European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday january 20,1967 College students need Federal Aid Many feel new York up without Tow interest Loans or Granli 70 percent of americans responding to a poll claim that College for themselves or for their children is beyond reach a Survey report said sunday. Most of the respondents in he random Survey of1,010 people favored More Federal Aid for students from Low income and Middle income families As a Way out of he dilemma. The report called american altitudes toward higher education 1986, was based on a Telephone Survey conducted last month for the Council for sup port and advancement ofed Calion. It found thai for the second year in a Row 70 per cent of those polled expressed a need for Low interest Loans or Grants if Hopes of College for themselves or their children Are to be realized 82 percent up from 77 percent a year ago agreed that College costs Are rising at a rate that will put College out of the reach of most  among the other findings 55 percent favor Federal funding Tor Grants to Low income students up nine percentage Points Over the previous Survey 54 percent favor Federal Aid for Middle income students up from 40 percent a year ago 58 percent believe it is very important to Nave a College degree to get a Job or Advance in career and 44 percent believe thing Learned in College arc very important for life. Thirty six percent said inc Quality of a College Edu cation is generally improving or getting better Down from 44 percent in 1985 35 percent believe it is slay ing the same Down from 37 and 21 percent say it is declining up from 16 percent. Fifty four percent believe admission tests such As the Scholastic aptitude tests Are fair despite recent criticism of such tests. The study fifth in a series of annual polls relating to the nation s More than 3,200 colleges with some 12.5 million students was conducted by opinion research corp. Of Princeton . The report has a statistical margin of error at the 95 percent Confidence level of plus or minus three percentage Points according to opinion research corp. The Council is an International professional association for Campus fund raisers alumni administrators government relations professionals and communicators. Its membership includes Over 2,800 educational institutions in the 50 slates Canada and 38 other countries. Victims acquainted with attackers in nearly half of cases study says Washington a in nearly four out of every 10 violent crimes the attacker is a relative Friend or acquaintance of the victim according to a Federal study released sunday the report by the Bureau of Justice statistics say that ism than one half of the 20 million violent crimes committed from 1982 through 1984 were perpetrated by people who were strangers to the victims. In its latest Survey involving 38,000 households the census Bureau found that 46 percent of robberies rapes and assaults were committed by strangers. The Bureau s surveys Are conducted twice a year. It is often said that the fear of crime is largely a fear of  the Bureau director Steven r. Schlei Ineer said in a statement. But he said 10 percent of the offenders were known to the victims by sight and 39 percent of the violent crimes involved friends relatives or acquaintances of the victim. Friends accounted for 17 percent or 3.3 million of the violent crimes while casual acquaintances accounted for 14 percent. Relatives accounted for 8 per cent in the rest of the cases the relationship of the at Tacker to the victim was not known. From 1982 to 1984, friends relatives or acquaint ances were responsible for 40 percent of the rapes More than 45 percent of the simple assaults nearly 40 percent of the aggravated assaults and 20 percent of robberies. The Bureau a Justice department Agency within theoffice of Justice programs said it May be underestimating the number of crimes committed by people known to the victim. Individuals victimized by relatives May be reluctant to discuss the event. For fear of reprisal or out of shame or embarrassment the report said. Fur ther some victims of Domestic violence May not perceive these act As  in the 1.5 million violent crimes in which a relative was the offender 77 percent of the victims were women. Spouses or sex spouses committed More than half of All crimes by relatives and about two thirds of All crimes by relatives against women. More than half of the crimes by relatives against women were reported by women who were divorced or separated. The Bureau cited Fri statistics for 1984, noting that 20 percent of the 19,000 homicides were committed by relatives and nearly 40 percent by acquaintances. Voters reject taxes to improve Public services in new Orleans new Orleans a this City will have to look far other ways to improve police me and emergency medical services after overwhelming voter rejection of another tax proposal the mayor says. Complete but unofficial returns from saturday s election showed 45,250 votes or 69 percent against the $15 million property tax increase and 20,614, or 31 percent for it we think the Public did not understand and made a mistake said mayor Sidney Barthelemy. We Are going to regroup and look at what other alternatives we can come up with in the  the vote was viewed is a rejection of proposal designed to curb a one a Lay homicide Rale and reduce the frequency of other crimes. Police will be Able to train Only half the 700 recruits superintendent Warren Woodfork said Are needed to re place departing officers and the number of firefighters will remain at about 730, Down about 200 from july. Fit Union officials have said that having fewer officers on duty could cause fire insurance rates to go up. The City also planned to use the tax Money to hire 66 guards for its jails buy 125 police vehicles hire 10 Emer gency medical workers and lease five ambulances. It takes 14 to 17 minutes to get an ambulance in new Orleans twice the average of Souther cities of comparable  said the Brunt of the tax would have hit renters and businesses since state regulation exempt Homeowner from property taxes on Homes valued at 575,000 or  said they favor a monthly service charge on every household in the City. Voters rejected a $195 service charge in september. 2 rescued from plane ditched in Gulf of Genoa Genoa Italy a a single engine tourist plane ditched into the Gulf of Genoa on sunday and the two people on Board were rescued unharmed within min utes authorities  control lower officials said r stalled engine forced the Pilot to make an emergency Landing about two Miles off in., wast of this Northwestern port City. Rescue boats reached the scene within minutes and pulled out Pilot Franco Astuti 49, and passenger Alessan Dro Fetto 23. The two were stunned but uninjured. Stateside plane with 196 aboard makes emergency Landing Chicago a an engine malfunction forced a Northwest airlines plane carrying 177 passengers and 19 Crew members la make an emergency Landing at Chicago s o Harc International Airport shortly after Takeoff no one was injured in the sunday incident which occurred at 1 38 p.m., said Federal aviation administration spokesman Mort Edelstein. A 747 can Fly with one engine he said nothing was  Edelstein said the Pilot of flight 3, bound for Tokyo reported the engine problem when be was Over the mount Prospect area about 10 Miles from the Airport after taking off. Pieces of the engine later were recovered by police in mount Prospect Edelstein said. He said i Loose part probably fell into the engine s moving parts causing it to malfunction. Man tries to open door of Jet at 25,000 feet fort Lauderdale Fla. A a Man tried to open a Cabin door of an Eastern airline Jet dying at an Altitude of 25,000 feet Over Flor Ida. A flight attendant was Able to restrain the Man when he tried to open the door of the Boeing 727 on Eastern right 539 in route from tamp to fort Lauderdale Broward county sheriffs spokesman Al Gordon said. The Man. Who authorities said had history of psychiatric problems created a disturbance Momenta earlier by taking a fellow passenger jacket saying he needed a Parachute Gordon said. After the plane landed safely at fort under Dale Hollywood International Airport Lorenzo Pierce 33, of fort Lauderdale was taken to us Broward medical Center Gordon said. No charges were filed pending a psychiatric evaluation Gordon said. 110 whooping cranes wintering on Texas coast Austwell tews a a total of 110 whooping cranes the highest number since conservation efforts began for the endangered to cies in the 1930s, Are wintering along the Texas coast wildlife officials say. The flock of 110 Birds at the Arkansas National wildlife Refuge is basically surviving by itself said Tom Stein a . Fish and wildlife serv ice biologist at the Refuge. The Bird gel All the credit. We Don t really do much Active management beyond protecting the habitat he said the idea is mainly to leave them  the flock which migrates to Texas each win Ter from its Breeding grounds at Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada has recovered from a Low of 14 Birds with the most dramatic increases coming in the last Tew years. Friend of Eisenhower Dies at 91 in Kansas City Kansas City Kan. A industrialist Harry Darby a boyhood Friend of Dwight d. Eisenhower credited with helping persuade the former army general to run for president he died at the age of 91, Darby bom in Kansas City Kan., served briefly m the . Senate and was a member of the Republican National committee from 1940 to 1964. He helped manage the 1952 Campaign that led to the first of Eisenhower s two terms. Darby was suffering from pneumonia when he died at Bethany medical Center in Kansas City to. One of his daughters Edith Evans my Darby was hospitalized about five weeks ago