European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday february 23,1987 news updates Berlin Wall Walker new York a a 69-year old american who walked Alop the Berlin Wall to protest political Bor Ders is in the United slain alter being expelled by East Germany. John runnings or Seattle. Wash., was convicted in an East Berlin court of violating tic communist country s Border and was put on a flight from Prague Czechoslovakia 10 new Yon via Montreal. I m very glad to be Back in the . I be had a very interesting and exciting adventure but i m glad it s Over runnings said on arrival. Runnings was arrested nov. In while pounding the Wall with a Hammer after having walked on it twice previously. . Embassy officials who monitored the Case said the court gave runnings in months in Pris on but suspended the sentence on condition he be expelled. Writer suspended peking up the editor of China s Foremost literary journal has become the fifth intellectual known to have fallen victim Lope King escalating Campaign against Western ideas. Stale run China Central television a ctr said in its nationwide news broadcast that Liu Xinwu a writer famous for his works criticizing the cultural revolution was suspended As editor of peo ple s literature for allowing the publication of an allegedly racist and pornographic work. Dental staff helps ease kids fears of the chair temperatures Law totem of Moron Mortun und i inn to Phi try � motor it buoy a tog a mum a Samwan wit u Oak ii Fri my Wam it do Many Tooby Vang Fri of Evv  mow Wovna  Nuernberg Bureau Nuernberg or. Thirsty and or. Whistler were working together on the sleepy water while or. Mirror and or. Tool counter went exploring. Members of the dental care staff at the nearby Fuenfh children s clinic use such euphemisms to tone Down the fears kids normally face in the  or. Thirsty is the suction tube that takes excess fluids out of a patient s Mouth. Or. Whistler is the Drill. Or. Tooth counter is the pick like explorer a dentist uses to probe for cavities. And sleepy water is the aesthetic. Or. Capt David Thomas was giving a Lour to Fiot Molina s Nuernberg elementary school kindergarten class. The Lour is one of Many similar programs taking place in military communities throughout Europe in february nation Al children s dental health month. Thomas said the tour s purpose was to increase an awareness of dental care among children. One youngster Barry Redmon wanted As Little awareness As possible. Turning to classmate Heather Neil As they marched into the a Ray room he said Are you going in there i m not going in there. I m  Heather put a comforting Arm around Barry s shoulders and said there s nothing to be scared  Thomas agrees. He said kids often pick up their fear of dentists from Well meaning parents who sometimes Are Bru tally honest in preparing their children Tor a visit. Parents condition fear into their Chil Dren because they themselves Ore afraid Thomas said. He stressed that trying to Tell their kids what s going to happen is the worst thing parents can do. Don t by anything. Let the dentist do the  despite the euphemisms used to soften the dental terminology Thomas said it s still important to be honest with Chil Dren. The word hurt1 is not used he said. We say Pinch or Mosquito bite " Bui when they ask direct questions Thomas parents condition fear into their children or. David Thomas answers just As directly. Thomas acknowledged that sometimes it does Hurt. We Tell them that if we Don t fix in the pain will get  he said the Best thing is to get the child to the dentist As Early As 2 years old when dental problems arc few so that the first visits will be uneventful. We have some 2-year-Olds who come in leap up into the chair and say let s Gor Thomas acknowledges that the Chil Dren know they la be setting a Small toy after the visit to that seeing the dentist begins As a Joy. When children become hysterical dentists use one of three patient Man agement1 techniques to Calm them. Psychological management involves voice control and talking the child through a show Tell do process. This dentists say is the preferred method sedating the child helps but is usually reserved As a last resort because of possible reactions to the medication. Physical restraint May be used to keep a child still so he docs not injure himself. In one method the dentist puts his hand Over the child s Mouth to quid him so he can concentrate on the Den list s instructions. It also keeps the child from hyperventilating by allowing him to breathe More regularly through his nose. Ii looks worse than it is said one dentist who asked that he not be identified but it s a technique approved by the american Academy of paediatric dentistry and which docs not harm the  restraint and sedation arc required in so few cases that dentists arc reluctant to discuss them unless they re absolutely necessary. Thomas said pc Dalric deists attend a two year course of instruction in order to become  children s dentists. Molina s schoolkids put that knowl Edge to the test. They asked a lot of what s this for question which Thomas later said help children under stand what will happen to them. The two biggest questions Thomas said Are do Inerd a shot and is this going to Hurt " at the end of the tour Barry still was t convinced that a visit to the Den list would be a Joy. The sounds of a patient crying out in pain from behind a closed door did t add to Bis Confidence. I m still scared he said. But when asked if the tour helped he nodded his head slowly. 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A government source told the Post that the statements by the Secretary Fawn Hall and other Csc aides and the retrieval of numerous messages from Csc computers established a Clear Case of obstruction of  the Post quoted sources As saying that Hatt was granted immunity by in dependent counsel Lawrence Walsh and admitted that she helped North destroy key memo and computer Mes sages just noun before Justice depart ment investigators were to begin re viewing Csc tiles. The Post did Walsh has collected what sources described As extensive Evi Dence of a White House attempt in no vember to cover up aspects of the Iran operation. The Issue is no longer whether there was a cover up but rather who was involved the newspaper said. Hall told investigators thai she spent an hour beginning at 6 30 . Friday nov. 21, helping North destroy a Mam Moth suck of documents from North s Safe or a drawer the sources said. 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He was. A hotel maid found Susskind s body lying on the floor of his room at the Windham hotel in mid let Skuld and Manhattan about 1 30 ., said sgt. Ray Monuto Donnell a police spokes i the maid went to his room after Aste Friend reported he was not answering Bis Telephone Susskind was to have entered Lenox Hill Hospital on monday morning to see a bean specialist o Donnell said. Although Susskind was Best 1 a television interviewer who such guests As Nikita.  Harry Truman  Robert Kennedy Hajj Mirwis a successful film. And talk show Host Dick Cavett. Sunday tried to produce Quality television in the Days when in was still coming out of new York and still Golden. He always tried to do a higher order of stuff that was still commercial and  Susskind s films included a Raisin in the Sun Alice does t live Here any More and fort Apache the  on television he produced dramas such As Eleanor and ?ti5d death of a  As series Sueh Asili Jiff Inni and--p-d." Riis Success on television suss was one of the medium s loudest critics calling for higher Quality programming Ana More live productions. Susskind first took to the airwaves As an interviewer in 1958 with open end a local new York City talk show without set time limits. Susskind and his guests simply talked until they had Noth ing left to say. Some who thought Susskind and com Pany often kept talking beyond thai Point and that Susskind in particular was too opinionated called the program open  Susskind who lived and worked in Manhattan is survived by several Chil Dren. Funeral arrangements were incomplete