European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday april 26,1994 teen violence up 50% in 6-year period " by the los Angeles times the Battle to improve the lot of America s 63.6 Mil lion children produced significant Progress in recent years among infants and Young adolescents but teen agers were caught in a worsening web of violence preg Nancy and failure to Complete High school quickly a foundation study says. While infant mortality poverty and the death rate dropped among children aged 1 to 14, the number of teen agers arrested for violent crimes jumped 50 per cent Between 1985 and 1991, teen deaths from violence Rose 13 percent and the proportion of births to single teen mothers increased 20 percent said the study t y the Washington based Annie e. Casey foundation the organization which finances programs to help disadvantaged children used government data to chronicle the changes in children s lives Between 1985and 1991. Kids from the time they Are Newborn until their Early teens seem to be doing fairly Well said Douglas. Nelson executive director of the foundation which was to release the study monday. It is when they beg into make the transition to adulthood that the Lack of Opportunity and Hope translates into bad  underscoring How shifts in the Economy have vastly reduced Job opportunities for Low skilled workers Nel son said there Are kids growing up in communities where they Don t see any future then they make Terri ble mistakes the study found that a Quarter of those under 6 live in poverty with 58 percent of these Chil Dren in female headed households. Three Quarter Mil lion children live without Complete plumbing or Kitchen facilities the study said. R the report said nearly 4 million youngsters 6.2 per cent of the children in the United states Are growing up in severely distressed neighbourhoods places nere More than half of the households Are poor nearly a Quarter of 16 to 19-year-Olds have dropped out of High school and almost 60 percent of the men worked less than half the time during the previous year said William p. O Hare coordinator of the study. More than 80 percent of the children in such neighbourhoods were Black or latino the study said though those groups account for just one fourth of the children in the country. There Are kids in these neighbourhoods who turn out great but in terms of life s chances these neighbor hoods lower your Odds of a successful transition int adulthood o Hare said. There is a Point at which disinvestment institutional erosion service deterioration and demoralization create a negative momentum that is simply too Strong for Many individuals and families to overcome concluded the foundation s report which proposed empowerment zones with tax Breaks to combat pockets of poverty zones that will be established in some communities later on this year. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago april 26,1984 police closed off unsafe Homes in the Morgan Hill area 50 Miles South of san Francis co after a quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale caused millions of dollars in damage in Northern Cali fornia 20 years ago april 26,1974 newspaper Hei Ress Patricia Hearst reviled her father As a pig and her Fiance As a Clown declaring that she willingly robbed a Bank with her sym Blonese liberation army comrades. 30 years ago april 26,1964 Taw a the Mer maid statue for 50 years the Symbol of Denmark for millions of tourists Tost her head during the night in what police called an act of Vandal ism. 40 years ago april 26,1954 the far Eastern conference on the eve of its open ing in Geneva was facing a split be tween the soviet Union and the Western Powers Over the role of communist China. World War ii 50 years ago today april 26 six British aircraft carriers try to finish off the crippled German battleship Tirpitz Laid up in a norwegian fiord but the attack is thwarted by severe weather. In Northern new Guinea . Troops advancing from the Tana Merah Bay beachhead near Hollandia occupy Cyclops Airfield and link up with units that landed at Humboldt Bay to the East australian soldiers take Alexis Hafen. Source 2194 Days of War a h. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 quake hits Alaska area Golden Colo. Up the .geological Survey said an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale Struc Kalaska s renal Peninsula on sunday eve Ning 45 Miles Southwest of Anchorage. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Lawsuit fear drives firms from implants new York a some Compa Nies that make materials for heart valves artificial blood vessels and other implants Are getting out of the medical business because they fear lawsuits the new Yor times reported monday. The new policies have not yet Force important products from the Market but medical equipment companies Are Strug gling to find other suppliers the newspaper  100 equipment companies have experienced Supply problems according to the health Industry manufacturers association the equipment makers Trade group the times said. The materials manufacturers which in clude the Dow chemical co. And Dupont co., said they fear being dragged into con Sumer lawsuits against implant makers. Suppliers have been named in hundreds of lawsuits involving such things As silicone breast implants and jaw  and Industry executives said the trend could end up making som needed implants hard to get and devastate the development of new implants. Sen. Joseph i. Lieberman a Conn m told the times that he wants to hold hearings on the subject next month. This is a Public health time bomb he said. Everything s shipshape Navy Veteran Herman skipper Boorda right father of the new chief of naval operations adm. Mike Boorda gets a congratulatory visit from two Well wishers who talked to the cider Boorda following the christening of a vessel saturday at Ingall shipbuilding in Pascagoula miss. Jerry St. Be left president of Ingalls and Nora Slatkin an assistant Secretary of the Navy were on hand at Pascagoula for the Cere Mony welcoming the Navy s newest Aegis guided missile destroyer the Ramage. I Washington a Clear air turbulence can instantly turn a pleasant flight Indira a Nightmare for airline Passen Gers. Suddenly things Bounce around drinks spill and stomachs knot. A government researcher has an idea for helping people avoid the problem with an Index of when and where this turbulence is most Likely to occur. Pilots can t see such turbulence a it sin Clear air r after All. The problem often occurs when a plane encounters a change in wind Speed and direction. Gary Ellrod of the National oceanic and atmospheric administration has Stu died turbulence in the Northern Hemi sphere at and above the typical airline flight Altitude of 30,000 to 35,000 feet. He to ease developed an Index and a set of maps to show where the problem is most Likely to occur for each of the four seasons. He is working on refining it to cover individual months and. More altitudes. Areas at risk of Winter turbulence turned out to be the southwestern United states Canada s maritime provinces Eastern China and Japan and the Region from North Africa into Southwest Asia. Those regions had a l-in-4 Chance of a plane encountering turbulence severe enough to Force a passenger against the seat Belt possibly causing injury. For americans this would indicate that one in four daily flights into los an Geles in Winter would be Likely to enc Oun flights Ter Clear air turbulence. In summer the weakening Jet Stream and decrease in the number of Large storms systems resulted in no area where severe turbulence was considered Likely. Ellrod formulated his Index on a com Puter analysis of the turbulence reports provided with Short Range aviation fore casts in the United states and Canada. Those figures Are based on the difference in wind speeds Between two altitudes and the horizontal stretching or compacting of air. Not included is turbulence caused by thunderstorms or by air moving Over mountains both localized Phenomena that Are charted eke where. Girl s suspected captor plans plea bargain paper says new York a the Man accused of holding Katie Beers prisoner in a Dungeon at his Long Island Home will plead guilty to kidnapping in Exchange for a 15-year prison term the daily news reported monday. John Esposito s plea spares Beers now 11, from having to testify against him the newspaper said. He had faced up to 25 years in prison. Esposito was accused of holding the girl Tor 16 Days in a Small soundproof Bunker at his Bay Shore Home. Police freed her Jan. 13,1993. Esposito was being held pending trial. Beers is Liv ing with a Foster family on Long Island. In a related Case Sal Inghilleri the husband of the girl s godmother Linda will plead guilty to sex abuse for fondling Beers and receive a 2v-year prison sen tence in Exchange roughly half of what he faced the news said. Both men were expected to sign the deals this week