European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 30, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 7 traffic tempers leading to murder in la. Los Angeles a it looked like a movie the Driver leaning out Hiscar window firing a gun at five youths during an argument Over right of Way in the heavy saturday night traffic that clogs Hollywood Boulevard. But the 9mm Semi Auto Marc vat real and when the shooting mopped nov. 15r 17-year-old Andrew Martinez Wai dying and 19-year-old Samue Soli was wounded in the leg. One witness said they All thought it was a joke h just did t seem legitimate that someone would open tire in the Middle of the Street said police. De Hocking. The motive he concluded this week As the gunman remained at Large was strictly. Traffic authorities in Southern California have become aware of Many incidents in which Driver behaviour has broken Down ranging from discourtesy to murder. Although extraordinary Vio Lence is still rare officials Are warning motorists to avoid confrontations particularly on clogged streets where tem pers flare holiest. Police chief Daryl f. Gates recently unleashed a blast at raffle managers comparing congestion to a catastrophic flood and saying the situation was creating an undisciplined group of Drivers and in february two bullets hit a Cit bus 10 blocks past an intersection where it had swerved to avoid a Case was never solved hut police said the near collision seemed the to live. Detective Rick Jackson is still looking for a Man who argued with iwo men alter a june 26 fender Bender on a Hollywood Street and then pulled Agun from his trunk shot one Man dead and wounded the aug. 22, Patricia Dwyer was killed by a Shotgun blast tired a the Van in which she and her husband were Rushing their son to a Hospital. Michael Dwyer said he hashed the Van s headlights at a car that pulled in front of him on the Riverside freeway East of los Angeles and slowed Down. A 26-year-old air conditioning installer has a Woun swings a Pip i Man after disagreement turned into a Brawl in los Angel Hen Dri Miv be Harlor Worrow officials. Photo pleaded innocent to a murder charge. Police Don t keep statistics on traffic violence but have seen some patterns. Most of our accidents involving fights Are relatively minor in nature and usually the fight is contained to a verbal argument or some pushing said limn spokesman for the los an Geles Headquarters of the state Highway patrol. Minor rather than major accidents Are More Littely to trigger fights he said and they Are likelier curing Rush hour in congested Urban area than out on a High Way. Temperature also changes tempera ment. We find an awful lot of argumentative confrontations that take place in heat Lunn said. Robert Yates who oversees City traffic control officers said that we re seeing a lot of gridlock therefore you Sec a lot of frustrated Drivers a tremendous change in Jackson suggested there is enough risk to make a Point of avoiding confrontations. It s just not Worth it he said. First of All their car s dangerous enough let alone their having a Scott Fraser a professor of psychology at the University of Southern Californi who studies aggression says the behaviour of most people changes when they drive. We re not suggesting that everybody who gets behind the wheel goes crazy he said. But you sure have a major alteration in a lot of individuals in terms of their sense of control Power and Heway in which they intend with others for example he said when Drivers Speed up and prevent another car from merging they arc engaged in displays of Power and control but the person who never picks out guns and shoots them is not going to grand find a gun and blow people away when they get in a car altercation. And a person who slugs people but does t go around shooting also in t going to do that he said. Fraser does t predict the unravelling of society because of uncivil Drivers but he is concerned about the level of Toler Ance of such behaviour. I would Tay this kind of behaviour in the 2toh Century is just a precursor for More trouble Down the Road he said. Year Liq air Conchi Unis i a i a a a i.ww., �.,T. Wetter colder Winter forecast for much of nation . I in Ai to atm i i it pal Finif Washington a coastal areas from Maine to Texas can expect Stormy wet weather this Winter while the South Central regions of the country Are Likely to have colder than Normal temperatures the National oceanic and atmospheric administration predicted Friday. In a Long Range forecast Noaa said that warm Pacific Ocean Waters which could be the Harbinger of another Al Nino weather phenomenon would Likely make this Winter a wet one with increased amounts of either Snow or rain in much of the country. The forecast for Stormy weather Over the next 90 Dat covered states along the great lakes and thee Maine Down to Florida and across sew Ihetu. Part of Texas and into Anwaya Noaa i 9 Klay forecast said that the chances Forrtune of i a in Elf Kaivas Illinois Keniry. Texas and Oklahoma. Flaa said there was a 60 percent Chance that the ser Ritu area would be colder than Normal la Winter. The forecast for Stormy weather was based on a widespread warming in we Pacific Ocean from the Solomon islands West of Hawaii to near the South american coast. Surface Waters in this area have been running Between 1 and 3 degrees above Normal this fall according to Noaa Long Range forecaster Donald u Gubman. While such a warming has in the past been a fore runner to an Al Nino oilman said n was too Early to say whether such a weather pattern would develop this time. The last Al Nino in 1982 through 1983, disrupted weather worldwide and was blamed for More than thousand deaths and billions of dollars in weather damage. This which occurs with warming of Pacific Ocean Waters alters weather Pat terns around the world causing problems ranging from typhoons to drought conditions. Oilman said the Waters closest to South America have not warmed up yet As they would in a typical Al Nino event. But he said the warming in the c Central Pacific was Likely to strengthen the Southern Jet Stream the airflow wowing from West to ens at High altitudes which influences weather patterns. He said these alteration had already started occurring giving use to a Wetter than Normal fall in parts of the United Stales. He said whether the extra precipitation this Winter will come in the form of rain or Snow will depend on local weather condition at the time each storm passes but he said for Many regions this will be a Winter favouring extra Sto miness and the weather patterns should provide Welcome Mois Ture to the Southeast which suffered through a severe drought this summer oilman said. The chances of Lowe than Nornal tie greatest in a. Region stretching torn Central califor Nia Northeast through the states of Nevada Southern Oregon Southern Washington Idaho Montana and pan of Wyoming Noaa said. The chances for higher than Normal temperatures this Winter were greatest in All Julea wet of the Rocky mountains except portions of Idaho Oregon and Washington the Noaa forecast in this Cowe a to Imp a T us students kept after school for using bathroom _. ". J j i. A Marir Unini id the rest allowed to ate the bathroom daring c Saginaw mieh., a the sep a school District is trying to reduce going to the bathroom and oat said May ask the american civil liberties Union to take the Issue to court. Under the policy fifth through eighth graders at the elementary and Middle schools have to stay after school for five minutes if they interrupt class to go to the bathroom. The students Bee a is minute detention if they neglect to stay to extra five , it cuts Down on the amount of traffic going to tie rest rooms elementary principal Harold Ellsworth Paul Novak said the school probably will keep the policy. What i hear is they had constant problem with Douw. One kid after another would have to do this or that Novak because of the outcry from parents the policy hat been modified. Fifth Ltd Lith Grade Hudene will be Allowe la ate the bathroom durin class twice during a marking period without having to make up tune after school Novak said. That Hunt cued the mind of Parent critical of the s inhumane hid Pat Gunther. Whose daughter Stephanie had to set after Dan or Usu a the bathroom during Das the child would rather escape the punishment. They might lit there and bold their
