European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 3, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 Road hazardous for illegal aliens will reopen san  and a a a. A san Diego apr an Experiment aimed at preventing the deaths of illegal aliens by closing four lanes of a dangerous freeway near the Border has failed state transportation said. The lanes will be reopened within two weeks said Jesus Garcia District director for the state department of transportation. A in spite of this very Noble intent to improve safety to save lives the project created a number of problems that we did not anticipate Quot Garcia said Friday. Four Middle lanes of the eight Lane Highway were closed and the median was expanded july 12 in an $88,000 attempt to keep undocumented migrants from being killed when they run across the Road. The migrants Dart through traffic to evade . Border patrol agents who have been ordered to stay off the median for their own safety and to keep from frightening migrants into traffic. The Lane closures slowed Down traffic and gave migrants who often misjudge the Speed of traffic on american highways a Shorter distance to run. Twenty two illegal aliens were killed in traffic during the last 18 months when they tried to Cross the Highway. Two of them died after the median was expanded. The two latest deaths helped fuel a backlash by Law enforcement officials and local politicians who said the expanded median Drew More migrants Many of them drug smugglers to the freeway. Garcia said the state now will erect a 10-foot, wire mesh Fence in the median. Before the lanes were closed an average of my people a Day ran out onto the median said Steven p. Kean. Border patrol spokesman. After the median expansion. 1,200 people crossed on an average Day. Kean said. Quot the presence of so Many More pedestrians in the median obviously that could provide More Opportunity More exposure to accidents Quot Garcia said. Hispanic activists were angered by fridays announcement saying Garcia and Cal trans had ignored their recommendations and succumbed to pressure Freiji Border patrol officials. Time after time after time design Engineer Joe Lombardo of Hudson mass., makes an adjustment on a big illuminated clock at the electric time co. In Medfield mass. The three clocks will be installed in an Orlando Fla., shopping mall.n.y7 cop charged with mugging robbing woman by Seth Faisonjr. The new York times new York the crime was Ordinary. The suspect was anything but a 70-year-old woman was mugged on Friday night by a Man who grabbed her pocketbook As she returned to her Home in the Bay Ridge Section of Brooklyn. The Man police said sunday was a police officer. The officer James Carey 3b, was arraigned sunday Oil charges of second degree robbery and second degree assault. A nine year Veteran of the police Force he was off duty at the time of the incident the police said. Residents of the quiet neighbourhood were stunned by the incident. Quot if an old lady can gel mugged by a cop then who is Safe Quot asked Augustine Gabriel 82, who has for the last 12 years lived a few blocks from where the incident took place. The crime occurred Friday evening at 8 10 in front of a bakery As the woman. Lucy Devito headed Home from a visit to the four seasons stylist a few blocks away. Police gave this account of the incident driving his wife a car Carey pulled up alongside the victim jumped out and grabbed her pocketbook which was under her Arm. Devito resisted and was pushed to the ground As she struggled with the assailant she suffered scratches and abrasions to her hip Back arms and hands but was not hospitalized. A neighbor saw the cards License number and reported it to police along with a Brief description of the  Hope it s time to debate their ideas Chicago apr society digests new ideas in three phases says libertarian party member Jon Kalb. First they re ridiculed then debated and finally accepted. The libertarians believe they have got past the ridicule phase. �?o1 think we re in the phase where our ideas Are starting to be debated and i think people who consider our ideas with an open mind Are starting to accept them a Kalb said at the party a presidential nominating convention which continued through sunday. Acceptance is the most libertarians dare Hope for in 1992. They acknowledge that their presidential nominee Andre Marrou hardly stands a Chance. With the democrats in disarray 14 months before the election president Bush looks like a shoo in for another term said Delegate Dottie Lou Brokaw of Woodstock . A to say otherwise would be silly a she said. But like Many members of the country a third largest political party Brokaw was confident of winning converts next year. The libertarians Hope to be on the ballot in every state and say they expect to get a lot of anti Bush votes from people who see no significant difference be tween the gop and the democrats. The platform of the 20-year-old libertarian party is radically different from those of the major parties. Libertarians advocate personal Freedom and voluntary cooperation. They oppose taxes and regulation and see National defense As the Federal governments main function. Several convention speakers said they favored making All drugs Legal under the libertarian View that the government should let people make their own mistakes. The four Day convention was attended by 453 delegates from All 50 states a mostly White men in their 30s and 40s. Gary d. Mcgath of Penacook n.h., said he was splitting his time Between the libertarian convention and the world science fiction convention at another hotel. A a there a a lot of overlap Between the libertarians and the Sci i people a he said. A a they re both interested in the future new possibilities the  the libertarian party founded in 1971 in Colorado met its greatest Success in the 1980 election when a ticket headed by Edward Clark received 921,000 Voles. I he party a j988 ticket headed by Ron Paul garnered 430,000 votes compared with 47.9 million for the Bush Quayle ticket. Lutherans vote 5 times to elect a vice president Orlando Fla. Apr lutherans on sunday elected two Church officers in sharply contrasting fashions. The Church Secretary was selected quickly and overwhelmingly. The vice president won by single vote after repeated balloting. The Rev. Lowell g. Almen Secretary of the evangelical lutheran Church in America since it was formed through a merger four years ago was swept into office for another four years on a first ballot. It took five ballots Over three Days at the churches National Assembly to elect the vice president Kathy Magnus of Denver to the four year term. She won by a single vote beating Sylvia j. Pate interim director of the denominations commission for women. She succeeds Christine Grumm who is resigning to take a Post with the lutheran world federation in Geneva Switzerland. Magnus who has been assistant to the Bishop of the Church s Rocky Mountain Synod in Denver will work at the Chicago Headquarters of the 5.2 million member denomination. Delegates on sunday adopted resolutions calling for Protection of the environment and asking the soviet Union for an accounting of Raoul Wallenberg a swedish lutheran who saved thousands of jews in Hungary during world War ii. He disappeared into russian custody in 1945. If they weren to visiting local churches or Walt Disney world delegates spent the remainder of a Short business session sunday hearing reports from the churches 29 colleges and getting briefed on programs helping the hungry and refugees