European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes page3 the knife at her Throat was not a joke by Chris Estes staff writer Germany this is a thought 1st Marilyn then she Felt the knife at her it was May at Louis International Dykman was she had been travelling from Germany to visit inlays in the United she was chatting with another service member when the Man came up beside i thought he was she said then he leaned Over and grabbed i wont forget that hand very dont dont move or ill Cut your he what Are you doing with her the other service member to telling dont do nothing or ill kill Dykman said her attacker police later identified the Man As Houston Simms of los who claimed to be running from a Chicago drug dealer who was out to kill i Felt like he really want going to do she he to not going to Hurt i really wont Hurt but i need the Fri and i need a i of this is going to be like the mov there going to grab me and take me to a Dykman she said she feared being held captive for a Long a helicopter Pilot and Supply officer for the 207th aviation co in discarded any thoughts of fighting with with All the train ing that i in defense and How close the knife was and How shaky he i didst want to take a i thought that talking to him would relax him and make the situation she said people in the Airport didst comprehend what was going he started get me the get me the Fri people were kind of shocked they didst know it was really he i have a knife cant you see i have a knife and then people were just looking and i can you just get the Guy the Fri Dykman said Simms had his Arm wrapped around her keeping the knife at her throughout the she Felt his hand she feared he might accidentally Cut her Simms was so Ner his grip so that he was unintentionally suffocating her with his she police soon arrived and began trying to talk Simms into giving Dykman said Simms was holding with their backs to an empty airline although neither knew a policeman had entered through a photo by Gus Schuettler first Marilyn Dykman Back door and crept up behind she said Simms told the police a big drug dealer in Chicago was trying to kill he there going to get me and kill me if i dont get he you Sec this i Haven done this but i was talking to the police and they  listen to i had to take somebody hostage so they would pay attention to Dykman said the police told Simms not to Hurt her they would Contact the any movement of Dykman brought threats from Simms to kill i get away from Here an Fri agent now what Are you going to do with her a police officer Shes she came All the Way from Germany just to visit her Fame Why dont you just let her drop that and Well take care of your problem Simms threw the knife Down and let her she i grabbed the she they took him downstairs to the Simms had held her at knife Point for More than 30 after she was Dykman she just wanted to sit she remembers nothing about Simms but the jacket he was wearing a wine coloured leather Jack and she remembers How it smelled when he had his Arm around her Simms was indicted May 30 on charges of unlawful use of a felonious restraint and armed Crimi Nal according to the associated he is being held in lieu of no court Date has been the incident Hast made Dykman afraid to if something like that its going to make you she i think that experience i had was to make me make me not that i liked the when i was leaving this female came up to and she Are you of can you he talked to me before he grabbed and she just sat Down and started when the police went to ask her she was she i dont blame military communities psychiatrist says suicide less Likely Tor military youths overseas by Lon Cabot Naples Bureau chief Italy children in military families stationed overseas Are probably among the least Likely to become victims of youth according to the chief of psychiatry at the naval Hospital in military communities overseas Are inherently closer knit than most communities in the United said Djalma the sense of Unity a Mili tary Community overseas perpetuates gives youngsters an insular Community they would not normally that almost forces them to develop a Bond with other people their age because there is a shared experience in Braga youngsters in military families overseas or not face the same problems their Peers in civilian families but while he has seen a few cases of youth suicides in the military communities Hes worked in during nearly 25 years of psychiatry both stateside and Over the potential for youngsters in the military Community to become suicide statistics is really no greater or less than it is in the civilian Braga said he questions the credibility of reports he has seen that claim the suicide rate among people Ages 1524 has tripled during the past 20 the he is whether the rate has tripled or whether the amount of research and documentation on youth suicide has dramatically in there Are virtually dozens of reports that delve into the subject of youth Braga and the question has been raised whether indeed the number of youth suicides has increased or whether there is a greater tendency on the part of clinicians to attribute a broader Range of youth deaths to Sui Braga said that the Only two Concrete facts known about Young suicides Are that More Whites commit suicide than Blacks and that More males commit suicide than there Are certain trends that seem to apply to people who commit Braga for exam it f f v i 5 f s substance abuse and an exposure to violence Are characteristically in the backgrounds of suicide but there is really no profile for a person who might commit it is accepted that there is a tendency to find suicides in for if someone in a group commits then theres a Good Chance another person in the group will another person in the same group is More Apt to identify with the reasons a person had for committing several including one done by two members of the staff at Harvard medical documented that stress including periods of economic bring on higher suicide rates among suicide among youth is not Braga the initial suicide recorded among youth was prob ably in in the Romeo was 17 and Juliet was the fact that they killed them selves in an attitude of or As a result of a they were nevertheless victims of Braga said the key to averting youth suicide is Early recognition of the depression that serves As a precursor to a potential Here in Naples the psychiatry staff of the naval Hospital works closely with the school psychiatrist at the department of defense Braga its very difficult to say what exactly motivates Braga what particular stress precipitates suicide is not Clear in the clinical what we do know is that if someone has committed suicide in a that can be an important Factor and might indicate a greater likelihood of suicide occurring in that particular family Braga said suicides among youth also occur when youngsters Are looking for attention they May not be its like cashing in on a Media he the youngster who sees suicide As a Way of recognition is another possible regardless of what the motives the fact re Mains that most suicides Are committed among Young White and the Best we can do to pre vent it is to look carefully at what symptoms we know Are indicative of people who Are prone to Suici dal