European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 4, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 52.4 million la. Residents get new area code los Angeles up the phone company converted 2.4 million los Angeles telephones saturday from the 213 to the 310 area code making the City and its environs the nation s area code capital. Officials at Pacific Bell predicted Little disruption from saturday s change because of a six month Grace period during which Calls will automatically be routed from the old area code to the new one. Pacific Bell officials say they devised the boundaries for the 310 area code based on calling patterns and How Telephone lines were Laid years ago. The new area code will Divide 10 communities including Beverly Hills. The new 310 area code cuts a a shaped Swath across los Angeles county from the Seaside enclave of Malibu South through West los Angeles and the South Bay. It also encompasses the Southeastern part of the county including Compton Whittier and Downey. The change is the first new area code for los Angeles since much of the san Fernando Valley was switched to 818 in 1984. Saturdays change Means los Angeles with three area codes moves ahead of new York with two As the . Leader among metropolitan areas in area codes. Pacific Bell officials said the proliferation of cellular phones beepers fax machines and computer data lines necessitated the change. In 1984, for example paging devices in los Angeles used about 14,000 phone numbers and cellular phones about 7.000. Today beepers and Mobile phones account for 108,000 and 203.000 numbers respectively. At the present rate phone company officials said they would run out of 213 area code numbers by the Middle of next year. Carving out the new area code Means los Angeles should have enough phone numbers through 2000. Pacific Bell is spending $18 million to create the new area code. On May 2, the end of the six month Grace period people who dial the wrong area code will get a recorded message informing them of the mistake. Hugh Griffin vice president of sales and marketing for Printer Stuart f. Cooper co., predicted trouble for those using facsimile machines computers and other phone reliant technologies. A a fax machine does t understand a recording a he  campaigns against proposal to limit terms Seattle apr House speaker Thomas s. Foley on saturday blasted a proposal that would limit terms for major elective offices in Washington state As unconstitutional and an insult to voters. The democratic Leader began a series of appearances to Campaign against initiative 553, a measure on tuesday s ballot that would limit the states congressional members to three two year terms and its senators to two six year terms. It would also limit re election for statewide offices including the governor and the legislature. Foley a 13-term lawmaker faces an election in 1992. If initiative 553 passes and survives a Likely court Challenge that would be his last run for Congress. The other seven members of Washington a House delegation would also get one More run in 1992 since they Are All in at least their second term. The states . Senators Are serving their first six year term. Foley accompanied at a news conference by rep. Norm Dicks d-wash., called the proposition a a rather arrogant insult to the  he said it suggests voters Are unable to decide whether an incumbent should return to office. Foley said the proposal is a unambiguously unconstitutional a and that he probably would join a Federal court Challenge if it passes. He said Only a constitutional amendment could impose term limits on  Burick a spokesman for the organization limitation initiative mandating incumbent terms said later the measure has a Good Chance of surviving a court Challenge. A i think it s kind of interesting. If he Foley thinks its going to lose in the courts Why is he stumping the state so hard on this a Burick said. Both Foley and Dicks also said Washington state would lose clout if its current delegates Are forced out. Dicks said Foley a influence is especially important on such critical Northwest issues such As Federal electricity prices the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation defense spending and environmental Protection. If initiative 553 passes a the result of it would be that our state would almost unilaterally disarm our congressional delegation a Dicks said. Foley said the seniority system is one of the few ways that smaller states can gain Power in the House. By january 1993, one of every eight representatives in the House will be from California Foley said. Those numbers could overwhelm Washington a delegation if it were prevented from building up seniority he said. A a in a not trying to shake out California As a threat but we have had serious disagreements with California Quot Over such issues As whether water trom Washington s Columbia River Basin should be sent South Quot Foley said. Most support for the term limiting initiative Foley said comes from a extreme right Wing activists Quot from outside the state. Campaign finance reports show that most of the More than $760,000 spent on the initiative has come from citizens for congressional Reform a conservative group based in Washington . Although term limits have Foley won voter approval in California and Colorado Washington a initiative would be the first to apply retroactively to current officeholders. California s initiative did t limit congressional terms. Colorado adopted such limits but Fliey wont be fully implemented until the end of the decade and Arentt retroactive. Billionaire s anti incumbent speech delights crowd of 2,000 in Tampa in the stars and stripes10 years ago nov. 4,1981 a supreme court justices William Rehnquist and Thurgood Marshall clashed Over the constr tonality of imposing the death penalty on juveniles while trying the Case of a 16-year-old who had been sentenced to death for killing a Highway patrol officer with a sawed off shotgun.20 years ago nov. 4,1971 a in Carlsbad njd., 1,200 students huddled in their classrooms As a 23-year-old sniper barricaded himself in a storage Tower atop a High school. He traded gunfire with police then killed himself with his own rifle.30 years ago nov. 4,1961 a the general Assembly elected Burma s u Thant by 103-0 vote As acting u n. Secretary general to succeed the late Dag Hammarskjold who died in an air plane crash.40 years ago nov. 4,1951 a John j. Mccloy . High commissioner of Germany announced that the United states was prepared to give up the occupation controls still exercised by the allies except the rights connected with maintaining troops in Germany and protecting West Germany and West Berlin from soviet aggression. Tampa Fla. A billionaire h. Ross Perot told nearly 2,000 people saturday at a grass roots rally a a it a time somebody  the barn a and threw out incumbent lawmakers. The throng that filled a High school gym for the rally made it Clear who they thought that somebody should be chanting a run Ross  Many held placards that said a Cross for  a i done to want a title a said the 61-year-old Texas computer magnate. A in a minute id go up there to Washington and spend the rest of my life working night and Day to fix it just a private citizen a he said. The rally was sponsored by the nonpartisan group a thro a throw the hypocritical rascals out a founded nearly two years ago by Retiree Jack Kansas City to. A a defiant doctor speaking for the first time since helping two women commit suicide has likened medical ethics in the United states to those of nazi doctors. A i will not follow the example of those immoral nazi doctors which the rest of the doctors in this country seem to be doing a or. Jack Kevorkian told a secular humanist conference by Telephone from Michigan. Kevorkian who lives in suburban Detroit advocates doctor assisted suicide for people suffering from terminal or severely painful diseases. He called euthanasia a persons a last civil rights and blamed doctors for not defending it. The Gargan with newspaper ads that began a a in a mad As hell and in a not going to take it any  since then the group has raised nearly $1.1 million for Perot More ads seek ing to oust what it Calls a your arrogant elitist self serving contemptuous spineless inept tax and spend  the group recently has attempted to recruit political novices to run for office. American medical association opposes doctor assisted suicide. Doctors in nazi Germany should have refused orders to torture and conduct experiments on holocaust victims Kevorkian said. A your civilization is equally culpable because we have equally immoral Laws which on the contrary Force doctors not to do what they should be doing Quot he said. Kevorkian a comments were carried Over loudspeakers at a conference sponsored by free inquiry a secular humanist Magazine. He did no to discuss the oct. 23 suicides of Sherry Miller and Marjorie want. Prosecutors Are investigating Kevorkian s role in the women s deaths. Dent and the country would love to see him run a Gargan said after Tulve rally. In a 40-minute speech Perot blasted Congress for extravagant living pay raises and perquisites at the Public expense. A unless the average citizen gets upset that three act comedy up there is going to continue a Perot said. In the last election All but one of 31 incumbent . Senators up for election were returned to office. In the . House. 98 percent of the incumbents were re elected. A the movement is building a Gargan said. A you can feel it. The american people Are going to take Back their government.�?�. Doctors Miller 43, had multiple sclerosis which in most cases is not terminal. Want 58, suffered from a painful a but not terminal a disease that required 10 Pelvic operations. Kevorkian a Law yer Geoffrey Fieger has shielded his client from Public appearances since the women killed themselves in a Remote Cabin North of Detroit using machines provided by Kevorkian. Last year Kevorkian helped Janet Adkins diagnosed with alzheimer a disease commit suicide in his Van. He hooked Adkins to his machine and she pushed a Button giving herself a lethal injection. He was charged with first degree murder. A a in a love to see Perot run for presi Kevorkian blasts ethics of