver s License to he police on the spot or hand it in to a police station within seven Days. The License will be endorsed with inc appropriate Penally Points and returned once the Fine has been paid. If inc penalty Points then total 2 or More the offender will be reported for possible Ruvo Calion of inc License. There will he a tear off slip on each ticket which Musl be sent with inc Fine to regional fixed penalty offices. Payments can t be made across Hie counter at police stations. King meets with s. African Black Leader  Ali. Smith Africa us in Menean civil rights campaigner Cire to sum King met wednes Day Wilh n in k opposition Leader who praised her can Anu Imp decision to cancel a meeting Wenli South african president pick Hoshii the Rev. Allan Itu Cuk who had refused to meet with King until she cancelled the session with Botha said he Hacks her Deci Sion tuesday to Call Ufa the session 10 min utes after is scheduled Man. She has our support he said. King widow of assassinated civil rights Leader Martin Luther King jr., said she wants in Meei Winnie Mandela but she will wan to hear from the Black activist and Wile of jailed Black nationalist Nelson Mandela. Mandela also had threatened not to meet King if she Mei with Botha. In other developments Black schools troubled by class Boycotts and political protests opened nationwide for a final semester but Many emptied again before the lunch break reporters said. The government department of Educa Tion closed 20 schools in the Eastern Region or Cape province citing Zero registration and serious disruption of  thousands in the Black township of so octo near Johannesburg and in townships Iti Eastern Cape province left classrooms after Aboul three hours reporters said. Two Blacks were killed in racial unrest in the 24 hours ending wednesday government information officials Saiu. The killings look Llie toll to 30 in political and racial strife since Bolha imposed nationwide emergency Rule june 12 to quell n iwo year wave of violence. King new to Johannesburg from Cape town after the country s largest opposition movement the United democratic civil Raj its Leader Corella Scott Tenn South Africa nigh the Rev. A photo King holds a news Cim finc wednesday in Cape Allan Bysak United dem uralic front Leader. Front urged her to cant Al the meeting with hoi a. We would like her to know she has our support and is leaving the country with our support Loesak said after a 30-minute meeting with King Ai a hold i think it wait Wise and courageous thai mrs. King did not Sec president  said Loesak a fiery Lead Crol the 2 million member United democratic front which is seeking reforms in inc while led go Ern mini s apartheid policies of racial disc i in i nation and segregation. In cancelling the meeting with Hoxha King rued extraordinary International and local pressure on her. In Johannesburg King refused to com ment on her failure to see Bolha telling reporters she will discuss it Ai a news conference thursday before her Depar Ture for London. King also cancelled a meeting in Dur ban wednesday with moderate Zulu Leader Mang Sulho Butch Levi. Basically mrs King was exhausted said King spokesman Oldfield Dukes dismissing suggestions she bowed to pressure from Black radicals who oppose Ruthele i s moderate i Laiha political movement. He said King is interested in return ing to this country and having a More substantive meeting with Bolha my trip has been a positive learning experience and i do expect to return King had said in Cape town. King will report to congressional Law makers and Secretary of slate George Shull and. If president Reagan is inter ested in seeing her that s Fine Dukes said. American officials have said King is  on any official Mission for inc i Only government and any reports she gives to officials will be government  Many Vietnam nurses later changed specialities Newark. . A More than half those questioned in a Survey of nurses who served in Vietnam said they switched 10 other Fields of treatment after the War. Elizabeth Norman a Bulgers University ask Kiaie nursing professor found 122 army Navy and air Force nurses who Lerned in Vietnam Between 1965 and 1913 and based her study on interviews conducted from november i9h3 10 december i Jis a with the 50 from Massachusetts in Virginia who could be inter viewed easily. Of those if who were interviewed 26 changed their specialities. Some went inn obstetrics finding Hal helping new Boras was More palatable than dealing Wilh death. Some selected geriatrics because they believed it was easier to accept the death of an old person than a Young one. Of hrs focused on psychiatric nursing a departure from dealing with physical ailments. One woman went to work in a College health service on the belief thai she could help keep Young people alive. Norman Suid is is difficult to know How Many women switched specialities As a result of the War. But Only five of those surveyed left nursing and none cited the War As a reason. The 4,000 to 15,000 military nurses who served in Vietnam worked on Hospital ships evacuation planes and in Field hospitals. The autonomy under which icy worked was an abrupt change from the structured nursing environment in his country Norman Sard. Of the 50 women Norman surveyed 34 volunteered