European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 22, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 15 study urges efforts to slow world growth Baltimore up a family planning services have to reach As Many As 600 million new couples by the end of the decade in order to slow Down and eventually Stop Earth a population growth in the 21st Century a study reported Friday. Current birth control programs fail to reach Many couples who want to prevent pregnancies and a major increase in funding for family planning is required to reach targets for limiting population growth researchers said. The study by the Johns Hopkins school of Public health said that in the developing world such a Large increase in family planning would Cost $8 billion to $11 billion annually by the year 2000, which is double to triple current expenditures. Developing nation governments International donor agencies and Consumers will have to share the additional costs said the latest Issue of population reports which is published by the school s population information program. A even now there Are an estimated 100 million couples in developing countries who want to end or delay childbearing but who do not use family planning a said Phyllis Piotrow director of the Hopkins Center for communication programs which administers Pip. A just to meet current need donor agencies and governments must contribute More to family planning. At the same time some developing country Consumers can afford to pay for their own services and supplies. Family planning programs must find ways to encourage that a Piotrow said. Donor agencies now contribute just 15 percent of the total Cost of family planning in developing nations through direct assistance. To meet year 2000 goals the agencies a including the . Agency for International development the largest donor to developing nation family planing programs a will have to increase their total annual contribution from $560 million in 1989 to $4 billion the report said. Developing nation governments also need to pay More to reach the decade end target Piotrow said. They now pay 75 percent of family planning costs and would have to shift Only one tenth of 1 percent of total expenditures to reach their share of $8 billion to $11 billion a year. Developing nation governments spend 19 percent of their budgets on military expenditures but less than 0.5 percent on family planning Piotrow said. Nicole raft use 3, and her brother Michael 5, who drowned in the Indian River were the latest victims in a string of tragedies. Series of deaths haunt trailer Park Clinton Conn. A the Evergreen trailer Park is a quiet wooded Community with neatly landscaped Homes along a River where children skate and feed the mallards. But death stalks the Park. On tuesday Michael Raffuse 5, and his 3-year-old sister. Nicole were pulled from the Indian River after falling through the ice. Doctors resuscitated both children but Michael died wednesday and Nicole died thursday. During the past 1 1 years there have now been four drownings three deaths by fire and a kidnapping murder. Five victims have been Young children. A there Are a lot of ghosts walking around out Here a said resident sue sea Brook. Authorities Are investigating Why Michael and Nicole were left outside unsupervised. Their Mother Diana Raffuse was at work but her live in Boyfriend Scott Onofrio and a 16-year-old baby Sitter were Home at the time authorities said. A apparently nobody checked on them Lor a period Quot said police chief Joseph Faughnan. Police said Onofrio 22, was charged oct. 24 with risk of injury to a minor after three other Young children he was baby sitting were found playing by themselves in a condominium parking lot. The oldest child was 6. Diana Raffuse 30, also has a 1 i year old son who was in the trailer when his siblings fell in the River about 75 feet away police said. The 100-trailer Park filled with hemlocks firs and Blue Spruce is Home to Many working class couples and retirees. In this Middle class coastal bedroom Community of 13, my 20 Miles East of new Haven Evergreen and two other trailer Parks Are the Only places where the less Well off can afford to own a Home. Last december three siblings Ages 4, 2, and 1, died when a fire swept through their trailer. Residents still recall in horror How the children never had a Chance because the trailer burned so quickly. Elderly men drowned in the River in 1982 and 1986. In 1983, an Evergreen resident kidnapped his neighbor a 19-year-old woman and murdered her. Lie is serving a 50-year sentence. The latest Accident had residents wondering How the trailer Park could be so unlucky. Quot in a Way it scares me because you Don t know what else is going to happen a said Marjorie Morin 66. Her trailer was where the Raffuse children were taken after they were pulled from the River. The River is not fenced Anil parents warnings Are the Only thing keeping their children away. Dawn Dupre said her 5-year-old son knows he must stay away from the water. A a we be always stressed that. Me would never think of going near it Quot she said. Emergency workers who tried to save the children Are Well aware of the trailer Parks history. Quot we be been up there on Many occasions Quot said Peter Neff a Clinton firefighter and former chief. A it Hasni to been a Good run of Luck up  air does t invalidate biosphere group says Tucson Ariz. Apr operators of biosphere ii acknowledge outside air has been pumped into the sealed Multi ecosystem environmental Experiment but they deny that violates the projects goal of a sealed self sustaining world. Bill Dempster director of systems engineering for space biosphere ventures Developer of the project said thursday about 600,000 cubic feet of air was pumped in dec. 10. That amounts to about 10 percent of the air used in operations of the Glass enclosed world where eight people Are sealed for two years. The Structure has a capacity of about 7 million cubic feet he said. Dempster said the intent was to replace air that had leaked out and not to Deal with rising Levels of Carbon dioxide that critics say endangers the private Experiment. The addition a is not like a breath of fresh air a Dempster said. A this is not even approximately that Large a breath. This is like a Little sip if you  the $150 million Experiment which began sept. 26, called for a Crew of four men and four women to be closed inside a sealed Glass and steel domed 3.15-acre Complex for two years with 3,800 species of plants. They Are to grow All their own food and Recycle All air water and wastes in what is portrayed As a prototype space Colony. It was to be physically isolated from the outside world a biosphere i. In a Telephone interview Dempster contended that pumping outside air in does not invalidate the Experiment. He said the injection of outside air does no to change the fact that biological systems inside the Experiment Are effectively isolated. A a it a Only a matter of degree. Its impossible to build anything that is perfect in this regard and so there a always going to be some degree to which the perfection is not met Quot Dempster said. The project financed in Large part by Texas Oil billionaire Edward Bass has been criticized by outsiders As unscientific. Some who have broken with the tight knit biosphere group contend it is controlled by a Cli que that originated in the 1970s on a theater oriented new Mexico commune and who have hired experts to plan a project they Lack the expertise to run. Shortly after the Airlock doors were sealed at a Dawn ceremony choreographed for the Media Levels of Carbon dioxide began to Rise. Project directors say the increase was expected and tourists who pay $9.95 a head to visit the dome in the desert Northwest of Tucson Are told it is to be dealt with largely by natural systems. But a mechanical scrubber was installed unannounced shortly before the project was sealed to help Clear the Carbon dioxide. Space biosphere acknowledged the existence of the scrubber in an obscure reference in what they called a monthly a report card Quot nov. 1, after being questioned by reporters who had Learned the equipment was installed. Officials of the project insist the scrubber did no to invalidate the concept that the Experiment operates essentially without outside mechanical intervention. It does have a Gas powered Generator for electricity