European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 21, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 drug use among women increases study pinpoints trading sex for drugs by the Washington Post Washington in what Federal officials Are calling a startling reversal in drug abuse patterns a Justice department study has found that in Many . Cities hard Core users of cocaine and heroin Are a Likely to be women As men. The study based on drug testing of men and women arrested in 14 cities highlights a dramatic increase in the number of inner City women abusing drugs particularly crack cocaine. This development and the increasing practice of sex transmitted diseases being reported in Many Urban areas including the nation s capital. This has challenged our notions about the drug abuse problem generally said James k. Stewart director of the National Institute on Justice a Justice department research office that recently reported the findings. We have always suspected that in terms of drug use men tended to be the More hard Core group. But now for the first Lime we Are seeing a drug catch on As a contagion among women Stewart said. The Justice department study found in the District of Columbia 65 percent of 242 women arresters tested in the last three months of 1988 showed signs of co Caine use. This compared to 62 percent of 1,051 men arresters sampled during the same period. In new York 73 percent of women arresters tested positive for cocaine compared to 67 Percy no of men. Kansas City. Portland and san Diego showed a higher proportion of women testing positive for cocaine. In six other cities Birmingham Dallas new or leans Phoenix. Philadelphia and St. Louis More men tested positive although in some cases by Only slightly higher margins the study found. Stewart said the latest ratios arc a Stark contrast to past findings which showed More than 80 percent of heroin users were men. He noted that historically Many women were averse to using hyper Drmic Needles to inject heroin the usual method of taking the drug. But crack cocaine which is smoked in pipes or rolled cigarettes seems far More Likely to be used by women he said. The cocaine findings Are considered particularly disturbing because they coincide with new evidence that sex Lor crack exchanges by women addicts is far More extensive than previously thought. What we arc learning among female crack addicts in particular is they will resort to whatever Means thatis easiest and available to them to obtain crack or the Money to by it said James Rivers director of theoffice of substance abuse control in dad county Fla. The crack prostitute is very often what these women Are coming to  Rivers office recently released findings from a Sepa rate Institute of Justice study of randomly selected teen age crack users in the Miami area. It found 27 of 38 girls interviewed acknowledged frequently trading sex for crack. These 27 girls who averaged 15 years old averaged about 700 sex acts each during the pre Vious year according to the study which was released this month. Most of these adolescent girls were trading sex for crack As a primary method of getting their drugs said James Inciardi a professor of criminal Justice at the University of Delaware who conducted the study through intensive interviews with the subjects. Some of them had turned As Many As 50 tricks in a week  an explosive growth in cases of sexually transmitted diseases in Many cities is one possible consequence of the sex for crack Exchange. In the District of Colum Bia for example cases of syphilis climbed 90.7 per cent Between 1985 and last year while reports of penicillin resistant gonorrhoea jumped from 34 in 1985 to1,371 in 1988. The National Institute on drug abuse said it is unclear How widespread is the practice of exchanging sex for crack but to find out it has launched an 18-month study of the Issue. Convicted Felon re elected As head of a act unit Montgomery Ala. A a longtime a act Leader won re election saturday to head the civil rights group s Alabama chapter making him the Only state president to win office after a felony conviction officials said. Thomas Reed who is appealing a 1988 Federal extortion conviction said his winning another two year term Indi. Cates the National association for the advancement of coloured people is ungodly proud of i his leadership. Just a month ago i was re elected j to the National i Board of directors j and i think that is the litmus test. Reed said. Of cml course this test in Alabama was a True demonstration of the people s  Reed turned Back a bid by the Rev. William Battle head of the a act s metro Birmingham chapter. Battle ran on a platform of bringing Unity to the state chapters and of increasing membership. We have a lot of inactive branches Battle said. Alabama is at the Bottom of All of the states As it relates to Mem  Battle was Defeated by an 81-35 vote of a act delegates at the Alabama state convention. Battle estimated there Are about 7,000 members in the Ala Bama chapter. Jim Williams a National spokesman for the a act in Baltimore said last week Reed s Victory would make him the Only sitting state president to be re elected after a felony conviction. Reed 61, was convicted of accepting $10,000 Cash and Between $5,000 and $10,000 in restaurant equipment to linearly parole for a state prisoner. He was Given a four year prison sen tence but has been free on Bond pending his Appeal. The Lith . Circuit court of appeals in Atlanta is considering Reed s Appeal. His attorneys say Reed who predict she will be vindicated should get a new trial because a jury heard about his at tempts to remove the Confederate Flag from the Alabama Capitol. Reed has been state a act president 19 years with one two year break i service. Before Reed s re a Lection the delegates to the convention rejected a Reso Lution by a act divisions in five coun ties calling for him not to seek re election. Reed also served As a state representative from Tuskegee with the Alabama legislature Mages of Neptune set for pcs can telecasts by the new York times voyager is images of Neptune arc scheduled to be broadcast live on Tele vision Early Friday As the spacecraft Skirls the planet on its Way out of the solar system into deep space. The broadcast of the Black and White still pictures As they arc transmitted will be a first for the voyager ii Mission. Never before have people been Able to turn on their tvs and Sec something like this live As it is happening said Susan Lundroth of the planetary society a group of space enthusiasts. This Opportunity was once reserved for scientists and  the spacecraft s transmissions from other planets were delayed. The Public broadcasting system and the Cable news network plan to broadcast the live images supplemented with their own programming. The television pictures Are expected to show Neptune s partial rings and images of Triton the largest of the planet s Moons said or. Bradford a. Smith head of the team analysing voyager s photographs at the Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Voyager ii will pass too close to Nep tune within 3,000 Miles of its Northern pole to take pictures of the planet itself during this part of Fth Fly by. The spacecraft is travelling at42,000 Miles an hour and any photos of Fth planet at that Range would just be Blurry streaks Smith said. But Nasa plans to provide photo graphs of Neptune taken earlier for broadcast. They arc Beautiful images Smith said. Neptune is not As psychedelic As Jupiter but it s a really photogenic  the images transmitted As radio Sig nals by voyager ii will take four hours and six minutes to travel the 2.8 billion Miles from Neptune to Earth. Pcs will provide its 188 member stations with the program from mid night thursday Eastern time to 7 . Friday. Pcs officials said that of the 30 largest stations 25 Are plan Ning to broadcast the program. Can the Cable television station will incorporate live photographs from voyager ii into its news Broad casts said Steve Haworth a spokes Man for the network in Atlanta. Representatives of Abc lbs and Abc said their networks would not use the live transmissions but would probably use pictures from voyager ii in regular news coverage. Minnesota court exempts Amish from having warnings on buggies St. Paul Minn. A Amish have a constitutional right to refuse to affix safety emblems to their horse draw buggies a unanimous Minnesota supreme court ruled  decision dismissed traffic citations issued in 1988 against 14 Amish who had refused to display Orange red slow moving vehicle signs or an alternate Black Trian Gular Emblem on their Black buggies. It s a precedent setting first Amend ment Case said attorney Phillip Vil Laume who represented the Amish. Our supreme court is the highest court in the country to address this specific Issue. It s just a major Victory for individuals and for the Amish specifically assistant Fillmore county attorney Matthew Opat who argued in support of the Law said the ruling jeopardizes Highway users even though there have been no accidents involving Amish buggies. It does t seem reasonable to have to have people killed and maimed before there is a Public safety Issue Opat said. He said he was not sure if the count would Appeal. The 14 members of the old order Amish religion had drawn Petty Mise Meanor charges for their refusal to use the  appellants arc unwilling to com Promise their belief that the loud colors required and the worldly symbols the Tri angular shape represents to them conflict with the admonitions found in apostle Paul s epistles wrote associate Justice Glenn Kelley to them to do so would be putting their Faith in worldly symbols rather than in  Fillmore county just North of the Iowa Border in Southeastern Minnesota has about 1,000 Amish residents who adhere to 19th-Century customs and generally Donot use cars or other modern conveniences. Sky diving Mark set then reset Montgomery . A Sci Canty nine sky diving women joined in a record breaking Chain in the air Only a few hours after 73 of them had snapped the previous Mark. It s raining maniac women Dave Simons of Stormville said As the women parachuted Friday afternoon near the Orange county Airport some 50 Miles Northwest of new York City. The first group took to the air. In three planes and broke the previous record of 60 women set in Deland Fla., in 1986, by link ing up and holding the Chain for 20.23 seconds. Three hours and 20 minutes later the same 73, plus six others went up again and linked for 13.11 seconds for a new record