European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 16 the stars and stripes saturday september 28. 1985 and the search goes on by Jill Lawrence associated press t he year 198s May be remembered in Theun led stoles As the year of the  january Nino Law Ealim with missing children have been proposed in Congress milk Cartons Gas Bills and paper bags now carry pictures of missing children and network television hashes their laces nationwide. The same poignant faces will soon turn  on government mailings shepherding these efforts is the fledgling federally financed National Center for missing and exploited children located in a downtown Washington office building its 40-member staff gives information on child Protection trains Law enforcement and social services personnel and tracks missing kids it says in has helped resolve 1,653 missing children cases since it opened 14 months ago no one else has Ever done in. People Tiad no place to  said director Jay Howell. A lanky former prosecutor and Senate investigator whose office is plastered with posters and photographs of missing children More than 1 million children each year Are missing Howell said. Most of them come Back. Some of them come Back in 90  he said but he added that surveys of police departments indicate 20,000 to 50.000 remain missing for a substantial period according to Howell kids who run away or leave Home claiming to have been abused account for most of the missing. Bui an estimated 100.000 to 150.000 Are abducted by a Parent and 5.000 to 20.000 Are kidnapped by strangers of vanish under unknown circumstances ii a child is Over 12 and voluntarily leaves Home the chances of tracking him Down Are not Good Howell i d we have had children who Carne Home themselves because they saw their picture As a missing child it s visual proof that someone is looking for them that someone is anxious about their safely " but he says Many runaways Don t Call Home because they re afraid their parents will be angry at them f Ven children abducted by strangers often do not Call their parents after seeing pictures of themselves on television. Howell says. They easily buy into the kidnapper rationale your parents can t afford you and Don t want you Back. Your parents Are dead. If you Tell the police you la Goto jail " in California the Rotert allocation print picture of misting children on grocery bag. Society has not generally viewed parental abductions As a serious problem. But Howell says studies have shown that children subjected to such an experience and then returned have Nightmare can t sleep cry often and Are afraid they will be kidnapped again to the Lay Public their first thought is that s ,1 child who s with a Parent so he s not in danger. The lads Tell a different Story. The kids Are often in physical or emotional  he says. It s a me on the run. Hidden away stay away trom the police Don t make too Many friends in tie neighbourhood it s a very difficult life Lor a child and Tricy an.1 told the other Parent is dead a drug addict a prostitute. It s always  nevertheless the worst kidnappings remain those committed by strangers. When Abc television broadcast on april 30 the movie Adam a True Story about a child abducted arid murdered by a stranger it prepared a poster of 60 such children to accompany the show before the broadcast Date. Howell said eight faces had to be removed four children had been turned to their families four others were dead three murdered one an apparent Accident victim the Center ha1, a Telephone  a number thai does t Cost anything to dial in the four Days alter in broadcast the hotline received 7.4h2 c alls.,. Siu a Lvi l c a Poullon 0 a3u.q90 it  in during a three month period  s Eliot on behalf of exploited children. .-.-ll. Known  its  children act Valieh  i us Mil ii 1,1 the trility to a the Ai How .1 Calls t the i the ,.,., Tiv Calls d .p,., i.,.,  r ii however Howell says tit cent 10.000 .-. Lit n   ,0,1,1 30-.ile-., he to handle Jurij Othir ,ii ,.ay.n.,.hildn-i and i a  Nal  i it Lului the ,.-i"also has  several booklets Amoy them a compilation of the Best child Protection Taw adopted by Stales the Tenter Whoso government Money is scheduled to last until april 198g, is trim to enlist corporate support Howell says tremendous i,-.pon-,u to the hot Lite aed other services has  expansion