European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Monday november 29,1993 crime fight tops Agenda Clinton says. It Ai Norl oof Ali a Banff Washington a enacting comprehensive anti crime legislation is the first priority for 1994, president Clin ton said saturday in his weekly radio address. We have to be concerned that in both our cities and our Rural areas the value of life has been cheapened Clinton said. Too Many children Are killing Chil Dren with weapons of  the House and Senate passed separate versions of crime legislation before adjourning last week until Jan. 25. The Senate measure is a comprehensive Bill the House passed a handful of Bills addressing crime control issues. The differences must be ironed out next year in a House Senate conference. French Hope for cultural Renaissance Baltimore a it s More than wine and cheese Mes Arm s. Hoping their culture will be recognized for More than the obvious the French government has taken a Cue from Italy Germany and other countries and set up special centers of study at american universities. It was Felt that in order to preserve the place of the French language and Cul Ture in universities we should make a special Effort in a few of the main universities said Denis do Lebourt cultural Counselor for the French embassy in new York. The centers established this year at six schools go beyond the basics of language courses and work with other departments to focus on French contributions in history Art and mathematics said Stephen Nichols a director of the Center at Johns Hopkins University. Part of our role is to recognize that the University As a whole has Many tie with French culture French businesses French institutions Nichols said. I think it s the recognition that France is not just a culture of wine and cheese and plays and literature he said. The French Center serves As Clearinghouse for interdisciplinary  other centers of excellence in French studies Are at Harvard University i Massachusetts Princeton University in new Jersey the University of Pennsylva Nia the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. The French foreign ministry asked for $250,000 to $340,000 for the program Delbourn said. The University of califor Nia project is being funded separately he said. The centers come at a time when the French Are dealing with their own cultural mutations. A Bill was introduced recently in the French parliament to rid the language of fran Glais English words that have crept into everyday use. The legislation also would require the translation of movie titles such As Steven Spielberg s Jurassic Park into the French be pare Jura Sique. Clinton said he anticipates signing legislation that will put up to 100,000 new police officers on the streets authorize the building of More prisons ban assault weapons and set up Boot Camps to keep Youthful offenders from becoming hard ened criminals. We Are making Progress in the fight against crime Clinton added singling out final congressional passage of the Brady Bill which requires a five Day wait ing period for the Purchase of a handgun and background checks. Clinton is expected to sign the Bill this week. In a Republican response saturday California attorney general Dan Lun Gren said he welcomed democratic sup port for crime fighting measures Long espoused by the gop. Prisons and police Are the first line of defense against crime and incarceration works Lungren said. So now when we hear the president and Many of his colleagues begin voicing eager sup port for the Tough Medicine republicans have advocated for decades we say Welcome aboard " Lungren also urged support for a crime Bill that has some real Teeth saying Public safety has to become the first duty of  Clinton also used the weekly radio re Marks to claim credit for a list of legislative accomplishments that he said Cre ate a framework for improvements in the freed after two hours Joe Thompson looks up hopefully As rescuers work to free him Friday from a tight spot under some Concrete blocks. Thompson a plumbing service employee was digging a Trench for waterline behind a building near downtown Indianapolis when the Trench Wall col lapsed. He spent nearly two hours under the Concrete chunks before being freed. Thompso was treated for minor injuries at an area Hospital and released. Computer session credited with preventing suicide Fredericksburg a. A a Virginia College student was credited with saving the life of a suicidal woman in Denver who was begging for help on a computer network. Please anybody talk to me was the message Chris Glover read when he tapped into internet on thanksgiving eve. I went to the top of the fire escape. I wanted to jump. Please talk to me i m not  Glover a Mary Washington College senior typed this is Chris. I m  for the next two hours from his town House in Fredericksburg Glover and the 18-year-Olj University of Denver student sent messages. The woman a diabetic said she was taking a new Medicine and thought some thing might be wrong with it he said. Eventually the woman told Glover that she was in the computer lab in the Engi Neering building on Campus. Glover alerted Campus Security. He called Back several times to find out what had happened and was told finally that the suicidal student had been found. Economy and Trade and set the stage for reforming the National health care sys tem. In 10 months we be broken the Grid lock he said. We be won much of what set out to do in my first  Clinton said the legislative program must be measured in a Job that a Mother or father finds or an Opportunity a child gains or in better prospects for a Busi Ness owner or in safer streets and a More secure  every step Forward if it helps to invigorate our Economy our Community Pur families is a step Worth taking he said. But ultimately these Steps will be steady Only if we begin together to do More to fix America from the inside  making up May be hard to do but kids notice new York a children As Young As 5 or 6 can sense when Mommy and daddy have made up after a spat even if they Don t see the Resolution occur new research suggests. Children watched videotapes that included simulated arguments Between a Man and a woman. Their reactions to Dis Putes that were apparently reserved off camera were compared with How they Felt after viewing disputes with no Resolution. The children showed less anger if the adults disappeared behind closed doors and later emerged acting Friendly. Boys but not girls also showed a reduction in sadness. Children also showed less anger and sadness after viewing different tapes that included an argument followed by a scene in which one of the participating adults briefly explained that the dispute had been resolved. When viewing the tapes in which the adults went behind the closed doors about half the children Ages 5 and 6 guessed when the adults disappeared that they were resolving their differences and that s pretty  said researcher e. Mark Cummings of West Virginia University in Morgantown. About 90 percent of children Ages 9 and 10 had the same suspicion research ers found. The fact that the children could inter pret Friendly behaviour As a sign of dispute Resolution shows that kids Are More sensitive than we realize Cummings said. He cautioned that children probably will not be fooled by faked affection because research shows they can detect silent anger. Cummings and colleagues reported the new results in the november Issue of the journal developmental psychology. The study on interpreting Friendly be Havio after a dispute involved 40 children evenly split Between the older and younger age groups. The study on the effect of hearing an adult explain that the fight was resolved involved 48 children in the two age groups. Timothy Moore a psychologist at Yak University in Toronto who studies the effect of parental fighting on children said the study reinforces the idea that Chil Dren Are probably by and Large a lot sharper than we  he said that although watching actors on a videotape is not the same As seeing one s own parents in a real conflict prior work has shown that such videotapes can still provoke physical and emotional reactions