European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 24. 1985 stateside air travel safer than Ever transportation Secretary says Atlanta api the airline Accident Rale has dropped steadily Over the past decade although the num Beruf passengers i is increased according to transportation  i i Heth Dole who called the aviation by Stem safer than Ever " the commercial airline disasters that have made this year s death toll the worst in aviation history arc aberrations. Dole said in .1 speech to the 65th annual convention of the National lire dealers and  association. Airline  which began in 1978, cannot be blamed for safely problems. Dole Sard. The fatality Rale for Bre carriers has declined 32 percent in the past five years and the rate has dropped 56 percent for commuter planes she said. More than 1.400 people have been killed worldwide in 19 commercial air plane accidents is Yea the worst on record. Fort Lauderdale s water system put Back in working order fort , Fla. A More than 200,000 people have been told they can Stop boiling their drinking water two Days after a burst water tank dropped water pressure to a trickle. The water restrictions have been lifted and the City s water pressure is Back to Normal said fort Lauderdale utilities department spokesman Karl Shallenberge. Five million Gallons of water gushed out of a storage tank at the Plant after an eight Inch underground pipe broke drastically lowering water pressure for fort Lauderdale Oakland Park and Wilton Manors. When the pressure gets that Row a boil water order is Standard procedure Jaid Judy Foss a spokeswoman for the utilities department. When water pressure Hilow untreated water can enter the system through what is known As backflow. Officials Are not sure what caused the 2-year-old pipe which connects the water storage Lank to a water softening is ctn. To come apart at the joint. Judge rules in favor of doctor sued for not letting woman die Akron. Ohio not a judge Here has directed a verdict in favor of a doctor who was being sued on the grounds that he had improperly refused to disconnect life support systems on a 70-year-old terminally ill woman. The family of Edna Marie Leach had sued or. Howard Shapiro charging that he had not received their consent when he connected Leach to a Respirator in july 1980 and then refused to disconnect it when they later asked him to. Judge John Reece of Summit county common pleas court directed a verdict in favor of Shapiro an Akron euro air Gen. The Case is believed to Mark the first time a family has sued a oct of for preserving a terminally ill person s life and has become a key Case for groups that say a patient has a right Todie. Leach suffered from Amy trophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig s disease. Bostonian pleads not guilty to bribing building inspector Boston not Harold Brown a major Boston land lord was indicted Here on Federal charges of bribing a City building inspector and lying to a Federal grand jury about it. Brown later pleaded not guilty to both charges. Brown. 60, was indicted Ai pan of a major Federal investigation of allegations of corruption involving real estate developers and Boston officials. In the past month four City employees and six other developers have been charged with crones including racketeering bribery mail fraud conspiracy and obstruction of Justice. The investigation is continuing. Happy go Lucky a secret service agent reaches to help Nancy Reagan a us Reagan Pel Doc. Luck nukes Joyful Fash toward tar White Hook almost Paf finc the lint lady with him. The president and his wife trere return ing fron a Weekin test in their to Talu Retreat at Canp Datu my. Study of Vietnam vets shows 40% with emotional problems Atlanta a a study of 7.000 american legion members who served in the Vietnam War found More than a third of them either have had an emotional break Down or fear they will have one officials say. Almost 10 percent 663 veterans have sought mental health treatment from the veterans administration since the War John f. Sommer jr., Deputy director of the american legion s National veterans affairs and rehabilitation commission told reporters sunday at a meeting of the society for traumatic stress studies. The study co sponsored by Columbia University also indicated that those Vietnam veterans who experienced the most intense combat had the highest risk of experienc ing mental problems. Nearly 40 percent of the study participants said they have had a breakdown since their serv ice or feared they would have one. The Large number of individuals who sought mental assistance is most disturbing Sommer said he said the study participants were relatively stable in that they Are social enough to belong to a veterans group and open enough to share their experiences. A lot of the Vietnam veterans have not progressed As far Sommer said. Some have gotten away from society moved into the wilderness. We consider this the number of veterans with emotional problems Trie lip of the ice  the findings Are the result of a two year Survey of nearly 7,000 randomly selected members of the american legion who served in the armed forces during the War. Approximately 40 percent of Che group saw Active duty in Vietnam. Those veterans who saw Active duty in Vietnam and who later sought the a s mental health treatment May also have suffered monetarily As a result of their War experiences Sontner said. Only 37 percent of those who sought treatment had family incomes greater than $25,000, and 18.5 percent had incomes less than $12,000. Of the entire group tested 9.2 percent had incomes less than $ 12,000. In other words said Sommer there is a doubling of the lowest level of income among those Vietnam veterans who have sought mental health  Sommer said the test results demonstrate a screw need for special programs to Deal with the mental health problems of Vietnam veterans. Bush Calls gop women a beef foot soldiers Phoenix Ariz. A vice presi Dent George Bush speaking sunday to a gathering of Republican women called them the Best foot soldiers any party Ever had and urged them to help strengthen the gop s control of the Senate in next year s elections. People ask what we can really do about the deficit Bush told the convention of the National federation of Republican women. The real answer is to give us strengthened control of the Senate and More seals in the  republicans control the Senate 53-47 but have 22 seats up for election in 1986 Only 12 democratic teats Are at stake. Democrats control the House 253-182. Bush said president Reagan s administration wants serious negotiations at the Summit meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva in november. We want to Leduce the level of terror and the president stands willing and Able to do precisely that Bush said. But he said the administration would not accept soviet strengths and then concede on ours a goal he maintained that the soviet Union is seeking. Bush predicted that the administration will get approval for additional tax cuts this year if we can gel that leadership out of  he did not elaborate. Earlier in the Day. Sen. Barry Goldwater r-anz., blasted Republican critics of the Reagan tax proposals saying lawmakers who do not support the proposals May lose their seats in the next election. Rep. Newt Gingrich r-ga., urged the women to Experiment take risks and be bold adding we must master the Art of dominating the  former . Ambassador Jeane Kirkpa tick who joined the gop earlier this year Drew applause with her description of democrats As bogged Down in predictions of disaster and  today the democratic party is in a real bind she said. They can t get elected a less things get worse but things won t get worse unless they gel  she said Reagan successfully stood up to the onslaught of a Brand of liberalism that evolved out of the counterculture and the Vietnam experience and is designed i be Lieve to ensure our