European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday july 22,1988 go families tend to handle stress Well military dilutes Impact doctors say by Clint Swift Washington Buna Washington Moit military families experience some aspect of divorce alcoholism child abuse or other emotional trauma but relatively few Arete verely affected a study in the journal of the american Academy of child psychiatrists concludes. The article by three army doctors say the Impact of Streu on service families May be diluted by a potentially support Ive military network and by personnel procedures that screen severely affected people from the defense Community. The article that appeared in March reviews 40 Yean of medical literature on How stress affects military famines. The main conclusion by drs. Mai Pete Jensen. Col Ronel Lewis and it. Cot Stephen Xenakis is that room for much More and better research remains. A hard look at the Impact of a father absence combat frequent moves authoritarian environment and Cross cultural marriages on the military family suggests that much of the effect May be the result of factors outside military life the researchers found. Some of the findings divorce. The incidence of divorce Likely is lower in military than civilian  but the studies examined could not Rule out that education or in come were the real factors behind the differences in divorce Rales. The re searchers also said the occasional separations that Are built into the military system May defuse stressed  abuse. The incidence of child abuse May be higher in the military when Simi Lar families Are compared. The income of abusing families in the Lim itary is Likely to be higher because there is no unemployment Bat when measured against civilian families of All types abuse is probably less frequent in the military alcoholism. The prevalence of alcoholism is very substantial in the military the doctors found. The number of military members who drink on at least a monthly basis it slightly higher than in the civilian population but the percentage has grown since 1980. On theother hand the number of extremely heavy drinkers and drug abusers has dropped probably due to Active Preven Tion and education efforts. Absence. The longer a father s absence he More Likely wives and sons were to be affected and the More lasting the effect was Likely to be. Some wives became overprotective and some son tended to be immature with poor relations with their Peers and some problem with masculine identification. Daughters were less affected. On the other hand there was some Evi Dence that absences helped children Leam to Cope and the researchers said More study was needed to separate the effects of absences from the effect of age sex other children in the family and Bow the Mother handled the father s absence. There also was evidence thai families that coped Well with a father s absence found it More difficult to integrate him Back into the group when he returned. Combat. Wives Likely suffer significant problems when husbands Are exposed to dangerous combat situations the researchers said. But they said that the studies involved failed to compare those wives with women whose husband were away for non combat Tours. Men who were prisoners of War often under went significant changes and 30 percent of their marriages failed during their first year Home. How Well the family fare seemed to be related to the length and Quality of the marriage before Captivity the number of children How severely the wife was affected and How Well the father s role in the family was maintained. Moves. The Challenge of relocation May actually represent growth opportunities and increase coping Capaci ties for most military  on study found that a Soldier s perception of the hardship of a move was related to the number of children the Cost of the move time spent waiting for a House and expectations about the new assignment. Another Pludy found that move usually Don t create problems As much As exam go talc existing ones causing people to seek help at the time of a  life presents families with unique challenges the researchers  responses Are Likely to be a function of previous life experience the in Tensity of the stress thai service life Putton Iscra the availability of social sup ports socioeconomic status How the family feels about the experience and fat div dual and family ability to Cope. 2 quakes cause heavy damage in California Fresno Calif. Up two Earth quakes the latest in a series of five to rattle California this month snapped Utility poles monday caused extensive damage in a Remote Mountain area an slanted people from los Angeles to Salt Lake City. Twenty Homes in the Little town of Chalfant Valley 15 Miles North of Bishop and near the epicentre of the twin quakes were reported to have been so damaged they Are uninhabitable. Two were levelled. Mobile Homes in the Are were knocked fron i their foundations. Power and Telephone lines were knocked Down sewers broke and build Ings shifted on their foundations in an around Bishop a City of about 5,000 population in the Sierra near the califor Nia Nevada Border. There is damage throughout the City mostly broken windows and items thrown from shelves said Bisho mayor Don Talmage. We have no known reported injuries Al this  the two quakes one with a magnitude estimated at 6.2 and the second 1.2, were recorded at 7 42 am. And 7 59 am. Officials Al the National earthquake cent Erin Golden colo., said they were entered about is Miles North of Bishop in the same area where a magnitude 5.3 temblor struck 24 hours earlier. In Bishop a downtown Bank suffered heavy damage. Storekeepers and Home owners reported shattered glassware tumbling furniture and cracked ceilings. A Road near the pleasant Valley Reser voir just Sank overturning pickup truck according to a witness. The Driver escaped unhurt. Dianne Laslett manager of the townhouse Motet in Bishop said there was no warning this time. Yesterday we heard it rumble before we Felt it the whole place Shook. The file drawers flew open. The dishes were crashing in the Kitchen Lulett s Hus band Dick said Barbara Wilson who live in Chalfin Valley said her Home was levelled. Debbie Mccormick a of the half we Val Ley Volunteer fire department said Many Mobile Homes Wen knocked offi heir foundations and some were acting. One we twisted w half. A for Interior i anything wat Glass it was  bulldozers were brought in to Cut Road into anal where some campers were reported  of Chalfant Valley were and Yii cd not to use Public water for drink ing. Emergency bottled water and Emer gency toilets were sent to the  Shaw in emergency dispatcher it Inyo National Forest said two borne were destroyed in Chat ant Valley my probably All 50 structures in the Law were damaged. A group of about so camper Andone vehicle Are stranded where i Road settled Shaw said. Bomb from Page 1 and exploded. The minister was in the building but was not in his office a ministry spokesman said. Another grenade soared through an eighth floor window and exploded slightly wounding rear Adra Carlos Vila Miranda. Of the six grenade that missed the defense ministry one struck a bus Shel Ter As a bus arrived to pick up Passen Gers. Three women on the bus were injured by flying Glass authorities said. Another hit a car and one lodged inthe tube from which it was fired a spokesman for Madrid s civil Gover nor s office said. It was not immediately known where the three other grenades landed. Sixteen minutes after the grenade at tack i police and firefighters rushed to the scene a bomb planted in a car exploded at a nearby Plaza. The bombing injured a policeman two passers by Anda Doorman at a nearby restaurant. The car from which toe grenades we relaunched caught fire and police later re covered six 20-Inch tubes used to fire the grenades 3 More nations Boycott Commonwealth games Regan insult9 claimed he s urged to resign Washington up women Sand civil rights groups urged presidential aide Donald Regan to resign monday saying nil comments implying women do not Back sanctions on South Africa Are insulting and shortsighted. Joining the National organization for women in its Call for Regan s resignation were the National women s political caucus the National political Congress of Black women and the anti apartheid group Tran Africa. Now president Eleanor Smeal said the remark by Regan the president s chief of staff was an outrageous and insulting judgment about american women. Regan last week noting the importance of South Africa s Mineral re sources and asked Are we going to ruin the american steel Industry with out knowing it Are the women of America prepared to give up Alt their jewelry London up three More nation monday pulled out of the Commonwealth games swelling the lilt Osboy Louera to 27 and threatening to nuke a shamble of the event Over Britain s refusal to impose sanctions against South Africa the near landslide which Hai see nearly half the originally scheduled coun tries and territories withdraw from this week game pose an embarrassment to prime minister Margaret Thatcher on the eve of her foreign minister s peace Mission to South Africa the new crisis was played out against backdrop of report that Queen Eliza Beth u has expressed dismay a Thatcher s leadership reports that if True could threaten a constitutional Cri Sis in Britain and the future of the Commonwealth foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey How conferred monday a Brussels with i 11 counterparts in the european Community in route to Pretoria to try to per Suade South african president a Terr a Botha to dismantle his country1 apart Heid policies of racial discrimination. It was Thatcher s rejection of sanctions As a Means of forcing Pretoria a negotiate with Black Leaden that prompted Cyprus sri Lanka and the Seychelles on monday to join 23 other countries in boycotting the games Start ing thursday in Edinburgh Scotland. Their decision came Only hours after India the most populous country inthe Commonwealth and once the jewel in the Crown of the British Empire joined the walkout in the most bitter blow yet to the olympic style 10-Dayshowpiece sporting event. With at least three others Malawi Swaziland and Botswana still Uncer Tain the Commonwealth game chair nun. Robert Maxwell said monday he would Send i Bill for 2 million pounds s3 million to the boycotting coun tries and possibly another to the British government. He said that the Bill would be divided up pro rata amont the it Celces an that if there was i ser fair Al the end of the game Thatcher s government would be asked to nuke up the differ ence these countries have caused us great Deal of inconvenience and i great Deal of  Maxwell told news con Ference in Edinburgh but they Are honorable and honest countries who have said they have taken their action to get at mrs. Thatcher an not Hurt the games. If that a True and they Don t want to Hurt the games i assure they will gladly pay up for the dam age they have caused