European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 c the stars and stripes tuesday september 3, 1991unused area codes in Short Supply by Laura Myers the associated press Oakland Calif. Hello hello a area code crisis calling. But done to hang up. There is a solution. With California having split the san Francisco Bay area code monday a the first of three planned divisions in the states near future a Only five unused area codes arc left for the rest of North America. However a revised area code system adding 640 authorized three digit area codes to the existing 152 is due in mid 1905, just in time to save the Day. A a we do have a Short term area code crisis because we re running out but a a we re prepared for change Quot Aid Cynthia Lucenius Media relations manager for Bellmore which assists the nations seven regional Telephone companies. A the thing is in i960 or even 1970 no one really envisioned this problem. Now a lot of Homes have two phone lines and new businesses open and. Of course All the new technology is taking up the Access lines a she said. Blame it on population growth and 30 million californians love affair with the Telephone facsimile machines pagers and computers that have voracious appetites for Telephone Access lines. A people have phones at Home at the office in their car and they carry them around now a said Pacific Belles Paul Hirsch who oversees californians area code changes. A they can t get away from  California which got its first area. Code for los Angeles a 213 a in 1947, has a record 10 area codes but soon will break the Mark again with a total of 13. More than two dozen states have Only one area code. In the san Francisco Bay area communities East of the Inlet a Oakland. Berkeley and All of Contra Costa and Alameda counties a will switch from the 415 area code to 510, nicknamed the  the last 415 split came in 1959 when 408 was created Lor the san Jose area. Pacific Bell is allowing a five month Grace period through Jan. 26 for people to get used to the change so both 510 and 415 area codes will get through. A recording will warn callers that the old codes time is up. On nov. 2 in Southern California the 213 area code will split for the third Lime snaking a of angles the Only City with three area codes. Areas to the South and West of downtown los Angeles and Hollywood will become 310. The area North of los Angeles was As signed the 818 area code in 1984. In november 1992, the 714 area code for Orange county and parts of san Diego county will split. A new 909 area code will cover Western and Central Riverside county san Bernardino county and Eastern los Angeles county Pacific Bell says. Elsewhere in the nation. Maryland will split Down the Middle with the Western half keeping 301 and the Baltimore area becoming 410. And in new York City the Telephone company expects to create a 917 area code sometimes in 1993 to overlap some parts of Manhattan now 212. Bellmore says the five unused area Sirp 7to, xjd_.910_706�?and 905. The last two just imported from South of the Border where they were used for foreign Access until a recent Mexico dealing change. Fighting flares in Yugoslavia despite signing of peace plan Belgrade Yugoslavia up a sporadic fighting flared in the breakaway Republic of Croatia on monday despite a european Community brokered peace plan signed hours earlier by Yugoslavia a leaders to Stop the escalating civil War. The serbian dominated yugoslav army serbian guerrillas and croatian National guard and police forces fought a midday Battle in the croatian held town of Pelrin a 35 Miles Southeast of the Republic s capital Zagreb army officials said. The croatian state run Zagreb radio said the Federal army opened fire first and croatian forces responded. The yugoslav army Barracks in Petrinjak was attacked by mortar fire and the military responded with Strong machine gun and Cannon fire. One Federal army Soldier was wounded during the fighting an army officer of the Petrinjak Garrison said. Fighting was again reported in the area of the croatian held town of Vukovan pm Miles Northwest of Belgrade. Zagreb radio said one person was killed and at least five wounded. After hours of diplomatic wrangling that began late sunday Serbia the largest and most dominant of Yugoslavia a six republics yielded on its refusal to admit foreign observers in Croatia. That opened the Way for signing the dec peace documents in Belgrade s Feder at Ion Palace shortly after 1 . Monday. The signing of the documents was seen As a first step toward the truce and an Etc brokered peace conference on the future of the multiethnic federation of 23 million people. Dutch foreign minister Hans Van Den Brock representing the dec signed a memorandum on deploying exp monitors in Croatia to jointly Monitor the truce along with observer groups from the a yugoslav army croatian forces and representative of serbian people in Croatia that Are involved in  a now it is most important that the cease fire is implemented in Croatia and then we can easily Send in our monitoring groups a Van Den Broek told reporters. He said the dec would Send about 150 civilian observers to join those who arrived in Slovenia in july to Monitor a truce there after a we Klong Battles Between the Federal army and the slovenian militia. Slovenia and Croatia fearing serbian domination declared their Independence on june 25, triggering ethnic strife that is now limited to Croatia. Feuding ethnic leaders cautiously welcomed the signing of the truce documents. A had such a declaration been signed at some other place in some other county there would have been a state of euphoria a said Alija Lee Begovic the Muslim president of the Bosnia Hercegovina Republic. A but in our country there is no such excitement of course because we have to Wail and see in the coming Days How the signed documents will be  Serbia a communist president Slobodan Milosevic said a significant Progress had been made he welcomed the fact that serbian people in Croatia were a internationally recognized when the dec memorandum said they will be included in monitoring groups and that dec observers would include Only civilians As his Republic had requested. A for Croatia it is important that the dec declaration docs not recognize any change of Borders any forcible solutions to problems in Croatia and Yugoslavia a croatian president Franjo Tadjman told reporters in Zagreb 250 Miles West of Belgrade dec foreign ministers were to meet in the Hague Netherlands today to discuss convening the peace conference officials said. A croatian National guardsman Aims his gun from inside a shelter near the Village of  at Sudan Airfield hurts Relief plane Crew Khartoum. Sudan a an explosion at an Airfield in War torn Southern Sudan heavily damaged a red Cross Relief plane As it prepared to take off monday and injured its Crew of four americans and a briton Relief officials said. Trevor Page Khartoum representative of . World food program said one Man was seriously injured. Red Cross officials refused to give the nationality of that Man or the names of any victims. It was unclear what effect the incident would have on flights for operation Eife line Sudan a red Cross Relief Effort coordinated by the United nations . Relief operations were suspended sunday when the government had failed to Issue monthly License renewals for the flights. The suspension had not affected red Cross flights. But the government renewed approval monday for the . Flights and Page said the suspension would be lifted tuesday. One Crew member Lay near death for hours at the regional capital of Wau before the United nations obtained rebel and government permission to Fly the injured Crew to the capital for treatment. Page said. Rebel permission for the flight was necessary because leaders of the Sudan Peoples liberation army have vowed to shoot Down aircraft using airspace Over rebel held territory w without approval. Wau a government enclave in territory mostly controlled by the rebels is the capital of Bahrel Ghazal province 62 1 Miles Southwest of Khartoum. The Hercules c-130 plane chartered by the red Cross had delivered 80 tons of medical and Relief materials to refugees in Wau and was taking off w Hen the Early morning explosion occurred. A initial reports we received from our Crew in the area say it was a land mine a Page said. An Otti Ciul of the Swiss based International committee of the red Cross said the cause of the blast was unknown. The official who spoke on condition of anonymity in Khartoum said the plane was partially destroyed. The official in Khartoum refused to give details on the Crew members besides nationalities. He said one red Cross plane and one . Plane would take the victims to the capital. At least two passenger planes and one other red Cross aircraft have been shot Down in Sudan since 1986. Close to 100 people died in the downed planes. Page said his office coordinated efforts with the Sudan Relief and rehabilitation association the rebel army s Relief Wing and the governments sudanese Relief and rehabilitation commissioner. The 8-year-old civil War has displaced people into refugee Camps in areas such As Wau. Wide areas of land have been left untitled exacerbating a famine that has killed hundreds of thousands of people during the War years. It. Gen Omar Hassan Elbashir a military government has accused the Sudan Peoples liberation army of using Relief goods to feed their fighters. In Geneva the league of red Cross and red Crescent societies on monday appealed for $4.4 million to pay for distribution of 26,000 tons of food to 450,000 people in southwestern Kordofan province