European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 15,1994 . The stars and stripes Page v National guard Jet crashes info building near Airport from the associated press Fresno Calif. A military Jet crashed into a residential building near the Fresno Airport wednesday. I initial reports said there were two persons killed. The plane was a Learjet contracted to the California air National guard base in Fresno in Central California an air guard dispatcher said. Fire dispatcher eve Mercian said a plane hit a building but could not confirm what sort of building it  ,. Witnesses reported seeing billowing Black smoke and fire rising from the crash site. Freelance photographer Thor Swift said he was driving Southeast of the Airport when he saw a Gray military Jet that looked like it was flying too Low. It looked weird. It looked like it was going to run into houses and it did Swift said. Clean up prisons . Told Washington the District of Columbia department of corrections has six months to clean up problems in its facilities housing women prisoners a Federal judge ordered monday. In a 106-Page ruling handed Down by . District judge june l. Green the department was cited for violating the constitutional rights of the inmates. Green ordered the department to set up a harassment policy improve medical care and educational opportunities for the inmates and remedy safety conditions in the prisons. The judge also ordered a Federal agent to oversee the treatment of prisoners and the handling of allegations of sexual harassment brought against prison employees. Green s order resulted from a class action suit brought against the City by 13 female inmates who said they had been victims of rape harassment by prison guards and discrimination by the corrections department. Hammer bequest negated los Angeles oilman Armand Hammer s elderly wife was coerced into leaving her Niece hundreds of millions of dollars in communal property in a rewritten will a judge has ruled. Superior court judge Henry a Shatford ruled that the bequest to Joan Weiss was the product of threats pressure and coercion and would not be enforced by the court said Daniel Petroceli a lawyer for Hammer s estate and the Armand Hammer  court said the property including an extensive Art collection belongs to Hammer s estate and his foundation. Frances Hammer had left the property to her husband. Using Weiss lawyer the 86-year-old Frances Hammer changed her will in 1988 to make her Niece o the beneficiary instead of her husband. She died in 1989?and her husband died a year later. Weiss lawyer Hillel Chodos declined to comment. The ruling does t affect the $15 million that Weiss and her husband received from Frances Hammer s personal estate Petrocelli said. Space Center chief leaving Cape canaveral Fla. Kennedy space Center director Robert Crippen a former astronaut who piloted the first space shuttle flight announced tuesday that he is leaving Nasa. His resignation is effective Jan. 21. He said he will pursue a career in private , 57, has served As Kennedy s director for three years. No successor was named. Crippen a retired Navy Captain became an astronaut in 1969 and was the Pilot of Columbia on the first shuttle flight in 1981. Sex congressman guilty Washington Carl Chris Perkins former four term congressman from Kentucky agreed tuesday to plead guilty to three felony charges including kiting checks at the House Bank the Justice department announced. The government said Perkins Secretary while he was in Congress Martha Amburgey also agreed to plead guilty in the  Date was immediately set for the pleas. Perkins 40, represented Kentucky s 7th congressional District from 1984 to 1993. A Democrat he first won the seat after the death of his father Carl d. Perkins who had held the seat for 36 years. The younger Perkins did not seek re election in 1992 after a redistricting. Test to help Gas mental illness new York a family doctors routinely fail to identify common mental disorders in up to 75 per cent of afflicted patients but researchers have devised a questionnaire that greatly improves the doctors performance. A /.  with the help of the questionnaire family doctors were almost As Good As experts at diagnosing de pression anxiety disorders and other ailments re searchers said. Mental illness afflicts about 20 percent of the patients who walk into a general practitioner s office and Many of these patients have never been diagnosed or treated said or. Robert l. Spitzer a psychiatrist at Columbia University who  the questionnaire. $ widespread adoption of the questionnaire could re Duce the suffering disability and health care costs associated with mental illness Spitzer said. He said that other screening tests have been devise to help diagnose mental illness but that this is the first for use by family doctors. Without the questionnaire surveys showed that fam ily doctors identified and treated Only about 25 percent of patients who came to them with mental disorders. When the questionnaire was used that figure jumped to 62 percent said or. Kurt Kroenke of the uniformed services University of the health science sin Bethesda my. Kroenke an internist and general practitioner collaborated with Spitzer. The questionnaire is unlikely to be widely used unless insurance companies compensate doctors for the average 8.4 minutes it takes to administer the re searchers said. The prospects for that May be slim said or. Jerry Wiener a psychiatrist and the president of the american psychiatric association. Insurance companies generally reimburse for procedures not for time used to make a diagnosis Wiener said. Some doctors who used the questionnaire applied for reimbursement for psychiatric care and were denied pay ment because they Are not psychiatrists Spitzer said. Mental illness strikes 22 percent of adults in the United states each year. Severe mental illness afflicts 2.8 percent of american adults or about 5 million people each year. Heoc or stomach Hurt it May be psychological by the associated press the mental health questionnaire begins with a form that asks patients about a variety of physical ailments. Headaches stomachaches insomnia and other ailments can be signs of mental Disord ers. "."/. A patients Are then asked about their psychological Well being. If they say for example that they have Little interest or pleasure in doing things or Are feeling Down depressed or hopeless a doctor then asks a series of questions relating to depression. A " those questions include whether the patient shave trouble concentrating Are More fidgety than usual or feel they would be better off dead. The questions mean Little out of context but taken together they help guide doctors to an accurate diagnosis. If patients say they Are feeling anxious or worrying about a lot of different things  tors ask whether they have been nauseated had Chest pain or Felt faint those answers help  tors diagnose anxiety disorders. The questionnaire also helps doctors diagnose alcoholism eating disorders and so called Soma to form disorders in which physical symptoms have no apparent physical cause. Many of the disorders Are treatable. But a substantial por Tion of the mentally ill Are not being treated in part be cause their disorders go unrecognized by family  study was published wednesday in the journal of the american medical association. It was publicized at news briefing with funding provided by the Bristol Myers Squibb co., the maker of several psychiatric drugs. Christmas cheer from . President Clinton leads a chorus during Christmas in Washington Abc s 13th annual Yule gala taped Sun Day in Washington. Joining him in the front Are from left country Singer Kathy Mattea grit lady Hillary Rod Ham Clinton daughter Chelsea Singer Jon Secada actress Helen Hunt and Singer Anita Baker. Hunt was Host of the show which was to air wednesday in the states. An planned to tape the show for possible viewing later. Gop favors san Diego for convention Washington a republicans have taken another step toward selecting san Diego As the site of the party s 1996 National convention. The gop National committee s site selection panel authorized negotiations with City officials to see if de tails can be worked out for the aug. 12-15 convention Republican Leader Haley Barbour said tuesday. Barring a last minute Snag the site selection commit tee will recommend that the full Republican National committee choose the Southern California City. The committee s vote is considered a formality be cause san Diego has Barbour s enthusiastic backing. The Only major concern has been the City s relatively Small convention Hall