European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. April 18,1988 the stars and stripes page3 100 americans May testify at Himadi s trial Franl Furt a about/00 americans May be asked to testify at the rial of inspected Twa Hijacker Mohammed Hamadi. Court officials said Friday. Hamadi jailed in Frankfurt is charged with air piracy and the slay Ogof an America Sailor in the 1985 Hijack ing of a jetliner on a flight torn Athens to Rome the hijackers held  Beirut for 17 Days. A spokesman Lor Hess Al slate court. Judge Thomos a Chron told a news conf Fence that the West German government will by  of americans who appear in court. Maybe 100 America citizens will be asked to travel from the United stale Kolc stiff at the  he said those who Don l a dil to travel can give sworn depositions he added. 4 the news confers was called to clarify Why the Hamadi ease was turned Over to a juvenile court by the adult slate court in Frankfurt last week. Court officials afro used the news conference to in directly criticize us. Officials who Are calling on West Germany to try a Madi is an adult. The juvenile Cotrit will of Leimone whether to Deal with Hamadi As Anu voile adolescent or adult Kehren said. If the court reals the suspect As an adult it could sentence him 0 life in prison upon conviction. Hama i could receive a maximum 10-year jail sentence if tried As a Juif Nile and 1010 15 years if tried As an adolescent i Hrcan said. \ West go Man Law def rfcs a juvenile As anyone under in a fairs of age an Adele scent Asib to 21 years old and an due As 21 or Over the Hamadi Case was turned Over to the juvenile court because there is doubt about whether he was 21 at the time he began the Protoss of committing the crimes tie is charged with Therp Kraman said the rial was to begin next Tiosh but court officials now say it Wil have to acc put off for several month As the juvenile court St lies the Case and arrange for witnesses to testify. \ the hijacking began june l4 i�b5, a Day after Handi s 21st birthday but officials say planning of the crime Likely began before he became a Legal adult. Hamadi was arrested at Frankfurt Airport on Jan. 13, 19b7, and charged with carrying Liq and explosives. The court s president judge karst Chan said the cast was Given to the juvenile Coutt to prevent the suspect from appealing a decision by a state adult court on the Issue of his age. \ in Washington last week state department spokes Man Charles Redman said we expect. And Hope that Hamadi will be tried and Send once theeah7i- v Thi he i  of tar  Mph but of cow.se5s whc9. April my 815 Etolo b Hep. Piter Rodin it dedication in Nusco teen pregnancy largely ignored in Dodds continued from Page 1 told him a 14-year-old girl said. He did t want anything to do with me at  Hil Smith a school system social worker in inc Kai Sers Lautem area knows of the ordeal pregnant girls face. They say i can t Tell my parents. What s going to happen and i Tell tack you can t go through this thing alone schools and clinics keep no statistics on the number of teen age girls who become pregnant during they grader who was pregnant. Said Bill Houston the Germany Region s health coordinator. They la go to Urff Nureck before they la go to the  a one nurse Rcpt rid 20 pregnancies this school year in a High school with about 600 students. Another school Nurs it ported More than 25" at her school. But  is hardly Iwori Clad to Dodd High sch Cdr Aschaffenbur elementary Junior High reported it Deorsi Case of pregnancy earlier this school year. School nurse said she was aware of a fourth school year despite evidence that those numbers shop no sign of slackening. Off we need the statistics but no one has them Jan us said. And those figures will Shock people of Dodds officials have ruled out such a is Pfvey in Krummrei. Who leaches health a Gen. . Arnold High school in Wiesbaden Sain the Lack of statistics precludes development of a  approach to Deal with icon pregnancy because if you had tour numbers she said then you d have 10 admit Char the problem exists. There s still a feeling out therrial our schools Are utopias and All our kids Are petrel. There Are a lot of administrators who Don t want to Deal with  what Little data on teen pregnancy that exists within Dodds comes from school nurse the school sys tem s front line when it comes to dealing with teen pregnancies. Nurses they re the ones the girls usually go to. Mike Shelley whose Pupil personnel services office directs Law school Counselor in West Germany said his people hive no interest in compiling teen age preg Nancy lists. We Don t keep fat Ristics on that. Even if we did they would t be very acid. A girl could be pregnant and the next Day she s gone Back to the Stales. There s too Many  but Dodds is not alone Ira its it etude. The nation Al education association he nation largest teachers Union said in a comprehensive report fat the pre dominant Altitude in schools across the remit by when faced with pregnancy and parenting Leen age cd is to ignore the  a a Survey conducted by Louis Harris and associate inc. Found that "84 percent of american adults View teen age Preaney As a serious  that finding comes As no Surprise since More than i million teen Agen become pregnant every year in the United slates. Seventy five percent of the pregnancies Are unintended. The Harris Survey also found that Aboin 46 percent  pen. Arc sexually Active. Dodds social workers nurses teachers and students gave similar estimates. I d say about half the kids arc sexually Active said a 17-year-old teen Mother in Europe. The girls seem More Active than the boys. I m still trying to figure that  the Harris Survey provided a grim corollary to such findings one is tempted to ask not Why Are there so Many pregnancies but rather Why arc there so few " "1 did t want to use any Protection because i had heard so much negative talk about the Pill a teen Mother said i 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 that the problems encountered by teen mothers Only begin with pregnancy. Suicide rates Are seven limes higher for teens who Are mothers. They Are less Likely to finish school and the babies bom to such mothers arc often victims of neglect abuse and Maunu Triton. In addition children of teen parents often become teen parents themselves creating a Cycle of oven. Smith painted a Bleak picture of what happens when society turns its Back on the problem. \ the most serious family problems i Deal with is a Fere you have children raising children he said. To Hafif the time the children who raise children never fish Bool. Dowine Road they re Goin to blame their own child for Lac Itiat they never finished school