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Page 2, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka, Alaska, Wednesday, October 6,1993 Report: Disabled Kids Biological Survey Subject to More Abuse Plan Comes Under Fire By JENNIFER DIXON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) It is a heartbreaking -image: children with disabilities, abused and neglected far more often than other children. Yet that is the stark picture from first nationwide study of mal- treatment among children with physical, mental or emotional disabilities Researchers found that disabled are physically abused at twice the rate of other children, sexu- abused at nearly twice the rate 'and emotionally neglected at almost three times the rate. Overall, children with disabilities are maltreated at 1.7 times the rate of other kids. And in nearly half of those abuse cases, the child's disability was at the root of the abuse or neglect. In all but 14 percent of 1,834 cases studied, the maltreatment was either committed or permitted by a child's primary caretaker, who is generally the mother, the study said.

The mal- treatment was substantiated by child welfare agencies. The study, done by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect of the Department of Health and Human Services, dramatizes the crushing pressures on families of these children. "Children are vulnerable. But chil- with disabilities are the most Sen, Christopher J. Dodd, who sponsored 1988 legislation requiring the federal study, said in an "It's terribly disturbing to that children with disabilities are being maltreated to such a high degree.

The researchers' findings are based -on data collected from 35 child pro- services agencies. Each agency information on all cases of maltreatment over a tour-to six-week period in early 1991 The study also found that often causes children to de- a disability. More than half of all children who were neglected developed a disability, as well as 62 per- of children who were sexually abused, 48 percent who were emotionally abused and 15 percent who were physically abused. Dodd, said the report underscores both the "tremendous economic and social pressures that are crushing" many families with a disabled child and the need to help them a view echoed by some pediatricians "It's an ugly thought how could anyone maltreat a child, a child with a Dpdd said. "But I'm not sitting in public housing, out of a job taking care of four kids, trying to raise a family on my own, with back rent due and a number of outstanding doctor bills.

That's not an excuse, but you' begin to understand." Dr. Edward Schor, associate professor of pediatrics at Tufts Medical School, and Dr. James M. Perrin associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, agreed that caring for a disabled child can be expensive, stressful and physically exhausting. Parents may also become isolated tram friends, family and their community.

"They often don't have the kind of social support systems that they need to help them through difficult times Schor said. Perrin, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on children with disabilities, also believes the risk of abuse increases when parents don't bond with a newborn, a problem for sick babies hooked to all sorts of hospital eouiD- ment But Nora Baladerian, a clinical psychologist and director of the Disability, Abuse and Personal Rights Project of the Spectrum Institute, a research and educational organization in Los Angeles, says she's not convinced that family stress is to blame. Baladerian says disabled children are particularly vulnerable because they may be less able to fend off an attack or to tell someone about it. And the signs and symptoms of abuse may be attributed to the child's disability By SCOTTSONNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The most ambitious inventory ever of America plants and animals may soon have federal wildlife officials searching national forests, farms and even suburban back yards for endangered species. And even though inspectors would need permission to go onto private property, the proposed inventory left some landowners fearful of the economic impact of a discovery -feeling they'd be better off not knowing what dwells on their land.

"It may have a cataclysmic effect," says Rep. Jimmy Hayes, a critic of the Clinton administration's proposed National Biological Survey. Hayes said the discovery of a spotted owl, catcher, red-cockaded woodpecker or Louisiana black bear on one's land could lead to significant government restrictions. And such a discovery could make property less desirable for future use, driving down its value or making financial institutions reluctant to lend money to the owner. "The value of property cannot go up, but it can go down under this scenario," Hayes said during a recent congressional hearing.

Not so, insists Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt "An isolated discovery has very little impact," he said Babbitt said that by listing and mapping the creatures the government will do a better job of managing the lands and help head off the kind of emergency response that has forced dramatic logging cutbacks to save the Northwest's northern spotted owl. "Good data will remove the uncertainty and in most cases values will eo up," Babbitt said. He said most land-use restrictions go into effect as soon as a species is added to the list of threatened or endangered species. The House was scheduled to consider funding today for the $163 million survey. Under the plan, a new In- terior Department office would collect existing data from federal, state and private organizations to develop a comprehensive look at the status of the nation's biological treasures.

Eventually, government officials --with permission of landowners- would inventory creatures on private lands as well. As is the case currently under the Endangered Species Act, property owners with protected species found on their land would face a variety of restrictions ranging from a prohibition on the killing of the species to potentially any activity that could destroy its habitat. "We expect that the ecosystem managers will use the National Biological Survey to stop timber sales curtail grazing permits, block mining permits and eliminate oil and gas leasing," said Myron Ebell of the National Inholders Association, representing private land owners adjacent to federal land. "We expect that the National Biological Survey will provide the information necessary to fully implement the Endangered Species Act, so that every area of the country can have its own version of the spotted owl," he said, Chris West, vice president of the Northwest Forestry Association in Portland, said private landowners in the Northwest already have suffered from population counts of spotted owls. "We in the industry took the tack that we wanted to do surveys so we would know where the owls are, but as a result, there has been more impact than anyone ever thought," West said.

The theory was that discovery of additional owls would help prove the bird was not quite so threatened and ease the protection standards. "We thought we'd be blessed if we found owls on our ownership, but in fact it has been our death knell," West said. Auto Executives Contend NAFTA will- Aid Workers port 15,000 jobs in the first year alone. The report contended that UiS. exports of cars, trucks and component parts would zoom because, Mexico's high tariffs and other trade barriers designed to favor domestic production 'over foreign imports would be eliminated over a 10-year period.

However, critics charged that the By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Clinton administration and auto industry executives say American autoworkers stand to reap big benefits from a free trade agreement with Mexico. But opponents of the. proposed North American Free Trade Agreement contend that it will do nothing to halta flood of auto jobs to Mexico. cnucs cnarged that the The administration produced a new Commerce Department report relied Department report Tues- on questionable economic assump- oay tnat claimed U.S. industry would tions and on estimates from 'the auto enjoy an additional $2 biUion in sales industry, which is lobbying heavily vLfwAJSA and Curing the first for passage of the agreement'and over year NAFTA was in effect.

the past decade has moved thousands ihe report, prepared by the Com- of jobs to Mexico. flr a Re TOUam Ford, a industry-by-in- NAFTA opponent, cited a congres- dustry studies the administration plans sional study that employment in auto to use to argue the benefits of the pro- parts factories in Mexico had grown by 120,000 in the past 11 years while auto parts factories in the United States were losing 154,000 jobs. He said the study by the 'Office of Technology Assessment, predicted that NAFTA would encourage further job shifting, especially irTsuch labor intensive parts industries wiring harness assembly, air bag production and cut-and-sew seat But auto executives, in "NAFTA presents the opportunity for dramatic increases in U.S. exports of cars, trucks, auto parts and components," said Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. NAFTA would create the world's largest free trade zone by eliminating virtually all barriers to trade among the United States, Mexico and Canada over the next 15 years.

The Commerce report put the to-yeargain billion and said sales of to 1 8j9 billion and said sales heavy trucks and buses would rise by another $1 billion. Brown cited industry estimates that the increased U.S. exports would sup- congressional passage of NAFTA said they had been Mexican factories to get around'Mex- ico's high trade barriers, be phased out by NAFTA. WEATHER Former HUD Aide Says Favors were Shelled Out GAO Takes Managers of Forest Service to Task Sitka Forecast Increasing clouds tonight Southeast winds to 15 mph. Lows in the middle 40s to near 50.

Cloudy Thursday with a chance of rain developing Highs in the lower to middle 50s Rain probability 50 percent. Showers were expected to develop in the Southwest today, cooling things off'somewhat Highs in the 80s and 90s were forecast South and most of the nation's midsec- uon was expecting highs in the 80s today with 60s and 70s in the Northwest, around the Great Lakes and the mid-Atlantic region, and 40s and 30s in New England. The nation's high temperature Tuesday was 104 degrees at Blythe, Calif. Sitka Weather Nation's Temps By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) lobbyists-'' and- the' White 'House a path, door looking for housing money and it was HUD Secretary Sam Pierce who vhelped them get it, Deborah Gore Dean testified at her criminal conspir- trial." The former top aide at the Depart- ment of Housing and Urban Development took the witness stand in her defense Tuesday, declaring that was a mere buffer, cushioning the Apolitical pressure for her boss, Pierce. HUD officials including Pierce -known as "Silent Sam" because, of his low public profile made all the decisions about slicing up the federal -housing pie among local housing au- around the country during the years, she testified.

She explained why she rather Pierce handled the deluge of political calls: 'Because the secretary did not want to get in between the fly. ing bullets." Dean said members of Congress and their staffs rather than being bystanders were steeped in the workings of HUD's --moderate rehabilitation housing program and were constantly at the agency asking for money. 'Out of 100 members of the Senate I only didn't talk to 20 of them 1 or their staffers, she said of her job as Pierce's executive secretary in the Even Reagan's former interior secretary, James Watt, put on the pres- sure, trying to keep hundreds of hous- mg units under the control of a business consultant operating on behalf of "'a developer in Puerto Rico, she said. Watt "was very vocal, he speaks 'itartly," Dean said of a face-to-face she witnessed between Watt, by then out of government, and 1 Pierce. Pierce faced down the political she said, arranging for the units in Puerto Rico to be bid among several developers.

On trial in U.S. District Court Dean is accused of conspiring to housing projects to politically -ing an illegal gratuity and lying to 12 felony charges in all. Dean's testimony follows the pros- ecution's two-week case, in which the government depicted Dean as a ma- nipulaior of HUD programs who en- sured' that-' in '-fees- would flow .10 ex-Attorney- Mitchell, who was living with Dean's mother. Developers and consultants hired Mitchell to put in a good word with Dean. Deaths Fran Carlon NEW YORK (AP) Fran Carlon, an actress in radio, television, theater film, died of cancer Monday.

She wasSO. Miss Carlon began her career in the 1930s, playing Litte Eva in a touring company of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 'She acted in the movies with Loretta Young and Douglas Montgomery before turning to radio drama, appearing in shows such as "Lorenzo Jones" and "Our Gal Sunday." On television, she played Julia Burke for six years on "As the World Turns." Gerald J. Carroll LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) -Gerald J. Carroll, a decorated naval pilot who wrote two books on his experiences in Vietnam, died of a heart attack Thursday.

He was 46. Carroll was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal making him one of the Navy's most decorated aviators in the Vietnam War. His first novel, "North AJR was published in 1991. "Ghostrider One" will be published this month. Tom Bristol Coughran FALLS CHURCH, Va.

(AP) -Tom Bristol Coughran, a banking executive and assistant secretary of the Treasury during the Eisenhower administration, died Saturday. He was 87. Coughran was assistant secretary for international affairs in 1957-58 and later became chief executive of Bank.of America International in New York. He also served as the U.S. executive director of the World Bank and International Finance Corp.

By SCOTTSONNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Forest Service agents often face interference and suffer retaliation when they investigate-; wrongdoing at the-agency and the timber industry, congressional investigators charged Tuesday, Two Forest Service agents also told a House panel that the timber industry, sometimes with the help of the agency, is stealing tens of millions of dollars worth of timber from national forests annually. "There is a very close relationship the Forest Service has with the timber industry," said Michael Nitsch spe- agent at the Gifford Pinchot Na- cernmg law enforcement in the Forest Service, including 60 agency investigators. The information produced more than 180 allegations "of program management's interference in law enforcement activities. "We were further, told that Service line managers' small- towns, as neighbors and friends of individuals accused of misconduct on forest lands, often place pressure on law enforcement personnel to drop criminal the GAO said The report was presented Tuesday to the House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee on civil ser- 6 on a personal inend when we start to conduct some of these A report by the General Accounting Office said Forest Service officers who probe alleged criminal activity are often punished by agency managers. "We obtained data on over 180 alleged incidents of interference and retaliation," said GAO, an investigative unit of Congress.

The report recommended that the Forest Service form an independent law enforcement arm so its law offi- investigations of timbei Jieft on national forests. Dennis Shrader of the agency's National Timber Theft Task Force in Eugene, told the panel "The Forest Service has allowed favored timber companies to steal literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of old-growth timber." Sometimes, logs are hauled out of national forests in the dark of night Other tones the timber companies cut trees outside of areas approved for logging or the log trucks fail to have their loads weighed, he said Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson said the agency is making changes SO ot-n gamzational structure can result in their investigating the very people they report the report said The GAO said it received information from more than 110 people con- He said the Forest Service is short of resources to handle an increase in criminal investigations from 25 in 1971 to 180 in 1993. "We have only one law enforcement officer for about every 250 000 acres of national forest system land he said. Temperatures ranged from 45 to 59 degrees and .02 inch of rain was recorded in the 24 hours ending midnight last night, reports Sitka Flight Service Station. The barometer was 30.02 and rising.

Sunup was 7:16 a and sunset will be 6:22 p.m. A low pressure system over the Bering Sea brought ram and snow to the west coast of Alaska overnight. Rail feR across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and the southern Seward Peninsula while light snow feU further to the north, over Kotzebue oound. Winds, were brisk across the region with gusts topping 25 mph at Kotzebue and Tin City A rapidly developing low pressure system Was 60 bring strong wands and heavy rain to the Gulf of Alaska coastline later today. Kodiak was feeling the first effects of the system with wuids gusting to 30 mph and a lit- tie rain.

Qouds were building across the Kenai Pemnsula and Prince William Sound Skies were fair across the eastern and central Interior lemperatures had cooled into the upper teens and low 20s across die upper Yukon Galley and the Copper River Basin. Low clouds covered me Nonh Slope. Clear skies stretched from the eastern Gulf Coast to Ehxon Entrance, induding all of the Panhandle. But those skies were hard to find in para of central Southeast where dense fog had developed. The visibility was down to a qSaner of mfle at Petersburg and WrangelL a emPanhandle wecrc neaerm Alaska Temps Temperatures indicate previous day's hieh ana overnight low to 8 a.m.

EDT. Prc OUk clr Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta AUanticCity Austin Supreme Court Denies Bail For Convicted Police Officer By MICHAEL FLEEMAN Associated Press Writer ANGELES (AP) The pc their 30-month prison terms Tuesday. They were convicted of violating THE DAILY SITKA SENTINEL CUSPS 146-160), published by Verstovia wholly owned in Jitka, daily except Saturday and Sunday and holidays at 112 Barracks Street, Sitka, Alaska 99835 Mail address: Box 799. Subscrip- I at thrse cnths $25; six months $45; one year $75. Inquire for mailed rates.

National ad rep is Papert Companies. Member of The Associated Press. Second-class postage paid at Siika, Alaska. Phone (907) 747-3219. Postmaster: iend address changes to Box 799, Sitica, AK 99835-0799 NEW YORK George DeSipio one of the founders of Living Proof, a traveling exhibition of photographs of people infected with the AIDS virus, died of AIDS Saturday He was 37.

Joseph Warren NEW YORK (AP) Joseph Warren, a character actor who appeared in dozens of plays and films, died Friday. He was 77. 611 made fa's Broadway debut in 1951 in Maxwell Anderson's Barefoot in Athens." Other plays included "The Advocate," "Lincoln Mask and New York Shakespeare Festival productions. His movies included "Mommie Dearest," "Taxi Driver" and "Bane the Drum Slowly next week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected their bids to remain free dunng appeals.

The court without comment on Tuesday denied the request by SBL Stacey Koon, one day after rejecting a similar motion by Officer Laurence Powell. The officers are to begin serving Correction on Oct. 2 erroneously re-. o'eographical dimensions of the state authorized wolf kill The state Game Board has approved a wolf kill over a area south of Fairbanks, but the state Hsh and Game Department said the kill likely would take place over a 2 000-square-mile area. Fish and Game spokeswoman Cathie Harms said the area, in the foothills of the Alaska Range, has been identified as the calving grounds of the Delta caribou herd March 1991 0 other officers were acquitted at a trial last spring.

Koon had argued that his freedom would not pose any danger to the community that he would be vulnerable to attacks in prison and that he would have served most of his term before his appeal is decided. "Although we're disappointed, we're certainly not surprised with the court's ruling in light of how they decided with Larry," said Koon's trial lawyer, Ira Salzman. Powell was fired from the police department Monday. A hearing on firing Koon, who is suspended without pay, will be scheduled later this month, police spokesman John Duncan said Tuesday. U.S.

District Judge John G. Davies had ordered Koon and Powell to begin their prison terms Sept. 27. But on that day, after the two had already arrived at the Dublin Federal Prison Camp in northern California, the judge delayed the sentences until Oct. 12 to let them pursue the Supreme Court requests.

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