European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday november 14.1988 practice shuttle countdown begins Cape canaveral Fla. A a two Day countdown simulation began sunday to prepare for a Classi fied space shuttle Mission Laic this month. The five astronauts who will make inc flight were id Board the shuttle Atlantis on monday Tor inc final two hours of inc rehearsal testing communications and running through checklists on other launch Day proce dures. The target for the launch is nov. 30, but a firm Dale won t be set until shuttle managers Complete a flight Cadi Ness review wednesday. Most details about the flight arc cloaked in secrecy because Atlantis will be carrying a defense depart ment payload which sources report is an intelligence gathering satellite in tended to Fly Over 80 percent of he soviet Union. The astronauts flew Here saturday from the Johnson space Center in Houston for three Days of special training. On sunday when the prac Tice countdown was under Way they went to the launch pad to be briefed on emergency procedures in Case of a fire fuel leak or some other problem on launch Day. The Crew members arc commander Robert Gibson Pilot Guy Gardner and Mission specialists Mike mul Lanc. Jerry Koss and William Shep Herd. The Crew of the next shuttle Mission which will have a classified Dod payload tries the shuttle Atlantis out for size. 1.9.3 abortion foes arrested on Day of rallies by the ass called press police arrested 193 anti abortion activists nation wide saturday As they tried 10 prevent women from entering clinics while demonstrations were held in new York and Washington to support a woman s right to undergo the procedure the protests against abortion were held in Indiana Polis Milwaukee. Seattle and the Detroit suburb of Livonia. The pro Choice demonstrations were in Buffalo and a Seattle suburb when 22 people were arrested. The Seattle demonstrations involved both sides when pro Choice activists prevented anti abortion activists Tram leaving a Church by putting a Metal Gale across the exit. The anti a onion activists later were freed to go to their demonstration where 56 of them were arrested. The protests were peaceful although one of inc 15 people arrested in Indianapolis was charged with Dis order la conduct for allegedly blocking a police Van. Sixty five people were arrested in Milwaukee and s7 were arrested in Livonia. The anti abortion demonstrators were supporters of operation Rescue which held protests in about two dozen cities oct. 30. Those protests were linked to an abortion protest in Atlanta that began when inc demo cratic National convention was held there in july and thai has resulted in 1,200arrests. In Milwaukee police said i took about Ivi hours to remove demonstrators from the downtown building that houses affiliated medical services. Some demonstrators Sal Wall to Wall in the eighth door Hall singing hymns and praying. When people tried to pass the protesters Rose to their Knees and locked arms. Others marched and Sang in the rain outside the  medical director of the clinic is or. Benjamin m. Victoria jr., whose House in Brook Field wis., was the target of protests before such picketing in the residential area was outlawed. Officers said they recognized some of the protesters outside the Indianapolis clinic for women As people who had been arrested in previous demonstration there. The demonstrators carried signs and quoted Bible verses to people at the clinic. We re trying to keep these mothers away from the door said Don Ely Passoro Fth believers Fellowship Church in Bloo Mcglon ind. We re trying to give them another minute or two minutes or a half hour to decide not to murder their  women who wanted to enter the clinic were assisted by  the Indiana pro Choice action league and clinic administrator Jane Stout said no women were kept from entering the building. This Only infringes on something that is so person Al and so private which they protesters have no right to do Stout said. In Livonia All 57 people who were arrested outside the women s advisory Center were Given tickets to appear in court on charges of disorderly conduct. That charge is punishable by up to 90 Days in jail and a $ 100 Fine upon conviction. Sex abuse of children has increase Chicago up sexual abuse of children has increased since the 1940s, becoming both More common and More serious As Well As More Likely to be committed by an adult relative or Friend of a child a researcher said sunday. Writing in the journal paediatrics or. John Levin Hal of the Vale University school of Medicine compared studies done by sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and another study done by Diana Russell in 1978. He said the 197b_ study showed a higher prevalence of sexual abuse a greater proportion of perpetrators who were relatives or adults known by the child and a greater proportion of serious types of abuse.". He cautioned however that Kinsey s subjects May have reported less sexual abuse than actually happened and that russells subjects All in san Francisco May have suffered More sexual abuse than people in the United states As a whole. ,.".-. Kinsey s study still the largest Ever conducted on the prevalence of sexual abuse showed 24 percent of the 4,441 women interviewed had had at least one pc adolescent sexual Contact with an adult male. Half of these women said the abuse included no physical Contact but rather verbal abuse or genital exhibition about the same percentage said strangers were the perpetrators of inc acts while 22 percent said family Mem Bers typically an Uncle were responsible. Kinsey included women from 48 slates but excluded Black women and women who had been in prison in contrast Russell interviewed Only women in the san Francisco area. Her interviews of 930 randomly selected women showed that 48 percent experienced at least one incident of sex Ual abuse before the age of 14. Russell found 29 percent of the Inci dents of physical Contact involved rela Tives 60 percent involved others acquaintances and 11 percent involved strangers. While Kinsey found 8 percent of women had been victims of very serious abuse. Russell found 23 percent experienced this level of abuse. Of plans meeting on stealth Aby the associated press. The air Force concerned about complaints from aerospace workers that handling plastic based Compo site materials for the stealth fighter and other planes causes health problems has scheduled a symposium on the Issue a Pentagon official said. The air Force has obligations to ensure that its workers arc protected in the maintenance Environ ment according loan internal memo from Gary a Vest the air Force s Deputy assistant Secretary for health and safety r  As a result of recent controversy regarding the occupational health aspects of the use of composites in the aerospace Industry 1 have made a number of in quiries and concluded that there Are questions that warrant evaluation and  Vest also said in a speech that evaluation of the advanced materials is warranted according 10 pub health complaints Lishco reports. He said the materials arc widely used in the aerospace Industry although there is Little known Aboul their possible health risks. " we have not yet made the necessary commitment to realty understanding the effects of chemicals build ing and manufacturing materials and he processes involved with them Vest said in a speech to toxicology experts nov. 2 in Fairborn Ohio Home of Wright Paul arson fab