European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday tuesday july 4/5,1988 weather experts know it s dry but not Why Washington a meteorologists know that a stalled High pressure system and a split Jet Stream Are Caus ing the drought in Middle America but they Are at a loss to explain Why the Phenomena occurred and when they might end. In a High pressure system also known As an Anticyclone dry air gradually descends toward the ground an moves in a clockwise pattern around the Center. It is the opposite of a Cyclone where rising moist counterclockwise winds promote the development of Clouds and thus rain. As followers of newspaper weather maps and broadcast reports know America s changing weather pattern generally consists of a series of highs and lows Anticyclones and cyclones marching across the country from West to East. That pattern is stalled has been for month or More and is Likely to stay stalled according to Donald l. Oil Man head of the Long Range predictions group at the National weather service. In Normal times the highs and lows and their accompanying weather fronts Are steered across the nation by Strong High Altitude winds known As the Jet Stream. Tearing across the nation s Middle and Southern sections in Winter these winds pull along the major storms that Many people dread. When warm summer weather comes the Jet Stream usually edges to the  it brings in moisture from the Pacific Northwest while at the same Tim helping pull storms North into the nation s Middle from the Gulf of Mexico. Not so this year oilman said. The Jet Stream has split in two. On Stream is sweeping to the North in can Ada steering Pacific storms North of the farm Belt. The second is moving across just South of the United states blocking Gulf storms from Corning North. And trapped in the Middle is that dismally warm and sunny Anticyclone. This split is not a rare event if you a photo a Lone Bovine looking somewhat forlorn Bellows its disapproval while standing on the baked mud of a dried up Marsh in sergeant Bluff Iowa. Define rare As something that almost it May simply be part of the natural Sabol of the climate analysis Center. Even determining whether the High caused the Jet Stream to split or the split Jet Stream trapped the High is difficult Livezey said. At any rate the two work together. The High blocks the movement of storms into the farm Belt while the Jet Stream guides them around it. Once that pattern starts the hot dry weather tends to Worsen and reinforce itself said Vernon e. Kousky also of the climate analysis Center. Everybody has Felt the Cooling sensation when water evaporates after they get out of the Ocean or a Pool he sex  the same Way if you have wet ground some of the solar radiation issued to evaporate water the area is kept cooler and this is Good for Man and plants As  the drought however has reduce ground moisture. Without the Cooling of evaporation and the Clouds that the evaporated water might eventually form the weather can get hotter and hotter. You might Call it a drought feed Back mechanism. It tends to perpetuate itself Kousky said. When it will end no one is willing to say. There is no Normal lifetime of drought. They can last from several months to years the National weather service noted in a statement on the drought. Unfortunately reliable predictions of the drought s end its geographic spread or changes in severity cannot be made today the service said. In his Long Range forecast oilman predicts that the current weather Pat Tern will continue at least through  most intense focus of the drought never happens. But it s not frequent variability of the atmosphere he said. May Drift to the East and South in the either said Robert Livezey an Asso at any rate the meteorologists Aren t next three m0nths, he  a /"l.1nrf a 1a f.-1a-nl Minto a �kn/4r to Ikno it 4n onto Onam if cite of oilman s at the Federal climate analysis Center. Can he say Why it occurs unfortunately not. The processes which Lead to this sort of event Aren t Well understood right now Livezey said. Ready to attribute it to any specific but the pattern of rainfall behind it cause. Win be spotty he said with Only the that s one of the problems in by Western parts of the great Plains Likely Namica meteorology that we re still to see much increase in rain through working on. I Gunny out How these the end of september. Whether that patterns occur is one of the keys to will be in time to save threatened crops Long Range forecasting said Paul remains to be seen. Building jails called cheaper than freeing prisoners Washington a it s cheaper to build new prisons and jails than to relieve overcrowding in penal facilities by releasing repeat offenders a Justice department study concluded sunday. The Cost of building a new cell and maintaining a prisoner in it is just $25,000 a year according to the study by the department s National Institute of Justice. The study said that new crimes committed by re leased prisoners Cost society an estimated $430,000 a year in victim losses police and court work and Pri vate Security expenses. The study of 2,190 inmates in California Michigan and Texas said that each repeat offender Given Early re lease committed an average of 187 crimes a year. The Institute treated each drug Deal As a separate crime. Public debate has mistakenly focused on the Cost of imprisonment compared with the Cost of probation said James k. Stewart the Institute s director. The Correct Way to look at the Issue is to compare the costs of imprisonment to probation costs plus the costs of crime to the individual victim and to the Community he said. The Institute said sentencing 1,000 additional of fenders to prison annually would have required spend ing of about $25 million a year but would have averted187,000 felonies that Cost society a total of $430 Mil lion. Confinement is not too expensive when weighed against the Price of crimes that would otherwise be prevented by incapacitation Stewart said. One half the 2,190 prisoners said they had committed fewer than 15 crimes a year. Twenty five per cent said they committed More than 135 crimes and 10 percent said they committed More than 600. The study concluded that $8.6 billion Cost of operating the nation s prisons and jails in 1983 was just one tenth the Overall Cost of crime to society. The study said beyond the costs of incarceration the Bill for other criminal Justice programs such As police courts and probation ran about $25 billion in 1983.also included in the total costs of crime to society were $35 billion in victim losses and $31 billion spent on private Security to Avert crime. War hero facing deportation Hopes for amnesty Hartford Conn. A Fred Jackson a decorated Vietnam War vet eran planned to join his buddies in Washington on july fourth but he might not be Able to make the trip again. The government is trying to Deport him. Jackson an immigrant from Scotland who volunteered for a hitch in Vietnam even though he was t a . Citizen knows the . Immigration and naturalization service has a Strong Case. He s had 21 felony convictions and spent six years in a Florida prison for armed Rob Bery since he left the army in 1970. But the 39-year-old Jackson believes his troubles can be traced to Post traumatic stress disorder and he Hopes an immigration judge takes that int consideration at his july 21 deportation hearing. He said the disorder which has been found in Vietnam veterans and victims of violent crimes led him to heavy drug and alcohol abuse to escape flashbacks of terrifying ambushes and fire fights from his nine months in Vietnam. Jackson wearing his Silver Star his Bronze stars and two purple hearts staged a Small demonstration with family and friends outside the Federal building Here Friday before heading for washing ton to join other veterans at the Vietnam War memorial. He insists he s not bitter and would enlist again although some of his friends said he is getting a raw Deal. There was a War going on and i thought i had an obligation to defend the country i was living in said Jackson a slight Man with a Wispy Mustache and Arash of Blue tattoos on both arms. I love this country said Jackson who Speaks with a Trace of an accent. I d go Back to Vietnam again in a heart beat. I d do it All  Jackson his wife their baby and Deryoung son live in a Tough housing project in Norwich on $628-a-month disability payments from the army. He will soon begin treatment at a Post traumatic stress unit at the veterans administration medical Center in Northampton mass. John Weiss officer in charge of theirs office in Hartford said that resident aliens who have been convicted of two crimes involving moral turpitude Are subject to deportation but he would not comment on Jackson s Case. Robert d. Money of the International Institute of Connecticut inc., Jackson Slegal representative said he believes there is a Good Chance Jackson will bellowed to stay and Jackson s supporters said he deserves amnesty. Here s a Man that volunteered to serve that did t have to said Alfred Hill a Vietnam Veteran and neighbor. He was willing to give up his life for his country. Why should he All of a sudden be kicked out