European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. February 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Paga 3 study focuses on pregnant sailors 4 % in test found to be unmarried by Norman Black a military writer Washington a study by Anavy nurse suggests that a remarkably High percentage of the female sailors who become pregnant Are unmarried raising sensitive questions about the service assimilation of women. The study conducted by cmdr. Judy. Glenn a nurse in he obstetrics and gynaecology department of the san Diego naval Hospital found that nearly 41 percent of the enlisted women who be came pregnant during a recent 10-month period were single at the time. The study focused on 789 Active duty women who registered for prenatal care at the san Diego facility from july 1986 through May n�b7. Of that tout 323 or 40.9 percent said they were not married. According to the . Census Bureau 17 percent of american women giving birth during the year ending in june 1986 were unnamed of those women aged 18 to 14. The Rale was higher 29.9percent but still substantially below the rate in the Navy study. The san Diego study also found that most of the single pregnant women were Young and in Low paying ranks that go percent were White and 27 percent Black and that Only 17 percent had been trying to become pregnant. The study farther discovered that a Large majority of the single pregnant women 69 percent decided to re main in the Navy rather than Lake advantage of an option to resign. Such findings raise questions about the Navy s provision of sex education to female sailors its ability or willingness to provide the types of services needed by Young single parents and the Impact of pregnancy and single parenthood on combat readiness. This obviously has tremendous ramifications for the Navy health care pro viders and our society Glenn sold. Such issues apparently Are considered to Touchy by the Navy that it initially refused to release Glenn s study even Hough a report on her work had appeared in the Independent weekly paper Navy times. After two Days of prodding the Navy finally re raied the study along with prepared statement noting the work was part of a local health care  it is not a Nav wide study and for that reason it is not possible to draw any general conclusions Aboul the issues of pregnancy or single parents it said. The Navy s hesitancy to release the study comes amid promises by its civil Ian tender Secretary James h. Webb to expand Job opportunities for women and to crack Dawn on sexual harassment la also comes As a special panel created by Webb is reporting new anecdotal Evi Dence that Navy commanders Are frustrated Over the service s pregnancy rate. The service s leaders Are viewing preg Nancy As a major consideration in Deci Sions concerning employment of women in the Navy the panel reported in de Cember. The most common problems expressed by command leaders were unplanned losses of personnel loss Tim and a High concentration of pregnant women at major Home Pons. Unit commanders have expressed the opinion that an effective and ongoing education program regarding be preg Nancy and responsible Paren snood would contribute to a reduction in the Navy s pregnancy rate it said. Glenn agreed on the need for additional support services. We blame the women when they get pregnant but we Don t do enough to Hel them not get pregnant she said. There Are about 54,000 women in the Navy comprising about 9 percent of the Active duty Force. The annual pregnancy rate has remained fairly stable Over the past few years ranging from 6 percent to 7 percent of the female Force. It is higher however for women assigned to ships Ai opposed to Shore  san Diego study was launched As pan of 3 local initiative to improve inequality of prenatal care and to assure pregnant sailors adequate counselling. The finding that 41 percent of the preg Nant women were unmarried was Aston Ishing and overwhelming Glenn said and clearly contributed 10 some of the other  example the study showed Hal Large numbers of the pregnant sailors did not seek prenatal care until the second or third trimester that 18 per cell were suf Fering from one of two different sexually transmitted diseases that 38 percent were living in Barracks or on ships meaning they were facing a move into civilian housing and that a third Hud no Independent Means of transportation. The Daw strongly suggest thai single pregnant Servic Membert Are at higher risk for pregnancy complications and socioeconomic difficulties during and Fol lowing delivery because of their relatively Tow social economic and military  he study  family housing Tow Cost Quality child care facilities and Access 10pediatric medical care during evenings and weekends would greatly assist these parents efforts to fulfil their military obligations and family responsibilities it said. Waldheim dismisses As fake Telegram linked to deportations Vienna Austria a president Kurt Wald him was quo cd monday As saying he does not feel incriminated by a published Telegram Hal claims he was involved in deposing civilians to Nari concentration Camps in Yugoslavia. According to the West German news Magazine Der Spiegel the Telegram was found by yugoslav military historian Dusan 1 Lenca who said sunday that he has several documents that seriously implicate Wald Leim in nazi atrocities. After it was Tel exed to news agencies Friday night by Der Spiegel Waldheim s spokesman Gerald Christian dismissed the Telegram As a Likely fake. Meanwhile a member of the commission investigating wild him s controversial wartime record said monday that efforts to locate the original of the Tele Gram in Yugoslavia had failed. Manfred  of West Germany said West German diplomats in Belgrade had asked the Heads of archives in hit croatian capita of Zagreb Andin the yugoslav capital if they had the original document. The document was not in either Arch ivc he said. Nobody knows where it is Jcsse Schmidl added. The document has disappeared. The whole thing is  he said efforts to reach Plenca had also failed. Trie associated press in Belgrade also could not reach plan Ca. Plenca has repeatedly alleged Waldheim was involved in nazi atrocities but has never produced any evidence. The Vienna daily die Prisc a conservative news paper which has supported Waldheim. Quoted the president of telling ils editor Thomas Choth crr on Sun Day evening that the Telegram is most unbelievable die Prusse reported thai Waldheim said sunday evening that a whole series of indicators pointed to the Telegram being a fake. " i do not feel myself incriminated by the Telegram in the slightest Waldheim was quoted As saying. Waldheim has been surrounded by controversy since March 1986, when he was running for president in Austria and the National and . Media and world jewish Congress disclosed he served in the Balkans a German army lieutenant from 1942 to 1945. The former in. Secretary general belatedly admitted his Balkan service but has denied any links to or knowledge of atrocities in the Balkans. The Telegram published by Der Spiegel reads very urgent. Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim from the staff of general Stahl demands that 4,224 prisoners from Kozara most of them women and children and approximately is percent older men be sent on Mieir Way 3,514 to Grubisin pol Jeand 730 to Zorn. Both places mentioned were concentration Cam Snear Belgrade. The figures for the prisoners add up to 4,244, but Spiegel editor Hans Peter Martin said the discrepancy was in the original document. Waldheim was quoted As calling the Telegram s publication an attempt a unsettle the commission and the Public in the final  a panel of six International historians commissioned by the austrian government to investigate Waldheim s alleged links to nazi War crimes is currently holding its fourth and final meeting in Vienna and Hopes to report to the government feb. 8. Swiss military historian Hans Rudolf Kurz on Sun Day said Messerschmidt would travel to Zagreb to too Kat the Telegram published by Der Spiegel and to talk to Plenca. But Messerschmidt told the a he would delay his trip until there is More clarity about the original of inc Telegram published by Der Spiegel. Snowy Sleuth sculpting Fulgum from Snow and ice u not an elementary to Majk but it la easy enough to make out who the Wal plan represents. A member of the Rrt Loti Teun putt the final Loaches to an icy it to Ectore Sherlock Holmes at the International Snow festival in Grin Elwald Switzerland. Ortega says Contra Aid won t halt peace process Oslo Norway a president Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said Sunda that the Central american peace process will go Forward even if the . Congress approves More Aid to the Contra rebels. Well still continue peace talks Wii the contras and All the five presidents Are still interested in following up the peace  Ortega said. The sandinista government last week met with representatives from the . Financed and trained contras for the first time in the six year War to negotiate de tails for a cease fire. A second round of talks is Sci for feb. 10-12. Cease fires in the Region Are one of the Points in the August 1987 peace pact signed by the presidents of Nicaragua Al Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Costa Rica. A congressional vote on president Reagan s request for the funding which would include $3.6 million for ammunition find surface to air missiles is scheduled for wednesday Onega spoke at a news conference after a 7s-Mlnule meeting with Norway s prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland to seek support for the peace plan and a verification process by International monitors. Ii is now above All necessary 10 have european support for the peace plan even Tual by an Appeal thai no one interferes from the outside 10 prevent the peace  Ortega said. Alter his six hour Stop in Oslo sunday Onega continued to Stockholm Sweden for talks with Sweden s prime minister ing Var Carlsson