European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                .-4 tuesday november 1, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 rodents to ride in outer spate for motherhood Cape canaveral fla. A it s maternity leave Nasa style expectant mothers leaving the planet to see How babies develop in weightless wombs. In this Case the mothers Are Tats. ,. -. Ten pregnant rats will be launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in thursday in a . Space first the countdown began monday afternoon. The baby Tats at least 100, or 10 per Mother will be born after Atlantis returns to Earth. Scientists want to understand the effects of weightlessness on fetuses because one Day pregnant women May travel or even live in space. That Day is a Long Way off. Nasa bars pregnant astronauts from spaceflight and tests Komenas late As two Days before launch to make sure they Are not expecting. Violent crimes in . Increase but sex attacks fall study says Washington a America be came a More dangerous place last year with the incidence of violent crime rising 5.6 percent to 10.9 million according to a government Survey. Overall personal and household crimes edged up 1.7 percent to 43.6 Mil lion the Justice department s Bureau of Justice statistics said in its latest annual National crime victimization Survey. We live in a violent age and it s not going  any nicer said Richard Bennett an american University professor of Justice. But the news released sunday was not All bad sexual assaults declined 20.1 per cent from 607,000 to 485,000, despite a change in the Survey designed to bring Forth More responses from victims. And at a steady figure of 32.2 million there were no More property crimes in 1993 thanin992. Criminologists consider the victimization Survey to be the most reliable Indica Tor of crime in America. This year s re port reflects a redesign that for the first time tabulated no rape sexual attacks. Searchers Stour wilds Union . A volunteers on horseback searched through Woods div ers plumbed a Lake and thousands of Deer Hunters kept an Eye out for clues to the disappearance of two Young boys but found nothing so far. No clues have appeared since last tuesday night when Susan Smith hysterical told police that a Man jumped into her car at a stoplight and drove off with her children. We re looking for a Needle in a Hays tack really. Uhry this Needle is two Little kids said Jeff Lillard a Volunteer who led his tracking dog Sam along Lakeside and riverbanks sunday. Smith told police that a Man had commandeered her car and ordered her out at gunpoint after several Miles driving off with 3-year-old Michael Smith and his 14-month-old brother Alex still strapped in safety seats in the  f ". 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Also unlike actual crime reports the victimization Survey omits homicides be cause the victims cannot be interviewed. Including attempted attacks the Vio Lent crime rate was 51.5 incidents per 1,000 people age 12 and older according to the Survey. Nonviolent personal crimes such As purse snatching and picked pockets totalled 11.4 million up 6/7 per cent from 1992. The 10.9 million violent crimes entailed / a f / 9.1 million assaults 2.1 million completed 7 million attempted up 8.2 percent. The rate was 43 per 1,000. 1.3 million robberies 826,000 completed 481,000 attempted up 1 percent. The rate was 6.2 per485,000 sexual attacks 160,000 completed rapes 152,000 attempted rapes and 173,000 no rape sexual As saults Down 20.1 percent. The rate was 2.3-per 1,000. Property crimes remained unchanged from 1992 at 32.2 million incidents the property crime rate was 322.4 per 1,000 households. The crimes entailed 6 million burglaries 4.8 million completed 1.2 million attempted up 3.1 percent the rate was 60 per 1,000 households. V 2 million motor vehicle thefts a 1.3 million completed 700,000 attempted up 7 percent. The rate was 19.7 per 1,000 households. 24,25 million thefts 23 million completed 1.2 million attempted Down 1.3 percent the rate was 242.7 per 1,000 households. The Survey s redesign changed How questions were asked and uncovered Many crimes that previously were missed said Michael Rand of the Bureau of jus Tice statistics r she said she begged the Man to let her take the boys butane was in too much of hurry. Union county sheriff Howard Wells estimated 100 local state and Federal officers were working on the Case. Cost has not been a consideration with two children s lives at stake he said. The Lack of an apparent motive has led to some speculation that someone within the family namely Smith might be suspect. 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