European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. March 26, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 experts counsel expectant soldiers brings is new problems by deeded arring ten Doke Bureau Baum older. West Germany when they be come pregnant women soldiers face an unfamiliar set of fads of life required 1o handle their impending motherhood army style besides the changing physical feelings that All women experience in pregnancy the army Mother to be faces other consider ions such As deciding when to switch combat boots for shots that a woman does t have in Bend Over to tie. Helping 22 pregnant gis assigned to Baum older prepare Friday Tor their new Rales As full time soldiers and mothers was a panel of medical Legal housing child care and parenting authorities. The workshop was a firs for Haum Hollcr but similar presentations have been educating pre Panl soldiers at several any communities in Europe. The experts were called in by la col. Cindy Probst Dau Holder Community health nurse to speak at a Daylong workshop for pregnant soldiers. Going to the held and not feeling so Good is a stress. Also with the German Mark rate now it s a real Challenge to be an e-3 or an e-4 raising a family in Germany Probst said and if the army has to Cut a Loi of its Suppon services because of cutbacks that makes it single parenthood a not uncommon situation in the services amplifies and adds to those difficulties. For instance a single Mother expecting a first child will nol be Able to live with her child in the Barracks and she should t assume Shell automatically receive extra Money to House herself and her child on the Economy. You re not automatically command sponsored just because you have a child said sgt. Sherron Woods of the Baum older housing referral office. Woods Slid new single mothers must file for com Mand sponsorship once their child is born so they can receive additional housing Money for their new dependent. In addition soldiers must request permission to live off base. And soldiers who qualify for government quarters must often wait for them. Overseas birth certificates and passports for new barns become crucial matters for new parents to Deal with advised it. Christine Vuskalns of Baum older s 257th personnel co. One option new mothers have however is whether you want the. Father on Llic birth certificate. It is your Vuskalns said. The 22 audience members were reminded by a representative from the in upholder judge advocate s of fice that their commanders Are required to counsel them and advise them of their rights once their pregnancies have been medically confirmed it also reminds the commander of what you can or can t do said Cape. Len inc a lurch administrative Law officer and a new Mother herself. Burch commented that a surprising aspect of her own pregnancy was that everyone was surprised i was staying in the army women who attended the workshop said afterwards they picked up new information Friday. Many expressed concern at increasing child care costs and some shared stories of being forced by superiors to handle physically demanding tasks generally considered too lining for pregnant women. This is my third child and this is the Only Lime i be been this said see. Cheryl Wright. I Learned a lot i did t know Probst said she considered the event which was aimed at soldiers who probably would not attend a Marc intensive night course offered on base a Success. Sometimes it s the Active duty Soldier who needs this Little extra help most t roast said. Pill study helps ease cancer fear Chicago a women who began taking birth control pills As teen agers and used Oral contraceptives Over several years do not face an increased Long term risk of breast cancer Accord ing to a study published Friday. Previous studies have disagreed Over whether the use of Birtle control pills in creases the risk of breast cancer for women through Middle Aye. Some re searchers have suggested the conflicting conclusions might he the result of a Long term latent effect from Early use. But we found no direct human Evi Dence for such a latent eff eel said or. Brace Slade one of four authors report ing an the study of More than 9,000 women in Friday s journal of the Ameri can medical association. Early and prolonged use of birth control pills was defined As using Oral contraceptives for at least six years before the age of 25, according to Stadel and his colleagues who were from the uni formed services University of the health sciences at do Thesda my. Researchers collected Case histories and interviewed 4.714 women through age 54 who developed breast cancer then matched them with a control group of 4.540. This was a very very Large study. And these data Are immensely reassuring said Stadel who was at the National institutes of health when the study was conducted and now is with the . Food and drug administration in be Thesda. Despite the results of the study. said researchers believe additional Large studies should be conducted in the 1990s, when the women we interviewed will be in their headed for court clockwise from left Trail Contra affair defendant Albert Hakim Richard be fird. It. Col. Oliver North and John Pola Duxler with his wife Linda Anne arrive separately for an Star ing at . District court in Washington thursday. The Jurist handling the Case. Judge Gerhard Gesell sold he is pushing for the trill to be held before the Ruvem Ber election. I be cancelled every Case i Hoie i still sold. Farmer National Secu Rity aides North and pol Dexter and be Ford and Hakim the two businessmen Nho worked with them in the Iran Contra operation arc Churrot in a 23-Eotmt indictment with conspiracy itt defraud Ihn and theft. Other charges against hit defendants include destruction if Docu Jii Nti accepting gratuities obstruction of Justice and Lylac to Congress. West German police arrest suspected spy Bonn a Federal police on the Trail of suspected spies arrested a doctor during raids on several West German residences Security officials said Friday. The Security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity and confirmed a Friday report by the mass circulation Bild newspaper said police arrested a Doc Tor in the Aachen area during raids in several locations on thursday. The officials refused to provide additional details. Bild had said the raids May have been connected to last week s arrest of a Secretary at the Federal ministry for economic cooperation in Bonn. The Secretary Elk Falk is suspected of having worked As a communist spy for years according to the Federal prosecutors office. Falk worked in the West German chancellors from 1974 to 1977, and in several other ministries in later years officials have not identified i he communist country she is suspected of having spied Lor. In the last major espionage scnnda.1 to Rock the government 15 communist agents were arrested or disappeared Between August and december 185. Among them was Hans Joachim tic dec West Ger Many s chief counter espionage officer responsible for catching East German agents. Tiedge fled to East Ger Many and has lived there since
