European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 21,1990 the stars and stripes pages California report lauds self esteem acts As Soa Al vaccine to fight numerous ills by Catherine Bishop san Francisco not the California task Force to promote self is Lccy and personal and social responsibility in its final report promotes Horatio Algor Virtues but clothes them in particularly California terms. Though written in new age jargon like empowerment and entering our own inner  the report says old fashioned integrity self Reliance work sobriety education and Loving your neighbor represent a social vac Cine against numerous ills " m drug abuse to welfare dependency. Slate assemblyman John Vasconcellos. A san Jose whose legislation Cre ated the study group said its report had served to legitimize self esteem As a crucial Factor in our  in a press release issued with the often derided three year report he also said we in  often the leading slate often pioneers followed our Pas Sion. With this report we Point the Way toward a successful Effort to truly improve our human  but the report also aroused Strong criticism sometimes from members of the group itself. The critics said the report restated the obvious and misrepresented research data on whether self esteem was linked to social problems see related comment s in doonesbury Page 20. Committee members were chosen bythe governor and the legislature from among several thousand applicants. They included Public officials ministers experts in treating social prob lems conservative republicans and lib eral democrats. Some committee members say the group spent much of its first year Defi Ning self esteem. This definition was finally selected appreciating my own Worth and importance and having the character to be accountable for myself and to act responsibly toward  the report on which the committee spent $375,000 in Public Money listed historic examples of self esteem in action from the american revolution to the recent toppling of governments i Eastern Europe and issued recommendations touching on Public policy issues and individual self management. The report has key principles for Nur Turing self esteem including realistic goals constructive thoughts and physical development to resist illness and Addic Tion. Seven of the group s members dissented from the report citing deep irresolvable philosophical and theological differences and shortcomings including a profound generation Gap and failure to recognize the eternal god As the Ori Gin of All human  one member David Shannahoff Khalsa a yoga teacher took the group to task for promoting self esteem As a uni Versal remedy for a society that has be come increasingly Complex and dysfunctional and for failing to include an eight part nasal breathing technique As a method for ending drug addiction. A More fundamental criticism of the report was that it relied on anecdotal Wisdom without enough scientific Evi Dence. The reason there is no hard evidences because the studies have not been done properly said Gail Dusa. Presi Dent of the 2.000-Mcmbcr National Council for self est com. But or. Neil j. Sec scr a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and editor of the Book the social importance of self est com said the Issue was not that simple. Research shows a Strong inference that self esteem is important in school performance and teen pregnancy said Sec scr. Who worked closely with the study group. He called inc research horribly scrambled when it looks at alcohol and drug abuse. The report did not answer the ques Tion of whether self esteem leads to a successful life. Frank Siccone. Who leads self esteem workshops and Heads the san Francisco county task Force on self esteem said self Cal com both leads to Success and Suc Cess generates it. The trick he said is having the humility of knowing what you re control Ling and what you re  explosion aftermath firefighters in hag blown md., help recover the re Mains of the last of four victims from an explosion and fire in a super 8 Motel. The explosion sunday morning was thought to be caused by a natural Gas leak. 5,000 police officers pay final tribute to slain . Detective i at Hogue . Standing seven deep to form a Wall of Blue that stretched nearly half a mile More than 5,000 police officers monday honoured along Island narcotics detective who was killed last thursday in a car bombing outside his Home. Officers from throughout the new York City Are and As far As Utah and Virginia with Black mourning bands across their badges paid their respects to Detec Tive Dennis Wustenhoff a 41-year-old highly Deco rated officer instructor and father of  arc focusing on revenge As the Proba ble motive in the killing but officers in Patchogue said monday that threats from drug dealers would not cow  anything this makes us More committed to doing  said Roland Grant an 11-year Veteran. Of the Suffolk county police  county s drug problem has grown with alarming Speed in recent years. The number of felony drug arrests increased to 2,724 in the first 11 months of 1989, inc latest figures available compared with2,407 in All of 1988 and 1,631 in 1987. Wustenhoff a member of the Suffolk Force was killed around noon thursday in North Patchor Uchen he got into the White Cadillac he used for police undercover  explosion blew out the car windows Tore off the roof and hurled debris 200 feet. Anti apartheid protesters demonstrate in Philadelphia Sands of time Philadelphia up some 300 demonstrators marched through Center City on monday to protest against apart Heid in South Africa and demand . Companies Slop doing business with the minority while ruled nation. Holding signs Reading one Man one vote and chanting what do we want Freedom. When do we want it now the protesters marched 10 blocks to the mid Atlantic regional offices of computer giant International business machines corp. We arc Here to celebrate the release of Nelson  said Sibu Siso Nkomo. 35. A Lincoln University professor and a member of the Philadelphia and Delaware Valley Nelson Mandela reception committee the and hoc coalition of Community and labor groups that organized the March. A second reason is we want to make the Point that apartheid is still intact said Nkomo a native South african and member of the opposition african National Congress who has lived in exile since 1978. Brian saderholm an ism spokesman reached by Telephone said ism has had no investments in South Africa since the company sold a subsidiary there three years ago. We do continue to sell some product through our old subsidiary saderholm said. Ism has also spent $15 million since 1985 funding Black and minority social causes and Community organizations such As medical and education programs in South Africa saderholm said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. 21, 1950 hungarian prosecutor Gyula Alapi asked for the most severe punishment for . Businessman Robert a. Vocal or and six others charged with spying and sabotage. 30 years ago today. Feb. 21, i960 army chief of staff Gen. Lyman l. Lemn incr warned  club in Washington that soviet communist leaders declared their invention three decades ago of lulling the free world with a peace offensive then hitting in with clenched fists. 20 years ago today. Feb. 21, 1970 a military pay raise of close to 30 percent for non career enlisted men and women with less than two years of service was proposed by defense Secre tary Melvin r. Laird. 10 years ago today feb. 21, 1980 the Carter adminislrali9n said that the United states would officially Boycott the Moscow summer olympics and that . Olympic committee officials and athletes were expected to follow suit. The Boycott was in protest to the soviet invasion of Afghanistan