European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes june 6 drown wings in Safe so for by Ellen Ridge staff writer six service members in Europe have drowned in swimming accidents this one More than last years total of the Usa eur and Safe safety offices As part of a stepped up Effort to reduce the number of soldiers drowning 14 died in both 1981 and 1982 army safety officials have been taking Steps to educate gis on water the measures include restructuring the Usa eur drown roofing course soldiers Are required to Safe safety officers said they have no plans to restructure their drown roofing but they Are continuing a seasonal information Campaign on water Safe lists two drownings this year and none in 1984 Usa eur lists four this year and five drown Ings last the difference in numbers can be attributed partly to the fact that Usa eur has More than 50 percent More troops than safety officials in the five drownings last investigators found the bodies in of limits swimming in each Case there was evidence the swimmer had been this four drowning victims airman and three soldiers were in of limits swimming three of those drownings involved an army Survey of drownings during recreational outings shows that 98 percent of army victims were swimmers and 50 percent had been drinking in 94 percent of the Chilly water 68 degrees or colder been a key Usa eur officers said they believe their current drown roofing program does not teach enough about of duty swimming safety and the dangers of mixing cold alcohol and a 21yearold Soldier who drowned in an of limits Quarry near Karlsruhe on May 26 had attended the Usa eur drown roofing class the Day before the struck safety specialist Horst Oertel said in Usa eur s new the american red Cross will add swim Ming safety and some Basic lifesaving they will also retain the self preservation such As that make up the most part of the current Oertel said officials Are creating a course that is comparable to a water safety teaching car and Mouth Mouth he said he hoped to replace the old program by Spring next in american red Cross officials Are hop ing to shoot a water safety video in August As a teach ing Aid for next said Robert safety director for the american red Cross in its not a problem of not knowing How to Usa eur safety director Robert Braun in Many of the circumstances if they knew How to swim it probably would have happened it is the same As with driving out in the Sun swimmers lose Mannheim safety manager Peter Schaezle they underestimate or Start showing alcohol mixed with cold water is Burnside plunging into water 68 degrees or colder could cause a swimmer to inhale water and drown almost Oertel reports indicate they go under one time and that he experts say cold water cools the body temperature 23 times faster than cold air and estimate a Good swimmer can go Only seven tenths of a mile in 50 degree for that there is a big push by the safety offices to get people to go to swimming pools instead of gravel pits this Braun to deter swim Ming in of limits military police will be patrol Ling some of the More popular swimming Oertel the Usa eur safety office has suggested using morale support funds to buy gis tickets to local pools and providing free transportation on weekends and holidays to authorized swimming both the Safe and Usa eur safety offices have issued lists of authorized swimming areas for in Many Post newspapers Are publishing swimming safety tips in their summer time bomb discovered by police at hotel near Buckingham Palace London a a five Pound bomb set to explode Days in the future was found in a crowded hotel near Buckingham police they said the bomb prob ably was planted by the Irish Republican the which was hidden in a first floor room at the Rubens hotel on Buckingham Palace was timed to go off Days in the said Simon Crawshaw of Scotland Yards Antiterrorist i believe from our intelligence that the probability is it was planted by the provisional Crawshaw told re porters at the police went to the hotel after receiving a tip from a source they did not the device was defused by British army bomb disposal experts after the 200room hotel and surrounding Ings were the hotel was packed with americans and who were staying there on vacation and Busi said hotel manager Virginia the guests were allowed to return to their rooms at about after an eight hour Crawshaw ruled out Buckingham Palace As a target but said the Force of the blast could have damaged windows in nearby Buckingham Palace an explosion of that size could not have affected the main Palace building in any Crawshaw my belief at the moment is that the hotel was chosen at random to cause injury and damage to a premises in Central London which would have been occupied by tourists and Many other he the outlawed Ira is fighting a guerrilla Campaign to drive the British out of Northern Ireland and unite the protestant dominated province with the roman Catholic Irish Republic under a socialist the Ira has claimed responsibility for several spectacular bombings in Britain including the 12 blast at the grand hotel in where a time bomb killed four people and injured prime minister Margaret who was staying at the narrowly escaped lefties dont have to soviet parents told Moscow a its official its of to be left handed in the officially leftist soviet for left handed soviets were viewed with amuse ment or suspicion by their Peers and forced by teachers and parents to do things with their right says the communist party daily newspaper Prav the National ministry of health has ordered schools and families to Stop retraining left handers and let them do what comes the newspaper reported sunday that the decree was the most important measure discussed at a recent forum of educators and psychologists who have been studying the problems of left handedness since pravda first raised them five years in that the newspaper it first put for Ward the idea that left handers deserved careful attention and a better since the paper research has shown that 2 percent to 4 percent of the soviet population up to 11 million is naturally attempting to break these motor which Mother nature put into the significantly trauma Tizes the psyche of the it instead of prohibiting left handers to write and do other things with their left schools and parents should help children follow this natural pravda if left banded youngsters Are forced to become right it they often react against this retraining by becoming uninterested learners and ultimately by skipping it told teachers instead to show concern by placing left handers on the left sides of the old fashioned desks for two pupils used in most soviet schools so they could write without disturbing All soviet children Are taught a uniform russian script that slants from top right to Bottom evidently recognizing that this is difficult for pravda told teachers do not pay attention to the calligraphy or the so Long As they write without mistakes and do not lag behind their the report that it is not always easy for children to follow a left handed pravda parents find it easier to Force their children to be right handed so they Are just like All the research it cited concluded that left handed in Are afraid to stand out from the crowd because they Are teased so much by classmates for being there is no official discrimination against left handers in the soviet the great soviet encyclopaedia assures parents and educators that left handed children Are just As Able As right handed to underline that there is nothing wrong with being pravda reminded readers that Charlie Chaplin and Many other artists and sportsmen were world today Rembrandt painting damaged by insane man1 in Leningrad Moscow a a priceless Rembrandt painting hanging in the Hermitage was severely damaged in an attack by a the director of the Leningrad museum Boris Piotrowsky said in a Telephone interview from Leningrad that an insane Man threw unspecified liquid at a portrait of greek mythological character Danae done by the dutch Painter in 1636 that is one of the Star items of the heritages outstanding collection of 17thcentury dutch Piotrowsky refused to say whether the liquid was acid or some other he said the surface layer of paint was Jaruzelski wants alcohol banned from buildings Warsaw a polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski has called for an end to alcohol consumption at communist party and government affairs to set an exam ple for the rest of the in a speech to the communist party Central commit Jaruzelski said not Only workers but also government and communist party officials Are guilty of alcohol alcohol should be removed from state authorities and administration and from Public Jaruzelski Small bars in the office should be Eli i we cannot put an end to drinking in at construction at in the Back Yards of farming if we drink at management at an office of a High executive and sometimes at meetings and Canary islands parliament votes against Spain entry into dec Santa Cruz de Spain up the Canary islands parliament has voted against Spain entry in the common officials regional socialist president Jeronimo Saavedra resigned country s european economic Community opposition parties argued that dec entry terms gravely damage the farm and Industrial interests of the an eight Island Atlantic Ocean italian plans Friendship peddling bicycle to Liverpool Italy a a 60yearold doctor will pedal is bicycle Kilometres from Milan to car ing a message of Friendship to the English whose Cher fans were blamed for igniting headly riot at a Brussels soccer match three weeks Marco Lauri mayor of Milan his trying Marco Lauria will deliver the signed by the Carlo to the mayor of
