European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday december 10 ,.1994 completed in . Trial los Angeles a ending Atwo month search for the people to de cide . Simpson s Fate lawyers have selected a panel of 12 alternate juror that closely resembles the main jury picked last month. Despite the Milestone opening arguments May be months away with hear Ings in their admissibility of crucial in evidence still to come the alternates sworn in thursday Range from a 44-year-old Black female computer technician who said Nicole Brown Simpson was t a Saint to a28-year-old female hispanic real estate appraiser who said Simpson was the Only person who had a visible motive to kill his second sex wife there Are nine women and three me among the alternates. The group com Prises seven Blacks four Whites and on hispanic. The main jury selected nov. 3, consists of eight women and four men. Eight jurors Are Black one White two hispanic and one of mixed race. Some of the alternates could be pressed into service immediately. Supe rior court judge Lance Ito is scheduled to meet with attorneys to discuss unspecified allegations of juror misconduct. If any jurors Are dismissed Mem Bers of the alternate panel would be selected at random to replace them. Regardless of the possible dismissal of jurors for misconduct j some of the alternates probably will sit in judgment of Simpson because it s Likely that jurors will be lost for various reasons during the trial which could last six months. Ito asked the alternates to return to court monday for instructions on a that they May and May not watch listen to and read before the opening statements begin probably in late january or Early february. Simpson is charged with murder in the june 12 Stab Bing deaths of Nicole Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. A a  Ito scheduled a hearing for Friday on whether to re move Deputy District attorney Christopher Darden from the Case. Of. V / r Simpson s attorneys claim Darden should not be Al Lowed to work on the Case because he headed a grand jury investigating Simpson s Friend Al  Cowlings. . Simpson looks across the courtroom from behind one of his attorneys Robert Shapiro during a hearing in los Angeles on thursday. Criminal charges against Cowlings who drove the Ford Bronco in a june 17 freeway Chase. No charges were filed. A  -.--. Defense attorneys contend Darden improperly gained Access to information in the Simpson Cas through his work on the Cowlings investigation. In a filing unsealed thursday the prosecution maintained that its use of the Cowlings grand jury was proper and that any evidence which was obtained during the grand jury can properly be  in August the defense tried Ito halt the and jury proceedings calling them a ruse to gather More information against Simpson. Superior court judge j. Ste phen Czuleger denied the motion say Irig witnesses who testified before the grand jury could discuss their Testi the grand jury was considering whether to bring Mony with the defense. San Francisco a hundreds of building that appear sound have hidden structural damage from earthquakes and Are in danger of collapsing with the next quake a top seismologist has warned. The steel Frame and Concrete Frame buildings in Losangeles and san Francisco have cracked columns and welds that Are invisible from the outside said Tom Eaton of the . Geological Survey in Pasadena. A number of people in Southern California Are occupying Frame buildings that Are already damaged but no one has notified them they re in damaged build Ings Heaton said. Occupants should be aware expert says there s uncertainty about the safety of their  engineering surveys found that a Large percentage and perhaps All steel framed buildings in More heavily shaken areas West los Angeles and the san Fernan do Valley  and Weld damage during the Northridge quake nearly a year ago in los Angeles that quake had a magnitude of 6.7. The structures that fared Best were simple woo Frame houses and Shear Wall buildings. Shear Wall structures derive their strength from continuous Concrete Walls not frames he noted. Slayings of Young Blacks dominate 92 killings Washington a Young Black men were Al most 14 times More Likely to have been slain during 1992 than the general population the government re ported thursday. Black males age 12 to 24 were victims of homicide at Arate of 114.9 per 100,000 that year compared with 8.5 Mur Der victims per 100,000 of the general . Population the Justice department s Bureau of Justice statistics said. Young Black males made up 17.7 percent of All homicide victims even though they were Only 1.3 percent of the . Population the report said. Young White males made up a smaller share 10.3 per cent of those killed in single victim homicides during 1992, although they were a larger share of the Overall population at 7.4 percent the report said. Young White males were killed at a rate of 11,7 per 100,000. Black men older than 24 were victims of homicide at a rate of 67.5 per 100,000, compared with 7.8 per 100,000 . The Bureau also said that among males age 16 to 24, Blacks were 1.5 times More Likely than Whites to be victims of All types of violent crime. About two thirds of the violent crimes suffered by Black males age 12 to 24 were the most serious types of Nonomi cide violence such As robberies and aggravated assaults. White males in the same age group suffered mostly simple assaults involving Jio weapons and resulting in Little or no injury. Two thirds of the violent crimes against Blacks younger than 21 were committed by people who also were younger than 21, the study said. Most crimes against Black males were committed by other Blacks while Whites committed the great majority of violent crimes against White males. Motorists ruses prove police Aren t dummies from the associated pres Washington in their Rush to and from work Solo motorists in Virginia sometimes take the Road less travelled and stray into lanes reserved for cars with two or More occupants. One such miscreant was caught by state police last week driving a car that looked As if its window were fogged up. On close inspection two motorcycle troopers saw the windows were soaped. As the car passed the Driver seemed to be in animated conversation with his passenger. The troopers stopped the car anyway and discovered that the passenger was a Dummy with a halloween mask glasses a hat and a Scarf. Fifty Bucks plus $26 court  was a ruse employed before by Drivers who want to be in the faster Hov High occupancy vehicle lanes on interstate highways in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. A incident thursday morning involved a woman seven months pregnant who argued that she was driving for two. Police sgt Dean Jones said patrolmen have a show stopper question for that scam when you go to the movies do you pay for two -.  Aarn called suicidal san Francisco a Man killed by police after he brought two fake hand grenades into a ban apparently wanted to die and was riot planning a robbery investigators  really believe this Man was set on suicide police homicide inspector Alex Fagan said wednesday. Amanuel Abraha 29, was shot to death at the Bank of America Branch tuesday. He had an arrest record dating to 1984 and had been treated at a state Hospital for the criminally disturbed. The two  had no explosive material or timing devices officer Mike Johnson said. Baby depth rate Falls Washington infant snort airy in the United states reached an All time Low last year but deaths from a flu epidemic and other respiratory illnesses also depressed life expectancy for newborns the government said. J the infant snort airy rate fell to 8.3 deaths per1,000 live births in 1993, a decline from 8.5 deaths per 1,000 the year before. Babies born in1993 were expected to live 75.5years, Down from 1992 s All time High of 75.8 years according to provisional figures thursday from the National Center for health  report in the journal of paediatrics said that one in every five women was childless in 1992, up sharply from one in nine in the 1970s. Whole kicks away Trou ble Pennsauken . A right whale that has been roaming the Delaware River got stuck of mud Flats near an Oil refinery but kicked itself free two hours later and disappeared into a crowded shipping Channel. Marine biologists feared the whale would die when it got stuck thursday night. They threw rocks at it while trying to coax it Back into the  animal did it himself. It kicked itself free with his Tail said Bob Schoelkopf director of Marine mammal stranding unit in Brigantine. The rocks they were throwing at it May have stimulated the whale first appeared along Philadelphia s riverfront last saturday swimming in circles with ahead wound. Dad allegedly beat student Albany . A White College student who claimed she was brutally assaulted in her dorm room by a masked Black Man was actually beaten by her father police say. David r. Giles was charged thursday with third degree assault a Misdemeanour. He pleaded innocent and was freed on $5,000 bail pending a dec. 22 hearing. Gillis appeared before to cameras last week with his 18-year-old daughter Kendra As she showed Large Black and Blue blotches on her face arms and body. Police said her Story fell apart after several interviews. The state University of new York at Alban hired More Security guards and increased Campus patrols after Kendra Gillis report