European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 5 Low water on the Mississippi George Lockwood fishes for fresh a new Lockwood is sitting 30 Ter Catfish in the Mississippi River at feet from the Normal the water level is the lowest Lockwood has seen in 20 photo 40 percent reduction in 5 years popularity of birth control pills fades Chicago up birth control pills Are safer than previously but women continue to stay away from them be cause they Are worried about Side an expert said the use of birth control pills has dropped 40 percent since said Leon Spe professor and chairman of the depart ment of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Oregon medical birth control pills Are safer today than we previously Speroff said at the first Edward Crown memorial lecture at Columbus an increasing amount of data from studies has shown that previous risk Esti bigger outlay for less for treatment urged san Francisco a billions of Federal dollars spent on medical treatments for the needy would be better spent on health maintenance programs to help close Mondale gets Law firm Job Washington a former vice president Walter Mondale announced thursday that he has taken a Job in Washington with the chicag based Law firm of Winston and through a Mondale said he would become counsel but not a part Ner in the firm which does business in both the United states and who is generally expected to seek the democratic party presidential nomination in had been weighing of fers from a number of Law firms in Washington and his native Winston and which began in Chicago in has 170 20 of them in by not becoming a Mondale will free himself to give speeches and maintain political contacts around the coun the health Gap Between americas Rich and University of California research ers Lewis co director of the health policy program at Ulsan said his recent study entitled illness and in come indicated that massive Federal spend ing since 1964 has done Little to improve the health of the nations we direct that spending at acute rather than chronic we Reward hospitalize ing people rather than maintaining their Butler the based on statistics from the 1977 health statistics Survey of indicated that chronically Low income people generally have twice the rates of illness As those earning More than a the percentage of poor who say their Days were restricted spent in bed or away from Normal daily activities be cause of chronic illness is times higher than the percentage of the re searchers for every people of All incomes and percent Are limited in their activities because of heart compared with percent per people earning less than for arthritis and it was percent for All in comes to for the mates by the British were most women who have stopped using the Pill have done so because of the fear of the risk of death from diseases of the circulatory Speroff said new Low dose pills Are safer than those available but he noted the drop in use because of lingering he said 20 percent of women of child bearing age were using the Pill in while the latest figures from 1980 show that Only 12 percent Are now using the Speroff is coauthor of the clinical gynaecology in endocrinology and infertile 2 killed in derailment of italian express train Italy a at least two persons were killed and scores of others were injured in the derailment of an express train Between two tunnels in the Southern Calabria police first reports said the engine and four cars of the southbound Rome Oreggio Calabria express derailed because of a land slide on the tracks and fell into a police said another passenger train com ing on the other track in the opposite direction hit some cars of the derailed train but continued to the next Hong Kong factory Blaze kills 11 persons Hong Kong up fire swept through a wig factory containing highly flammable killing 11 persons and injuring 19 officials a fire department spokesman said Iron bars placed in the windows of the factory to prevent burglaries May have prevented some of the victims from escaping the the cause of the fire was not immediately the spokesman defense Tab could study says Washington a defense spending could Rise by As much As billion Over the next five years if Prograis to improve and build up the nations Mili tary hardware and manpower arc the congressional budget office reported in a 125page resources for de prepared for the House budget the congressional Agency said its estimated Price tag was Over and above the increases for multiyear programs Al ready approved by Congress in the current fiscal that so called Baseline now would grow to billion in the 1986 fiscal year even without taking inflation into the office the largest increase in improvement pro would involve strengthening the commitment to the nato military led by Bil lion for five new armoured divisions totalling troops to be stationed in Western other expenditures other new components for a stepped up nato defense would be billion for new billion to proposition More military gear Bil lion for spare parts for tactical aircraft and million for a new Mediterranean Home port for an aircraft the report noted that because the de sense of Western Europe is a coordinated Effort among members of the North at lactic the options it presented depend critically upon the contributions of the nato and it said the ground and naval options alone would require two thirds of the 3 percent a year in inflation adjusted growth in defense spending that the allies have but which some have not yet difficult Choice if the allies were unable to sustain the 3 percent the United states would face a difficult Choice Between Mak ing even larger Nat related increases and adjusting its defense the report discussing a second area of possible de sense the study noted that Al though the new interservice rapid deploy ment Force is supposed to be the primary source of Power for other than a major Nat Warsaw pact Little budget authority has been provided for of time in the stars and stripes 30 years ago today 1951 overseas Tours for army officers and enlisted which were extended for six months last were set for an additional Extension of six months beginning March 20 years ago foday 96l convict Frank Gaito of Pittsburgh sued a Hospital for for removing a Bullet from his stomach without his the Bullet was later used As evidence against 70 years ago foday 1971 the in what a spokesman said was in the Best interest of dropped charges against All enlisted men in the alleged my Lai massacre in