European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 17. 1968 the stars and stripes Page 9 \vie9bur dive chum assistant bet5 a hug from a handicapped person on the Day to arrange a humanitarian Airlift of b3 Handi Delte  Lam ran he Virgin Tinb Phy Rinolt capped people and 75 attending a Clcil Ponnel id Mary 18 limes in 1858. Left a Volunteer medial German army a i of for the fun but Lolo rdc Calif lawmaker still seeks military abortion ban by  j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington after failing to put a provision Banning abortions in military hospitals in the House defense authorization Bill a California congressman will try again ibis Moth to get the amendment on another defense spending measure. While inc me of Federal funds for abortions has been banned for nearly 10 years rep. Robert k. Dor Nan r-calif., says abortions have been occurring in military hospitals u a Der special circumstances. Dornan again will try to ban the practice through an amendment to the defense appropriations Bill. It s been happening in Cuba and Korea mainly and i understand in other places an aide to Dornan said wednesday. They be been charging people i think jj75 up front Tor an abortion.1 a defense department health affairs official said the Cost is about ii00 less than Doman s figure and that inc abortions involve women stationed in foreign areas where health care is unavailable or unsafe. He said about 12 such abortions occurred last year. We re talking about places like Korea where we can undo stand Why a woman would be slightly hesitant to go downtown he said. An aide to Dornan said the congressman had been under the impression that no abortions were being conducted at military hospitals. After Dornan pro tested the practice in aide said health officials maintained Thill Congress had been informed. But the aide said Dornan was never told about the rep Robert k. Daman photo practice and added we re going to shut it Down. It s just not  while Pentagon attorneys Hare interpreted supreme court rulings to mean that a United slates citizen has the right to an abortion the aide said. The Constitution. Docs not say we have to provide it in a Feder Al  Dornan said his amendment to the authorization Bill failed because members of the House armed serv ices committee believed the action duplicated existing Law. But a staff member of that com i lice said Law. Makers axed the measure because it was too extreme. Critics complain that Doman s proposal would pre vent abortions in cases involving rape incest and even where the woman s life is in danger. Doman s aide acknowledged that the provision would prevent abortions in incest and rape cases but said Here would be exceptions when a Mother s life was in danger Dornan says there arc no provisions allowing the military to charge patients for abortion. The health affairs official confirmed this but said no Laws were being broken. The Taw states that no Federal funds can be used for an abortion the official said. This docs not mean there Aren t a few abortions. Done under special circumstance and we Don t think it is really against the intent of  he said that by charging for the abortions no Feder Al funds have been used. French woman says she s deaf boy s grandmother Paris apr a French woman has told officials in Paris she is the grand Mother of a deaf boy whom american and mexican authorities Hare been try ing to identify for More than six months. Christopher English chief of special consular services at inc . Embassy said on wednesday hat he was contacted tuesday by a woman from a Vil Lage in inc Normandy Region who saw a picture of the boy on the television news she called and calmly said she had reason to believe that she was the boy s grandmother English wid authorities found inc freckled Brown haired boy named Sabal by his mexican guardians wandering near Juarez mexi co in november. He had scars that looked about two years old and could have come from Home treated injuries. He was unable to identify himself to authorities or say where he was from. Sabat suffers from impaired hearing and communicates mostly by drawing pictures and gesturing. His pictures seem to indicate he survived the crash of a of Cir Seal single engine air plane that killed his parents and sister. After mexican authorities noticed Sabat preferred hamburgers and hot dogs Over mexican fare and responded More enthusiastically to american cartoon character they contacted their Texas counterparts. The Story has received International Media attention and pictures of the boy have circulated in France England mex Ico and the United suites English said the French woman who asked him not to release her name until the child s identification is confirmed provided the address and Telephone number for her son who lives in Elpaso not far from where the boy was found. She said she had nol spoken to her son for several months and the Telephone apparently was disconnected said English who added the son also is French. English said he called Terry Kincaid of the Fri in Elpaso who checked Oul the address Early wednesday and found out the family had moved in August 1931, they also had left the second address with out leaving a forwarding address. It is gelling murkier and murkier English said adding that the Fri is continuing to search for inc family. The woman said her son was married to a mexican woman and the couple had three children. She had not seen them for several years. She did nol know whether the couple had american citizenship or anything about their Legal Latus in the United states. The woman s daughter who lives in Paris Alio recognized the boy from Pic Ture on the news English said. He said the daughter gave family snapshots of the boy to the embassy wednesday. The photos will be forwarded to the Fri. Texas officials have said the boy is 7 or 8 years old. The French woman said he was close to 12. English said that since news of the French woman s claims was released his office had been deluged by phone Calls from reporters around the world