Anaheim Bulletin (Newspaper) - March 22, 1991, Anaheim, California March 22, 1991 Morning 250 broken on new car-pool Orange County transportation officials gambled and it appears motorists crawling on the Orange Freeway will get the pay from several cities and the county were on hand Thursday for the groundbreaking ceremony of the new car-pool lanes that will stretch for 10 miles from Lambert Road in Brea to Avenue near Anaheim lane in each direction will be built along the median to relieve the by the more than 230,000 cars per day that use the only north-south route into Orange County from Los Angeles bet heavily that Measure M would Orange County Transportation Commission spent money for the engineering plans and environmental impact report on the project before Measure the half-cent sales was In other there was no money to build the definitely was a But a gamble that's paying said Dana Please see embargo still has demands before overall ban is James NATIONS A Security Council panel decided Thursday to lift the food embargo on a diplomat after U.N. officials heard a report saying the allies had battered the country back into United States has demanded that Iraq meet several conditions before the overall embargo is It wants assurances that Iraq never again develop ballistic missile systems or biological or nuclear It also is demanding a levy on future Iraqi oil exports to pay for war senior Western who spoke on condition of said the Security Council's sanctions committee was and would allow food and other essentials into diplomat said the Red Cross and United Nations will supervise distribution of the Iraq must allow it to be sent into all areas of the including the north and provinces of the south where Muslim Shiites are he decision to lift the food embargo was made the same day the Security Council heard a report that Iraq had been to a pre-industrial by the allied military report recommended the sanctions committee lift barriers to food and agricultural equipment is unmistakable that the Iraqi people may soon face a further imminent which could include epidemic and if massive life supporting needs are not the report is senior U.N. also speaking said he too understood the committee would announce the lifting of sanctions on food shipments U.N. Mission and Washington Embassy were and Iraqi officials were not available to confirm that they would allow food to be distributed to all council's committee on sanctions was to meet Friday It consists of the same 15 nations as the Security under Austria's the council imposed an international trade embargo on Iraq on Aug. 6, four days after Iraq invaded all supplies bound for Iraqi except for medicines have had to receive the approval of the sanctions may Pilgrim Samuel Lagunas is trying to maintain his cartoon watching schedule during the upheaval of fresh This is the last of a five-part series examining the role of the Hispanic community in Buying a home in these times of economic crunch is tough for any family but considerably tougher when it's a first consider the process if you are a low-income family and have limited English-speaking OF the situation Alfredo and Anna Lagunas find themselves originally from and their four children had been living in a apartment in the neighborhood for seven years trying the down payment necessary to purchase a modest illnesses and other everyday problems compounded their the combined assistance of the city of Anaheim's Second Mortgage Assistance Program and Long Beach Bank's Community Home Buyers the family is now on the you don't speak much English you don't know what offices to go to or what to Alfredo Lagunas originally applied in Santa the but it was just being developed and we didn't hear anything from got help from Anita of the Community who directed us to realtor Ross Anna Lagunas who speaks Spanish and is active in Los Amigos of Orange coordinated the efforts and helped them get first-time buyer see Public Utilities Board members will ask the city council to approve a drought surcharge that would levy stiff penalties for customers who don't reduce water consumption by 25 the council adopts the resolution at its next the surcharge program will go into effect on April 2. is designed to be an incentive to encourage water pay for conservation programs and enable the city to buy additional water said Edward Public Utilities Department general water shortage caused by California's five-year drought is expected to cost the city between million and million and the surcharge is expected to cover that utilities department officials this isn't considered a water rationing it is part of the utilities department's plan to help people adapt to the prospect of future water rationing if that should become see could boost water from State officials say recent storms may mean more water for cities in the San Francisco Bay San Joaquin Valley and Southern California but not State Water which cut deliveries to its municipal customers last month to 10 percent of may ship them another 10 Jeff Cohen of the state Drought Center said the unlikely event that April is very cities could get 35 percent of normal Cohen he still no change see feared dead in Navy plane DIEGO Two Navy planes collided and all 27 people aboard were feared dead in choppy waters 60 miles off Southern authorities Navy listed the crews as missing but there was little hope any of the crew members from the downed all-weather planes were engaged in an warfare training exercise when they collided in bad authorities think we have to be realistic said Senior Chief Petty Officer Bob a Navy affairs officer at North Island Naval Air is very cold out We're talking about what apparently is a midair collision two I would say it would be very and rescue teams spotted and retrieved some debris from the planes but found no signs of Further details about what was found were not immediately Howard was no word on how long the search would but Howard said the Navy would make attempts to retrieve remains and Freedom records a perfect 68, No. 186; 5 60 statistics hit new than 1 in 5 young drivers drank before fatal For the first fewer than one in five young drivers involved in fatal crashes had been federal safety researchers said public health community is pretty pleased with the declines we're said Dr. Julie Russell of the national Centers for Disease it's a good news We're still losing lots and lots of young people to this the drivers involved in fatal car crashes in 1989, 19 percent had been the CDC That's down from 22 the year before and from 32 percent in 1982. percentage of alcohol-related traffic fatalities involving younger people has declined since 1982, the CDC 6,987 people ages IS to 24 died in alcohol-related crashes in 1989, the latest year for which detailed analysis is the CDC agency defines an alcohol-related accident as one in which a a or someone else directly involved has a detected CDC attributed the decrease in alcohol-related deaths and drunken driving among young people to an in the legal drinking age in many states in the 1980s, new educational efforts and stricter laws against underage drinking and according to previously reported 45,555 people died in all U.S. traffic accidents in 1989; 17,849, or 39 of those deaths involved a drunken pedestrian or and another 4,566, or 10 involved someone who had been drinking but wasn't legally report analyzed the toll of drinking and driving on young who have long had the highest rates of alcohol-related highway the decline in drinking rates among 15-to-17-year-old drivers involved in fatal the CDC reported similar declines in other age drivers ages 18 to 20 involved in fatal 35 percent had been down from 37 percent in 1988 and 48 percent in 1982. such drivers 21 to 24, 45 percent had been down from 46 percent in 1988 and 52 percent in 1982. people under 21, the rates are considerably lower than the 21-to-24s, who have legal access to Russell for such drivers older than 24, 30 percent had been down slightly from the year before and down from 34 percent in 1982. 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