European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday january 15,1994 a controls on patients lax study says Washington a a hospitals conducted about 7,000 searches for missing High risk patients during a two year period according to a government report. The government accounting office report urged greater surveil Lance of such patients. The report said that most of the missing patients eventually were found unharmed but that 34 were found dead 19 were injured and 25 remained unaccounted for nine months later. The Gao the investigative Wing of Congress said its staff visited five a medical centers and found none is taking sufficient Steps to preclude High risk patients from leaving their treatment settings without the knowledge and approval of cognizant  it said High risk patients Are those who Are legally committed have a Legal guardian Are consid ered to be a danger to themselves or others or Lack the cognitive Abil Ity to make decisions. It concluded that 39 of the vet Erans affairs department s 158 medical centers have significant problems with unauthorized patient departures. It said 27 percent of the 7,000 searches were con ducted at 14 medical centers serv ing primarily psychiatric patients. It said some centers Are starting programs to Monitor High risk patients with electronic devices but More must be done. Mental woes afflict Many Survey says Chicago a nearly half of Al americans have a psychiatric disorder at some time in their lives usually de pression problem drinking or some kind of phobia researchers say. Nearly 30 percent Are afflicted in any year said researchers who conducted the most extensive . Survey of its kind in a decade. The researchers said mental disorder were found to be More common than previously believed and More needs to be Learned about Why Many people Don seek help. It should t be scary to say half the population has suffered from some men Tal disorder. That s part of life said Lead researcher Ronald c. Kessler a sociology professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Survey involved face to face inter views nationwide with 8,098 people ages15 to 54 Between 1990 and 1992. The findings were published in january Issue of the archives of general Psychia try. V v.  looked for 14 of the mos common mental illnesses. Forty eight percent of respondents had at least one disorder at some time during their lives 29.5 percent had been afflicted within the previous 12 months. The study found the most common Dis orders were major depressive episode which is at least two weeks of symptoms such As Low mood and loss of pleasure. More than 17 percent had suffered an episode in their lives. Alcohol dependence. More than 14 percent had experienced it. Social phobia a persistent fear of feeling scrutinized or embarrassed in so Cial situations. Thirteen percent had experienced it. Simple phobia or a persistent fear of objects such As animals insects or blood or of situations such As closed spaces Heights or air travel. Eleven percent experienced it. The most tenacious problems appeared to be anxiety disorders which Are marked by excessive worry for six months or More Over such things As future events past behaviour or competence. Sheik tied to bombing hospitalized new York a Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman charged in a terrorist plot that included the world Trade Cen Ter bombing was hospitalized Early Fri Day with an undisclosed ailment. Bellevue Hospital spokesman Richard Pollas said the 55-year-old Muslim cleric arrived at the facility about 2 . We took him in tonight but he was not admitted in emergency he walked in said Pollas. Abdel Rahman is charged with leading at least 15 men in planning a series of terrorist bombings kidnappings and murders. Armed forces recreation Center try a Little of everything with our bavarian Sampler 4 Days at arc Check in Mon. Check out Fri kids stay free ski equipment skis boots poles. Jackets pants Mon. Thru Fri or take arc Tours Mon. Thru Fri. Or any combination of skiing or Tours $129 per  a i my w Del. Occupancy. Expires 1/31/94 children under 16 Are free in Parent s room on available bed Call reservations seven Days a week. 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Gangs to participate in Parade for King from wire reports Little Rock Ark. Then Acap voted to allow Street gangs to take part in its annual Parade monday snoring Martin Luther King jr., a decision decried by the governor. The National association for the advancement of coloured people usually does not vote to select Parade participants. But when the gangs asked to take part chapter president Dale Charles put the matter to a vote because some members were worried about possible violence during the March to be held in Honor of the Martin Luther King or. Holiday on monday. I Welcome them Charles said wednesday. Anything otherwise would defeat what doctor King stood gov. Jim Guy Tucker said he was distressed to put it mildly calling gangs the Antithesis of what the slain civil rights Leader stood for. Flu cases spreading Atlanta the flu outbreak that has spread to All but four states will get worse the National Center for disease control and prevention says. The Agency said thursday that it expects the severe Type a flu to spread before the end of january. Flu season normally begins in november and lasts until March. So far the Strain has been reported in every stat except Mississippi Delaware new Hampshire Ana Rhode Island. Remark condemned Wilkes Barre a. A Cit councilman who said last month that. Homosexuals should be shot left City Hall under police escort after a shouting match with activists. During the juror thursday night councilman Al Boris said two City Parks were monopolized  it s an insult to the Community shouted Lonny Mclaughlin who led a petition drive calling for the 13-Yearcity Council member to be ousted. If you love this City shut this Man  application rejected Swarthmore a. Columbi University has refused to admit a student who is being paid by Swarthmore College to go to another College after a classmate accused him of harassing her. Columbia spokesman Fred Knubel said thursday that Ewart Yearwood 18, was turned Down by the new York City University based on his academic record. Yearwood said he and his attorney would meet with Swarthmore president Alfred h. Bloom on Friday to talk about his next step. Swarthmore had agreed to pay Yearwood s tuition transportation and Book costs wherever he decides toe Roll this Spring. Link to whale found Washington researchers have found the Fossil remains of an ancient relative of the whale that washable to walk on land. This Critter is a missing Lin Between land animals and modern whales said . Thewissen Apaleo biologist at northeastern Ohio universities College of Medicine i Rootstown Ohio. A report on the discovery was published Friday in the journal science. Thewissen said the Fossil was found in deposits left by an ancient sea that existed in Pakistan