European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes monday april 29, 1991 at a glance a . Marine patrols one of the streets in the iraqi Border town of Zakhoo site of a kurdish refugee  jury called the so called Quot fatal attractions murder trial of a former school teacher accused of killing her Lover s wife ended saturday with a deadlocked jury. A Page 4peace activists shut out worried that veterans might be offended organizers of an upcoming Hollywood Parade to Honor persian Gulf War troops have declined to allow peace activists to participate. A Page 5truce in Northern Ireland leaders of most of Northern Ireland a political parties have agreed to Start talking tuesday giving themselves 11 weeks to make Progress on problems that Are decades old. A a a a a a a a a a pages Gas prices to Rise gasoline prices have bottomed out after skidding nearly 40 cents a gallon from their december highs. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 commentary. 13 letters a a a. A a a. A 12 Money matters. 17 sports a i. 22-28 to listings. 22 a a a. Fatm weather. 11 adolescent mental care Cost takes big bite from by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau Washington adolescent family members account for about 70 percent of the burgeoning mental health Bill for the defense departments civilian insurance plan officials say. Quot the increase in champs expenditures for mental health car is being driven almost solely by an increase in participation and utilization of mental health services by children Between the Ages of 10 and 19,�?� said Rogers k. Wright a Clin real psychologist for the american psychological association. Wright and nine other witnesses appeared before the House armed services military personnel and compensation subcommittee to discuss management of mental health care under the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services or champs. A major concern of the subcommittee is the 144 percent growth Between 1985 and 1989 in inpatient mental health costs said chairwoman rep. Beverly Byron did. In 1989, mental health expenditures in the program exceeded $600 million Quot unfortunately the Structure of the champs mental health Benefit has encouraged lengthy inpatient stays Quot Byron said. Under the system higher benefits Are paid for family members who Are treated As inpatients rather than outpatients. Quot in human terms the Choice for Active service personnel is often very simple a Wright said. Quot if the family of an e-5 has two children who need mental health services in an inpatient Hospital setting it will Cost an average of $20,550 to a unfortunately the Structure of the champs mental health Benefit has encouraged lengthy inpatient stays rep Beverly Byron champs and $350 to the family. Quot if on the other hand the family chooses to use outpatient mental health treatment it will Cost an average of $6,200 to the Federal government and $1,600 to the family or approximately 35 percent of their total military  a often the inpatient facilities encourage military parents to keep their �?o.trouble-. Some teen Ager in a residential treats mint Center rather than dealing As a family with the difficult child Byron said. Resident Al treatment facilities such As group care Homes Are less expensive than hospitalization but More than outpatient care. The Pentagon expects new rules on inpatient stays that take effect oct. 1 will help lower the mental health Bill. Currently the insurance program allows 60 Days of inpatient mental health care per year but the new Law will limit that to 30 Days per year for adults and 45 Days per year for family members younger than 19. Residential treatment Center care now an unlimited Benefit will be limited to 150 Days per year. A. Other defense department initiatives to control champs mental health costs include negotiating provider discounts and requiring reauthorization of  Quality of care at . Inpatient mental health care facilities that Are used by champs does not always meet approved standards an official for the general accounting office testified. Independent evaluators found serious problems in the appropriateness of treatment delays in treatment and the level of care provided said David p. Baine director of the Gao human resources division.1 v j Baine said recent surveys of inpatient facilities in the United states found that therapy was being conducted by unlicensed staff and that Many treatment centers had inadequate staff to patient ratios. / 1 a a the Gao testimony provides some very disturbing examples of poor Quality care for those troublesome teen agers the use of Over medication seclusion or restraints As the primary methods of treatment a a Byron said. However the defense department has contracted with health management strategies International inc. Of Alexandria va., which began conducting on site surveys of stateside residential treatment centers in the past year. As of March the has visited 34 of 88 champs approved mental health facilities in the United states. Deficiencies of varying degrees were found at All the centers and three programs were immediately prohibited from admitting new patients Baine said. The other facilities have corrected the problems he said. Kab spying goes on travellers targeted . Officials charge correction a Story by the Washington Post in sundays edition incorrectly reported that the midshipman newly appointed As brigade commander at the . Naval Academy is the second woman to hold such a position in an american military service Academy. In addition to a West Point Cadet mentioned in the Story two women served As Cadet Wing commander an equivalent position at the . Air Force Academy in 1980 and 1988. Washington a the Kab is taking advantage of the growing flow of travellers Between the United states and soviet Union to increase its spying in americans and steal their secrets . Officials say. The Kab also recently resumed a Campaign to discredit the United states in Domestic and foreign newspapers planting stories such As one last month in a Zimbabwe newspaper that claimed the United states was exporting condoms laced with aids infected lubricants officials say. This stepped up activity appears to contradict a seeming Lull in Kab hostility including almost idyllic scenes of soviet agents sharing information on drug smuggling and on terrorism with the Cia. A. A a a. A a a a a. A . Officials were generally sceptical of this relaxation and now they feel vindicated. A notwithstanding the pkg by a splashy new image Complete with a miss Kab contest and a. To series entitled a the Kab tells  . Analysts believe the organization remains As hostile As it was in its stalinist heyday. A the level of activity we have seen is As High As its Ever been Quot said Ray Mislock head of the of big a soviet Section. Not Only that but a Access for the Kab to american targets has dramatically  with the easing of cold War tensions the number of tourists students and business people travelling Back and Forth across the Atlantic has grown significantly. _ a two american students in Leningrad for example reported recently they Quot had been approached and told that unless they agreed to Quot Start a relationship with the soviets they  be allowed to Complete their studies Mislock said. The students reported the approach to . Security officials. But Mislock said the Fri has no Way of knowing How Many cases Don t get reported. Several years ago tens of thousands of soviets came to the United states annually. Now the numbers Are in the hundreds of thousands Mislock said. The number of soviet diplomats is also steadily increasing a some 1,600 Are posted at the soviet missions in new York Washington and san Francisco a after being Frozen for several years. A the Kab sees All this As an. Opportunity to exploit Quot Mislock said. The Kab s eyes and ears abroad have been crippled by the loss of its allies of Eastern Europe whose intelligence services served for 40 years As soviet proxies. This comes at a time when the soviets Are desperate for information especially technological data to help its backward Economy. Quot its a substantial blow to the Kab a said Victor Shen Iov a senior operative w to defected in 1980. Shen Iov who has been unsuccessful in trying to bring his ailing parents Quot to the United states for urgent medical treatment said his former Boss Vladimir Kryuchkov is Quot air absolutely ruthless Man Quot who faithfully serves the communist party. The Kab director served for More than a decade As head of the pkg by a first chief directorate a the overseas spying department a before being promoted to his present Post in 1988. His suspicion toward the West is Well known reflected most recently in a speech to the soviet parliament that accused foreign businessmen of trying to destroy his country a Economy. Us. Officials say president Mikhail s.1 Gorbachev relies on Kryuchkov to protect his flanks against hard liners who want a Kremlin crackdown on dissent and against the growing chaos of economic disintegration Ana nationalist rebellions. The committee for state Security As the Kab is officially known has been vested with Broad new Powers to a a St. Black marketeers seize Trie books of joint soviet american a a ventures and conduct intrusive inspections of fledgling private enterprises. It has been spared sweeping budget cuts inflicted on most other agencies and the number of its employees a Between 500,000 and 700,000, according to . Estimates a remains intact officials say. That allows the Kab to target the growing number of americans travelling to the soviet Union to try to identify potential recruits Mislock said. Proof that Little has changed in the Kab is the re emergence since last fall of anti american disinformation officials say. The Kab has a special unit known As service a which plants false or partly True news stories at Home and abroad some disinformation is crude such As stories about the United slates deliberately spreading aids. Others arc More Subtle