European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 1.3, 1995 . The stars and stripes Page 7 a announces 22 Sites for health care network from the associated press Washington the veterans affairs department has designated 22 Sites for a new decentralized health care network. The new system is to replace the vans current health care Structure divided into four regions each with jurisdiction Over about 40 medical facilities. Under the reorganization announced last March each of the new smaller regional Headquarters will have responsibility for five to 12 medical centers. One objective of the change is to better meet local Community needs. The 22 Headquarters Sites announced monday will be in Boston Albany . Bronx . Pittsburgh Baltimore Durham , Atlanta Bay Pines Fla. Nashville Tenn. Cleveland Chicago Minneapolis St. Paul Ann Arbor Mich. Omaha neb. Kansas City to. Jackson miss. Dallas Phoenix Denver Portland Ore. San Francisco and Long Beach Calif. The current system has centers in Baltimore Ann Arbor Jackson and san Francisco. Rodney King arrest protested new Castle a. A Rodney Kings attorney asked again on monday that a charge of Drunken driving be dismissed. King was charged May 21 after he was found in a car stuck in a Yard in Union township 40 Miles Northwest of Pittsburgh. He was in the area to attend a Carmen Lamancusa said monday that the arrest was improper and that a police officer never determined who was driving the car. A relative of King s said he had been driving but police said King admitted he was the Driver until he was told he could lose his License. Lamancusa asked a judge to invalidate All evidence generated during the arrest. Judge Dominick motto said he would Rule after Reading a written arguments due within 10 Days. He rejected an earlier dismissal request based on other grounds. King was not at mondays hearing and remained free awaiting a. In 1991, King was videotaped As police beat him after a traffic Stop in los Angeles. The following year the acquittal of the officers on most state charges prompted riots in the City. Two officers were later convicted of violating Kings civil rights. Paper drops photo ban san Diego the publisher of a weekly business newspaper has backed off a decision to ban photographs depicting iraqis iranians and vietnamese on the front Page because they were a a a Ted Owen publisher of the san Diego business journal said monday that he has instructed editors to use pictures of a any and All ethnic groups that Are relevant to the story.�?�. Several staff members said last week that Owen a found such cover photos they said he instituted the ban after a sept. 4 special Section featured front Page photos of three local. Businessmen of iranian and iraqi descent. One editor resigned Over the policy. A a we regret any ill will or bad feelings brought \ about As a result of this unfortunate episode Quot Owen said in a statement. Y. A. Staffers told the san Diego Union Tribune that Owen rescinded the policy because of Media y attention and outrage from members of the business Community. Y. Y ,. \. Police in Essex md., compare notes at the scene of a blast that demolished a Ini Nivan and killed five people. Estranged husband suspected in Essex my. Apr a Man estranged from his wife drove his family to a shopping mall parking lot and blew up their car killing himself his wife and three children police y y y a a Quot a by. The explosion monday shredded their station Wagon shaking nearby Homes and raining debris for blocks. The dead included Mark a. Clark 32, whose. Last known address was in Cumberland in Western Maryland and his estranged wife Betty Louise Clark 32, who lived in an apartment Complex near where the car exploded. Their 4-Ycar-old daughter Krysola Clark and two of Betty Clarks children Malissa Ray 11, and Ricardo Valdez 6, also were killed. Police said they had no records of Domestic violence but family members have told police that Mark Clark had threatened his family. Police would not provide details. A we strongly suspect that he brought his family in his car with the explosives and the intention to kill them a said it Steve Doarnberger police spokesman. Police suspect a form of dynamite called slurry caused the blast that ripped apart the 1987 Ford Tau. Rus station cadets searched the scene tuesday for More a. Clues. Agents from the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms were also on the scene. The 6 explosion outside the Middlesex shop Iping Center in Essex a suburb seven Miles East of , scattered debris for three football Fields in every direction and knocked out Power nearby. The. Cards Glove compartment was found half a mile away. A police spokesman Brian Uppercue said the ear was. Stationary at the time it exploded about 20 Yards from the Entrance of a . Newberry s department store. Y Sam Cavanaugh said he was about a Quarter mile away when he a Felt a blast a gush pressure. I saw tie Bris going Over y y. Investigators did not have any eyewitnesses to the blast which demolished the. Station Wagon. Uppercue a said it appeared All five victims had been in the car when it blew up. Tel paso Texas apr the . Border patrol has approved the construction of a controversial Fence in a Border area that officials have complained is fraught with crime. Y. . Immigration. And naturalization service commissioner Doris Meissner said the t.3-mile Fence Between Sunland Park n.m., and a Section of. Ciudad Juarez Mexico will provide. A. A firm response to increased problems in the area. The 10-foot-High a Eccl mesh Fence will be constructed along a stretch of desert Between the Rocky shoulders of mount Cristo Rey and a Hill known Asmo Numen no. 3 Mesa. A a there Are fences in California and Arizona but this would be the first in new on the $100,000 project is expected to be completed by the end of october,.said-Doug movies. A Border patrol spokesman in Elpaso. The project has generated a great Deal of controversy since 1993, when it was. First proposed. Ini migration advocacy groups and even mexican officials complained that a Barrier would be a insult to Mexico. V a a. Border patrol chief agent Silvestre. Reyes said he a sees the proposal As a matter of simply enforcing the Law in a once relatively quiet spot that has gradually attracted narcotics smugglers since pay tools tightened elsewhere. Y. A Nur Riber of people c hem Ging Homes moves Washington a the census Bureau says .16.7 percent of americans moved to new Homes Over a 12-month period in 1993 and 1994 a Down from the 20.2 percent who relocated Over a similar period nearly a decade earlier. The census Bureau said monday that the great majority of the 1993-94 movers 26.6 million moved within the same county. A. A an additional 8. Million moved Between counties in the same state. Only a million moved to another state and 1.2 million left the United states. The share of americans moving hovered around 20 percent during most of the 1950s and 1960s. With the exception of the Short term spurt in 1984-85, the percentage of movers has declined gradually Over the last Quarter of a Century. In the previous period from March 1992 to March 1993, 16.8 percent of the population moved. Census officials said that the Young fuel the nations still relatively High mobility rate. More than one third 35.6 percent of persons 20 to 24 years old and 30.7 percent of persons 25 to 29 changed residences during the 12-month period in 1993-94., a a. As people age they become less Likely to move according to the report a geographical mobility March 1993 to March 1994. Y. A a the least footloose of any age group in 1993-94 were persons 75 to 84 years old of whom Only 4.9 percent moved a the report said. That rate is not significantly different however from the 5.8 percent of persons 85 and Over who Region the Northeast had Overath moving rate at 11.6 percent. The West and South had rates higher than the National rate a 20.2 percent and 18,1 percent respectively the Northeast experienced a net loss of 328,000 movers while the South showed a net gain of 376,000, the Only two statistically significant changes in regional migration flows the report said. The report said that Whites have lower Overall rates of moving 16 percent than either Blacks 19.6 percent or hispanics 22.4 percent
