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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, August 19, 1990

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 9, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Honolulu apr a Marine opposed to a interventionist Quot . Foreign policy sought conscientious objector status Friday and was transferred to a unit that will not be deployed to the persian Gulf for operation desert shield his lawyer said. Chi. Jeffrey Paterson stationed at Kaneohe Marine corps air station on the Island of Oahu said he would not fight to protect Oil prices and opposed a interventionist Quot policies in the Mideast. Paterson 22, of Hollister calif., is reportedly the second Kaneohe based Marine to seek conscientious objector status recently. Eric a Seitz Paterson s attorney said the Marine s application was accepted for processing Friday but that a decision could take a some time 1 paler san who had worked As a Supply clerk and in Field artillery was transferred to a non deploy Abl unit Seitz said. However capt. Leonard Ryan Public affairs officer at the base would not confirm that Paterson had changed units. Ryan said Paterson had been charged with unauthorized leave for being away from his unit thursday but no other charges were planned. A Marine corps spokeswoman in Washington said officials there were unaware of the Case and would not comment. Paterson said he had been tentatively scheduled to leave for the Middle East on sunday. Base spokesmen would not discuss planned  i can to fight for the military at All anymore Quot he said. Quot if i was going to Al Salvador id do the same  Gulf Jeffrey Paterson Paterson who has seven months left in he marines said he belongs to a la Casa Quot a group that objects to . A interventionist Quot policies. There arc a very few people who want to go to saudi Arabia and fight for the Price of Oil Quot he said. A fall wars Are in the objectives of lenders and corporations and not the  Paterson said he joined the marines in 1986. But two years later he joined organizations opposed to . Policy in Central and Smith America and the Middle East he said. He said he hoped the Media attention about his ease would make the marines a want to get rid of me As soon As . Seitz said the Soldier told him Marine officials were considering charging him with a number of violations under the uniform code of military Justice. Among the possible charges were unauthorized leave releasing classified informal Ion and inciting others to resist orders Seitz said. But Ryan said no further charges were planned because Paterson resumed to his unit Friday. Christopher Martyr another Marine stationed at the base filed a lawsuit aug. 10 seeking a court order to prevent his deployment to the Middle East. Marler had filed for conscientious objector status in april citing his protestant religious beliefs. The government said it agreed not to Send Marler into combat because his application was filed months ago. Marler was unavailable for comment  study links children to parents Tallahassee Fla. Apr disruptive children can cause parents to drink More a Florida state University study released Friday shows. A i m not suggesting we blame children for the alcoholism of their parents because those who grow up in alcoholic Homes have suffered enough already a said or. Alan Lang an associate professor of psychology at Florida state. A nonetheless particularly difficult children can cause distress for parents and in some cases this May contribute to increased alcohol  contrary to the teachings of self help groups who place the onus on parents and Tell children of alcoholics they Aren t to blame the Florida slate study May provide the first documented evidence that children actually can cause their parents to drink More. Lang teamed with or. William Pelham of the University of Pittsburgh to conduct the research. A your studies show How the destructive role of alcohol in Parent child int crae tons is a two Way Street a Lang said. A problem drinkers make poor parents but problem children May also drive parents to  he said the findings Are similar to those of studies that show children who arc mentally retarded or have serious behavioural problems Are abused More often than Normal obedient children. A the Point is that while we usually think of parents As influences of children children can affect parents As Well a Lang said. A and the outcome is not always  or. Robin room scientific director of the alcohol research group of the medical research Institute of san Francisco Wasny to surprised by the findings but said it was important to look into the cause of drinking among parents Quot rather than give in to the bumper sticker Type humor that says children cause their parents to  a it a important to understand that parental drinking patterns can later influence their children a drinking patterns Quot room said the Florida researchers under a Grant from the . National Institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism asked 120 parents with 5-to-12-year-old sons to interact with an unfamiliar boy of a similar age. The parents were then Given an Opportunity to drink As much or As Little alcohol As they wanted while anticipating a second interaction with the same child. Half of he parents in the study had difficult children of their own with Short attention spans hyperactivity conduct disorders or some combination of the three. The other half had Only children without behaviour disorders. But the researchers stacked the deck. Half the parents had initially interacted with boys who behaved normally while half had faced Hoys trained by the researchers to behave in an overactive and disruptive Way among parents of Normal children those who interacted with disruptive boys drank one third More than those who interacted with a cooperative child. A i feel justified in suggesting that these results indicate that drinking is a parental behaviour that can be influenced by the characteristics and Behaviours of children Quot Lang , Sullivan Confer on controversial rights Bill Kennebunkport Maine apr health Secretary Louis Sullivan the Only Black in president Bush a Cabinet journeyed to Bush a oceanfront Home Friday for talks aimed at averting a veto of a major civil rights Bill. A Sullivan and Constance Newman director of the office of personnel management met with Bush White House chief of staff John Sununu and counsel c. Boyden Gray to discuss the Job discrimination Bill that passed the House and Senate in the last month. White House spokesman Marlin fit water reiterated Bush a threat to veto the legislation unless it is changed in a House Senate conference. The Bush administration has said the Bill would Force employers to resort to hiring quotas for minorities in order to avoid Job discrimination suits. Sununu has spearheaded repeated efforts to negotiate a Compromise with sen Edward Kennedy d-mass., and civil rights groups backing the Democrat crafted measure which would reverse a string of five supreme court rulings in 1989 that narrowed Protection against Job Bias. Civil rights groups deny that the Bili would Force quotas and they have been unwilling to accept the White houses Quot corrective Quot language. While Sullivan has not been involved in those negotiations fit water said that in addition to running a huge government department with major civil rights responsibilities Sullivan a is a Black Man and has very Strong personal interests and concerns in this  he called Sullivan Quot a Leader in the civil rights movement for Many years who feels very strongly about this Issue and he simply wants to talk to the president about it a Newman is also one of Bush a highest ranking Black appointees. In Washington Campbell Garden a spokesman for the department of health and human services said Sullivan was searching for ways a to gel Congress and the Black com my n my to work together to get legislation the president can sign Quot the House approved the hid 272-154 on aug 3 and the Senate passed the measure 65-.14 on july 18. Both were less than the two thirds margin needed to override a veto. Pilot in fatal crash rejected preflight de icing report says Yakima Wash. Apr Crew members of a commuter plane that crashed last year killing six people used credit cards to scrape ice from the wings and propellers and declined de icing equipment at least twice according to Federal investigators. However the report by the National transportation safety Board contained no conclusions about the cause of the Dee. 26 crash said author Erie Sager of the Nosb in Washington. Quot its one Small pan of the investigation Quot Sager said in a Telephone interview. A that information Mas or May note Quot i up in the  a final report will be issued in several weeks. The United express plane in route from Seattle by Way of Yakima crashed about 40t feet Short of the runway at Pasco about 80 Miles South of Yakima livery one aboard was killed. Ice can slow an air plane or Force it Down is increasing weight and drag. Sager said he did not think it unusual that the co Pilot and another United express employee would be using credit cards to remove a from the 19-passenger British aerospace Jet Stream .31 Turboprop during the Stop in Yakima. A Nice is very frequent Quot Sager said. A they were attending to  the employees were looking at the wings and presumably fell the buildup was not enough to warrant the use of do i cog equipment Sager said. However a United express ramp agent in Yakima told investigators that she was surprised the Captain had chosen not to de ice. She said most other planes were undergoing the 5-minute procedure that night because it was misting and cold a she noticed that chips of ice were blown Hack toward her in the propeller Wash Quot As the plane departed the report said. Shelley Swanke a United express spokeswoman m Pasco said company policy gives pilots the authority to decide when to use de icing equipment. He report found no medical problems among the Crew that might have contributed to the crash and no traces of drugs or alcohol. United express is a franchise name used by several airlines around the country with ties to United air junes file commuter an Fine is owned by Aba inc. Of Fresno. All  
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