European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes wednesday thursday december 25/26, 1991 Higgins remains flown Back to Delaware base Dover fab Del. Up the body of Marine it. Col. William r. Higgins killed in Captivity in Lebanon in 1989, was flown Back to the United states tuesday for positive identification and a memorial service. It will be a bittersweet Christmas for Higgins wife Marine Mai. Robin Higgins who also marked her birthday and anniversary on monday. Quot fourteen years ago yesterday on my birthday Rich married me and 14 years later he a coming Home to me in a Flag draped coffin a she said in an interview on abcs Good morning America. The body was expected to arrive tuesday afternoon at Dover fab in Delaware said base spokesman capt. Christian Geisel. Quot the remains will be officially identified by the armed forces medical examiner and then transported to Andrews air Force base in Maryland for an honors ceremony a Geisel said. Higgins will be buried at the military cemetery in Quantico va., he said. Quot of course this is a very difficult time of year anyway a Robin Higgins told Abc. Quot As the live american hostages came Home to the Joys of their families i knew and my family knew that we would not be sharing in that but that there was a Good possibility that we would get him Home and would be Able to Bury him with his marines and so that was something that we could hold on  Higgins decomposed body was dumped late sat urday on a Street in the s Hrezik in Beirut a Southern suburbs Region of haret Higgins was kidnapped by a group linked to the iranian financed Hezbollah while serving with the . Peacekeeping Force in Southern Lebanon in february 1988. He was reported killed in july 1989. The captors had distributed a grim videotape said to be showing Higgins dangling from a Gallows after accusing him of espionage on fundamentalists activities in Southern Lebanon. The handing Over of Higgins body came three Days after . Secretary general Javier p6rez de Cuellar confirmed Friday that the kidnappers of the . Officer and the remains of another missing . Citizen William Buckley will be returned soon. Buckley the Cia station chief in Beirut was kidnapped in March 1984 by the Hezbollah affiliated islamic jihad which announced his execution in october 1985. Asked about what action should be taken against the hostage takers Robin Higgins said Quot Well that a a very Abc interview. A my feeling is that there a got to be someone that a greater than you and me to judge a Man who will Kidnap torture and murder an unarmed United nations peacekeeper who will hang his body on videotape for his daughter and his wife and his family to watch and then will dump his body on a Street in  hopeful people More Likely to overcome barriers study says by the new York times psychologists Are finding that Hope plays a surprisingly potent role in giving people a measurable advantage in realms As diverse As academic achievement bearing up in onerous jobs and coping with tragic illness. Quot Hope has proven a powerful predictor of outcome in every study we be done so far said or. Charles r. Snyder a psychologist at the University of Kansas who has devised a scale to assess a persons Hope. In research with 3,920 College students Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of Hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a More accurate predictor of their grades than were their sat scores or their Grade Point average in High school. Quot students with High Hope set themselves higher goals and know How to work to attain them a Snyder said. People who score High on the Hope scale Are under Adly better Able to Bear up i a a a other researchers Are finding. In a study of 57 Standa oly better Able to Bear up in dire circumstances with paralysis from spinal Cord injury those who re sorted More Hope compared with those having Little Ope had less depression greater mobility despite similar Levels of injury More social contacts and even More sexual intimacy. Quot those with High Hope were More adaptive in All realms regardless of How Long they had been injured whether just a month or 40 years a said or. Timothy Elliott a psychologist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Elliott also studied Levels of Hope in 81 rehabilitation nurses who care for paralysis patients. Quot these can be terribly difficult cases to work with because they often take out their anger and disappointment on nursing staff a Elliott said. Among the nurses those who had higher Levels of Hope reported fewer symptoms of burnout Elliott said. Quot Hope lends a sense of existential meaning to what lends a sense of existential meaning to a that you do a or. Timothy Elliott you do a Elliott said. In devising a Way to assess Hope Snyder went beyond the simple notion that Hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out All right. Quot that notion is not Concrete enough and it blurs two key components of Hope a Snyder said. A having Hope Means believing you have both the will and the Way to accomplish your  the scale assesses Peoples sense of having the essential Means by asking for instance whether they typically find they can think of Many ways to get out of a Jam. Snyder found that people with High Levels of Hope share several attributes a they turn to friends for advice on How to achieve their goals. A they Tell themselves they can succeed at what they need to do. A even in a tight spot they Tell themselves things will get better As time goes on. A they Are flexible enough to find different ways to get to their goals. A if Hope for one goal fades they aim for another. Snyder and his colleagues Are trying to design programs to help children develop the ways of thinking found in hopeful people. Duke drops out of Maryland primary Annapolis my. Apr David Duke has withdrawn from the Maryland presidential primary and his name will not be on the March 3 ballot the Secretary of state said tuesday. Duke s Campaign filed an affidavit saying he would idiot be a candidate in Maryland Secretary of state Winfield Kelly said. Kelly had planned to put the names of president Bush conservative commentator Patrick j. Buchanan and Duke on the ballot for the March 3 primary. But Duke the former Kun flux Kjan Leader and unsuccessful Louisiana gubernatorial candidate removed h name from the tentative ballot list. A their explanation is that the resources for m Duke Are constrained and they re just going to to away from Maryland a Kelly said. Duke has said he plans to enter select president primaries primarily in the South. His efforts have met resistance from state gop leaders. Maryland republicans were critical of Kelly a Init decision to put Duke on the ballot and had unite against his candidacy.  a pm actress Jane Fonda and to network owner Ted Turner pose following their wedding saturday at his Home in Capps fla., in this just released  icon painting stolen from . Church from wire reports new York a a 72-year-old painting known As the Quot weeping icon of peace which attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims during the persian Gulf War was stolen at gunpoint from a Church monday police said. Three men and a woman burst into St. Irene a greek orthodox Church and removed the painting of St. Irene Chryso Valantos. The 20-by-30-Inch icon which is framed in Gold and encrusted with jewels is estimated to be Worth at least $200,000, police said. Hundreds of thousands of people from All Over the world made the pilgrimage to the Church to Pray to the icon during the persian Gulf War. Bishop Vikentijs Flavon said he noticed streaks running from the icons eyes on oct. 17, 1990, while the icon was on display in a greek orthodox Church in Chicago. The icon continued to weep As the persian Gulf conflict escalated into War. After the War Quot we done to see tears on its face a the Bishop  Airport for plane Chicago a United airlines on monday investigated Why a chartered flight to puerto Rico landed at the wrong Airport. The flight carrying 188 passengers from Chicago to san Juan landed at Isla Grande Airport on saturday four Miles West of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport where it was supposed to land. United spokesman Joe Hopkins said the matter was under  forced to sing Huntington Beach Calif. Two masked youths forced a grocery clerk to sing Jingle Bells while they robbed the store. The robbers described As 16 to 18 years old entered the key Market on sunday night and showed clerk Wayne reams a knife and what appeared to be a handgun said police it. Patrick Gildea. They ordered reams to lie Down and sing the Christmas tune while they robbed the store fleeing with $188, said  ends in death St. Louis a a Man was beaten to death by four men in what his family said was an argument Over a $3 baby sitting fee authorities said. Relatives of Gene Wells said he later was shot but police would not comment sunday on whether he was shot or whether they bad any suspects. Wells 25, had argued Friday night with a woman who had paid his sister Only $10 of a $13 baby sitting fee his family said. On saturday the woman went to Wells Home. Quot when he went to the Back door she pointed him out Quot said Beatrice Wells the victims sister. A when he went outside four boys beat