European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 add Highway violence to Price of Paradise los Angeles a there can be & Price Tor the California dream As local residents have Learned Brash fires flood earthquakes smog and now gun slinging motor Isle. A siring of shooting and Rock throwing incidents on Southern California s High ways has shattered the sleek Tiff in Lac Tut Lane image of a culture that worships the automobile and is epitomized by the freeway i gel Goose bumps now every time someone tailgates me said deliveryman Richard Blain. They used to give you the Finger now they shoot  said commuter Susan Lundell. One Motorist seen Friday on the har Bor freeway had taped a Large hand made sign to his car trunk Reading Don t shoot All this in a City where people hop into their cars for a half Block drive to the Market and think nothing of driving 60 Miles to dinner or a show dozen Ftp vehicles including two police cars and a tour bus have been the target of random gunfire or Rock throwing on area roadways since mid june. Four people have been killed and two have been wounded a stunt Driver for the television series Dukes of hazzard became he latest victim of Roadway violence when he was shot and wounded at a traffic Light i North Hollywood saturday night. United press International reported. Henry Kingi 43, the estranged Hus band of actress Lindsay Wagner was re ported in serious condition with a gunshot wound in his Side up said. He told police he was driving with his 4-year-old son Dorian on Laurel can Yon Boulevard in North Hollywood at about t is . When the incident occurred. Up said los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates who has urged his motorcycle officers to Wear bulletproof vests called the rolling hostility a Road Warrior  predictably police arc edgy. Last week the California Highway patrol closed two freeways briefly after a Security guard spotted what he thought was a gunman armed with an Uzi sub machine gun. It turned out to be an 8-Ycar-old boy with a squirt gun. But Southern californians Cope with Brash firms earthquakes and other hazards of Paradise and they seem to be coping with Highway violence too. Some motorists Are installing Bullet proof or shatter resistant windows on their cars. Others arc rethinking the routes they Lake or the Way they drive on roadways that in Many cases arc a Sec Ond Home. I used to always take people on free ways now 1 ask a passenger if he or she would mind if i take the Side  said taxi Driver Seleshi Telahun. I Haven t honked at anyone in at least a week and if someone wants to pass me i let  said plumber Bob Wil Liams adding that he also makes a Point to look straight ahead. I m having to rethink  said Joe Molina of Woodland Hills who has garaged his by Nellcy and now drives his Lincoln because it s a lower  limousine Driver Gaius Ibe said he no longer weaves in and out of traffic explaining i would t want anyone to think i was trying to Cut them  some experts blame the Highway Vio Lence on increased congestion. As the 6_ tempers and number of drive son the Rise in los Angeles no Rafter of Lowed Drivere in los Angeles county cab Xnia Fay two year per Iorns so unit Cit Tania he Shway Parol. Cd Torria Amston of motor Vvhs Utec City s swelling populace moves farther into the suburbs the drive to and from work lakes longer and the highways get More crowded. At any Given moment an estimated 2.5 million vehicles Are travel ing on Southern California freeways. The congestion has never been worse than it is today and the potential for conflict is even greater said California Highway patrol chief Edward Gomez commander of the cup s Southern Divi up1 graphic a tall Porado 5iyn.psychologists say motor Isle develop chips on their shoulders about 45 min utes after they get into their cars. La s during Hose Rush hour limes thai you la find the highest Rale of overreact ing to minimal provocation and the amount of restraint you practice will gel lower and lower said Scott Fraser an assistant professor of psychology Ai the University of Southern California. Amnesty applications top 40,000 per week Houston not after a slow Start three months ago the nation s amnesty program for illegal aliens is gaining momentum reaching a financial break even level last month with More than 40,000 applications a week according to officials still officials of the immigration and naturalization service say the program is operating at half its Capaci  say the amnesty program is expected to reach an estimated 2 million aliens More people than critics hid pc led. But concede it is unlikely to pro Cess anywhere near the 3.9 million viewed As the upper limit of potential applicants. So far. These trends Are apparent response has differed dramatically in various parts of the country. Officials say the program is succeeding in the mexican american Barrios of Texas and California but struggling elsewhere particularly in the Northeast. So far 98 percent of the applications have been recommended for approval by i Al offices of the ins although that figure could change when final decisions Are made at regional offices which will Check for Crim Inal records or other problems. Many aliens Are not applying for fear that the immigration service will break up families in which some members arc eligible for am Nasiy and others Are not. Church and counselling centers that were sup posed to process most applications continue to is Ruggle financially and some Are considering dropping out of 50% of polled jurists Back Bork Washington not about half of the nation s judge think judge Robert k. Bark should be confirmed Asu supreme court Justice according u a poll. Fidy percent of the 405 slate and Federal judges interviewed for the poll said that if they were in the . Senate they would vow to confirm Bork presi Dent Reagan s Choice to fill a vacancy left by the Resig nation of Uslick Lewis f. Powell or. Twenty four per cent were opposed and the rest had no  the poll conducted by Penn & Schoen associates of new York an opinion research firm 348 state indie and s7 Federal District and appeals court judge were questioned by Telephone in mid july two weeks after Dork we nominated. The margin of sampling error wat plus or minus five percentage Points. The researchers reported a wide Range of views on several issues related to the debate Over Bork. These included abortion the role a court nominee s political philosophy should play in confirmation and the importance of the intent of the framers of the Constitution in modern judicial decisions. Dork has said the supreme court veto too far in Roe is. Wade the 1973 decision that women have a constitutional right to  poll found that 38 percent of the judges support a woman s right to have an abortion. But Only 44 per cent believe hat Roe is. Wade was correctly decided seventeen percent said the Case was incorrectly decided and should be overturned. Eighteen percent said that All Hough the Case was incorrectly decided it should not be overturned because of the courts insistence on following the precedent of past decisions. The poll found the judges about evenly divided Over whether the Senate should consider a judicial Nomi Nee s political philosophy in confirming appointments. Forty eight percent said that philosophy should not be a Factor while 46 percent said it  question of political philosophy has become Cen tra to us Bork nomination because Powell had had a key swing vote on the court. Liberals have voiced concern thai Bork who is considered a conservative Jurist would move the court much farther to the right another Issue Likely to be raised in confirmation hearings on Bort s nomination is whether judges in constitutional interpretation should adhere to the in tent of the Constitution s framers. Bork has Long been a Leader in saying they  9 percent of the judges queried in the poll strongly agree with this doctrine which has also a ? us Agi a �"�.�. Disagree and 4 percent Don t  according to the polling results Justice William j. Brennan jr., is the most admired member of the super nil court named by 22 percent of the judges. The program. The government s advertising Campaign Inu need to educate the Public about the immigration Law is Only now getting started three months after the pro Gram began. But despite widespread scepticism before the pro Gram began illegal aliens and immigration officials until Only recently the hunted and the Hunters see to be slowly building enough Trust to allay the worst  Law signed by president Reagan last november after years of debate Over the nation s immigration policies offers Legal status to illegal aliens who have resided in the United Stales continuously since before Jan. 1, 1982. The amnesty program began last May s. With the application period to last a year. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. ,. Aug. 4, 1947 Hub Nus Van Mook gov Moi general of Indonesia ordered dutch troops to to ase fire at Midnight aug. 5 in compliance with a . Security Council request. Van Mook said the nether lands government fell there was no ground for . Intervention but was complying with its request. 30 years ago today. Aug. 4, 1957 yugoslavian president Trio and Soviel communist party Secretary Nikita s. Khrushchev met for two Days in Romania and agreed on Concrete forms of  20 years ago foday. Aug. 4,1967 president Johnson asked Congress to impose a temporary 10 percent surcharge on mid visual and corporate income lanes to meet the mount ing costs of the Vietnam War. 0 years ago today. Aug. 4,1977 archbishop Makarios president of Cyprus since its Independence in August i960, died of a heart attack