European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes wednesday december 23. 1987ship support groups offer spouses help but they re not Ordinary wives clubs i in ii . Bariman Yashin i often on . Warships in inc Mediterranean and elsewhere around the world videos starring some of the world s worst actors Are shown. And the sailors love it. These terrible actors arc inc sailors families loved ones left alone for Long sometimes difficult periods Back Home especially difficult perhaps during inc holidays. The videotapes show these family Stcin bars laugh ing malting jokes having fun. But those watching know Hal behind inc  Are Brave efforts to not show sadness. We end up making jokes on tic tapes said Judy Brown of the frigate Ainsworth s support group whose husband. Master chief Petty officer Glenn Brown is a sonar technician on the ship now in the Mediterranean. In i hair Christmas video to the ship Many of the wives started joking one after the other Send  there Are some things we Juil Don t Tell them things thai will make them worry such As school problems affecting inc children or minor Auto Acci Dent said Linda she rang wife of cmdr. Daniel scr rang the Ainsworth commander. They do the same thing. They Don t ill us every  added Linda Seppala Wile of chief i Coly offi cer Steve Seppala Ain Suonh sonar technician. No telling everything could Range from dangers no sea to the wild stories about women available to the men during Shore leave overseas. You Don t just have to go in the persian Gulf to get a missile in the Side of a ship said Marge Cut Hunt wife of la. Robert Hunt Ainsworth chief Engineer the things they do on thai ship Are dangerous there Are some things we just Don t Tell them things that will make them worry one wife says. All of this explains Why Brown said. "11 lakes a very different person to handle Navy life. Of be a Navy  and it is Why such women Start and get involved in ship support groups which should not be confused with an Ordinary wives club. For one thing the groups Are not just composed of wive. There arc also parents Fiancee boyfriends and girls Ricnins involved. And White such groups often hold simple club like get log thers this is All part of a larger Mission to offer each other support in often difficult posit ions. The tribulations a Navy wife can face became head line news some weeks ago when Navy officials at nor Folk began a frantic search for a woman going by the name of Daisy who told nationally syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers that she wanted to kill herself. The woman had Money problems and troubles Wilh her husband s children while he was away at sea. Fortunately As the search began the woman called the Norfolk family services Center hot line and re ported she had gone to someone for help. We gel ladies like Hal Brown said. She said her group and family services want to hear from such peo ple. The group is determined to make sure Navy spouses know help is available. A lot of younger girls they Don t know Brown said. The Man does t think to it la her chaplain la Barry Brimhall of the Navy s family support services Center agreed. There Are lots of wives like Daisy he said. We see them All the Lime and try to help them. There arc alot of women like Hal. A lot of men like that. We have to educate them to it inc problems of Navy life. The women from the Ainsworth group arc confident that word of available help is spreading to More Navy spouses. People have to want to come for help Hunt  can t Knock on everybody s door and say we re the wives club and we want to help  Brown said that when she first came to Norfolk my husband was Here for five Days and he was off for seven months on a deployment. I was Here for Over a month and 1 did t know who to  but she was like Musl Navy wives Olio endured an came to enjoy their lives. As Brown s husband anticipates retirement after 28 years in the service she said. I wish he d go to 30 i just love the military  Hunt s Molher in Taw an Nytle Hunt is the wife of a former career Sailor and believes that the grueling Navy schedules actually can strengthen a marriage. Your time together is Quality  she snid. You learn to Trust each other because you re apart so  Brown said she is lir cd of hearing the negative about military wives live. And Hunt added we do real  explaining Why she loves the military life Brown said i like when pc goes to  asked if that meant she was glad to have tier husband Oul of her hair she stressed no i m proud of what my husband does. I m proud thai my husband s protect ing this  in a season of peace during a time of year when messages of net Joy and Good will ring Oul the world Otto armed israeli soldiers patrol the streets of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank tuesday. The City Tuyor cancelled All non religious Christmas celebrations a protest of israeli occupation. Security has been increased As wive of unrest has rocked the occupied territories. Record $6.95 million pledged to Csc Europe by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart americans in Europe ignored bad economic news and opened i hair wallets for inc 1988 combined Federal Campaign submitting a record 16.95 million in pledges Campaign officials said tuesday. The previous record total for euro can hawd donors to inc government s annual fund raising drive for Charity was s6.ss million donated in 1986, said Navy cmdr. Philip Souza. Neucom Campaign coordinator. Donations for 1987 totalled $6.87 million. Sonya said the participation Rale also improved during the sin week Campaign which ended nov. 20. The Campaign received pledges from 45 percent of Eligi ble donors this time. Forty three percent offered contributions to the 1987 drive. Air Force personnel in Europe pledged ji.5 million to the i9sb Campaign a 6.8 percent increase compared to their 1987 donations. Navy pledges Rose 6.1 percent to 5605,922. Army personnel pledged s3.79 million or 1.9 percent less than last year. The Navy participation rate was 70 percent the air Force 53 percent and the army 41 percent. James m. Page european representative of the National voluntary health agencies and a Neucom Campaign coordinating group member said a smaller Campaign leaflet and a Shorter delay in getting the Campaign started probably account for the record breaking amount of Money pledged. "1 thought the Campaign would he bet tar this year because the Dod was Able to screen the people in inc leaflet he said. The Campaign had suffered annual de lays in each of the Pas six years because of court Battles Over Reagan administration efforts to reduce the number of agencies eligible to appear on Campaign leaflets. The leaflet had grown to the size of a Large Road map by the time inc 1987 Campaign started and it bore the names of 707 non profit agencies. But regulatory changes this year set up a screening process that allowed officials to Cut the number of agencies on the 1988 Campaign list to 177 and reduce the pamphlet Sie. The . Office of personnel manage ment is working now to eliminate write in donations hoping to revise inc regulations in time for the 1989 Campaign Page said. He said inc Campaign spent Unwar ranted Lime and Money processing Dona Tion cards with write in agencies listed because officials must verify that each Agency exists that the address Lis cd is Correct and Hal the Agency really has tax exempt status. Last minute regulatory changes forced Only an eight Day delay in the Campaign Start this year compared to a month last year. The european Campaign distributes Morr than 500,000 leaflets each year. I ugh said difficulty in getting leaflets to army units in Italy constituted the Only major distribution problem this year. Nuke waste storage probed in Germany Hana West Germany a investigators probing a scandal plagued nuclear transport company said lilo inky that up to 700 barrels of undeclared nuclear waste May be stored illegally in West German. West German into ii atari say the Musil some of which contains plutonium was not prop Orl declared when it was brought across the Border