European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the sta8s and stripes wednesday May 15, 1991 judge backs . Council reverses Gates suspension los Angeles apr a judge reversed the 60-Day suspension of police chief Daryl f. Gates Oyer the videotaped beating of a Motorist resolving a at least for now a a struggle inside City Hall for control of the police department. Quot Superior court judge Ronald Sohigian on monday upheld a City Council Man Euver aimed at reversing the suspension handed out by the police commission. The judge reached his decision after several Days of arguments on the Powers of the City Council measured against the authority of the civilian police commission whose members Are appointed by mayor Tom Bradley Bradley said he was a shocked and dismayed by the ruling and expects the police commission to Appeal. Quot the decision cuts the heart out of the City charter a the mayor said. A it has to be  Gates who had returned to work within Days of the april 4 suspension under a temporary court order said he was delighted by the ruling. A Tihe Board of police commissioners did Whai i thought was improper. There was no due process and 1 challenged that a the chief said. 1 he commission wanted Gates out of Otyce during an investigation into the beating of Rodney King by police on a March 3 traffic Stop. But the City Council agreed to reinstate Gates if be dropped a lawsuit challenging his suspension. Sohigian concluded that the City Council had the final say because the matter involved a lawsuit and the City charter gives the Council dominance in matters involving litigation. Unless there is an Appeal the ruling permanently reverses the suspension. The beating captured on videotape by a bystander has cd to several investigations and  of police brutality nationwide. It also prompted Calls for the resignation of Gates wed has civil service Protection and cannot be removed by the mayor. In a different courtroom monday the four police officers charged with assault and Hru tasty m the Case told a judge Why they want separate trials. A each defendant is now in the position of pointing the Finger at the other a judge Bernard Kaimins said he made no immediate decision. The trial Olst. Stacey Koon and officers Laurence Powell Theodore Briseno and Timothy wind is on hold while the judge rules on several motions and Koon recovers from pneumonia. Whew its barely bearable a hot humid weather can get the Best of even native oklahoman but its especially Tough if you come from cooler clinics a just ask these Polar bears at the zoo in Tulsa. Sundays High of 90 degrees tied a record for Tulsa that was set in .1911, and continued muggy weather is forecast for the rest of the week. Washington apr branding double and triple Lac nth trucks a a Highway menace a two senators introduced legislation monday to ban their spread beyond the 20 states where they now operate. Sens. Frank Lautenberg , and John Chafee r-r.i., said they will seek to include the ban in the surface transportation Bill now under consideration. The two senators disputed testimony by Thomas Donahue president of the american trucking associations that longer trucks such As triple 2s-foot trailers or twin 48-foot trailers Are safer than any other vehicles now on the  these trucks can be As Long As 120 feet and weigh As much As 130,000 pounds a Lautenberg said. A it s kind of scary when these Guys Are bearing Down on  under the legislation states that have opened their roads to double and triple a longer combination vehicles would be allowed to continue that use. A a we re not taking anything away from anyone a Cha fee said. States now permitting the use of one or another combination of double and triple trucks Are Alaska Arizona Colorado Florida Idaho Indiana Kansas Massachusetts. Montana Nebraska Nevada new York North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington and Wyoming. The Lautenberg Chafee measure won the Quick endorsement of a Broad coalition of safety consumer and environmental groups. These include the american automobile association which said its members a consistently express outrage that they might he forced to share the Road with even larger and heavier  shuttle launch scheduled for May 22 from Wurr report space Center. Houston Nasa mid monday it will try to launch the shuttle Columbia on Mav 22 with seven astronauts who will conduct medical tests on one another to gauge human adaptation to space the shuttle also will Curry 30 rats and 2.400 tiny Young jellyfish that will be observed during the nine Day scientific research Mission. Mission managers set the launch Date follow ing a Daylong meeting at Kennedy space enter in Florida. The  the 8 . Edi ii Toff begins saturday. It will he the 41st flight of a shuttle and the first one since 1985 to use the spa celeb module a Laboratory that fits in the cargo Bay. The Astro nauts will float through a Tunnel from the mid deck to the module. It also will be the first space lab Mission devoted entirely to life sciences  find in new York City new York a found in new York City one Hoar 450 pounds coarse Brown hair with Black markings cats continuously. Animal welfare officials were hoping monday to locate the owner of the animal found wandering in an Industrial Park in the Borough of Staten Island late sunday. �?o1 jews Well fed which makes to think he a been kept by somebody and gotten Loose somehow a said Georg Watford vice president of a shelter run by the american society for the pre Ven lion of cruelty to animals. Watford said the boar was put in a Large pen and will stay at the Asp a shelter a few Days until its owner comes Forward or a suitable new Home is found. Cicada hours d oeuvres Huntington . A the cicadas that emerge every 17 years Are repulsive to some peo pie but Douglass Miller finds the big Brown insects with big red eyes appetizing. A my daughter brought her Date Here for supper before t he prom and i served the or As hours do oeuvres a Miller said. A and they ate them. A a it a a wonderful Way to get protein.�?�, Miller has experimented tossing cicadas into ome lets Taos salads and stir Fry dishes he say they taste like shrimp. Cicadas usually live underground in a larvae like Nymph stage and emerge every 17 years to mate. This is the year in Western West Virginia and parts of Eastern Kentucky and Southeastern Ohio. A a a student goes on rampage grand Prairie Texas a seventh grader upset Over being disciplined fired shots at. An assistant principal and briefly held a teacher hostage before surrendering about three hours later Oili Euls said. Nobody was injured. About 800 other Jackson Middle school students were evacuated to the gym of a nearby High school while police negotiated with the boy i he standoff began in the morning when the student was sent to the assistant principals office because he was found with matches said Katherine Oates of the grand Prairie Independent school District. The student earlier had been sent to an alter native school for setting fire to a restroom she said. A a when the students Mother came to school to talk to the principal the student slipped away and returned with a .22-caliber pistol. He had a list of enemies and had told other students that he planned to take action against them said Rick White grand Prairie Deputy police chief. 3 to students spotted the gun and alerted and Mist raptors Oates said. The assistant principal slammed the door to her office before two shots were fired at her Oates said. History teacher Chuck Harris volunteered to talk with the youth and was held hostage for about an hour in the administrative office area. Harris said the student never pointed the gun at him. The boy released Harris but did not surrender to police until More than an hts amp a later we Hen he up d9wn his gun and walked into a hallway. Police were expected to file attempted murder charges