European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 4,1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 births Down but life expectancy up Washington a fewer americans Are being bom these Days but those who arc arriving can look Forward to the longest lives Ever according id new government calculation. Life expectancy climbed to a record High last year while Ai the same time the nation s Fertility Rale fell loan All Lime Tow the National Center for health statistics reported wednesday. Marriages and divorces meanwhile fell to inc lowest level in a decade. The Center reported thai life expectancy for americans bom in 1986 reached a new record High of 74.9 years up from 74.7 years reported in 198. The highest life expectancy was 78.9 years for White females up from 7g.7 a year earlier. White males saw an increase from 71.8 to 72.0 years according to the Center a part of the department of health and human services. Its annual summary of National vital statistics added thai for Blacks men s life expectancy Rose from 65.3 years to 65,5. But women s declined from 73.7 to 73,6. Meanwhile the Center reported that total births were Down slightly to 3,7.11,000 babies nationwide compared with 3,749,000 in 1985. That represented 64.9 live births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, 2 percent below last year and the lowest rate Ever recorded in the United  Trie drop follows the trend of recent years As Many Young people have postponed marriage and families to pursue education and careers. There have been some years in which total births Rose but the Fertility rate fell because of the growing number of women in the age group most Likely to have children. Now however those women arc mov ing into the older parts of that group and local births also have started to fall the statistics indicate. Social scientists have debated in re cent years whether declining Fertility Rales represent merely a delay in having children or a decision not to have families something thai Only time will Dis close As the children of the Post world War ii baby Boom pass through their prime childbearing years. Trends in the number of annual births Are affected by two factors the rate of births among women and the number of women in the childbearing Ages. The number of women aged 15 to 44 increased i percent Between 1985 and 1986, but the bulk of that was among women aged 30 and Over where birth Rales enu to be lower. The number of women aged 15 to 29 declined by i per cent the census Bureau has projected that the total number of women in the prime childbearing Ages will remain substantially the same through the remainder of this decade Bui their age Structure is expected to shift More toward he older segment of that group As the smaller group of women bom in the Laic 1960s and Early 1970s matures. Thus declines in total births will of Curr unless birth rates Rise among these women. Turning to marriages the Center re ported 2.4 million in i98fi, Down about 25.000 from 1�85. That represents a National marriage Rale of 10.0 per 1,000 people Down from 10.2 a year earlier and inc lowest Rale since 1977 when it was 9.9. The All time High marriage Rale occurred in he Boom immediately after world War ii when 1946 recorded 16.4 marriages per 1,000 people. The Bollom was in inc depression year of 1932, with 7.9. There were 1.159,000 divorces last year Down from 1,187.000 a year earlier. That represented a drop from 5.0 divorces per i100 to 4.8 last year. Thai is the lowest divorce rate since 1975 when it was also 4.8. The record High divorce rate was in 1979 at 5.3, the study also reported a total of 2,099,000 deaths last year the most Ever recorded in a single year. With an aging population the nation has Sel records for total deaths in the last several years. However the size of the Overall population also is growing so the Rale of death declined 870.8 deaths per 100,000 people last year Down from 874.8 the year before. The race Jackson to reveal plans monday Washington a the Rev. Jesse Jackson will disclose on labor Day whether he will make another try for the while House in 19ss, his press Secretary said wednesday and All the signs Are pointing to his candidacy. Jackson will announce whether hell seek the democratic nomination on Abc to s Good morning America but it will not be a formal announcement of candidacy Frank Waif ins said. I will Lay out on monday what my intentions Are Jackson told the Cleveland Plain dealer which on wednesday quoted sources close to Jack son i saying he had decided to run. After the television interview Jackson a Long time civil rights activist and minister who sought the democratic nomination in 1984. Will visit Cleveland Pittsburgh and new York. Jackson will hold a news conference in Pitts Burgh and participate in a traditional labor Day March. He will attend a picnic in Cleveland with rep. Louis slopes a Ohio and then travel to new York for a Parade and festival Watkins said. Jackson has had a presidential exploratory com Mittee in place since March bul has held off on any announcement saying he was still in the decision making stage. Money has been a problem for the Jackson Camp bul Large fund raising events last weekend in Chi Cago and new York brought in nearly 1400,000, the Campaign said. Walkins said thai put the Campaign at More than $1 million in total fund raising Cut All of that Money has been used to pay expenses. The Campaign s goal is $5 million raised by March most of which will qualify for Federal Matching funds Walkins said adding that Jack son s statement on his decision should make fund raising easier. Congress Oner club endorses Kemp Raleigh . A Republican rep. Jack Kemp a new yorker hoping for a Strong showing in the South in 1988, has scored a much needed coup by winning the support of the Arch conserva live National congressional club. The organization Hal raised $18 million for the 1984 re election Campaign of its co founder sen. Jesse Helms r-, will make Kemp s presiden tial Campaign its lop priority next year executive director Carter Wrenn said wednesday. I think Kemp is in the process of becoming the conservative movement candidate for president a Label Hal thus far has eluded him Wrenn said. Charlie Black Kemp s Campaign manager and a North carolinian said the group s support is a tremendous  the congressional club will lend its fund raising prowess to Kemp s Campaign and will help develop strategy for gelling votes in the South where More than a dozen Stales have scheduled primaries and caucuses on March a Kemp philosophically represents the majority of the Republican party but starts from a much weaker position because he docs not have inc National name recognition or fund raising base Wrenn said. Robertson s bid Short on support Chesapeake. A. A the Rev. Pat Robertson is Short of his goal to win 3 million pledges of support by sept. Ii Lor his possible 1988 presiden tial bid and May Grant himself an Extension a Campaign aide said wednesday. We need to keep in mind that it s his own self mandated goal it s not against the Law if he does l make that deadline said Barbara Catullo a spokeswoman for americans for Robertson. Talluto estimated that Robertson had received 1 million pledges of support and has another i Mil lion signatures on petitions Siil in the Field. I know we re pushing 2 million she said. Robertson had been expect ice to announce i Republican presidential candidacy on Cpl 17, hut aides arc Billing a news conference Hal he Luis scheduled in Chesapeake on that Day As an update on the status of his petition drive. Asked whether Robertson might use the news conference to announce that he is extending his deadline for gathering signatures Catullo Aid that s possible but she did not Rule out the possibility thai Robertson who has campaigned unofficially for the past year could announce his candidacy during the news conference or even Bow out of the rare we re working on a Day by Day basis Iii Sulla said. We have not verified the number of Signa Tures we have it. Rpt Rison said Hist year Hal hey Oulu run for president if within 12 months 3 million  signed petitions pledging 10 support him. Ford Law talks make Progress Dearborn Mich. Not executives of the United automobile workers and Ford motor co. Said wednesday thai Progress is being made in their negotiations fora new contract. The current comma expires Cpl. It. Both sides said the Pace of bargaining had picked up since monday when the Union chose Ford As its strike