European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Parent abuse saturday August 5, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 by Jane see White new York a _ one morning a Pennsylvania woman who divorced her husband because he beat her weekly was punched in the Mouth by their 17-year-Oldson. Aren t you Happy now he asked. " you be still got me to hit an 81-year-old Chicago Man was chained to a Radiator by his 19-year-Olddaughter. She stole $2,300 from him before she set him free seven Days later. He told police from his Hospital bed that he would not press charges. Social workers unsure How Many get beat by kids but it s becoming More common in new York a 19-year-old youth was arrested for thrashing his Mother and steal ing her Money. Repeatedly. He tossed off a final plea As police led my away. A. Come on a. I Only hit you a couple the social workers and scholars who astronaut candidate Anna Fisher keeps her smile after being dunked at the before and after Homestead fla., air Force base s water survival school. She was one of a group of candidates going through a three Day course at the school. A aide denies Nixon to go to Golf meet Indianapolis. Ind. A former president Richard m. Nixon s top aide denied thursday that Nixon would play in a celebrity Golf tournament Here next week despite an announcement by tournament a. Owen general chairman of the Indianapolis shrine Golf classic announced wednesday that Nixon had freed to participate in the event next wednesday and thursday to help boost ticket sales. Col. Jack Brennan Nixon s aide told to associated press by Telephone from san Clemente. Calif., that when he was contacted about the tournament he replied oat Nixon would be unable to play because daughter. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is peeling her first child in Early Tob him that or. Nixon could t Flora to be in Indiana or anywhere else Jan his first grandchild is bom Wynan said. 1429 million loaned Farmers Washington a the agriculture Mart meet has loaned Farmers about $420 he bin the first nine months of this fed is budget year to build crop storage a flt that on their farms. In the first 28 years i program a total of about �1 billion been borrowed. Coalition wants it Defeated Gas Price Compromise assailed As scandal Washington Dpi a Callion of major labor unions and Public interest groups claiming a combined membership of 20 million voters thursday denounced a congressional Compromise on natural Gas prices As a scandal and launched an Effort to get the measure Defeated. The citizen labor Energy coalition said phasing out Gas Price controls through 1985 under the proposal worked out in delicate House Senate negotiations and backed by the administration would Cost american Consumers $50 billion. Approval of the de control plan coalition spokesmen said would be about the same As Congress passing a $50 billion tax and giving All the Revenue to the Petroleum Industry. If the Congress passed a $50-billion tax right now. The american people would Rise up in outrage said William Winpisinger. Chairman of the coalition and president of the International association of machinists but this Bill is worse than a direct tax increase. It is an insidious private tax that takes Money from the pockets of the people and puts it into the Over buying coffers of the Oil and Gas the coalition includes 44 organizations ranging from the National Council of senior citizens and several Ralph Nader groups to the machinists Union the United Auto workers the United steelworkers. The Oil chemical and atomic workers and the National football league players association and other unions. Winpisinger told a news conference the Gas pricing plan is the worst scandal on the american Energy scene since the Tea pot dome scandal of the 1920s." the plan which would let the Price of newly discovered Gas Rise gradually until controls were ended in 1985, is one of five major parts of president Carter s Energy program. It still is before the conference committee where negotiators Are trying to eliminate final disputes but May be sent to the Senate within a few Days. The administration and the Senate and House leadership Are attempting to Rush through this Bill with desperate appeals to party and presidential loyalty and with Sham incantations of the National inter Winpisinger said. There is a Chance the Gas plan May die in the conference committee because of disputes Over its wording. Winpisinger said. If the measure gets to the Senate floor it is Likely to be killed there he said noting this is an election year. He said his coalition will conduct an All out lobby Campaign and judge incumbents on How they vote on the measure. Move about the veiled corridors of family strife say no one is sure How Many parents Are battered by their offspring. But they say that this most private of miseries the son who slugs his Mother the daughter who shoves her Down the stairs is More common than most would suspect. Through the burgeoning number of Shel ters for battered women bits of information have surfaced about offspring injuring their mothers. Next to nothing however is known about those who attack their fathers. It s the last family problem to be explored said Richard Gelles a University of Rhode Island sociologist. It is a hidden problem but it s some thing All of us found As we started to share information said sue Bienemann director of a new coalition of 18 Pennsylvania projects for battered wives. It s a strange thing because often times the mothers Are reluctant to disclose that their children beat them. They want to protect them. They Don t want to get them into she interviewing More than 2.100 families gel los and Murray Strauss a univer sity of new Hampshire sociologist concluded that As Many As one in 10 parents both men and women have been kicked slugged punched and otherwise battered by their offspring. The researchers believe one in five parents May have suffered lesser abuse at the hands of their children an expression per haps of the adolescent turmoil that can Bubble Over objects lobbed at their Heads shoving pushing furious verbal abuse. But at its most Gelles says there is Stark evidence that such physical abuse is Learned at the knee of an Assaul Tive a of the 5 or 6 million kids who assault their parents about half Are probably kids who be been assaulted by their parents. Gelles and Strauss think the violence goes beyond self Defonse or revenge. To strike out to win by decking a Parent is the Way these Young people Learned to handle family at women s shelters agree. They contend that youths who Batter their mothers Learned abuse from their fathers men who feel they can reign supreme Uver their households Only by beating their wives. And now even my son is hitting is something Rosemarie Reed hears often from women who seek help at the women s survival space shelter in new York. I really firmly believe they do it for the same reasons their fathers do she said. It s a Way to exert Power Over society s most vulnerable members. It does t matter if it s a wife or a sister or a Mother. The Point is it s a Elaine Sanders at the Delaware county marital abuse project in Pennsylvania is counselling a woman whose husband a wealthy businessman Calls her obscene names spits on her and strikes her. Her son abuses her in precisely the same Fash Ion. The son said Sanders is 36 years old. Some children May beat their Mother to win their father s affections. Sanders cites one woman s experience one morning her husband beat her up and left. Later she had an argument with her 14-year-old son. He punched her and left. He was doing what his father wanted him to do. A switchboard operator at a new York shelter chatted idly just this week i heard the Little boy across the Hall telling his Mother that when he grows up he s going to smack his woman around. His father beats up his mama and he thinks that s the Way to prove he s a the child was 8 years old. Plane wreckage found new Delhi a a British climbing expedition has discovered in the Hima Layas the wreckage of an Indian air Force plane which had been reported missing 1 years ago. The team s Leader said
