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Where kids carry battle scars for life By ALAIN CASS Sun Special Correspondent The bov in the green anorak took the pencil and drew two parallel lines. "That's the street, right?" He added a neat row of dots outside each line and a rectangle in the middle. "These are the lamp posts, and that's the Army LaiTd Rover coming u. the street. "You tie your cheese wire between the two lamp posts' about fi ft.

up. There's always a soldier standing on the back of the Land Rover. Even with their searchlights, he can't see the wire in the dark. It's just at the right height to catch his throat. Then we throw stones." That boy was nine years old.

His friend, two years older, disagreed. He said only kids threw stones. If you were clever, you used a hurley stick to strike the stone hard and iow. "That way you can hit a soldier below' his shield and cripple him." A third boy added: "Then we come in with the petrol bomb. If a soldier towers his shield to protect himself from the stones, you can lob a petrol bomb over the top." THESE SPINE cbillinj; interviews are not fantasy.

They are taken from the notes of a young Belfast psychiatrist at the child guidance clinic of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Dr, Morris Fraser started work there Dn the day rioting first broke out in I960. Since then he and his colleagues have treated thousands children victims of sectarian hatred and naked violence. His findings will be published in a book called "Children in Conflict" early this year It is a frightening pointer to the future and an unqualified condemnation of the present. The massive and ruthless involvement of children in the street warfare of Ulster is unique in modern history.

And the degree of mental disturbance, claims Dr. Fraser, is greater in Ulster than it was even during the Blitz in Britain. His studies reveal serious emotional instability in thousands of children. Many of his patients, he says, will be scarred for life. FOR THE FIRST time he reveals the full extent to which the I.R.A.

use children in their fight. And he shows how children in Protestant strongholds are indoctrinated by their parents. Dr. Fraser told me: "I began by trying to discount the ghetto idea because it was too frightful to contemplate. 1 ended up proving it.

People don't realize what is happening tn children in there, It's time they did." Take Bill for instance. He wears a chunky sweater with red white and blue stripes. He is eight and a half End a Protestant. He told Dr. Fraser that when he groxvs up he will join the Army.

"The Army is needed here to keep the Catholics down. The Catholics' should be killed 01 burned. They shoot Peelers and Protestants. But I'm in the Junior Orange Lodge and we know what to do with them." His friend, 13, was more specific. "We have steel spars that we get from metal work in school.

We sharpen them. We are keeping the end sharpened lor Fenians (Republicans). We practise on dummies." DID HE KNOW any Catholics? "Some used to live at the end of our streets. We never bothered one because she was an old woman, They've left how." Recently children have been used as front line fighters. They attack fully armed soldiers with astonishing disregard for their own safety.

"You too can be a hero," says the I.R.A. A boy without a rubber bullet is like a boy without a penknife. It is a status symbol. They go out and provoke the soldiers into firing at them. JULIET JONES AP Vlrtr.i:.l5 No handicap, blindness Diana Alexander, 20, a University of Texas coed, has been taking skiing instruction from Skip Merry of the Purgatory ski area in Durango, Colo.

Miss Alexander, blind since birth, is quick to learn and has mastered the mountain in her fourth day of Your horoscope TUESDAY, JAN. 11 By JEANE DIXON YOUR birthday today: Begin a search for perfection, precision, useful new skills, and avenues of self expression. Many of today's natives will switch into new careers around midyear. Today's natives as a group are generally a very definite, determined lot, with rumble minds. AIRES (March 21 Aprll 10): Seize an early opening, make a deal.

Then farm out the chores you've let yourself in for, if you can. Group "and family ventures are due fo thrive today. TAURUS (April 2frMay 20): Competitive urges come fo reality. Be ready to give as good as you get or actually make the first move. GEMINI (May 21 June 20): Outstanding problems find relatively simple, temporary accept everything for what it is.

CANCER (June 21 JuIy 22): Unusual answers are at hand for chronic questions. Think big and with hope as you search, Refinancing may he feasible and useful. LEO (July 23 Aug. 22): You are not alone in your main concerns moreover, make room for colleagues, perhaps same who normally compete against you. imtmetion with Merrv.

I UM6. BOWLIIvJ6. I'SaffiMSW" fJ BUSHED HIWIWTHEVVpOD LtPfn) RICK O'SHAY itally thought that laarnino to water ski was a bit hard er," she said. Tou have to learn now to laugh at yourself when you fall because everyone is going to fall eventually, said th. ageous miss VIRGO (Aug.

23 Sept. 22): Orthodox ideas work better at the moment as there Is nothing particularly new about the situation, even the you may lack familiarity with some details. LIBRA (Sept. 23 Oct. 22): your trip relates to your work and getting greater skills, it's favored.

Idle fun, pleasure for It's own sake tends to pall don't blame, this on people you care about. SCORPIO (Oct. 23 Nov. 21): Chance meetings promise well; explore them for possible future cooperation. Getting out and staying cn the move is tenfold better than staying at home.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 Dec. 21): Collect what is due to you today. Apply for grants, scholar ships, increases. CAPRICORN (Dec.

22 Jan. 19): Seek recognition for what you've achieved lately. A leisurely, graceful approach works. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 Feb.

18): Find a balance between what is wanted and what is reasonable to expect. You'll find something to do about it, once you see practical reality. PISCES (Feb. lS Mareh 20): Your praise, your acceptance of mate, foibles, follies, and faults included, may bring about a minor miracle now. TUMBLEWEEDS Seatrain music is fashion of many sounds into new one By LINDA KRAMER NORTHHAMPTON, (AP) Seatrain flutist and bassist Andy Kulbei'g characterizes the group's music as "electric." As opposed to traditional rock groups composed of guitar, drums and organ, Seatrain also uses electric violin, electric flute and electric mandolin.

"We're striving to amalgamate a lot of different kinds of music." said Kulberg in an interview before a concert here at Smith College. "Our music is fusion of country style sound, American folk styles, jazz as it developed out of the rock hands of the '60s, rhythm and blues and even classical concepts. "We try to bring all these different styles into one framework which is different from them all," continued the long haired, mustaehed musician, peering out from under a floppy brimmed hat. Kulberg attributed the use or instruments such as the violin in popular music to the increased technical know how which makes it acoustically possible. "The violin has always been the backbone of western music," he noted.

"It's natural that it enter into our type of sound. SEATRAIN WAS started two years ago by Kulberg, lyricist Jim Roberts and violin mandolin player Richard Greene. The group has produced two albums, "Seatrain" and "Marblehead Messenger." Far the past six months they have been on a tour of eastern colleges, said Kulberg, prior to they went on a brief European tour. "Right now we're tired," he said, explaining that they hope to take some time off the road soon just to work on some new material. "The music business has a way of milking people." Kulberg, a veteran of the Blues Project, described the current rock scene as "glutted." There are so many good groups and albums around, he said, that people are growing unre ceptive to new sounds.

THE OTHER members of the group are: Larry Atamanuik on drums, Lloyd Baskin on kiivb'oard and vocals and Peter Rowan on guitar and vocals. Seatrain does no tplay music that tries to bring a message to the audience, noted Kulberg. "Wc want to play music that moves people in a body way and "in subtle intellectual ways. We E3 pU3 Jan. 10, 1972 Page 29 S7 "jlj.

THE THING ANDY KULBERG "eclectic" music just try to establish a happy atmosphere during our concerts. We're not politically oriented and we're not Jesus freaks." "Just getting up and singing about love and peace doesn't make it happen," he added. "I chose to be an entertainer because 1 want people to enjoy themselves, fo experience something, not tD preach to them. BECAUSE SEVERAL of their songs are based on biblical stories, Seatrain recently posed for a photograph for an organization trying to encourage 1'eadirrg of the Bible. "The Bible is a good book," said Kulberg.

"We thought Job was a good story and would make a good song," he said referring to one of the group's better known songs, "Job." Another of their songs wilh supposed religious overtones is "Protestant Preacher," written by Towan. Kulberg commented, "It's Peter's personal story about how he relates to America as a beautiful place, but as a failure. "Most of our songs represent our personal views of the world and how it affects us," he added. "We like to be a little like the minisirels of the middle ages entertaining the and communicating something to them. Pole axed cinr rjonva Ravnn sflirf that infamous four letter word at a concert In Cherry Hill N.J.

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