European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 7, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 Pilot court cd Al Limu Ucol Flat a and red crop Tell soc Iclin a league nutritional the Boult my photo Gulics i protein in but in 11 child in Itie can real in of mall. In right pin in children in Chart Wail to get food from red a fits. Red loss aiming to Stop preventable deaths editor s note thursday is world bed Cross buy by Dan Wollam staff writer Geneva Switzerland a filthy child living in a Small colombian Village is shown wiping tie remnants of her dinner from her face on the sleeve of her dress. The child s Mother then places her on a Small steel pal on the floor la urinate and defecate. The red Cross produced film shows inc Mother Selling a bottle Between the child s legs so the child can drink while she uses tin toilet. When he child finishes her sister throws he waste into a pipe in lie floor of he ramshackle House i pipe that empties into in open sewage ditch below the House and inc same ditch into which ult the Village s trash and sewage is tossed. The steel pot toilet is pushed in a bucket of water he water in which inc dishes will be washed inc water in which the sin family members will Buthe. In a Village in Bangladesh a woman refuses to Lake immunization shots because she believes hey arc birth control. She has borne five children. Three died of tet anus while infants. Their fatal illness could have been prevented had the Mother been vaccinated. Although these stories Are gruesome they arc typical of some aspects of life in developing nations say representatives of the league of red Cross and red Crescent societies. The league estimates that almost s million children die every year of dehydration caused by Diar Rhea the diarrhoea is usually the result of chronic illness and infection. Another 4 million die of vaccine preventable diseases such As measles whooping cough tetanus diphtheria poliomyelitis and tuberculosis. An equal number of Chil Dren May be disabled by these illnesses each car. The league through its worldwide network of Socie ties is trying to curb child deaths from diarrhoea and vaccine preventable diseases diseases hut Are Only a nuisance in developed countries said Patricia Smyc a red Cross officer with the league s child alive pro Gram. The league began child alive in Colombia and Hon Duras in the fall of 1984. The program now exists in Colombia Honduras Sierra Leone Bangladesh India Somalia Kenya and Gambia. Western countries Wren l c Crri a from disease related deaths among youth. Smyc said the los Angeles chapter of the american red Cross will Start a child alive program soon. Smyke said Hie original pin was to have society members in the countries teach the local people simple measures to curb infant mortality but league officials soon Learned they would first have to spend a lot of time and Energy teaching the local red Cross people those same things. Smyc said the lessons they teach Are simple and cheap. If we put in latrines we have to teach people to use them she said. She said contaminated Walcer is Only one of Many problems that contribute to disease and diarrhoea. She said much contamination comes through the ground where trash has been dumped As in the colombian Village shown in the film. Society members Are being taught to emphasize hand washing. Contamination h usually via hands Sony la said. She said hand washing is particularly important in India where cow dung is used to insulate Homes and pave roads Smyc said i in society encourages mothers to breast feed. That eliminates a tremendous portion of con Ami nation in  she said. Child alive concentrates on cures same As simple As giving the child a solution of sails and sugar stirred m o boiled water hut even such simple measures can be difficult la Tench in countries such As Llu Daras where mothers often prefer to take their sick children to he local healer rather than the clinic the healer spits a cuu Coc lion of alcohol and herbs on the child and smears it Over the child s body to cure what the Lueal people Call the evil  Smyc said few people Rea i that diarrhoea and vaccine preventable diseases Are leading tillers of Chil Dren. Perhaps More important the parents Don t know inc deaths Are senseless " the children die at Home and it s so common Hal parents feel it s their fut Smyc said. Smyc said inc red Cross is working closely who he world a Cash organization and inc . Chil Dren s fund to get people immunized. Bui Progress is slow. It in t easy to set up a system that reaches All the children she said. Red Cross statistics show that in some countries As Many As 70 percent of All infant deaths arc caused by tetanus a vaccine preventable disease. Ariane reaping benefits in Wake of Nasa failures Paris a while the . Space program is suffering through a string of failure that began with the january space shuttle explosion Europe s ariane rocket program is booked nearly solid through 1989, with contracts Worth 11.23 billion. We Are currently the Only commercial company Able to Pul satellites into orbit raid Charles bigot the director of ariane space. The . Space program suffered its third consecutive failure last week. A Delia rocket carrying a weather satellite had to be destroyed by ground technicians after going out of control a minute after Takeoff. On april 18 a Titan rocket carrying a military satellite exploded. On jan.-28 the space shuttle challenger exploded shortly after Takeoff and All seven astronauts aboard were killed. It s a High risk business Arian space spokesman Claude Sanchez said monday. But we Are confident in the american rocket. They the americans have a fail ure rate higher than foreseen but they re just going through a bad  Arian space the commercial Arm of the european space Agency has been competing with America s National aeronautics and space administration for commercial satellite contracts since 1982. To accommodate the current Boom the ariane program has added three More launches to its traditional five launches per year through 19 9. Last March it also opened a second launch pad at its base at Kourou in French Guiana on South Ameri Ca s northeastern coast. Following the challenger Accident aria no snack said it was negotiating with clients of the space shuttle who feared the . Setback would leave their satellites grounded to Dale no contract thai takes away . Clients has been signed officials said. Saturday s failed launch of the Delta rocket left Nasa with three deltas and three Atlas Centaur rockets Avail Abl. San Chez said. The space Shullie which Nasa had relied on to fulfil its commercial commitments has been temporarily grounded. In contrast Arian space has at least 30 launching on order Worth 11.21 billion Sanchez said. Eight flight openings remain but they Are already pretty much reserved be added. Sancho was asked if Arian space has been approached by Nasa or the . Government to launch non commercial american satellites and he said he did not know of any such request. In any ease we can i satisfy such a demand before 1939," he said. Our Calendar is relatively full till then and we think that by 1989-1990, the americans will be Able to launch their own satellites in the Normal  Arian space has Long Lou cd what it says Are the advantages of us unmanned rocket system Over the manned shuttle. The ariane rocket although it is not Reu Sable is Able to place satellites directly into geostationary orbit. With the shuttle satellites must be re boasted into Orbil