European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday january 9,1358 Dodds accused of ignoring abuse writer Wiesbaden an air Force investigator Friday accused teachers in the military overseas school sys 1cm of shirking responsibility in dealing Wilh suspected casts of child abuse. Sieve Hanson a forensic science expert at the office of special investigations at Lundsey As made the charge before a department of defense dependent schools task Force that met to develop method to Deal with child abuse. The word is out Hanson said. There s a lot of Dodds teachers who Don l want 10 get Hanson said teachers and school nurses Are required by air Force and army regulations 1o report suspected cases of child abuse to family advocacy or army Community services. We be made it easy for Hanson said. We Don t expect you to be experts. The regulations Only require that you calling child abuse investigations a frustrating news Brief Chirac assails Berlin Wall during Honecker s visit Paris a Premier Jacques Chirac said Friday the Berlin Wall should come Down be cause it represents inc painful reality of a divided Europe. Chirac made his remarks on he second Day fan official visit by East German Leader Erich Honi iter who did not address the Issue of the Wall Ami focused instead on disarmament. The Wall built in 1961, divides Berlin he capital of prewar Germany. The cily is inside East Germany but inc Western sector is con trolled by the United Stales Britain and France. The Eastern half is the capital of communist East Germany. Inn Cockcr is making inc first visit by an East German Leader to one of the three Western pow ers Liat have occupied Berlin since inc end of world War ii. Controls from Paga 1 Reagan who named the commission in the aftermath of the sob Point Stock plunge on oct. 19, stopped tar Short of endorsing the recommendations of the panel. Instead his statement said i intend to carefully review this report along with the new York Stock Eie Hange and the Chicago Merchan Lile Exchange stud ies and the forthcoming studies by the securities and Exchange commission and the commodity future trading the panel suggested that the Federal Reserve . Central Bant be the single Agency to oversee exist ing government regulatory agencies the securities and Exchange commission and inc commodity futures trading commission. Among the key recommendations of the panel a single Agency the fed to coordinate the few but critical regulatory issues that have an Impact across the related Market new rules should be set for buying securities on borrowed Money and made unified throughout the various markets. Information systems should be established to Monitor transactions and conditions in related markets. Meanwhile on Wai Street the Stock Market s entire 1988 rally which saw the Dow Jones Industrial average Register an impressive gain of i is Points in tour Days collapsed Friday As prices plummeted in Active trading. The Dow Jones Industrial average which Rose 14.09 thursday plunged 140.58, or 6.8s percent to 1911.30.according to an unofficial tally. Declines pounded advances 1,503-198 among the 1,919 issues crossing the nose tape at 4 00 pm. Est. Big Board volume amounted to about 105,646,000 shares compared with 17 s.360,000 traded thursday. The Dow drop is the third biggest on record Trail ing Only the sos Point plunge on Black monday oct. 19,1987, and a 156.83-Poinl decline on oct. 2fi. Prices were sharply lower in Active trading on the american Slock Exchange Friday. Business Hanson said Law enforcement officials Only ask that Dodds do its Hanson was invited to speak o the two Day meeting by Marlys Olson who Heads the Germany Region Campaign to improve its child abuse prevention pro Gram. Hanson s two hour presentation included a series of slides that graphically portrayed cases of child abuse. Children As Young As 6 months were shown with tears bruises and lacerations caused by cigarettes dog col Lars and hot water Hanson said his biggest hurdle is trying to convince commanders that abuse has actually occurred. The typical reaction from commanders is thin can t happen. He s an a no. I troop he s an officer he s a boy scout Leader he s a member of the Church she s general s wife. How can you say something like Hanson whose specially is violent crime said the medical profession is ill equipped to Deal Wilh child abuse. I Deal with physician on a regular basis who say Steve do you really believe thai this Little girl s father did this to heir if this physician is examining the child for sexual molesting and he can t believe that it occurred what Are the chances of finding enough evidence Hanson painted to particular cases to illustrate that child abuse affects every segment of society. A current investigation involves a boy scout Leader. A previous probe at Randolph fab in san Antonio Texas Cen tired around two chaplain s assistants accused of sen rally assaulting Young Boyt in Church. I have seen things you will nol believe Hanson said. There Are Many people out there who can fed torn for victims. There Are few people who can do anything about Hanson urged task farce members to remain committed to child advocacy. There in t a person in this room who cant walk away from a bad relationship. But there in t a Young child in the world who can walk away from mom storm from Page 1 dents shivering in their Beds without electricity be cause of downed Power lines. Some parts of the stale had the most snowfall in two decades. Sections of major highways were closed in Alabama thursday including interstate 65, 20 and 59. Laid Sam Fairish of he stale s emergency management Agency. The Oklahoma department of transportation Esti mated inc storm would add about $2 million in Emer gency expenditures to is budget. A record breaking 12 inches fell in Oklahoma cily. In tuba the storm depleted most of the City s Street maintenance budget forthe fiscal year. State offices were closed thursday in South Carolina and in Richmond a. South Carolina gov. Carroll Campbell declared a weather emergency thursday allowing him to tree the stole s National Guird id assist the Highway patrol in helping stranded motorists. Many Connecticut and suburban new York cily schools were dosed thursday As were schools in Partnof Virginia Pennsylvania Georgia South Carolina and across most of the South. The storm threatened to leave some democratic presidential hopefuls off the Arkansas ballot when Snow stalled delivery of Campaign paperwork to link Rock hours before thursday noon filing deadline. Democratic candidate Jesse Jackson had accepted an invitation to appear at a debate in Birmingham ala., but was stranded by Snow in Minneapolis said Campaign spokeswoman paid Smith. Rollback from Page 1 year he said. The program also affects career airmen serving a third or subsequent enlistment with less than 16 Yean or service and who Are ineligible tar re enlistment. They must separate by tote end of april if they have a Date of separation Between april 1988 and March 31,1989. They Don l have an option West said. Career airmen faced with a forced Early Oul Ca Appeal he separation. Then is a Way to Appeal the non eligibility for re enlistment West said. They do that through their base career adviser. Whatever rendered them ineligible is where we have to Start to clean thai slate the program also includes a voluntary Early release program for career airmen eligible to re enlist. If someone just says i want to get out and they re due to get out Between april and september they Cangel out in March West said. Safe officials have no idea How much Money the Rollback program will save we Don t know what the take will be until tic endow april West said. But Safe offi Csaji Don l foresee a lot of people packing their bags and fleeing from the air Force. The objective of the Rollback is to Cut Down on the number or people in the air Force. There s a Force reduction throughout the air Force and Safe has 10 Lake a fair share West said. The air Force is looking to establish 85 percent conus Manning. We re looking at 90 percent in budget culling Maneu vers for the air Force Are not restricted to reductions in Force but an option not being considered is the repeat of the involuntary Over seas extensions. Two years ago we did an involuntary Extension or people 60 Days overseas West said. We found Oul that did t Lave any the air Force will continue the program that allows members assigned overseas to decline a stateside assignment in Exchange Tor a one year Extension or consecutive overseas Lour. Changes also include a freeze on accepting people who have prior service. This will take place during thelast half of the year Wilh the freeze affecting approximately 300 of the original 600 goal. There Alto will be a reduction in the number of people entering the serv ice for the first Lime. Other program change include reducing enlisted retirement time hygrade requirements for Muter senior master and chief master sergeants from 24 months to six months. But approval of retirement applications for member who have met the minimum Active duty service commitment will not be automatic. Additionally Here will be a reduction or Termi nation of some selective re enlistment bonuses officer reduction actions implemented As a result of the fiscal 1987 congressional direction will continue and will result in additional takings. The air Force extended its officer voluntary Early release program i october 1987 and relaxed certain restrictions for Thost who wanted to separate or mire Between then an sept. 29,1988. Pay from Page 1 new fiscal year. That has become a common ploy on Capitol Hill in recent Yean because delaying the effective Dale of a pay raise saves Money at least on paper m any one fiscal year. The i percent raise was the smallest Given to Terv theme Mem since the 1.9 percent increase of 1964.pentagon officials said it pushes military pay even fur ther behind private sector pay Levels As measured by the employment Cost Index. Wilh private sector pay estimated to have increased by 4 percent last year the Gap has grown to about 1 percent since 198. The fiscal 1988 raise translates into about 1150 More per year for the lowest recruit and about ii ,250more per year for Tome senior officers. However in increase in taxes withheld Tot social Security from 7.1 i percent to 7.m percent will Cut the Overall site of the raise slightly. Military officials continue to warn Congress thai the recruiting and retention Boom of the 1980s already i threatened by a shrinking pod of available recruits and will be Hurt further if pay does not keep Pace. But those pleas an not having much effect recruit Quality has never been higher the House staffer said. The numbers have never been better. It shard to justify big pay increases in this kind of
