European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 14, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Eca pts issues Call for More parents new president sets education goals a education riot aschaffenburc1. Germany add More p s to the pts. That was Linda re sri s weekend Mes Sage during the two Day european con Gress of american parents teachers and students annual leadership seminar that ended sunday. Rysch began her first year As Recai tsp resident by forecasting an Uphill recruitment struggle. Many of our parents Are lower enlisted people who May not understand that education begins at she said. We need to gel More of those parents into our organization and for them to understand the value of the two Day meeting attracted 87 peo ple from 28 military communities. A High proportion of those attending Are employed by the department of defens dependents schools system including 15 of the 19 who serve on the Caits executive Board. Part of the problem is that military people arc usually Over Here for Only three Rysch said. It takes time to work your Way up and three years in t the Asch Altenburg elementary Secre tary said the group would rely on face to fact Contact to enhance recruitment for the Volunteer organization that claims a membership of 20.000. A Home Reading program will be inaugurated this year As part of a wider pts Effort to bring parents into the educational picture. Three fourths of our kids Don t have Library cards Rysch said. Part of the problem is that Many of the parents can read Only at the fifth or sixth Grade level so we re looking at educating the parents As Rysch said parents can be effective in helping their children s education even if they were underachiever in school. I look at my own Case. My father could t read. He could t sign his name. But he knew what the a s and c s on my report card meant and was determined that i was going to do Well in Rysch said the Reading program will entice local units to expand their activities beyond fund raising. In other developments a German soft drink firm has agreed to donate up to $5,000 to Eca pts to Reward Dodds students for writing. Capri sonic has asked the organi a Tion to devise a program to disperse the Money to students in grades kindergarten through 12. Gail inc Anderson who Heads Eca pts scholarship committee said the Money will be distributed in Bond ranging from $50 to $300. Students will submit essays on the Constitution citizenship nutrition and Host nation relations. A panel of educators from the Dodds Germany Region will deter mine the winners. Eca pts has set of target of $3.000 for its scholarship program for gradual ing seniors. The group plans to raise much of the Money through life memberships which can be purchased by local units for $25. The group s annual convention will be held in willing in Germany. May 1. 15. The 1987 Eca pts convention at traded 224 members. Mexico Miracle babies thriving 2 years later Mexico City a As Little Exclia tosses her Light Brown curls not a Trace can be seen of the Long Gash she suffered on her head when a Hospital col lapsed on her in the sept. 19,1985, earthquake. She was trapped amid tons of Concrete for the first five Days of her life. Two years later Exclia and other Miracle babies who spent from eight hours to nearly nine Day sin the rubble of two hospitals arc starting to talk. One of Evelia s words is Papikas Spanish for Pota to chips which she gobbles with gusto. Doctors who give them regular checkups say Only one has any physical problems related to the Earth quake injuries or the Days without milk water or medical attention. Their biggest challenges arc to overcome poverty and being treated As something special the medical teams say. With the exception of one or two who Are All right As far As Money is concerned most Are Low income families or. Miguel Angel Carreon of the Hospital i famil said of the 14 he sees. What we watch most closely is their nutritional when Juarez Hospital and nearby general Hospi Tal collapsed during the earthquake and the rubble shifted in the aftershock the next Day the babies were hit by the falling debris. While they were trapped their wounds became infected and the babies became dehydrated. One baby Jesus has had two operations this past year 9n a hip joint that was deformed when the infection spread through his body Carreon said. Family members arc caring for the ii babies whose mothers were among the estimated 9,500 who died in the earthquake that registered 8.1 on the Richter scale. Evelia and another one of the babies Lucia both have two men to Call papa their real fathers and the husbands of the aunts who took them in. Lucia s aunt Marcclina Rojas de Castillo admits that with the attention of her own seven children Ages 13 to 20, the youngster who will be 2 on sept. 18. Is spoiled. She sweeps washes clothes sings songs. She likes to dance Castillo said. She cries when you Tell her no and docs it Lucia races Down the Street where she lives at the Edge of the City with two other cousins Ages 3 and 2, and delights when her father brings her six Sisters Home weekends. All including her grandmother App Noto Victor Manuel Alvarez holds his daughter Evelia one of the babies buried under the earthquake nibble. Live in the same House. Although Lucia has plenty of attention her six Sisters were seriously neglected. Two were found to be suffering from second to third degree malnutrition. The six now live during the week at a roman Catholic boarding school a plan arranged by a american Charity organization. Other donations from the United Stales have gone to monthly food baskets and other Aid for Lucia s and Exclia s families. Most Days Lucia lags along with her 19-year-old Cousin. Maria do los Angeles to the open air Market where her Uncle Sells apples bananas and other fruit. Wearing a Blue Pullover sweater and Bluc and White striped shorts dark Blue socks and Black Pat ent leather shoes her hair in pigtails she plays under the tables and runs Between stands. She rarely lets go of her Brown haired doll a present from her father when she was 6 months old. Come Nap Lime the Hammock goes up. She s slept in one at Home since she was Able to scramble out of her crib. Lucia s father Moises Rojas Machorro. Sells to Matoes on the sidewalk. Exclia and her 4-Ycar-old brother spend some Days at another Market where their father. Victor Manuel Alvarez and aunt and Uncle sell used clothes and shoes costume jewelry and other items. Usually one of the adults stays Home to care for them. They earn about $46 a week together plus what the aunt makes one Day a week at a Market in another City. You sell to keep eating said the Uncle Reynal do acc Cora do Aguillon. Right now i m Selling Libicer Marquez. A social worker at the Hospital famil. Says the 14 families that they Sec Are economically and emotionally More stable than a year ago. All the babies receive free medical treatment. A fund at the Hospital infantile provides other assist Ance for the 14. We have insisted a great Deal that they treat them As Normal children Marquez said. But they Are special children their doctor earthquake has made them soviets arrest 3 women protesting rust s sentence Moscow a three women demonstrating against the prison sen tence Given teen age German Pilot Mathias rust were dragged off a bustling Central Moscow shopping Street sunday As hundreds of soviets looked on. Bystanders crowded around As police jerked the sealed women to their feet and pushed and shoved them from the cab blast once arbat mall to a Blue and while police bus More than 1 1 1 Yards away. One Long haired woman tried to wrestle away from the two policemen holding her by the wrists. She shouted that they were hurting her. Officers wearing the Gray knee length Coats of the soviet militia or police also tried to seize the equipment of an Abc to Crew and prevent filming of the arrests. The women whose names were not immediately available told reporters earlier they came to the Arbal to demons Rale for the release of Rusl 19, who was sentence sept. 4 by the soviet supreme court to four years in a labor Camp. The Young Pilot flew on May 28 from Helsinki. Finland to red Square in a Pri vate plane claiming to be on a peace mis Sion. The soviet court ruled that he made the Una Thori cd flight with the aim of self Alexander Bogdanov. 27, a member of the Leningrad Trust group said saturday he would go to the arbat to collect signatures on paper air planes petitioning the supreme court for rust s re lease. Rust s action was an action for peace and understanding Between nations he said. Bogdanov said soviet authorities want to hide the motives of this boy. They want to make him just a it was not immediately known if the three women had been charged with a criminal offence. Rules adopted earlier this month by the Moscow City Council although allowing Public protests require seven Days Advance notice and bar demonstrations near the Kremlin or at major Public squares. As the women sat Down outside the Praga restaurant at least 50 policemen in uniform and plainclothes gathered around them
