European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday november 22, 1991 surveyed families believe they re of others Aren t by the Washington Post Washington a americans think the american family is falling apart everywhere but in their own Homes. This Paradox a one pollster has dubbed it the a a in Mok but you re not syndrome a has grown acute in recent years As a harsh Economy and hostile culture have made family life More difficult and More valued. That a the Gist of two National surveys released this week a one by the governments National commission on children the other by a private insurance company a that looked at family values and patterns of behaviour. They found that a seventy percent of families say they eat dinner together at least five times a week but 81 percent of americans say parents done to spend enough time with their children. A ninety seven percent of All parents rate their relationships with their children As a a Good or a excellent a even though a lopsided majority of All adults believe it is harder now to be a Parent than it used to be 88 percent. Family values have grown stronger in the past two years measured by a nine percentage Point increase in the number of people who say it is important to respect ones parents and ones children and to leave something better for the next generation. There was a 10 percent decline in the number of people who believe a having Nice things is important. The recession in the Short term and the breakdown of the two Parent family Over a longer term have sorely increased the financial pressure on families with children. Eighty seven percent of parents say they have a hard time making ends meet. A one of the things the numbers Are telling us is that in bad economic times people Hunker Down and rediscover what really matters such As family a said David Popenoe a sociology professor at Rutgers University in new Jersey. A but there a More at work Here than the recession. I think we re seeing a cyclical reaction to the a me values that held such Sway in the culture for so  the National commission Survey found some Sharp differences in family life along the lines of race and family composition. Black parents Are two to three times More Likely than White parents to worry that their children will get pregnant or get someone pregnant use or sell drugs contract a sexually transmitted disease or get shot. Hispanic parents Are five to 10 times More worried than White parents More than half of All hispanic parents say they worry a a lot about each of these risks. The second Survey conducted by Massachusetts Mutual life insurance co., focused on How family values Are instilled and it found the a a in Mok but you re not syndrome to be rampant. For example when adults were asked where they got their Core values 70 to 80 percent said the family. These percentages held for respondents of All Ages including 18 to 29-year-Olds. But when these same adults were asked where they think today a children Are getting their values two thirds mentioned either television movies musicians or music videos. Bible most influential Book in readers lives study shows Washington a the Bible was the overwhelming Choice of american readers As the Book that has made the biggest difference in their lives according to a nationwide Survey published wednesday. Ranked a Distant second was the ayn Rand novel Atlas shrugged followed by m. Scott pecks the Road less travelled Harper Leeds to kill a mockingbird and the lord of the rings by . Tolkien. The Bible received 166 votes in the Survey conducted earlier this year for the Book of the month club and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. The Rand novel won 17 votes and the others received fewer votes. They were followed by a three Way tie with eight votes each for Margaret Mitchells gone with the wind Dale Carnegie s How to win friends and influence people and the Book of mormon. Next was a five Way tie for Betty Friedan a the feminine mystique a gift from the sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh Victor frankly a Many a search for meaning Gail Sheehy a passages and when bad things happen to Good people by Harold s. Kushner. Each won seven votes. Copies of the Survey were mailed during the first three months of 1991 to a random Sample of 5,000 Book of the month club subscribers. Of those 2,032 completed the questionnaire and 778 cited one or More books that had influenced their lives. Altogether 935 Book titles were mentioned. Survey respondents said their Book choices had enhanced their intellectual or spiritual understanding of life led to new interests or resulted in major career decisions. The results were announced at a symposium Spon books with the Bice Cost Impact Here Are the top books that have affected. Americans lives according to a Survey conducted by the Book of the month club and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress a the Bible q Atlas shrugged by ayn Rand a the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck a to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee q the lord of the rings by . Tolkien q gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell q How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie q the Book of mormons amps Sharon Kilday Tarrant sorted by the Library of Congress on developing lifetime Reading habits. The Library Scenter for the Book was founded in 1977 to stimulate Public interest in books Reading and libraries. The Book of the month club founded in 1926, distributes More than 10 million books annually to its . And Canadian subscribers. 3 writers win National Book awards new York apr Freedom the first volume of Orlando Patterson a history of Freedom won the National Book award for non fiction wednesday. Awards fair non fiction fiction and poetry were presented by the National Book foundation. Each Winner received $10,. Norman Rush won the fiction award for mating his first novel. It is the Story of a love affair Between an anthropologist and a utopian. The poetry Winner was 63-year-old Philip Levine for what work is. Levine who also won in 1980, teaches at California state University at Fresno. His poems in the winning Book celebrate the men and women whose labors helped shape americans unique character. Levine once worked on an Auto Assembly line in Detroit. Patterson a professor of sociology at Harvard University in Cambridge mass., traces the history of Freedom from the time of the greeks and romans through the Rise of christianity and into the Middle Ages in the first part of his two volume study. It took 10 years to write. Patterson 51, said he was inspired by youth in Jamaica which he said has a legacy of a the most horrendous system of slavery in human  Rush 58, of new City n.y., said he based his novel on things observed in the peace corps from 1978 to 1983.  worker thefts linked to locked doors in fire from wire reports Raleigh . A a state safety official says the doors at a Chicken processing Plant where a fire killed 25 people probably  have been locked if the workers Hadnot been stealing. A i imagine they stole chickens just As fast As they could go a Bradford Barringer said wednesday at a meeting of the occupational safety and health advisory Council. Investigators have blamed locked fire doors for some of the deaths in the sept. 3 fire at the Imperial food products Plant in Hamlet. Employees said the doors had been bolted because of company concern Over  launch possible Cape canaveral Fla. Workers entered the space shuttle Atlantis on wednesday and replaced a bad navigation unit in a rocket needed to boost a military satellite High above Earth paving the Way for a sunday liftoff. The countdown for the second launch attempt is scheduled to begin Early thursday provided the new unit tests Well. Nasa halted the first countdown nine hours before tuesday nights scheduled launch after two instruments in the navigation unit  Stalwart dead at 78 Green Valley Ariz. A Harlon b. Carter who helped turn the National Rifle association into one of the nations most influential lobbying groups has died at the age of 78, Carter died of lung cancer tuesday in Tucson. He lived in Green Valley a retirement Community South of there. He served As the nral a chief executive officer and executive vice president from 1977 to 1985. During that period the groups membership grew from about 1 million to More than 3 million.2 convicted in Gay Hunt new York a a jury convicted two Young men wednesday of murdering a 29-year-old Man they spotted while on a Gay bashing Hunt. Erik Brown 21, and Esat Bici 19, were convicted in the Case and face up to 25 years to life in prison when sentenced Jan. 10. Brown and Bici were depicted As adherents of a skinhead club who followed the Lead of Daniel Doyle in targeting Julio Rivera and stabbing him to death july 2, 1990. A Doyle 21, admitted in an earlier plea bargain that he organized the attack and delivered the fatal wound with a 4-Inch Kitchen knife. Doyle has pleaded guilty to  Driver makes final exit Springfield to. A a greyhound bus Driver who had logged More than 2 million Accident free Miles managed to pull his bus into an interstate rest area before dying of a heart attack. Jim Sneed 59, of Springfield was driving 44 passengers sunday on interstate 44 near Clare More okla., when he experienced Chest pains. A retired bus Driver on Board volunteered to drive the bus said Alan Smith Driver supervisor for greyhound trailways bus lines in St. Louis. A the told him a no in be got to get it off the Highway myself a a Smith said. Sneed pulled the bus into a rest Stop got off and died Smith  Beach victim Dies new York a Cedric Sandiford who was nearly beaten to death by a mob of White youths in the Howard Beach racial attack has died of aids. He was 41. Sandiford an army Veteran and former intravenous drug user died tuesday at Brooklyn veterans Hospital where he had been admitted Friday. The Guyana born machine Mechanic was severely beaten the morning of dec. 20, 1986, when he Stepson Michael Griffith and Timothy Grimes walked to a Queens pizzeria after their car broke Down. Griffith was struck and killed by a car on the Highway As he tried to flee the gang. Three men were convicted of second degree manslaughter. Six others pleaded guilty or were convicted of lesser charges