European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes Friday. April 8,1988 dashboard video screen offers uncontested route Sacramento Calif. A Relief May be in sight for frustrated int ruts trapped in California s famously congested Highway in sight on a dash Board video Kucen. As pan of a Pilot traffic management program unveiled wednesday by the slate department of transportation the devices will Alert Drivers to Road congas lion and traffic acid cols on Clr Climic Road maps displayed on the dash the sophisticated devices which transportation officials used last year o help Monitor traffic during pop John Paul irs visit of los Angeles will then help motorists Snake heir Way around traffic problems by flashing alternate routes on thu screen. Epa decision on benzene draws Sharp criticism Washington a the environmental Protection age qty intends to reaffirm an air pollution Standard Tor bin june. A known cause of cart car but critics Lay the proposal could subject exposed people to j 0 times the risk the Agency normally considers acceptable. A memorandum from Epa administrator acc m. Thomas made available wednesday said Hie Agency would not propose further regulations for benzene equipment leaks which probably subject the most in posed individual to conc in 1,000 risk or leukaemia. The memo called on Agency officials to draft regulations essentially reaffirming the Agency s 1984 Deci Sions not to regulate benzene expo sure from he Manu facture of  and Styrene storage of bin Fite in tanks and the manufacture or Malcic any hydride but to impose regulations on Coke oven emissions and equipment leaks in chemical plants and refineries. Reagan proclaims april 8 a Day for sex sen. Chavez Santa Barbara. Calif. A president Reagan signed legislation proclaiming april 3 As Dennis Chavez Day to Mark the 100th anniversary of Ilie birth of the first native born hispanic elected to the . Senate. A Tiigran called on All americans to join in saluting the memory of this Public servant who left school As a child to help support his family and went on to become a lawyer stale representative . Congressman and .  As a senator Dennis Chavez chaired the commit tee on Public Worts and served on the defense appropriations  the proclamation said. He sought the Well being of every american and displayed lasting concern for those in  Boston University files suit to retain King documents Boston a Boston University declaring thai it owns Ali of Martin Luther King or s papers has asked a court to order the widow of the slain civil rights a adar to surrender the documents to the school. Thi University made the demand wednesday in a  in filed in response to Coritta Scoll King s suit seeking the return of 83.000 documents her husband gave inc school Foury cars before his death. By trustee Mclvin b. Miller whose Law firm is de fending the University in he suit refused comment on the Case and Jim o Brien one of mrs King s lawyers said he had not reviewed inc University s counterclaim. Empty commuter trains collide tit mangled wreckage of two commuter trains us on the tracks in mount Vernon , Ift Cowie empty inn slammed into inc Bek at another empty train during wednesday s morning Rush hour Kili Hig Railroad end Neer injuring two other Worken and shutting Down inc new Plaien line which handles 18,900 commuters each morning. Commuters were transported by inn co Heather train Baulkm which was Tut affected by inc Acri Jenl a metro North spokesman said it look More than an hour  missile destruction would save . $1.7 billion Gao says Washington a destruction of . Medium Range misses under the new .-soviet nuclear arms reduction treaty will save inc Pentagon about si.7 billion through the fall of 1995, inc Genera accounting office reported wednesday. The savings will occur because the Pentagon will no longer need to maintain its for Shine and ground launched cruise Iii file Force in Western Europe the Gao said. Money will also be saved on associated costs for military personnel procurement and construction of housing for military family members it said. Army officials told us that some of the equipment procured under inc per swing ii program would not be subject to treaty limitation and would therefore be available for use in other army units the Gao said. It a d this include radios trucks generators tool kit and other support equipment whose total value is unclear. The air Force it said has identified More than Jiso million in equipment thai will be reused and about Iso million in funding that will be recovered because of project cancellations. For example the Gao quoted air Force officials As saying thai 76 launch control Comers valued at about j6 million each for a total 1456 million will be reused. And it said about $114 million Worth of missile components produced under existing air Force con tracts will be made available to the Navy for its sea launched cruise missile program. The air Force also expects to recover about 140 million to j5s million in previously approved military construction funds according to inc Gao. The treaty would require the United Stales to de stroy a total of 557 medium Range missiles while the soviet Union wot id be required to eliminate some  weapons. The . Missiles to be destroyed Over a j6-Monlh period beginning alter he pact is ratified by the Senate include 178 penning us 247 penning los and 442 ground launched cause missiles together with their launcher and certain support and training equipment. The costs of actually destroying the weapons Are  and will be provided separately to members of Congress the Agency said. The Pentagon spent a total so. 5 billion for the per Shing ii and ground launched cruise missile by items the Gao said including i2.fi billion Tor the penning and 13.45 billion for the cruise Miu Iles. Those totals include the costs of research and development procurement military construction and mis Sile modification. Senate debate on the treaty is expected to begin Lite this month or in Early May. Man found guilty in attempted contract murder Brownsville Telaj a a Man was found guilty wednesday of Federal charges that he masterminded an attempted contract murder initiated by a Soldier of Fortune advertisement. Jurors in Federal court deliberated for about Ivi hours before reaching the verdict against Richard Michael Savage. Savage j9, was accused of arranging attempts on the life of Colorado businessman Dana i rce including the oct. 12, 1985, grenade bombing of a Houston area Home through a gun for hire and he placed in the june 1985 Issue of the military Miga Jine. Free tit aped that attack and to previous attempts in Atlanta cia., Labomb his car. The trial Akcan monday and prosecutors rested their Case wednesday. Defense attorneys did not Call any witnesses. Court appointed defense attorney Michael Brown said he disc not to present testimony because of Sav age s prior criminal convictions and a similar trial he still fac s in Georgia. "1 had to do that to keep other extremely harmful evidence from coming in. Drown said adding he plans to Challenge one of the counts in the Federal indictment he believes is redundant. . District judge James  set sentencing for May 20. The evidence was overwhelming Ucanda lot the jury after the verdict was returned. Savage of know Villa tnn., was indicted in octo Ber 1936 on Federal charges that he accepted $20,000 from 3 Colorado woman Alice v. Dorado to arrange the death of free who he claimed Alki added with her i300,000 life savings. Brado pleaded guilty and died while serving a five year prison term in Kentucky. Three other people named along with Brado and Savage in the indictment also pleaded guilty. Charges against Savage included conspiracy to transport explosives interstate travelling interstate to facilitate a murder inducing others to travel inter till to commit murder sending Money Orden via wire interstate and using a firearm in � crime of violence assistant . Attorneys Gary cobe said Savage could receive As much As 40 years in prison and find totalling s1. S million. Savage already is Irving a 40-year Florida state prison inti for arranging the beating death of the for Mer assistant City manager of West Palm Beach fit in an attack arranged through a Soldier of Fortune advertisement. He also has been sentenced to 2 years in a Federal prison for an Arkansas conviction Tor at tempted murder far hire and threatening a witness Savage s trial was moved front Houston because of publicity from an unrelated civil suit in which jury in Houston found Colorado based Soldier of Fortune negligent and awarded 59.4 million to it family of a woman killed in a contract allegedly arranged through an advertisement