European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 family Medley stage and film director Josh Logan dogs ont As daughter Susan Waits her turn in a Benefit performance in new the cause there raising their voices for is the restoration of Marks gutted by a fire in the two belted ont a Medley of and Hart Dpi photo moves to Holt smuggling of pot Chafee says Washington a despite massive seizures of an increased Feder Al Effort to halt drug smuggling apparently is not cutting seriously into the John said despite the fact that drug enforce ment officials have confiscated More than million pounds of marijuana during the first three quarters of fiscal year 1978 twice As much As was seized All last year has been no noticeable effect on its Price at the retail Chafee told a Senate officials estimate that they intercept Only about 10 percent of the he Chafee was testifying before the Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency on behalf of legislation which he has introduced that would strengthen the Powers of the coast guard to combat the smuggling of marijuana and other illegal the coast guard can seize ships and their drug cargo on the High seas under special the of time persons possessing illegal narcotics on the High seas cannot be convicted unless the intent to smuggle the drugs into the United states can be As a smugglers usually Are Sim ply deported Back to their Home country where they Load another ship and try marijuana smuggling is so Profita ble that the loss of an occasional ship can be absorbed this loophole in the Law has resulted in the use of Mother ships to carry huge cargos of marijuana to Points outside the territorial where the smugglers Are basically free from the drugs then Are loaded onto dozens of fast boats which transport the Ille Gal drugs the final few much of this unloading is done off the Florida since that area of the nation has hundreds of inlets where Small boats can hide and where these bouts can blend in with legitimate pleasure chafes which is generally sup ported by the Carter would allow the prosecution of individuals on the Mother ships on charges of possessing even if the drugs were seized out Side territorial it also would increase the coast guards authority in other Chafee said that 89 percent of All Mari Juana seizures made by customs officials this year were along the Gulf coast and Southeastern Atlantic Hayakawa asks Carter Pardon Hearst Washington up said tuesday he has asked president Carter to Pardon Patty the newspaper heiress serving a seven year prison term for Bank i believe such a Pardon would be not Only be just to her but also in keeping with the presidents often professed stand on human Hayakawa said in a statement released by his of the Patty Hearst Story is so bizarre if it were it would fall into the category of improbable possibility a Story line fiction writers avoid As sounding too Hayakawa said the judge and which convicted Hearst and sentenced her to seven failed to consider the full complexities of the he said the Only reason she became a Bank robber was a violent kidnapping by the sym ionese liberation unspeakable treatment at the hands of terrorists and a Chance to escape with her Lite if she would acquiesce to their demands Patty a real life victim of a if almost unbelievable should be allowed to go Home she deserved no such possible link to liberation health of City women found to be improving new York not Urban american women who were born after 1920 Are in bet Ter physical and mental condition than women born in the two preceding a study by two Columbia University psychiatrists has no similar improve ments were found among men of the same the researchers attributed the improve ment in Levels of physical and emotional Well being among women but not men As possibly being linked to the Advent of the women liberation the study was made by Leo Srole and of columbian col lege of physicians and their released in new York this week by were presented by Srole last week at the world sociological Congress in As a plausible explanation for the Dif Ference in health and Well being among men and Srole cited the fact that 1920 was a watershed turning Point in the Century in the history of thai he told the saw the adoption of the 19th amendment that gave women the right to vote and opened an Era in which individual females Shook the ancient pillars of masculine Faith that women were constitutionally inferior in a wide Range of no Domestic Srole pointed out although the find Ings needed More detailed he believed the research could lend sup port to the compelling ethical Case for the currently pending and Long overdue equal rights the report is based on followup data to roles Midtown Manhattan study of mental health among Manhattan Borough published in the cur rent made among c95 men and Wom is entitled genders and Well being current Long Range effects of women liberation in the Srole said he had found differential among women Only on three indicators of Well being mental latent suicide potential and self evaluation of general physical the indicators were measured identically on a Sample of adults studied in 1951 and re studied in fifteen percent of the men aged 50 to 59 born Between 1895 and 1904 interviewed in 1954 were judged mentally in 26 percent of the same age Wom interviewed at the same were rated but the rate for women of the Ages 30 to 39 born 19151924 inter viewed in 1974 had dropped to 11 percent toward virtual parity with men of the same age 21 percent of the women aged 40 to 49 born 19051914 were judged men tally impaired when interviewed in 1954 Las against one percent of the while in 1974 the impairment rate for women in the same age but born Between 1929 and had dropped to eight one percent less than that for in another mental fitness the Prev Alence of latent suicide potential among women aged 50 to 59 decreased 17 percent Between 1954 and and it decreased 12 percent among women aged 40 to 49 surveyed in the same Srole explained through the succession of Genera women have moved from previously higher frequencies of latent suicide Poten tial than men to currently lower frequencies than a third self rated showed that ratings of unfavourable physical health by women so to 59 had de creased Between 1954 and there was also a decrease for women in the 40 to 49 age Trade with China up from 77 1mb Israel stood ready to be separate peace terms with in did my Arab israels earlier invitation Toifl Arab states for round table peace a Fertice was rejected by Ike on Pound they do not recount be Ibe exis of the jewish ims  Ottery bombarded nationalist it thai Jbf by with Ute heaviest Sbeih to Straits Muthe champs payments me to seven Stit swe browse Washington up Trade with the soviet Union is up 45 percent Over the brat six months of last year despite chilled soviet and Trade is up 240 the government re released by the Commerce department showed the exported goods Worth billion to communist bloc nations Between january and a per cent increase Over the same period last imported goods from the com a unlit world Worth Luion from 10 leaving this country with a Trade in contrast to the multimillion Dol Lar Trade deficit the suffers in Trade purchases of foreign Oil and japanese goods account for most of the Trade with the soviet Union far out paced Trade with All other communist nations the after a series of dissident trials in the soviet Union this Spring and said certain exports to the soviet Union would have to win High level a total of billion Worth of Ameri can goods was sold to Russia during the six month up from f billion the first six months of sales to the soviet Union for All of 1977 totalled Bil goods valued at million were exported to China during the first six months of 1978 in contrast to exports in 1977 total ing Only million for the same period of time exports to China totalled Mil lion in 1977 and million in imports from China for the period grew from million to a a percent imports from Russia dropped from j million to not including the million in no monetary Gold Pur chased by the