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Page 6 • The Battalion New Yorks most wanted driver finally apprehended The Battalion NEW YORK (AP) — The traf fic violation — an illegal U-tum — was routine stuff. But when police pulled over Leroy Linen, they soon discovered he was no ordinary motorist. It took nearly two hours to print out his list of traffic viola tions, which had resulted in 633 license suspensions in the last five years. He was the city’s most-want ed driver. New York’s No. 1 scofflaw was charged with aggravated unli censed operation of a vehicle and driving without a license. The 40- year-old scrap-metal dealer was jailed without bail. After a series of fatal accidents involving unlicensed drivers, state lawmakers last year made it a felony to drive with 10 or more suspensions. In one accident last May, Abra ham Meyers, 55, a drunken dri ver with 22 license suspensions, killed a mother and her two daughters as the family tried to cross the street after a party in Queens, authorities say. Since then, the Police De partment has kept a list of dri vers with 100 or more suspen sions, about 340 names, topped by Linen’s. Officers also are un der orders to make more com puter checks on drivers stopped for traffic offenses. Despite the crackdown, offi cials estimate that as many as 15 percent of the city’s 2.8 mil lion motorists may have sus pended licenses. Linen, like many of the worst scofflaws, amassed his record with a plethora of moving viola tions. He avoided arrest mainly by avoiding accidents and by giv ing police false names and ad dresses, police said. In New York, each violation or failure to appear in court be comes the basis for another suspension. In addition, each citation given to a driver is Tuesday • November 15, l4 counted as a suspension, “This guy just ignored it tern,” said police spokesmen John Clifford. On Saturday night, Lii was driving with a friend; late-model Oldsmobile whe; made an illegal U-turn in Bronx, police said. A hand-lettered, card license plate in the reap dow also caught the eyeoi officers, who pulled Linens Clifford said. Study finds Ion fat diet safe fo growing kids DALLAS (AP) - can safely go on sensible loi diets and reduce their clii terol levels without risl stunting their growth, ai study concludes. Federal health experts! recommended that allyoi sters over age 2 should w the amount of fat they eat, those with high cholesterol els in their blood should beg daily careful. However, many pediatric: are skeptical. They caution! withholding calorie-rich fair slow youngsters’ growth soli don’t become as tall as erwise would. To help settle the quest: | the National Heart, Lungil Blood Institute launchedthell etary Intervention Study I Children, a comparison prfl at six hospitals across the cof try. It is the first major examine whether cholester lowering diets are safe and fective for young people. The results, released Moni at a meeting of the Americ Heart Association, suggest i diets indeed do work witr sacrificing children’s growth, “There has been concern It a low-cholesterol diet inchildt will make them healthy stunted. Now we have evider that’s not true,” commented! David McCall of the Universi of Texas in San Antonio. The study involved boys girls who ranged in age fw to TO. All had relatively i levels of LDL, the so-called,; cholesterol that is closely liiti with heart disease. Doctors randomly assign 334 of the young volunteer: follow a low-fat diet. ©AT&T 1994 Crime Continued from Page 1 ing attacked are nil,” said. “But the downsideti arming yourself is that yoic own weapon could be usef against you. The majority o! law enforcement officers shoi annually are shot with the! own weapons, and these an highly trained individual:) who carry weapons daily. “What makes you safe if an avoidance of circuml stances that put you at risij and using your brain.” Raymond Montoya, witl Montoya’s American Blacl Belt Academy and BPD| demonstrated several basil' releases from an assaulter! grab, such as a hair grab oN| choke hold. Montoya said womeE; should use their weight 1® overpower their attacker! never kick higher than tht groin level and use heels ant keys as weapons. Montoya said it is most im portant to stay alert ant avoid the situation if possible “The one thing I pread and teach is to avoid the con frontation,” Montoya sal! “You don’t want to deal wit! someone you have no insig'm about. The last thing yo* want to do is to get in a toe!' toe match with an assailant. Prairie View Continued from Page 1 pointing graduates of ot! f! schools in the System,” she sal*- The alumni also want watchdog committee to sit in the Board of Regents meeting to ensure that Prairie Vie*- best interests are represented Brisco said that the regen- meetings have been moved 1 the Memorial Student Center-' the public can attend. “Everyone is welcome to and listen to the issues,” she s^. The Alumni Association they would also like Prairie fr to have its own Board of Regen t; Brisco said for this to M pen, Prairie View would hn'; to no longer be a part of tr A&M System. “I don’t think that is in th c11 best interest,” she said.