European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes tuesday september 3, 1991unused area codes in Short Supply by Laura Myers the associated press Oakland Calif. A hello hello a area code crisis Quot 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 Are 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-1995, just in time to save the Day. A we do have a Short term area code crisis because we re running out but we re prepared for change a said Cynthia Lucenius Media relations manager for Bellmore which assists the nations seven regional Telephone companies. A the thing is in 1960 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  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 to 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 for 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 time making los Angeles 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 assigned 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 codes Are 210, 810, 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  sign peace plan As fighting rages on Belgrade Yugoslavia apr feuding yugoslavs on monday signed yet another peace plan aimed at halting the fighting in Croatia. It called for an immediate cease fire Independent truce monitors and a future peace conference. But it remained unclear whether the european Community plan agreed to by the collective yugoslav presidency and the six republics would succeed in halting the two months of clashes that have already claimed More than 300 lives. In the fighting serbian irregulars with the support of the Federal army have seized control of about one fourth of Croatia a territory. At least eight people were reportedly killed sunday As fighting continued to rage Between serbs and croats in the breakaway Republic which declared its Independence june 25. Dutch foreign a Inister Hans Van Den Broek president of the 12-nation european Community that brokered the latest pact said the signatories could now begin the task of securing the truce. A we now have to establish that All parties in the conflict work together with the dec monitors to secure a cease fire a he said. A but i done to believe for a moment that things will now All of a sudden become  the plan was signed by Stipe Mesic head of the eight member presidency Federal Premier Ante Mark Ovic and the presidents of the six republics. The presidency endorsed it 7-1 with Only Serbia Sally Montenegro in opposition. Key to the latest initiative was serbian president Slobodan Milosevic who gave tentative endorsement to the plan saturday under an dec ultimatum to comply by the close of the weekend or face unspecified sanctions. Several previous plans have failed. Asked if he sees real prospects now for peace Milosevic said a i Hope so. But it depends on those paramilitary troops of Croatia a if they Stop attacking serb villages we will have  Croatia a government contends that serb guerrillas backed by the Federal army and supported Milosevic a government Are responsible for the bloodshed. It accuses Serbia the largest and dominant yugoslav Republic of instigating the fighting in a drive to expand its Borders with support from the serb dominated Federal army. Serbia claims croatian authorities Are persecuting the serbian minority. It insists that the Republic cede Over its serb dominated areas if it intends to press on with secession. About 600,000 ethnic serbs live in Croatia about 12 percent of its population and Many refuse to live in an Independent Croatia. Van Den Broek would not specify a Date or a time Frame for holding a proposed International peace conference. But he said approximately 150 truce observers would be sent to Croatia along with 100 support personnel. Fifty dec monitors Are already in Slovenia to Monitor a Federal army pullout from that Republic which declared Independence in step with Croatia. Slovenia won agreement for the army withdrawal after bloody skirmishes Between its militia and Federal troops. Serbia seems willing to accept Independence by Slovenia where few ethnic serbs live Croatia and Slovenia declared Independence after Serbia refused to accept their idea of transforming the Balkan federation into a Loose association of Sovereign states. Reports from the croatian Countryside indicated fighting was still intense sunday a croatian militia officials in Darugar East of the croatian capital said four people were killed in shelling of that town by serb insurgents. A croatian Interior ministry officials also said two villagers were killed in Liski Osik an ethnic serbian town 90 Miles Southwest of the croatian capital of Zagreb in an Exchange of fire by serb insurgents and croatian units nearby. A two civilians also were killed in a mortar attack by serb rebels on Gospic a town near the Adriatic coast 90 Miles South of Zagreb croatian television said. A croatian National guardsman alms his gun from inside a shelter near the Village of  convicted including Jackson s half brother Chicago apr a millionaire businessman and a iders o six reputed leaders of a Street gang have been convicted of dealing drugs and trying to use murder to silence their rivals and witnesses. The seven including businessman Noah Robinson the half brother of the Rev. Jesse Jackson face life in prison without parole when sentenced dec. 12. A this trial took out the Day to Day Street leaders the most violent people a said assistant . Attorney William Hogan. A we eliminated the entire upper Echelon of the Al run organization. A Robinson gave them a facade of legitimacy a he said. A the Al runs were one step away from being an organization As difficult to penetrate As the  the four month trial was the third of five stemming from the 1989 indictments of 65 reputed Al run leaders which prosecutors say broke the Back of the once powerful Street gang. So far 33 of the 65 have been convicted or have pleaded guilty to various charges Hogan said. The Federal jury which deliberated three Days on sunday convicted Alt seven defendants on murder conspiracy narcotics conspiracy and other racketeering charges. Robinson and defendant Edgar Cooksey were acquitted of witness tampering charges. Jackson a non voting representative for Washington to the . Senate was not at his Chicago Home sunday and his wife declined comment. The two time democratic presidential candidate has described his relationship with his half brother As strained. Besides Robinson and Cooksey the other defendants were Jeff Boyd Andrew Craig Charles Green so my Knox and Felix Mayes. Defense a Tome Faid they would Appeal. Prosecutors said the seven were part of a conspiracy to bring Large amounts of drugs into Chicago m the Robinson mid-1980s and kill drug dealing rivals and witnesses. Several defense lawyers said their clients were convicted More for their connections with the Al runs than any specific acts. A the jury had to sit through a Long trial with All sorts of testimony about incredible violence a said Eugene of Malley Craig a attorney. A a it a very difficult for a defendant to extricate himself from the group.�?�. Robinson was convicted of conspiring to kill a business associate and a witness against the Al runs As Well As hiring Al runs to kill Leroy a Ham Bones Barber a Friend since childhood. He was also convicted of putting jailed Al run Leader Jeff fort in touch with drug dealers on the East l03sl, Robinson is appealing a felony accessory to murder conviction in South Carolina in connection with Barber s slaying. Last summer in Chicago he was convicted oni 51 counts of racketeering tax evasion fraud and other charges related to a plot to skim $650,000 from six last food restaurants he operated. F