European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday novembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 military helping to fight family abuse by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the services arc doing a Good Job of heading off child and spouse abuse and cd Caling people about the problem but More needs to be done to treat and rehabilitate abusers military officials say. We do Prelly Good on prevention and education but we need to Concan Lrata More in providing services to families after they re involved in this so it won t happen  said Marti Speights army family advocacy program coordinator. Much of the treatment and rehabilitation is tied to commanders perceptions of the problem which in the pest has been a problem in itself said Bob Stein director of the department of defense s military family resource Center. Say you have a Guy who has been sexually abusing his daughter Stein said. In the past the first reaction from a lot of commanders was let s kick that per son out of tile service but that might not be the mos1 prudent course of  statistic i show that fathers who sexually abuse heir children have a very Good Chance k being rehabilitated Stein said. If arc talking about a Jet Pilot we have a certain amount of Money invested in his career. So even if we re Only talking dollars it makes sense to try the rehabilitation route he said. If we kick that Guy out. What happens to the child continued victimization probably. But then you might get a Case of an individual who might be a marginal per former who was perhaps on the Edge of being released from the service anyway Stein said. What we want to do is provide com Manders with the information to make a decision from an intellectual rather than an emotional base he said. We just want them to look at All the  some military family advocacy officials got a Chance to see How civilian agencies in the United Sarics arc dealing with child and spouse abuse at a workshop held in Leesburg va., oct. 27-29, on the modern american phenomenon of violence hosted by or. C. Everett Koop . Surgeon Gen eral. We feel we have no More and no less of a problem with child and spouse abuse than society As a whole Stein said. We think we re on about the same level and that s problem enough. But one of the things that came out of the workshop for me was that the Mili Sand trap masquerade it s not really it nun blasting her Way out of a trap at us Hampden country country club in Hampden mass., coun try club. It s Carol Graff who donned the habit to compete in the club s annual masquerade Golf Tournu Nunt. Tary has been doing a lot of things that arc Only being talked about in the civilian Sec Tor he said. Speights snid that the military has one advantage Over the civilian sector. I think Vic do much belter at bringing together All the support groups involved the medical social services Law enforce ment and Legal people simply because the military is one big self contained sys tem Speights said. The services have been instituting numerous education programs on child and spouse abuse in the past few years aimed not Only at commanders but at military communities in general. The army for example has begun a special training course for Provost marshals who arc responsible for investigating incidents of family abuse Speights said. She said the army is also training Day care workers on How to recognize signs of child abuse. The air Force has been at the forefront in instituting family advocacy guidelines policies and education programs said maj. Hank Vader air Force family advocacy program manager. We were the first service to have a child advocacy regu lation in 1975," he said. Vader said the air Force sponsored 14 four Day workshops All Over the world in 1982 to provide enhanced training to the service s child advocacy experts. In 1983 the air Force conducted specialized train ing for Security police since they arc often the first ones on the scene of any family violence. While the education programs have expanded there have not been enough peo ple to administer those programs on As wide a scale As the services would like. Bui Vader said that in the air Force this is changing. We re hiring 80 More social workers to assist inc family advocacy officers at the bases he said. Our treatment capabilities arc going to increase 200 percent when they All come on  Speights said the army is also getting More funds for its programs and is work ing to Standardi a them. Stein said the services really have no statistical base which they can use to study the problem military wide because each service has its own definitions of what constitutes abuse sexual abuse negligence and so on. We be just come up with a Dod form that says what we want reported by the services and what definitions we want used Stein said. That form is being sent Oul to the services  soviets hold advantage in strategic warheads research Institute says London a the soviet Union substantially outpaced the United states in deployment of Long Range nuclear warheads in the last three Yean and is researching Star wars technologies a research Institute said saturday. The International Institute for strategic studies also said in its 1985-1986 military balance publication that the two countries have about the same number of strategic warheads but that the soviet warheads have greater total destructive capacity. Numbers of . Strategic warheads in creased about 10 percent during the three year period while the soviet increase was 37 percent it said. The report said the United states has 10,174 Warhus com pared to 9,268 three years ago and the soviets have 9,987. Up from about 7,300. The soviets hold an approximate 2.39-1 megaton age advantage in deployed land based and submarine based missile War Heads and an estimated 1.6-1 Edge when bomber delivered warheads Are included the report said. A megaton the measure of thermonuclear weapons Power u a Jual to the explosive Force of a million tons of int. The Institute did not discuss in detail the . Strategic defense initiative to deter mine if a space based defense against nuclear missiles is possible a defense program popularly called Star  it did not enter the debate Over charges by both sides of possible violations of the 1972 anti Ballis tic missile treaty. But the Institute said the soviet Union is also conducting an Active program of research into strategic defense technologies and is upgrading both ballistic missile and air  the soviet Union has declared the . Star wars program will Lead to militarization of space and denies it has any equiv Alent program. With the exception of the superpower the report said military budgets Are generally showing slow or no growth and in a number of cases budgets Are actually de  it also found no evidence to support the ,. E 3 percent goal apparently has been Only by the United states Britain widespread i a of the emotive term arms race to describe what has actually occurred Over the past year in the deployment of military  the publication added modernization naturally continues As weapons become technically obsolete but Overall numbers of deployed weapons systems or of men in uni form show Little change Over 1984." the Institute said that an intense debate within nato about new concepts and More advanced weapons systems has not yet resulted in major changes either in organizational structures or in fielded  although nato governments have Given rhetorical support to the commitment to maintain a 3 percent growth of defense spending in real terms Over the forthcoming years very few governments seem Likely to meet this target the Institute said. The App met on u Canada and France. The publication noted official soviet Fig ures showing an 11.8 percent increase in official defense spending to the equivalent of $22.257 billion for 1985. But it added nearly All competent Western observers believe the. Figures underestimate Actu Al expenditure by a Factor of 1 0 or  the Independent Institute is financed by Western foundations membership fees and sales of its publications. One time bodyguard for Trotsky Dies at 70 los Angeles a Bernard Wolfe a one time bodyguard to Leon Trosky has died of a heart attack. Wolfe 70, died at the motion picture and television country House and Hospital. After graduating in 1936 from Yale Wolfe went to Mexico and worked As Secretary and bodyguard to Trosky the exiled bolshevik Leader. The events leading to Trotsky s 1940 assassination by agents of Joseph Stalin formed the basis for Wolfe s novel the great Prince died published in 1959