Show February 26 1975 Page 7 Child abuse claims thousands World news of lives each year in US young MIA ongressmen explore question SAIGON South Vietnam (AP) — Rep Paul N McCloskey Jr and Sen Dewey Bartlett arrived today and said they hoped to meet with the Viet Cong and explore the question of America’s missing in action They were the first two members of a bipartisan Senate-Hous- e delegation to arrive here to assess President Ford’s request for $300 million in supplemental military aid for South Vietnam and $222 million for Cambodia la Viet Nam needs ammunition stocks SAIGON (AP) — South Vietnam can survive without supplemental military aid from the United States but its annumition stocks would fall to a dangerously low level by June if fighting gets worse according to Western political and military here analysts At the same time they said North Vietnam and the Viet Cong have enough stockpiles on hand to sustain an offensive for more than a year These sources say that of the $300 million in supplemental aid requested from Congress by President Ford for South Vietnam would go for ammunition and fuel the rest for an assortment of items such as spare parts communications equipment and medical supplies two-thir- National news Moss refection of Viet aid urges DC WASHINGTON — Recalling the" turmoil of the Vietnam which tore “altnost our nation apart” Senator Frank E years Moss (Ted) urged Congressional rejection of efforts by 'he Administration to increase military aid to South Vietnam ‘T think we should have learned by now that American honor and prestige is not upheld by financing a futile war and a corrupt regime” the Senator remarked He pressed Congress to reaffirm its decision of last year to cut aid to Vietnam ‘‘Noting that the majority of American people are disgusted with US activity in Southeast Asia” Senator Moss added ‘‘After more than' itsfr 000 American casualities and the expenditure of 140 billion dollars along with the millions of Asians who have lost their lives during these many years it is strange that the Administration continues to insist on increased United States involvement through additional appropriations Ford gets traffic ticket Henry — SANTA BARBARA Calif (AP) Henry Ford II chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co was arrested for investigation of drunk driving during he weekend police authorities said today Ford 57 spent more than three hours in the county jail before posting $375 bail early Sunday the sheriff’s department said he paid the money himself — in cash — and was ordered to appear in Municipal Court on March 7 officials said Ford was stopped about 11 : 45 pm Saturday on a street in Goleta a Santa Barbara suburb a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said He was driving a 1975 Ford described by the patrol r sedan only as a A woman with Ford identified as Kathleen Duross was not held the spokesman said two-doo- US to to Pakistan sell arms The United States formally announced (AP) — WASHINGTON arms embargo against Pakistan today replacement a e basis The and India with a new cash sales policy on a B the William Saxbe United came despite opposition by change States new ambassador to India who said in Bangkok Thailand that he opposed the renewal of American arms sales to Pakistan of case-by-cas- ‘‘but I wasn’t persuasive” nominationshailand 'Chinatown' Oscar LOS ANGELES “The Godfather Part (AP) — “Chinatown” II” won top nomination honors in the 47th Motion Picture Academy Awards today placing in 11 categories apiece Both films were selected as nominees for Best Picture of 1974 along with “The Conversation” “Lenny” and “The Towering Inferno” Nominees for best actor of the year were Art Carney “Harry and Tonto” Albert Finney “Murder on the Orient Express” Dustin Hoffman “Lenny” Jack Nicholason “Chinatown” and A1 Pacino “The Godfather Part II” Nominated for best performance by an actress were Ellen Burstyn “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” Diahann Carroll “Claudine” Faye Dunaway “Chinatown” Valerie Perrine “Lenny” and Gena Rowlands “A Woman Under the Influence” Fred Astaire who won an honorary Oscar in 1949 but has never been nominated for an acting performance was among those EDITORS NOTE — Millions of chief of the Children’s Bureau in Washington an arm of the Health Education and Welfare dollars are being spent by county state and federal governments to combat child abuse But the problem continues apparently undiminished and thousands of children die each year By John T Wheeler AP Newsfeatures Writer The 6 pm call to police reported a child dead in his crib The call was not uncomnf There are tens of thousands of them each year in America But often - as the police in both small towns and large cities know - it is the first word of a much larger tragedy a death that mars not only the immediate family but society as a whole When police arrived at the home of Dennis Di Rocco and his wife in Nutley NJ it took only one look in the nursery to see that this was no routine death Headquarters was called the coroner summoned Dennis Jr 13 months lay on his back his face turned toward one of the protective cushions that ringed the inside of his crib At his side was a rattle shaped like a large-nose- d court jester A huge bruise covered most of one side of his face There were cuts and other bruises - large and small livid red to deep purple over most of his body The coroner ruled: Death due to subdural hematoma a large blood clot apparently from a blow that destroyed Dennis’ -- brain From the Grand Jury: against both 21 and his Essex County NJ Murder indictments parents Dennis Sr wife Elizabeth 23 She was only days away from delivering her second child when Dennis died From jail where each was held hail the Di Roccos protested their innocence Still proclaiming themselyes blameless the couple was found guilty of second degree murder in lieu of $50000 50000 Administration says: “There are no firm national figures but from what I know I have no reason to doubt such statements” In the Di Rocco case there were warnings Not first time At two months of age Dennis had been brought with injuries to St Michael’s Hospital in Newark The state Division of Youth and One study in New York a state which has pioneered in research and legislation in the child abuse field showed that 70 per cent of one group of fatally abused children had been reported to some responsible person or agency as being in danger before their deaths While the experts disagree about how to combat the problem they do agree on what parents guardians grandparents foster parents in-la- even babysitters do when they abuse children The list of inFamily Services entered the case juries includes abrasions cuts burns bites and fought successfully in court amputations to have Dennis placed in a foster fractured skulls' broken bones scalds ruptured vital organs home for his protection dislocated during torture joints noted it was that action During that the child had been born a smashed teeth eyes rendered heroin addict because his mother sightless whiplash of the neck was using the drug during during violent shaking pregnancy He spent his first Other cases cited days suffering withdrawal adCase histories repeatedly tell of The parents entered an incidents diction treatment program during which parents Dennis Sr got a job as a grocery attack their children including store clerk and the couple found a throwing infants against walls in new apartment which Elizabeth front of relatives or friends This kept neat and tidy authorities is really a plea of “Help me stop said me” say the experts The parents petitioned the Anothony Moutone head of the court for Dennis’ return Youth homicide division of the Essex and Family Services vigorously County NJ prosecutor’s office opposed the move But the judge sees the problem differently Moutone who had handled the Di returned the child to his parents later citing a drug treatment Rocco case recounted another in center report of major im- which a baby was dipped in a pot of boiling water that burned away provement by the parents Two weeks after Dennis the skin along the lower back returned home he was dead buttocks and legs The child was In New Jersey the question tied to a potty seat and placed in was asked: How could it have its crib where it died during the happened how could society fail night The parents defended themthus when the danger was known? selves by saying their child was a ’ Part of the answer appears to persistent bed wetter Moutone be that child abuse is a relatively said “Social services groups new national concern not yet drug clinics and social workers accorded a formal place in are well intentioned in these cases But me I probably never national statistics In an article in the Bulletin of would return the children to the the New York Academy of parents in most cases” When Mrs Di Rocco gave birth Medicine Dr Fredric Wertham a psychiatrist nationally known to her second son after being for books on social issues said: jailed she asked to be allowed to the baby The second “There is an increasingly ac- breast-feecases these that was born addicted to child cepted opinion be a shdtild methadone from drug the mother reporting apart handled outside the law and legal had taken to fight her heroin procedures This is considered a addiction Moutone succeeded in liberal view and on paper it may blocking the request “I don’t feel appear that way Actually it is she should ever seejhe child” he just the opposite it is inhuman It said The new child entered life protests the perpetrators not the a name- and officially without murders If somebody victims was still it is murder a child Baby Boy Di Rocco d in 1974 And Dennis became one of an 30000 to 50000 American children who died in 1974 as a result of child abuse Approximately 45 per cent were under the age of four Many thousands of others estimated ard-cripple- twisted maimed psychologically or rendered mentally defective by child - Experts disagree abuse Dr Ray E Heifer a nationally recognized authority on child Dr Wertham and other argue that the rejection of punishment of is based on the incorrect premise abuse says the number are too children under five who die each that the parents to be of this disturbed because growing emotionally year national problem exceeds the exposed to criminal procedure number of children in that age He says however that punishment would protect the child and range who die of disease Frank Ferro acting deputy this should be the chief concern when the Division of Youth and Family services filed for permanent custody of the child Youn PERSONAL JEWELER 'hIs" p'er TerecTed’foFest-siTprfrhg“acWr7'lle“XsTclTdseh'TbF- formance in “The Towering Inferno” Also nominated: Jeff Bridges “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” Robert De Niro Michael V Gazzo and Lee Strasberg all for “The Godfather Part II” Ingrid Bergman who won an Oscar as best actress in 1944 for “Gaslight” and in 1956 for “Anastasia” was nominated for best supporting actress in “Murder on the Orient Express” Also nominated: Valentina Cortese “Day for Night” Madeline Kahn “Blazing Saddles” Diane Ladd “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and Talia Shire “The Godfather Part II”' Nominees for best direction of 1974 were Roman Polanski ‘Chinatown” Francois Truffaut “Day for Night” Francis Ford Coppola “The Godfather Part II” Bob Fosse “Lenny” and John Cassavetes “A Woman Under the Influence’’ i GoUuVm 7fiaael Beudce 60 EAST CENTER LOGAN UTAH 84321 PHONE 5 EBSCPFTHIS SUMMER? 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