European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Even in Kansas gang Scourge spreads by Ned Seaton the associated press Topeka , often perceived As pastoral Farmland immune from Urban problems has a growing gang problem More Akin to the image of gunslingers that once frequented the saloons of Dodge City. A people think there arc still covered wagons and Indian uprisings out Here in Kansas a said Kent Bauman a Wichita gang intelligence officer. A but the same things that happen on the coasts happen Here. It May take a few years but Well get  officials blame gang growth on aggressive recruiting and expansion by big City crime groups that have found oppor Tum tics for growth throughout the state. They also concede that most gang members Are Young kansans who join for the same reasons that attract big City youths. As in other areas of the country gang members usually Are males Ages 11 to 21. The Kansas Bureau of investigations most recent figures list about 3,100 serious gang members in the state. A a we re starting to see gangs in smaller communities. Special agent Scott police paint picture of drug Trade killings by the associated press Kansas authorities investigating gang activities note the following a in. Wichita about 74 gangs sell drugs run guns steal and kill. The City has about 1,200 gang members and gangs arc recruiting in Grade schools. Last year Wichita recorded 14 gang related killings. A in Topeka two Chicago based gangs arc warring for control of the crack cocaine Trade. Nearly 300 peo ple admit gang allegiance. A in Garden City a Western Kansas Community of about 24,000, police shut Down a gang crack House last year. Seven gangs Are Active. A in the Johnson county area an affluent Kansas City suburb 16 gangs have been identified with a combined membership of several Hundred. A Dodge City the old gunslingers outpost on the Plains has about nine Active gangs. Tech Clink said. A they follow the path of least resistance a when the heats on from police in bigger cities around the country the gangs reach out to other communities. Its a sad  violent crime jumped 10.9 percent in Kansas in 1991 and was up another 10.5 percent for the first six months of 1992, according to the latest Kansas Bureau report. Topeka police it. Jim Gilchrist in charge of a special gang unit worries about the growing acceptance of gangs and the violence they create. A reports of shots fired were up dramatically last year sometimes to As much As 200 per month a Gilchrist said. A but the people who used to Call to report the shots Are now just rolling Over and going Back to sleep. Its becoming so commonplace nobody reports  Wichita a gangs sprouted in 1989, with connections to the infamous los Angeles organizations known As the crips and bloods Bauman said. Since then the Wichita gangs have spread throughout the state. Topeka a gangs were noted in Early 1990, As offshoots of the Chicago gangs known As the vice lords and the Black gangster disciples Gilchrist said. Investigators believe the Topeka gangs still arc run by prisoners incarcerated in Illinois he said. The gangs ability to recruit throughout the state snows that Kansas is vulnerable to the same social ills that threaten the rest of the country. A i done to think there a any place in America that a immune from this problem a said Lawrence police it. Mike Hall. A gangs done to Spring up in a Community because of kids moving in from the City a said Jim Cox director of Urban services for the boys and girls clubs of America and an expert on gangs. A they crop up because they fill a void created by increasing numbers of dysfunctional families and a Lack of constructive activities for Young  baldness to Chicago apr balding men take Good care of your hearts doctors say. Their advice comes after a study found men under age 55 with severe hair loss had about three times greater risk of suffering heart attacks than men with full Heads of hair. Men in the same age group with mild to moderate baldness on the tops of their Heads had about a 1v times greater risk and men with receding hairlines but no baldness on top faced no increased risk researchers found. They compared 665 male heart attack victims under age 55 with 772 similar men who had suffered no heart attacks. Researchers reported their findings in this weeks Issue of the journal of the american medical association. The results generally support several previous studies suggesting a link Between male pattern baldness and the risk of coronary heart disease. The authors led by or. Samuel m. Wlcsko of the Boston University school of Medicine acknowledged they do not know Why baldness and heart problems might be related. But they said it is possible that increased Levels of a male hormone necessary for baldness to develop it \ Semi it Ltd Quot Quot it Boston plea party tibetan monks from left Tenzin Choephel Lobsang Kalden ing is pouring holy water into a Glass As a part of the Cheshe Jung hey and Konchol Tsering conduct a tibetan Earth Blessing or the Harbor which has been Des a ibid As one Healing ceremony tuesday at the Edge of Boston if Arbor. Scr most polluted in the quilted state ritual of the sexual revolution sweeps . Despite aids study says  Yogi it /1 p1v amp Iran Mun to Ltd Annb 1 up Tea m. 1. New York up a american men and women especially the better educated Are having More sex despite the threat of aids considered by Many to be a disease of Gays and the poor a study says. V the Janus report on sexual Ucha Vior published tuesday was conducted by the husband and wife research team of Samuel and Cynthia Janus. The report says that the aids panic that spread across the nation three years ago has receded and that a new a a sexual revolution is under Way with both men and women reporting increased sexual activity Well into old age. Publishers John Wiley amp sons inc. Said the Book was the first full scale National scientific study of sexual behaviour in the United states since the 1948 and 1953 Kinsey reports. They quote or. William masters of the masters and Johnson Institute As saying the report a a brings us into the 21st  the Book is based on a nine year study of More than 7,000 people from 18 to 80 and beyond across a wide spectrum of incomes educational Levels and political and religious beliefs. A the Janus report does not explore homosexual behaviour although it says 22 percent of men and 17 percent of women surveyed reported having at least one homosexual experience. The anuses found that residents of the Northeast and West Are pacesetters in seeking More sex with midwesterner being the least sexually Active. Sex in the South Home of the Bible Belt a in Many ways reflects the serious contradictions of the evangelists who were caught practising the opposite of what they preach Quot the researchers noted rhe. South has the earliest Ages of sexual initiation and the most reported premarital sex. Other findings reported were a people in their 50s, 60s and 70s, both men and women have experienced a greatly increased level of sexual activity m the past three years. People older than 65 a especially men a often have As much sex and in some cases More than people Ages 18 to 26. A an increasing number of children Ages 10 through 12 Are having full sexual relations. Nineteen percent of men and 7.5 percent of women reported having Intercourse by age 14. A women with the highest level of education report having the greatest number of sex partners. Samuel Janus is a certified sex Counselor and author of several books on sexual activity including a sexual profile of men to Power. Cynthia Janus is a doctor who has written and lectured widely on female sexuality. Or mme j a Tanc Boatti Phi iad Chica Cieve Chart Allan India of Etc Mim Sam Utah Hou dem mind Dadi Phoi sea port la. La. Gov Sac s 2 0 f 1 i 4 i