European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. September 9,1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 these australian firefighters May look like e Bunch of red nosed Boos but they re clowning around for a Pur nosing around for funds pose. The group posed thursday in Sydney As part of an annual Effort to raise Money for sudden infant death syndrome research. The two week Appeal culminated Friday ohs ened As ked nose Day across Australia. Assaulted woman escapes burning Home Denver a a 30-year-old woman who was raped beaten stabbed and left to die in a crawl space of her burning Home used her blood to scrawl the attacker s name on a Wall and police thursday arrested her next door neigh Bor. The woman described by police As very very Brave also Cut her Way out of the burning House with the knife that had been used in the attack and scaled a 6-foot Wall to escape police said. She was in fair condition thursday after undergoing surgery at Denver Gen eral Hospital to repair sliced tendons in her right wrist. She s Alert and awake. But still is very frightened because this person is still at Large As far As 1 know said Lisa Duchon a Hospital spokeswoman. Donnic e. Russell 18, who has lived next door to the victim for about two years was arrested at a truck Stop in Oklahoma City at -1 20 p.m., Oklahoma City police sgt. Don Matthews said. We got a teletype from the Oklahoma City police saying that Donnic Russell had told them he was wanted for rape arson and attempted murder in  Denver detective Christine Wallis said. Matthews said police in Oklahoma City Recic cd an Anonymous phone tip that Russell would be coming through the City in an Effort to Contact relatives. Wallis said extradition procedures would be started Friday. The woman s ordeal began wednes Day morning when she let Russell into her Home to use a Telephone police said. She was robbed of jewelry and Money and raped in the basement Wallis said. She was beaten about the head with a Hammer stabbed in the Arm and hand and left in the crawl space which had been closed off with furniture. Her Home then was set afire. The woman managed to write Don Nie. Next  in blood on the Wall be fore she kicked her Way out of the crawl space. Wallis said. She used the fool Long knife that she had been stabbed with to break the base ment window and then scaled a 6-foot Fence in her Back Yard screaming for help police said. She is a very Brave Gutsy woman Wallis said thursday after interviewing the victim in her Hospital room. She at one Point feigned unconsciousness and grabbed the knife from  the residents in the Middle class Northeast Denver neighbourhood did t know whether she was in trouble or looking for it. People did t want to gel involved Wallis said. But one woman who asked not to be identified telephoned police after hear ing the victim scream help me. Some body help  i looked out the window to make sure it was t some kids playing around. I saw her climbing Over the Fence with a knife in her hand. I went and called the police the neighbor said. She was dishevelled beat up bloody half dressed. She looked Cray. Now that i be heard what happened i guess i would be Cray too inc neighbor said. After the attack. Wallis left her Busi Ness card in Russell s front door and he called her later in the Day. He promised to go to police Headquarters and answer questions bul never arrived she said. He lives with an Uncle and Wallis said Bolh inc Uncle and the victim s husband were shocked to learn that he was a suspect in the attack. Wife s education Edge found of be divorce Factor new Haven Conn. A married couples arc Mic Likely to divorce if the woman has More Educa Tion than her husband a study concludes. The study found that the divorce rate for marriages in which the wife has More schooling than her husband is Over 50 percent higher than it is for marriages in which the husband has the same or higher Educ Lional achievement. Apparently Many men and women have not been socialized to accept the notion of a woman being educationally More accomplished than her husband " said Neil g. Bennett an associate professor of sociology at Yale University who led the study. That women Are better Able to support themselves and less fearful of going it alone could account for the higher rate of divorce Bennett said. We might have expected thai couples who had very different Levels of education regardless of which spouse had the higher education would have higher divorce rates than average because these couples would have different world views and be subject to greater conflict and stress in their marriage. But thai was nol True. We found Only couples in which the wife was More educated than the husband had higher divorce rates than  Bennett said in an interview wednesday. In the United states about half of All marriages today will end in divorce. Bennett s study has nol been published but the re sults were presented last month at the american sociological association in san Francisco. The study was based on data from nearly 3,500 married or divorced women under age 50, collected by inc National Survey of families and households be tween March 1987 and May 1988. Bennett received widespread att lion three year Sago when he concluded that single College educated women Over age 30 had Only a 20 percent Chance of gelling mar Ca. A census Bureau researcher studying the same statistics disputed his findings and said those same women actually have a 66 percent Chance of eventually marrying. Bennett has done a new study on the same subject with More recent data but the results will nol be made Public until they Are published in november. In looking at divorce Rales the Yale researchers also examined the effects of religious differences on marriages. Not unexpectedly they found that divorce rates arc higher for couples in in Lennith marriages. When a wife and husband have different religion bul Bolh Are nol very religious the divorce rate is not much different from the average the study found