European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday. November to 1994 give kids diet leeway parents told Chicago api parents who want Normal weight children should t try to control How much the youngsters eat left alone most of them instinctively know How much is Good for them a study says. -. -. You have to have a Little bit of Faith i your child s ability to know when they re hungry and when they re not said Susan Johnson the Lead author of the study of 77 preschoolers aged 3 to 5. Stringently tracking the child s eating can Lead to problems children with the most body fat had mothers who were the most controlling about diet the study found. ,. The children were also the least Likely to eat appropriate amounts of calories spontaneously. The More control the Mother reported using Over her child s eating the less self regulation the child displayed authors of the study say in the november Issue of paediatrics. Parents should just relax a Little said Johnson a nutritionist and postdoctoral fellow in paediatrics at the University of Colorado health sciences Center. While parents still remain responsible for providing healthy choices for their kids in terms of food selection kids Are capable of figuring out How much to  the study was done at a preschool at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign where Johnson and co author Leann l. Birch formerly  now is a professor of human development and family studies at Penn state University. During the study children were Given different calorie combinations and observed and parents were questioned about Behaviours around food at Home. Some mothers let children eat Only at Mealtimes instead of when they were hungry or encouraged children to eat All the food Given to them. Such mothers seemed to get concerned if children seemed to be eating too Little or too  / however children whose mothers Al Lowed them to be highly spontaneous about food showed a natural instinct for regulating their own calories the re searchers said. It has been estimated that one of every four . Children is obese and the Prev Alence of the problem has increased Smuch As 54 percent in the last two dec Ades according to previous research. While the study suggested that Moth ers were the main regulators of children s diets fathers also played a role research ers said. V and the weight and eating habits of the parents were relevant. An obese or chronically dieting Patent May be especially concerned about his or her children s eating habits an see the child As at risk for obesity the researchers said. Spacey voters the Crew members of the space shuttle Atlantis raise their hands to indicate that they had cast ballots for tuesday s election before heading into space. They were asked about their votes during a news conference tues Day. Crew members in the top Row from left Are Pilot Curtis Brown French astronaut Jean Francois Cleroy and Scott Parazynski. In the Bottom Row from left  Tanner commander Donald Mcmonagle and Ellen Ochoa. Cleroy raised his hand in a show of team spirit despite being a citizen of France. Def fail to win apology from by Robin Erb Toledo Blade Toledo Ohio representatives from the City s deaf Community demanded an apology from mayor Carty Finkbeiner for suggesting that hard of hearing citizens might like to move around Toledo express air port. ".  " however the representatives walked away from the meeting with an invitation to discuss the very idea they had come to assail. He did t apologize Jimmy Beldon of the ability Center of greater Toledo said tuesday through a sign language interpreter. He kept emphasizing the fact that it s an idea Worth examining. It s an absurd  with increasing flights in and out of the Airport neighbors have complained about the noise. Federal and local funds have been used to buy some of the sur rounding Homes for noise abatement. Taking an idea from a citizen s letter Finkbeiner last week asked deaf residents if they would like to move into Homes near the Airport that others Are fleeing if the noise Factor was not a  the comments prompted outrage among representatives of the deaf Community. Finkbeiner broke Down in tears the following Day during a news conference explaining the suggestion was sincere and not meant to be offensive. On tuesday night Finkbeiner reiterated that the idea is Worth pursuing after about a dozen members from the area s deaf and physically disabled Community came to complain at the City Council s regular meeting. Answering Beldon s demand for an apology Fink Beiner outlined projects the City has undertaken to improve Access for the physically disabled. I m going to stand extremely firmly with a lot of character and a lot of integrity and say this mayor and this administration is never going to. Let it be said that we were unfair or lacking in sensitivity. To any one Finkbeiner said. Whereas it May have been controversial it was not intended to be. And no disrespect from this mayor was shown in any Way shape or form he said. Finkbeiner said he had received 23 alls from Mem Bers of the deaf Community or their relatives who wished to sit Down and discuss the idea of moving near the Airport. Doctors on land at ser by Kathleen Day Washington Post Washington How Many Tel exes does it take to fix a dislocated shoulder doctors at the emergency room at George Washington University Hospital pro vide medical service 24 hours a Day via telex to the ships at sea that Supply ammunition bombs food and equipment to the Pentagon s Ocean  from the Caribbean and the persian Gulf climbed after the . Military began operations i Haiti arid Kuwait this year said Jim Scott the doctor in charge of George Washington University s maritime medical Access program. He can Only guess that s the Case because military Supply ships can t give their exact location. That s classified. So ships Crews communicate medical emergencies by Tel exes transmitted through a military station in Sandiego. We Only know what Ocean they re in Scott said. Snips that fire missiles or dispatch missile carrying planes have doctors and medical staff on Board. It s the suppliers of those ships that Don t travel with a full array of medical personnel and supplies. Cases in recent weeks included a Man with kidney stones who was flown to Oman and sedated per Tel exed orders then flown to George Washington University Hospital in Washington. Another Man suffering Short Ness of breath and lever was taken off his ship in Cara Cas Venezuela. Scott said that three years ago the emergency Crew treated a Man who on a Mission in the Pacific got a human bite where he should t have while visiting Brothel in  the bite became infected threatening his life. The ship was out of Range of Heli copters so antibiotics prescribed by George washing ton University doctors were dropped hear the ship by military Jet enabling the patient to be medicated until a helicopter could pick him up. He then invited those callers and others to sit Down with the Toledo Lucas county port authority which is in charge of buying the Homes around the Airport to discuss the idea. Beldon told the Council that the Issue stemmed from the City s Lack of understanding of disabled people and issues having to do with the americans with disabilities act. " to entertain such an absurd idea. Shows a Clear Lack of understanding sensitivity and Basic understand ing of human dignity he said. Our demands As citizens of this City Are simple an apology for your remarks and Complete compliance with the Ada he said. Council president Jack Ford also criticized the mayor for pursuing the suggestion. The comment and even the possibility should not have been raised Ford said. I Don t think it s a Good idea or an idea which should be  " he also urged the mayor that no retaliation be extended to members of the administration who voiced their concerns about the Issue being  distributed by scrupps Howard news service