European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday March 2, 1986 practising in the Park up photo avid Rock climber Jeff Brumfield some to pursue his Hobby. There Aren t too Cincinnati where climbing is practical gives him the Opportunity to Sharpen his times has a Little difficulty finding places Many locations in a City in this Case but an old viaduct in the City s Eden Park skills. Can f sleep expert has some shut Eye hints los Angeles up a researcher who says bedrooms should be used Only for sleeping and sex suggests that Many older people have trouble falling asleep because they do not think of bedrooms As places of rest. Or. Donald Bliwise of the Stanford University sleeping disorders clinic has been studying people Between the Ages of 65 and 90 who Are plagued with wakefulness nervousness and other difficulties during bed time. The Only two things you should do in bed Are sleep and sex Bliwise told col leagues at the 115th annual meeting of the California medical association Friday. A lot of insomniacs will do their work in bed. That s where they read or do their taxes. We suggest a sleep Hygiene approach. That Means people with sleeping disorders should Only go into their bedrooms when they feel  Bliwise and researchers at the clinic Are comparing the sleeping habits of More than 100 people Over the age of 65 to a group of people in their 20s. Deep stage sleep declines with age. Some researchers say that decline begins around the age of 25. But we have found there Are no differences Between Young and old in the Rem stage of sleep he said. Rem or rapid Eye movement the stage of sleep when dreams occur has been measured in controlled tests to occur every hour and a half throughout a night s sleep. Bliwise said the problems seen most often among older people at the clinic Are sleep Apnoea a condition characterized by severe snoring and cessation of breathing leg Jerk ing and insomnia. People tend to snore More As they grow older Bliwise said. There is a sex differ ence. Snoring occurs More among men than women and there s also evidence that snor ing is related to  the researcher said Young adults spend most of their sleeping time in the deep sleep stage while older adults Wake up More. Bliwise said older patients at the clinic often complain that they Are spending More time in bed take frequent naps during the Day but still have trouble falling asleep a night. We have found a tremendous amount of alcohol consumption among older people and while it can help you fall asleep it has a very Short life in the system and when it wears off insomnia can result he said. Bliwise said patients with sleeping Dis orders Are told to stay off alcohol and Are never permitted to use it As a sleeping Aid. They re also told to eliminate napping during the Day and to save All of their de sires for sleep for one specific time every Day. Bedtimes and Wake up times should be fixed. That Way they begin to associate the bedroom with sleep alone he said. Reagan blames Congress for High defense costs Washington up president Reagan saturday blamed Congress for wasting billions of defense dollars and said his administration has saved billions More than the Carter administration. In his weekly radio address from Camp David md., Reagan sought to counter grow ing congressional opposition much from his own party to his plan for an 8.2 percent increase in the military budget. Reagan has proposed a $311 billion defense budget. The same Day the first round of automatic Domestic budget cuts went into effect Reagan said we must not let All that we be accomplished in the last five years be undermined by careless slashing of the de sense budget. America must never again slide Back into helpless insecurity. America must never become As it looked like it was be coming in the late 70s, a paper  a senior administration official quoted sat urday in the Washington Post conceded that the defense request is in deep trouble be cause of Public and congressional opinion that the Pentagon already has enough. In his continuing attack on the previous administration of Jimmy Carter Reagan contended before we came into office defense costs had been out of control Esca lating at an annual rate of 14 percent. For the last two years Cost increases have fallen to less than 1 percent significantly lower than  Reagan did not mention that the Carter administration s Cost increases were based on inflation rates Well Over 10 percent or that Congress was responsible Over his objections for slashing Pentagon budget increases to nearly Zero in the past two years. We have saved billions and in the pro Cess we have built the most effective fight ing Force in the world he said. Under current congressional practice the budgets of the defense department and other departments Are set every year which Reagan said results in less defense and More  no company in the private sector would survive if it could t plan for the future but had to hastily and repeatedly alter its plans to accommodate shifting budgets he said. Much of the waste in defense is directly attributable to the appropriations process he said citing billions of dollars dollars that were lost forever in Congress de laying and then restarting the by bomber and my missile programs. He said he agreed with a Blue ribbon defense management panel s recommendation that the administration set five year defense spending projections and two year budget cycles