European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday August 9,1993 pay disparity dogs staffers on Capitol Hill by the Washington Post Washington in 1983, Lynn m. Martin then a Congress Omari from Illinois was appalled to learn that 80 percent of the congressional staff members earning More than $40,000 were men while an equal proportion of those earning under $20,000 were women. She thought a Little behind the scenes pressure on her colleagues would Correct the imbalance. Last month Martin Secretary of labor in the Bush administration was even More appalled to find that today almost 83 percent of House staffers with $100,000 salaries Are men including 93 percent of those on the House leadership staffs. In addition Martin Analysed data showing that More than 80 percent of people on the House committee staffs and members personal staffs who earn six figures Are men. Among democrats 212 men and 49 women were in the $100,000 club joining 49  and nine women. The data came from a july Survey conducted by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. The argument used to be give us a few years. But there has been enough time Martin said last week at a news conference. Martin is now an adviser on women in the work Force at the accounting firm of Del Oitte & touche. She added this has moved beyond unacceptable this is  the situation in the Senate is not much different Roll Call data show. There As in the House 17 percent of staff members earning More than $100,000 Are women and 83 percent were men. Four of five Mem Bers of the Senate leadership s staff who earned $100,000 were men. Of the 40 six figure earners on senators personal staffs 75 percent were men. More than 89 percent of six figure committee staffers were men. However the number of female staffers earning six figures doubled in 1993 to 22 from last year s figure. Martin and some Capitol Hill staffers said part of the problem is that Congress does not hold itself to the same affirmative action and promotion standards another branches of the Public and private sector. Teen girl s rights Case puts adults in fishbowl Jonathan Wireman 10, who was attacked by an Alligator while swimming in a canal thursday in Tampa Fla.,receives some ice Cream from his Mother Mamie Gainley at Tampa general Hospital on Friday. Boy 10, recover no from Gator attack Tampa Fla. A i a 10-year-old boy is recuperating after being bitten by an Alligator while swimming in a canal near his Tampa Home. Jonathan Wireman was listed in fair condition saturday at Tampa general Hospital where he underwent surgery Tor a compound fracture and three one deep gashes after being attacked thursday. Wireman his brother and two friends saw the 8-foot Alligator in the Tampa bypass canal and thought they had scared it off with rocks. When they started swimming 30 minutes later Titbit Wireman on the left Arm without warning. Neighbor Michael Lofley who administered fir staid described Wireman As Brave but Lofley said he had warned the boys repeatedly not to swim there. Wireman is the eighth reported victim of an Alli Gator bite in Florida this year. By the new York times Sarasota Fla. Regina Twigg still has a bedroom reserved in her Home for Kimberly Mays even though the teen Ager testified last week that she wants nothing to do with her natural Mother. The person Kimberly does want to be with Robert Mays who raised her from birth has complained to a psychologist that the nation s most unusual child rights Case in years has made him feel As if he is Back in Vietnam. Like i never know what s coming  it is the Fate of Kimberly a 14-year-old girl switched a birth with another infant that is being decided in a courtroom i Sarasota. But the proceedings last week also shed Light on the character and temperament of both the woman who gave birth to her and the Man she now Calls a  related issues Are being argued before judge Stephen Dakan at the Sara Sota county courthouse Twigg and her husband Ernest Are seeking a Restora Tion of the visitation rights they claim Robert Mays has capriciously denied them. Meanwhile Kimberly following the example of another Florida child wants to legally sever ties to her natural. Parents. Testimony in the civil Case which Al ready has been the subject of a television series and a Book and is being broadcast on the National court to Cable Channel was scheduled to resume today. Dakan is expected to Rule later this month on both requests which Are Likely then to be appealed to a higher court regardless of the outcome. Judging by letters to the editor an Calls to radio talk shows in Florida and around the country Regina Twigg has not won the sympathy of the Public in he interviews with Oprah Winfrey Barbara Walters and others or with the testimony by and about her in court. Last week she once again accused Robert Mays of helping to switch the two babies Days after they were born in a hos a ital East of Sarasota and she was said to ave insisted on calling Kimberly by the name of her dead daughter Arlena. On Friday Lawrence Ritt a psychologist who has counselled both Kimberly and Robert Mays testified that he was unhappy when he Learned that Regina Twigg had discussed with Kimberly heroin status As an adopted child. Twigg made the disclosure before establishing a real relationship with the child and in general had lost her ability to be sensitive to Kimberly s needs Ritt said. But the experts on children who took the stand or testified by videotape also indicated that the unexpected emergence of Regina Twigg was not the Only source of instability or tension in Kimberly s  generally praising Mays As a de voted and Loving father they pointed to the absence in Kimberly s upbringing of a reliable and enduring maternal figure the woman Kimberly first knew As her Mother Barbara Mays died of ovarian cancer when the girl was 2 years old. Five weeks before her death the woman had filed for divorce from her husband. Bar Bara Mays had said that she believed she had become a Burden to him and had moved with Kimberly Back to her Par Kimberly Mays. Fighting her birth parents ends House. Two months after Barbara Mays death Robert Mays married Cynthia Tanner a receptionist in the cancer War where Barbara Mays had been treated. When Kimberly was nearly 7, Mays in formed her that Tanner was not her birth Mother. Two years later Mays and his second wife divorced and after another dispute Over visitation arose he prevented Kim Berly from having Contact with her step Mother and an older Stepsister who had also been living with the couple. Tanner now accuses Mays of having physically and mentally abused Kimberly. Although her charges were not part of the court proceedings they Echo statements of the Twiggs and Harold Smith a psychologist sympathetic to their position whose testimony last week de scribed Mays As controlling and manipulative. . Traces girl s death to rabies Albany . A an 11-year old girl who became sick on a camping trip and died the next Day was new York state s first human rabies death since 1954, health officials confirmed saturday. It is still not known How the girl who died july 14, contracted rabies state health commissioner Mark Chassin said. Tests on the girl s brain tissue con firmed that the rabies virus caused her death from viral encephalitis an inflammation of the brain he said. Health officials Are intensifying their investigation into How she got the virus. A rabies death in the United states would certainly have to be classified As highly unusual said Bob Howard a spokesman for the Federal centers for disease control and prevention or cd in Atlanta. An algerian boy visiting Ine unite states died of rabies last year but cd officials said the boy was most Likely bit ten by an animal in his country. Reports indicate that two americans died of the disease in 1991 and 1987. The incidence of rabies has dropped Over the years because pet owners Are More aware that their animals should be vaccinated against the disease. Doctors and health officials also Are More equipped to handle the disease and keep the Public aware of the dangers Howard said. The virus transmitted by an animal bite or lick on an open wound is fatal in humans unless treated quickly by shots. New York state is in the midst of a rabies epidemic in animals