European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 30, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5adults 25-44 flock to Couch study finds Washington apr americans Ages 25 to 44 make nearly half of All visits to psychiatrists seeking help for depression and anxiety disorders a government study found. The study by the National Center for health statistics raised a question Why Are mental disorders striking so Many people in the prime of life a we done to really know what a happening with that group a Center statistician Susan Schappert said tuesday. The study found that people in the 25-to-44 group make More than 9 million of the 18.8 million annual visits to private psychiatrists every year. Yet they done to visit other physicians As often. They account for 27 percent of visits made to All Doc tors except psychiatrists compared with 48.2 percent of visits to psychiatrists the study said. About 34 percent of people in this age group who consulted psychiatrists were diagnosed with depression followed by 16 percent who have anxiety disorders and 12�perccnt who have personality disorders the study found. People Ages 45 to 64 accounted for 31.7 percent of All visits to psychiatrists followed by much smaller numbers of people Ages 15 to 25, Over 65 and children. The results prompted officials to urge better insurance coverage and Access to mental health care. A with health Reform Early diagnosis and treatment should be available to protect not Only our physical Well being but our mental health As Well a said or. Philip Lee assistant Secretary for health in the depart ment of health and human services. Mental he Ltd coverage has been a controversial element of pending health care Reform. President Clinton included some benefits in his Reform package but the plan generated furious debate and employers asked the White House to delete the measure because it would be too expensive. The study also found few gender differences among psychiatric patients. The exceptions boys under age 15 were far More Likely than girls to visit a psychiatrist As were women Over 65 compared with men that age. Also psychiatrists were More Likely to prescribe medication for female patients probably because women arc More Likely to be diagnosed with depression which is often treated with drugs Schappert said. Weltle Mae Ruffin gets a kiss tuesday from Henry Miller believed to be her son who disappeared 17 years ago at the age of 5.californian believes Man is son missing since 76 Inglewood Calif. A a Young Man on tuesday met with a woman who believes he is the son who disappeared 17 years ago and police reopened an investigation into an unsolved missing child Case. Henry Miller and Willie Mae Ruffin held a tearful reunion at los Angeles International Airport that was followed by a raucous party at ruffing a Inglewood Home. Ruffin believes Miller is her son Kevin Portis who was 5 years old when he vanished in 1976, a i always Felt that he was alive a she said. A a in a angry that they be taken All those years away from my life from his life. 1 missed his whole  at the Ruffin household tuesday night dozens of people crowded around the Christmas tree in the living room and dozens More watched from outside in the Yard. Cabbage simmered Chicken Fried and roast Turkey was placed on the table As family and friends toasted with Champagne. Miller 22, said he did lat want to discuss his life with the Northern California family who raised him. But he said he had been suspicious for years about his situation because he Felt a Lack of love in the House where he grew up. A you just know How people treat you a he said. A a it a just not the kind of love your family gives  police in Inglewood just South of los Angeles were trying to sort out the situation. A some of the things she had to say led us. To believe he is indeed the missing Kevin Portis a police sgt. Alex Perez said of Willie Mae Ruffin. A but until we have a personal face to fuck interview with this Young Man we cannot conclude this is the same  Charles Ruffin an Uncle said authorities put Miller in touch with the Ruffin family after a woman contacted a hot line set up after the Polly Kinas kidnapping this year. The woman said she had a Friend she believed was raised by someone other than his family Polly a 12-year-old from Petaluma was kidnapped from a slumber party in october and found dead dec 4. About 50 Miles North of there. Her abduction sparked a Volunteer search Effort that reached across the nation. Meanwhile the Ruffin family planned to spend several Days getting acquainted with Miller before he returns to Oakland to his Job. Miller said he has no memory of Bis Early childhood and does not remember living with the Ruffin family. It was on May 26, 1976, that Kevin Dewayne Portis was reported missing after he was allowed by Bis parents to walk four blocks from his House to a local Market Perez said. A we believe Young Kevin was abducted by a woman and raised by her a he said a door to door search failed to turn up Kevin and no Ransom demand was Ever made for his return. William Shirer Dies at 89, chronicled nazi Rise fall Boston a William l. Shirer a journalist who smuggled his diaries out of hitlers Germany and wrote the Rise and fait of the third Reich while blacklisted and unemployed during the Mccarthy Era has died. He was 89. Shirr died three weeks after being hospitalized with heart problems and one month after Reading the proofs for his last Book a biography of the final Days of Leo Tolstoy to be published in the Spring. Shirer a career As a journalist took him across Europe in the 1920s and �?T30s, and As far afield As India and Afghanistan. He witnessed the Rise of Adolf Hitler in nazi Germany and Mohandas k. Gandhi in British India. From 1939 until december4940, he reported for lbs from Berlin sometimes trying to foil German censors by using american Slang to give information on the operations of the German army. After the War he reported on the formation of the United nations and Back in Germany the War crimes trials at Nurnberg. The Rise and fall of the third Reich published in 1960, was a huge Best seller and won a National Book award in 1961. In was based on extensive diaries and. Voluminous confidential German archives captured by the allies. He was blacklisted during the Mccarthy Era for his support of Hollywood writers accused of leftist tendencies and for his Early support of anti fascists in shr or Spain. Among his other books were Lurlin diary the journal of a foreign Cor respondent the sinking of the Bismarck and his memoirs. The Nightmare years which  Days in Berlin. Almost Blind in his final Days Shirer spent every morning pounding on a manual typewriter surrounded by piles of Handwritten notes Only he could read. A i tried to get him to use my ism but he was baffled. He said he  write without the sound of the manual a said his daughter Inga  population Boom slows census figures show Washington a the nations population stood at 257,908,000 on july 1, up 2.8 million from a year earlier the census Bureau says. The governments population estimates released tuesday snowed that for the first time in 20 years California is growing slower than the nation As a whole. Nationally the population Rose by 1.1 percent. Californians population grew by i percent to 31.2 million. Some other lads from the census Bureau estimates a Nevada was the fastest growing state at 3.9 percent followed by Idaho 3,1 percent and Colorado 2,9 percent. A two slates Connecticut and Rhode Island lost population by 0.1 percent each. The District of Columbia also saw a population decline of 1.2 percent a the West was the fastest growing Region at 1.7 percent followed by the South 1.4 percent the midwest0.7 percent and the Northeast 0.5 percent. A nearly one third of the nations growth 894.0 h people was the result of migration from other countries. A there were 4,037,000 births in the United states and 2,223,000 deaths. Hie end of the cold War spelled the end of californians runaway growth which was fuelled by the defense Industry. During the 1980s, the state grew at twice the rate of the nation. A a there Are no longer rumours floating around elsewhere in the United states that you can come to California and get a Good Job a said Peter Morrison a demographer with the Rand corp., a research Institute in Santa Monica Calif. Woman charged in grave crime Kinsey Ala apr a woman who pleaded guilty in the 1990 death of a Man has been charged with trying to open his casket to prove he a still alive. Diana Brook Smith 37, and Daniel Ray Justice 35, were arrested sunday on charges of grave tampering and criminal mischief. In 1990, Smith pleaded guilty 10 manslaughter in the death of Steven Barnhill a passenger in her car when it overturned. She received probation. At a hearing monday Smith told a judge she was a talked into Quot pleading guilty in Barnhill a death she said she wanted to open the grave to prove Barnhill was alive. Smith was ordered jailed. Her attorney is seeking a mental evaluation. Justice a student at Florida Baptist theological Institute was released on his recognizance. He told the judge he is still wondering Why he participated in the grave opening