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AA2 Akron Beacon Journal Tuesday, June 26, 1984 i gam jmmmmmmm A famous free-lancer is a real sharp-shooter WWBjWgBWBilJWWiMWWMui.yWjlMimLU lunn i mjH WHMffm" 'jjP ly mm fl "li. 1 1 11111 .1.1. nu HI I. in I'jWMtf' selling book. And he has traveled almost everywhere.

Little can look back on a number of extraordinary experiences, including his month-long jaunt on the high seas with William F. Buckley Jr. and his erstwhile cronies, the jaunt chronicled in Buckley's book 3-t' Lin ijstarf" A. 'f" frit 1 1 kr-3rv -Cfr- 7- JL 1 1 Wielding a camera is play for pro By Daniel Paisner Picture this: you're a freelance photographer; you regularly snap photos of the great and the near-great, the famous and the not-so-famous, the has-beens and the never-will-bes. Your passport tells so many stories it should be made into a movie.

With a sequel. New York photographer Christopher Little has taken just such a picture of himself, and he likes the way it looks. "I heard a stunning statistic the other day," noted Little, whose pictures frequently appear in People, Life, The New York Times and TV Guide. "There are 12,000 working photographers in New York and over 7,000 assistants. I find it very hard to imagine 12,000 people making a living in one place, no matter how large a market it is." Little is doing very nicely for himself, nicer than most of his colleagues.

He has photographed everyone from Dan Rather to Steve Martin, the Aga Khan to Deborah Harry, New York Mayor Ed Koch to Richard Gere and Richard Nixon. He has taken photos for Time and Newsweek, the three networks and a best- Atlantic High. "It was the most fabulous experience I've ever had," Little reflected of the trip, in which the group traveled from St. Thomas to Bermuda, and then to the Azores and Spain. "I guess you might as well read it here first: We're planning another trip for next summer, from Hawaii to New Zealand.

I think he'll call it Pacific High." Little also can count himself among the few free-lance photographers ever to judge a Miss America pageant, a feat he accomplished last year amid much fanfare as he and his fellow judges elected Vanessa Williams the first black Miss America. "I had done some work at the pageant in past years," he recalled, "and always there were past Miss Americas and lots of hugging and kissing, crying and excitement backstage after the ceremony. Last year, there was just Vanessa and dead silence; it was unbelievable. Everyone was stunned at the time. Now, of course, everyone associated with the pageant is thrilled with the judges' choice, but at the time they weren't so sure." His future jobs? "About the only place I haven't been is South America," Little said from his Manhattan loft, which is a combined work-living space.

"I'd love to go there." Universal Press Syndicate uccessful New York free-lance photographer Christopher Little can shoot in informal attire Often, the sexual attacker is not a stranger to victim ja anma H-v New statistics shatter myths, alarm counselors JLVXore women are coming forward to report date rapes. They recognize that forceable sexual intercourse is a crime and not some form of sexual activity." Detective Ellen King New York sex crimes unit By John Drape "I first thought she was trying to get help immediately after an attack," Pat Bates remembers. "I kept asking, 'Are you alone? Are you Bates directs the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault in Kansas City, and often answers crisis-line calls. "Once I calmed her, I found that she had been raped 25 years earlier when she was 15. Her son's 15th birthday triggered the memory of being raped by two boys one of whom she dated." "It used to be that strangers were thought to be the most likely child-abuse offenders," says Gail Abarbanel, a social worker and director of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica (Calif.) Hospital.

"Now we find that it's more likely that a child knows the assailant. That may be true for rape victims, too. The frequency of date rape doesn't show up in crime statistics, according to experts. Like Bates' case, many victims never report the crime to police. And police and law enforcement agencies themselves classify date rape broadly.

The offense may range from attacks that happen after one or more dates to meetings between people who may have seen each other but never formally met. Still, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 25 percent to 50 percent of each year's 153,000 reported rapes were committed by assailants who knew their victims. "More women are coming forward to report date rapes," says Detective Ellen King, an 11-year veteran of New York City's Sex Crimes Unit. "They recognize that forceable sexual intercourse is a crime and not some form of sexual activity." According to King, date rapists often feel that sex is the payoff for time, money and attention spent on a woman. They may feel that a woman expects sex, that her resistance or protests are part of a game and that she really does not mean "no." Abarbanel, who interviewed 500 California women for a study on the differences in rapes by strangers and those by acquaintances, developed this profile of the date rape: Forty percent of victims had been dating the offender.

The attacks usually occurred on the weekends during late-night or early-morning hours. The victims had gone to the assailant's "turf" his apartment or some other place he was familiar with. The assailant controls the woman by threatening, overpowering and restraining her, rather than by inflicting physical injury. If a woman accepts an invitation to a date's apartment for dinner or drinks, asks Amy Goldner, a social worker and licensed marriage and family therapist at the UCLA Student Health Center, "Does she ever lose the right to say no? "Once it reaches a point where a man wants what he wants when he wants it," says Goldner, "and a woman is unable to stop him, no longer is the issue sexuality, but power." Law enforcement officials concede that rape remains a widely unreported crime. "Even victims of strangers," says King, "will not report the attack because they face the burden of persuading outsiders that they did not invite it." Date rape victims, says victims counselors, face the burden internally.

"The popular image of a date rape is a seduction gone wrong," says Abarbanel. "They may not even think of the assault as rape, even though they will suffer all the feelings and traumatization of a victim attacked by a stranger in a dark alley." Arbarbanel describes the date rape victims as suffering more pronounced feelings of guilt and shame than victims of strangers. Additionally, she found that date rape victims lost a sense of trust. Says Abarbanel, "The victims cannot get over how they could be so wrong about someone they chose to be with." Universal Press Syndicate More rapes are being reported by women victimized by their dates A date with rape as its objective Jane did not report the rape to the police. A year later, she told her sister but didn't listen to her advice to do something.

"I didn't even think to report it at the time. After all, I went to his apartment on my own," she said. "I still have feelings of guilt that I didn't resist I couldn't Jane felt comfortable accepting an invitation to dinner at his apartment. "I guess I didn't have a chance from the time I reached the door," she said. "I really think he knew what he was doing, I guess his anger at my sister took over.

"Immediately after he raped me, he was very contrite, asking me how he could make it up to me. I was still so disbelieving at what had happened, I didn't know what to do." (Editor's Note: Only first names in this story have been used to preserve confidentiality.) Jane, 19, had been out with Bill, 25, several times since her sister had broken her engagement with him. Bill had remained on friendly terms with her family, and Jane considered his invitations a matter of friendship. "He had made some passes, though," she said. "But I always felt he understood when I said I wasn't interested." Under these circumstances.

believe what was happening." For Jane, the rape was her first sexual experience. She says physical relations are still diffi cult for her. Universal Press Syndicate This 'Underware' is not for wearing By Mark Malamad What would you call a new computer company founded by two young men fresh out of college and dedicated to producing support software for personal computers? Why, Underware, of course. At least that's what David Nanian, 22, and Michael Strickman, 23 both graduates of Brown University decided when they took the plunge into the lucrative, but treacherous, world of software design. "We kinda just dove in," Nanian remembered with a shrug.

After seeking the aid and advice of professors, family and friends, Underware raised $25,000 in a limited partnership of shareholders, spent nearly half of that sum on two IBM computers and embarked on what has been a hard, productive year of programming. The two young entrepreneurs admitted they knew little about the legal and economic factors required to launch a successful business. And as for the company's name, it was a result of "spontaneous combustion." "Our first break," Nanian recalls, "was when we got a publisher for the software package we had begun to design. We'd been making the rounds at numerous computer conventions wearing dark blue suits and moving from table to table, trying to look professional, and waiting for someone to show interest in our product When no one did at first, we started growing nervous and a little disillusioned." The young businessmen's distress turned out to be short-lived, however. Early in their first year, several offers appeared and their industry finally paid off.

A software dealer with whom Underware had contact suddenly decided to start his own software house. A satisfactory deal was closed. And soon Underware's first project was off and running. Underware writes software that makes using a computer easier no matter what application you choose. It's "backbone" software for serious, everyday users people who want their lives in front of the screen made a little more pleasant.

Or, as the founders of this new company put it, "It's software that never lets you down." But what is Underware's current project? Nanian smiles. "Technically, it's called the Basic Reconfigurable Interacting Editing Facility. That's BRIEF, for short. It's a full-screen, multiple-window, multiple-file text editor, similar to what one might use on a large mainframe computer, but we've put it on the IBM PC" Their sense of humor intact, both Nanian and Strickman stress that their company and their work is no joke. "People will take us seriously when they see what we can do," Nanian said bluntly.

"We're sure of that." He smiled. "And before we prove to them what we can do, we're sure of one thing: Once heard, they will never forget our name." IMvenal Press Sv6cita -Li. Underware founders David Nanian, Michael Strickman.