European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. April 17, 1968 the stars and stripes Pagol 3 100 americans May testify at Hamadi s trial i rank it of about he americans May he  1o testify Ai the trial of suppl Cid Twa Hijack or in Hammod a Hama court officials said Friday. Hamadi. Jailed in Frankfurt n Charpi a with air piracy and the slaving fan american Sailor m the 1985 Hijack ing of a jetliner on a flight from Athens to Rome. The hijackers held w americans hostage in Beirut fat 17 Days. A spokesman for he own male court. Judge Thomas a Chron. Told a news conference i a the Ecsi German  will pay expenses of americans who appear in court. Majic Kab american Curnis will be asked to travel from the u nixed Stales to testify Ai the rial he said. Those who Doo t a in to travel can give worn depositions he added. The news conference was called to clarify Why the Liamadis cose was turned Over to a juvenile court by the Puii mate court in Frankfurt last neck. Court officials also used the news conference to in directly criticise . Officials who arc calling on West Termany to try hams i Ai an adult. The juvenile court will determine whether to dial with i Lama i As a juvenile adolescent or adult Schren said. If the court treats the suspect As an adult it could sentence him to life in prison upon conviction. Nama i could receive a maximum 10-year jail sentence if tried As a juvenile and 10 to 15 cars if tried As an adolescent Schren said. West German Law defines a juvenile As anyone under 18 y cars of age. An adolescent As 18 to 21 years old and an adult As 21 or Over the Hamadi Case was mined Over to the juvenile court because there is doubt about whether he was 21 it the time he began the process of committing he crimes he is charged  the spokesman said. The trial was to begin Noii month but court officials now say it will have to be Pul off for several months As the juvenile court studies the Case and arranges for witnesses to testify. The hijacking began june 14. 1985, a Day after Hamati s 21 is birthday but officials say planning of the crime Likely began before he a crime a Legal adult. Hamadi was arrested at Frankfurt air on on Jan. 13, 1987, and charged with carrying liquid is Plosives. The court s president Judic Karl Stephan said the Case was Given to Trie juvenile court to prevent the suspect from appealing a decision by a stale adult court on the Issue of i is age. In Washington last week. Slate department spokes Man Charles Redman said we expect. And Hope Ilia Llama i will be tried and sentenced As an  Bui Syphan Lold reporters no outside comments will he allowed to influence the  clowning around Tho Yonn ilsters take adn Lase of terrific Spring Neather la Bounce around the Earth under the watch Ful can of a Riant Clown in Mainz. Germany the occasion was the Leisure fair at Lee Barracks. Teen pregnancy largely ignored in Dodds continued from Page 1 Lold  a 14-year-old Gitl said. He did t want anything to do with me at  Phil Sinith. A school system social worker in the Kai scr Laulom area knows of the ordeal pregnant girls face. They Sav. Can i Tell my parents. What s going to happen?1 and i Tell them you can t go through this Ihms alone " schools and clinics keep no stall slice on the number of teen age girls who become pregnant during the school year despite evidence that those numbers show  we need the statistics but no one has them Smith said. And those Fig Rrt will Shock  11odds officials hive ruled out such a Survey in the near future. Our he lick is thai each school knows what ils issues Are a school system spokesman said. Kim Frei to leaches health at Gen. . Arnold High Schumlin Wiesbaden said the Lack of statistics precludes development of a comprehensive approach to Deal with a in pregnancy. Because if you Hail the numbers she said then you d have to admit that the problem exists. There s suit a feeling out there that our schools Are utopias and All our kids Are Perferi. There arc a lot of admin Sara lors who Don t want to Deal with  what Little Dau on teen pregnancy thai exists within Dodds comes from school nurses the school sys tem s from line when in comes to dealing with teen pregnancies. Nurses they re the ones he girls usually go to said Bill Houston Trie Germany Region s health coordinator. They la go to the nurse before they ii go to the  nurse reported 20 pregnancies this school year in a High school with about Foo students another school nurse reported More than 25" at her school. But teen pregnancy is hardly restricted to Dodds High schools. A Schaffenburg Elc Mentory a tinier High reported its first Case of pregnancy earlier this school year. One school nurse said she was aware of a fourth grader who was pregnant. Mike Shelley whose Pupil personnel services office directs the school Counselor in West Germany said his people have no interest in compiling to can age preg Nancy lists. We Don l keep statistics on that. Even if we did. Llic would t be very valid. A girl could be pregnant and the Nam Day she s gone Back to the Stales. There s too Many  but Dodds is not alone in ils attitude. The nation Al education association he nation s largest Ica Chers Union said in a comprehensive report Thil the pre dominant attitude in schools across the country when faced with pregnancy and Parent in if engages is to ignore tie  \ Survey conducted by Louis Harris and associates inc. Found thai "84 percent of american adults View  a tenancy As a serious  that finding comes As no Surprise since More than i million teen agers become pregnant every year in the United Stales. Seventy five percent of the pregnancies Are unintended. The Harris Survey also found that about 46 Percy no of All 16-year-Olds and 57 percent of All 17-year-Olds arc  Active. Dodds social workers nurses teachers and students gave similar estimates. D say about half the kids arc so usually  said a 17-year-old Leen Mother in Europe. The girls seem Mote Active than the boys. I m still trying to figure that  the Harris Survey provided a grim corollary to such findings one is Imp led to ask m t Why Are there so Many pregnancies?1 but rather. Why arc there so few .1 " i did t want to use any Protection because i had Huard so much negative talk Boul the  a teen Mother said. "1 did t know about the other  the Nea report also noted that four out of 10 girls who Are now 14 will get pregnant in their teens two in 10 will give birth and three in 20 will have  researchers have discovered thai the problems encountered by Icen mothers Only begin with pregnancy. A ii id rates arc seven times higher for teens Olio Are mothers they Are less Likely to finish school and the babies barn to such mothers arc often victims of no go i. Abuse and malnutrition. In addition children of teen parents often become it in parents them solves creating a Cycle of poverty. Smith painted a Bleak picture of what happens when so duty turns us Back on the problem. The most serious family problems i Deal with is where you have children raising  he said iils of the time the children who raise children never finish school. Down the Road they re going to blame their own chill for inc fad that they never finished