European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday junes 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 where s Ouagadougou 7 marines know by Daniel f. Gilmore Washington up about 513,000 of she More than 2.1 million americans in uniform Are posted overseas or on he Seal give of Lake he seven in Ouagadougou. Iwo at lonely St. Helena and one on Atush South Pacific Island. Remole military outposts gel link attention in armed forces advertising but i hey Are a recognized Factor in . Defense mapping they Range from idyllic tropical islands to Barren desert nations. For example seven marines guard the . Embassy in Ouagadougou capital of Turkina faso the land locked West african natron considered the eighth poor est in the world once known As upper Valla. In neighbouring Mali sin marines Are stationed at the . Embassy in Bamako where occasionally they can travel North across shifting Sands to visit the legendary Cilyok Timbuktu. In Asia seven soldiers arc posted in Liny Nepal under the Shadow of Majestic mount Everest. Of course stations in Europe and the tar past arc Mure populous and often More popular the latest Pentagon figures show there arc 326,619 personnel and dependents assigned Lonato countries 47,442 posted in Japan and Okinawa 45,158 in South Korea and 16,358 stationed in the Philippines. Dul even in non Allied nations the . Military often maintains a sizable de Ega for. There Are 2,471 Ameri can personnel and dependents in Cuba at the extraterritorial Guantanamo Navy base on the Eastern end of the Island. Pentagon figures show a local of 2,159,511 men and women in uniform with 513.077 on foreign soil of sail ing foreign seas. The global  runs from the South pole where 101 Active Navy personnel arc supporting . Scientific bases to the North pole where three nut car powered submarines recently met under the ice and surfaced to alien1 Many of i hair 300 Crew members to stand at the top of the world. Civilians can Only wonder How boredom is a voided by the two air Force men holding the fort 1,200 i its off the West african coast on the Island of St. Helena where Napoleon was eni cd in i8s and died in 1&2i or How much fun the one Sailor has an the South Pacific vacation Paradise of Fiji. 47% of . Catholics would allow female priests Washington a nearly half the Roiman catholics in Trie United states disagree with their Church s ban on female priests a new report indicates. Forty seven percent of the catholics questioned in a Survey agreed strongly or somewhat that allowing women s ordination would be a Good  the author of the study reported the figure in a 1914 Survey was 29 percent. At the same time he said respect for male Catholic priests is growing and a trend toward parents reluctance to Sec their sons enter the Priesthood has apparently been reversed. The change in attitude about sons vocations could be an important development in the Church s struggle to reverse a two dec Ade decline in priests at the same Lime membership in the nation s largest denomination has soared to s3.65 million. Critics of the ban on female priests have suggested that lifting it could eliminate the shortage of clergy and encourage women who say they Are considered second class Chuth members. However Pope John Paul ii has not softened his declaration that the matter is closed. However the study s author. Catholic University of America sociology professor Dean r. Hog said apparently Strong changes Are occurring among american catholics on this topic and probably on other topics regarding women today although the males Only clergy rules Are held in place by an All male Hierarchy sup port for allowing female priests is actually higher among Catholic men than women Hoge said in the report. The percentage of men favouring the idea american catholics lzj1976 q1981 01986 Catholic population archbishops 148.88 million 50.4s million 152.65 million percent of . Population cardinals " 23.16% 10 269 Rose from 35 percent in 1974 la 51 percent in 1985 while i he percentage of like minded women increased from 25 percent to 44 per cent. Those figures hog said indicate thai support for women s ordination is coming no merely from women s ," in general he said support for doing away with the ban was highest among the youngest and Best educated respondents and those who attended mass least often. Our Best Gulcis is that the trend inward greater acceptance of women s ordination is a rather constant trend not erratic and that it will continue in the years ahead he said. On other matters the Survey found fifty five percent of those questioned said they would be very pleased to have a Sun became a priest up from the i 74 figure of 50 percent which had in turn been Down from 67 percent in 1963. Business Xet Ulics and College professors got higher ratings than priests As potential occupations for sons writ ers and stockbrokers so lower ratings. Fifty perccn1. Of the respondents said local priests were very understanding of parishioners practical problems up from in percent in 1974. Eighty eight percent generally approved of inc Way or Icsis handled their jobs up from i percent. On the Church s ban on marriage for priests 51 percent said they favored allow ing clergy to marry Down from 57 percent � decade earlier. Sixth Bree percent said married men should be allowed to be ordained up from 51 percent. Hog said the difference might be due to the fact that one question suggested ordained priests might marry while the other suggested Mir Rigac before ordination. Child molester sentenced to stay Home Kitchen Baze Warwick . A a judge sentenced a convicted child molester to stay in his Home for iwo years except logo to work and naval Reserve meetings saying the Man will be living in a  he cannot even Stop for milk on the Way Home Superior court judge Alice b. Gib Ney said in sentencing Howard g Paster. 36, for second degree sexual assault on a 3 year old girl. Jibney on Friday sentenced pasier to eight years in prison but suspended All but two years of the l pm which the Man was ordered to spend in Bis East Greenwich Home. Paster will be subject to unannounced visits by probation officers and police. Hell be living in a fishbowl said Gibney. One misstep and hell be sen i to  Gibney said state prison overcrowding did not influence her decision. Last month a Federal judge ordered Caps on the number of convicts held at two adult correctional institution units. The judge said Paster s Lack of a criminal record and the effect a prison term would have on his children were her concerns. In addition his employer and naval Reserve superiors recommended to the judge that he not be put in jail and dozens of people wrote asking that he be kept out of jail the Guy has never missed a Day s work Ever Gibney said. "1 Ihrk he has inc mind set to follow directions. He appreciates what has happened. He s dependable  customs holding up return of marcos7 goods Honolulu a former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos will not gel 17 million in jewels currency and other items Back until a review of a judge s order to release them a . Customs service official said. Philippine officials said the order was Likely loft appealed. . District judge Harold Fong on Fri Day ordered the customs service o release goals Marcos and his party brought with them to Hawaii on feb. 26 after Leavina the philippine. The customs service had been holding the goods pending a court decision on their ownership. Lawyers representing the Philippines have assured us that us. Government lawyers Are going to Appeal he decision arid Lake i to the limit a spokesman for the philippine Consul ate in Honolulu said. The new philippine government has claimed Marcos illegally took the Money anal goods from the country the custom service does not intend to release an inventory of the Goddi unlit it has a Chance to study Fon s order customs spokesman Dennis Murphy said Friday in Washington. In his ruling Fott did not say who owned the goods and Money but ruled that Cus Lonu could not hold it. He Laid Marcos had complied with All applicable Laws relat ing to inc entry of such goods and said release would be subject to payment of applicable duties or Bond. Marcia said he would me some of the Money to repay about s39.000 in charges run up by member of Bis party at military base Exchange on Guam and in Hawaii. Kills Man three Small children Akron. Ohio a a Man apparently fell asleep while cooking causing a tire thai killed him and three Small Chil Dren fire officials said. Neighbors later reported smelling smoke saturday two hours before flames were seen shooting out a window at 3 a.m., Akron District Firis chief Michael Merle said. The children s Mother Cynthia Jones was at work at he Ime Summit county Coroner s investigator Roger Biggins said. Riggins identified the victims As mat thew de Bruce 37, and Tanesha Jones 5 months old. Millie Jones 22 months old and deme Ria Jones 3. De Bruce s body was found in a sitting position in the living room. The Man put some food on the stove and apparently fell asleep Merle said. The food apparently caught tire and ignited overhead Wall cabinets. Firefighter found the children in one bedroom. Coroner investigator Doug Jedi Ney said a preliminary investigation showed they died of smoke inhalation