European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday july 26,1987 an Chiono canned heat six yer old Suez or Collado finds � Cool Ruhf in a scrubbed Clemn garbage an it a xenon no. That s his brother s and gang extra Relief from Ibe hot Nave by pouring icy water Over his Bead on Friday. New Fri figures indicate continuing Rise in crime Washington apr the Fri s National crime Index Rose 6 percent last year to the highest Point since1981, the government reported saturday a development some researchers say signals rising crime Levels for inc rest of the decade. The Tola number of serious offences reported to police was 13.2 million in 1986. With violent crime up 12 percent from 1985 and properly crime up 6 percent Fri crime Levels have now risen for two straight years with increases in 1986 in 44 of the 50 Stales. In 1981, the Fri Index s Peak year 13.4 million crimes were reported. There was a is percent jump last year in aggravated assault which Row More than 100,000, toli34,000. The number of burglaries and larceny theft was up nearly half a million last year to 0.5 million. Some of the increase can be attributed to a greater willingness by citizens in recent years to report crime but it also May suggest that there is a greater Overall incidence of crime reversing the downward trend that began six years ago. A government Survey of households earlier this Yea showed that crime generally whether reported to police or not remained relatively stable last the Survey also showed slight increases in robberies and burglaries. There has been some increase in the rate at which people report crime to the police but that can t Possi Bly account for the Large and widespread increase in reported crime said Alfred Blumstein Dean of the school of Urban and Public affairs Ai Carnegie Mel Lon University. We May Well be seeing the Start five years Early of he increase that Many of us anticipated would begin in the 1990s." added Blumstein. Researchers have predicted that crime Levels would increase in the next decade As children of the baby Boom generation moved in increasing numbers into the mos crime prone age group of Flat teens and Early 20s. Crime Levels Are on the Rise and the criminal Justice system has t been allocated the resources to Deal with the problem said Charles m. Friel Dean of the College of criminal Justice and director or the criminal Justice Cen Ter at Sam Houston state University in Huntsville Texas. Prison overcrowding and Early release of violent offenders has led to some probation and parole officers being beset with caseloads of 300 offenders or More. The result said Friel is a breakdown in proper super vision which increasingly puts the Public at risk. The policy makers have to come to grips with this problem and they Haven according to the Fri s new figure More than � third of All serious offences reported to police were committed in the South last year where crime level moved up a substantial 10.1 percent from 1985. Crime was up 2,6 percent in Lac Northeast 4 per cent in the Midwest and 5.8 percent in lie West. Crime was up 6 percent in suburban counties 4 percent in Rural counties and 7 percent in the cities. The six Stales where crime Index Levels went town were Maine Indiana North Dakota Delaware Mon Tana and Nevada. Nationally the number of murders and robberies each Rose about 9 percent with 20,613 Murden and More than half a million robberies and there was a 3.2 tier cent increase in the number of forcible rapes to 90,000. Burglaries wot up i 5 percent to a tout of 3.2 Mil lion. There were 7.3 million larceny thefts a 4.8 per cent boost a category that includes shoplifting purse snatching and pocket picking but excludes embezzle ment Ana forgery. Reagan assails House passed version of catastrophic health care legislation Washington a president Reagan said saturday that the catastrophic illness Bill passed wednesday by the House would overtax he elderly and soon threaten to bankrupt the medicare Trust Reagan in his weekly radio address made saturday from Camp David Mil lamented the refusal by the House wednesday to pass Republican sponsored catastrophic health care legis lation. It was similar to the responsible. Program he had proposed earlier this year. But while Reagan denounced the Bill that passed the House 302-127, he did not threaten to veto it As he had clone in a meeting with Republican congressional leaders. 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But he said that the proposal approved by the House would Cost More than 110 billion a year by 1989, and up to j100billion a year by the year 2005 three times More than the Cost of the program that he advocates. The president also predicted that bythe year 2005, the catastrophic health care Bill passed by the House would throw the medicare Trust fund 120 Bil lion into debt. Of promised a plan that would protect you in your retirement he said. Reagan said he thinks the american people Are doing a slow Burn Over some of the actions of Congress and he said temperatures Are going to Rise Over the Cala strophic illness legislation now circulating on capital Hill. Reagan said that what the nation needs is a catastrophic illness insurance coverage plan that can work without taxing the elderly into the legislation passed by the House would bring about the broadest expansion of medicare benefits since the great society program proclaimed during president Lyndon b. Johnson s administration. 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