European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page a the stars and stripes us. Monday december �0,1993more people smoking study says by the new York times r after years of admonitions about the dangers of smoking some americans May be growing weary of the message. New evidence suggests that a steady decline in cigarette smoking Over the last 25 years maybe ending with one recent study hinting that a resurgence May be under Way. Fueling the notion that smoking is on the Rise among certain groups is the latest annual health Survey conducted by Princeton Survey research associates for prevention Magazine which provides a snapshot of the nations attitudes toward health issues it shows an increase of five percentage Points to 30 percent in 1992 in the number haitian ruler of adults who identified themselves As cigarette smokers. Based on a Telephone poll of 1,250 people 18 years of age or Over the Survey reflected the highest level of smoking in the United states in eight years. The Survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage Points. The prevention Survey also showed that 401 the number of people 40 to 49 years of age who smoke increased 11 percentage Points to 32 percent that the number of smokers with More than a High school education Rose nearly seven percentage Points to 25,9 pc recent and that those with annual House old incomes of More than $35,000 in creased to 26.7 percent from 19 percent in 1991. K surprisingly the shift appears to include groups that have historically been at the Formont of enlightened attitudes toward health habits a adults in their 40s, people with College educations and those in households with More than $35,000 in annual income. People in these groups which include new smokers and those who have quit appear to have emerged into a new category of Quot social smokers who enjoy lighting up Only occasionally. Quot i Call it pleasure revenge Quot said Faith Popcorn a new York marketing consultant who specializes in trends. A people Are feeling tense. They re sick of being so perfect a a going to bed Early working hard Cia analyst paper reports Miami apr a Cia analyst discounted reports of terror in Haiti and praised the current military Leader who participated in the coup that ousted the nation $ first democratically elected president a newspaper reported saturday. The analyst Brian Latell said he saw Quot no evidence of oppressive Rule Quot or mass killings of civilians by Haiti a military rulers during a visit in july 1992, according to a secret Cia memo obtained by the Miami Herald. Another report by Latell and Cia director James Woolsey that ousted haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide was treated for mental illness in Montreal in the 1980s has been discounted by several . Lawmakers. Latch la a findings clash starkly with re ports from the state department and Uman rights groups about widespread oppression and violence since Aristide was overthrown in september 1991. �?o1 do not wish to minimize the role the military plays in intimidating and occasionally terrorizing real and suspected opponents Quot Latell wrote. Quot but my experiences confirm the intelligence Community a View that there is no systematic or frequent lethal violence aimed at  in contrast the state department has reported Quot extrajudicial killings by Security forces disappearances beatings and other mistreatment of detainees and  amnesty International estimates More than 2,000 civilians have been killed by authorities since the coup. At the same time Latell offered glowing assessments of then Premier Marc Bazin and current military chief it. Gen. Raoul cd dras. Bazin is a pro american conservative and an archrival of Aristide. Cedras was a key Leader in the coup that ousted Aristide. The new York times reported last month that key members of the haitian military were on the Cia payroll during the years of army Rule before the 1991 coup. Eating All the right food being absolutely politically perfect. So they decide to have a cigarette. Its arrogance in a  while Industry statistics Shoty that Domestic cigarette sales have been falling for More than a decade some scientists and marketing experts say some pockets of society still resist health warnings against smoking. Further the emerging patterns demonstrate that the activities of health groups and people Active in the anti smoking movement might have reached a saturation Point at least until a new Force like higher cigarette taxes or stronger connections Between smoking and disease initiate another decline. Child abuse 4-pronged approach to Art artist Dale Whistler goes about some fowl business wednesday As he adjusts a Clastic foam Turkey atop a giant Fork. The artwork is displayed in front of a restaurant in Austin Texas and is changed frequently throughout the year with the help of a Crane 9 months later blizzard babies arrive Charleston . Apr a blizzard last March was blamed for six deaths in West Virginia. Nine months later its being credited with dozens of new lives. Hospitals around the state say births Are booming in december nine months after the record setting March storm that paralysed much of the East and dumped three feet of Snow in West Virginia. Nurses at women and children a hos Pital in Charleston predicted the baby Boom when the blizzard hit said maternity Ward nurse Gloria Friddell. Quot when they get stuck at Home it always hits us. You be got to do something to keep warm Quot Friddell said Friday. Edna and Mike markers son Dylan was born Here thursday. Quot we were snowed in for four or five Days. We  get out of our driveway Quot said Edna Marker. The Hospital normally has 18 to 20 women on the maternity floor each Day but is averaging More than 30 this month a Ruby memorial Hospital in Morgantown had 28 babies in the Nursery Friday up from the average 10. A Quot its jumping around Here. We be been Busy for four weeks at least Quot said nurse Brenda Hogan said. Quot we re calling them the blizzard  a returned Birmingham Ala. A a grand jury returned attempted murder indictments against the parents of twin 5-year-old girls found shackled and malnourished in a filthy waste covered bedroom. Albert and Laurie Ann Vacca also were charged with child abuse. The twins Jennifer and Rachel Are living with a Foster family who wants to adopt them. Two older Vacca children 6-year-old Jason and 8-year-old Danielle Are with a different Foster family. They were  landlord found the twins alone in a House the family had rented. Jennifer and Rachel each weighed 18 pounds when they were discovered in july shackled together with a pair of Metal toy Handcuffs. The room they were in was badly soiled with human wastes. Lawyers for the Saccas did not immediately return Telephone Calls saturday seeking comment about the indictments which were handed Down last week. Lawyers for the Vacca children have said the twins would have died in a matter of Days had they not been found. 2nd Man accuses priest of assault Dayton Ohio apr another Man says he was sexually assaulted by a priest who is a co defendant in the sexual abuse lawsuit against Cardinal Joseph l. Bernardin the Dayton daily news reported saturday. Tony Farquis of Griffith ind., said that the Rev. Ellis Harsham abused him 12 years ago Farquis 30, said Harsham repeatedly touched his genitals while he was a senior at Badin High school in Hamilton. Harsham was a teacher there. Harsham 52, Heads a Campus ministry at Wright state University in Dayton. He did not return a message left at St Luke s rectory in Beavercreek. His attorney Thomas Miller denied Farquis allegations. Quot he Harsham is just absolutely bewildered by Why this gentleman would come Forward and Sav what he a saying Quot he said. A Federal judge in Cincinnati ruled Friday that Harsham and Bernardin will be tried together in a $10 million sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Steven Cook on nov. 12. Bernardin had asked for a separate trial. He and Harsham both deny any wrongdoing. A Cincinnati bartender said he and Harsham had consensual sex in a Motel last year the Dayton daily news also reported saturday