Flying fear common

‘LONDON (Reuter) —
There are many members of
‘the jet set who are afraid to
fly, psychologist Maurice
Yafle says. .

Research shows that
‘perhaps one person in every
family is an anxious flyer,
and only one person in 10
says he actually enjoys air

travel,
Yaffe,

.. Mr, senior

‘psychologist at London's.

Guy's Hospital, has com-
piled a list of those who mist
fly but would rather not.

It includes Muhammed
Ali, former California
governor Ronald Reagan,
film star Doris Day, rock
singer David Bowie and even
stuntman Evel Knievel, who
doesn’t mind soaring over
buses on a motorcycle but
dislikes being a passenger on
a scheduled flight.

flyers are truly frightened,
Yaffe says.

They are not nervous
grannies who never have
flawn, but businessmen,
entertainers and diplomats,
For such people a flight—if
they fly at all—means cold
sweats, faintness, upset
stomach, shakes,: tight
muscles and grinding teeth.

“For them a seven-hour,
transatlantic flight is sheer
hell,” Yaffe says.

Yet most of these sufferers
can be cured by fairly simple
and well-proven behavior-
therapy techniques.

Yaffe has been working
with a-greup of five people.
They inelude an elderly man
who flew 30 years ago, en-
joyed it, but is afraid to dy
again: a woman diplomat
who passed up promotion
because it meant more

Yet these people are —

merely nervous. A sur-

prisingly large minority of

engines, “but doesn’t like it
when they close the door.”

The man who doesn’t like
the door being closed is not
normally claustrophobic,
and another member of the
group who does not like the
idea of being ‘all that way
upin the air” ia not normally
afraid of heights.

The two basic techniques
Yaffe relies on are desen-
sitization, in which a subject
deals more and more
directly with a fear, and
habituation, where the
subject becomes so familiar
with something he fears that
he gets used to it.

The five talk about their
flying problems, watch films
of airplanes and airports and
listen to tapes dealing with
flight stress,

Yaffe has in the corner of
his office two airplane seats,
in which patients can strap
themselves while they

practise the various
techniques.

They also listen to tapes

which, although not con- ~

nected with flying, are
exercises in relaxation. They
instruct listeners to tense
and relax various sets of
muscles, a jure ex-
pectant mothers use in
natural childbirth.

Finnair, the Finnish
airline, actually offers a tape
of this kind over its seat
headsets on transatlantic
flights, but most airlines
would rather not suggest
that passengers need relax-
ing, Yaffe says.

The patients do homework,
which involves making a list
of the 10 things they hate
most about flying, from
worst to least frightening.
Then as an “active desen-
sitlzation" exerciae, they
face thse fears one by one,
Btarting atthe bottom of the
ist.

Spain not for non-smokers

MADRID (AP) — Spain is
one country where smoking
is: allowed almost
everywhere, and cigarette

bales rise every year.

While many paris of the
world concentrate on han-

ning smoking in public
buildings, Spain remains a
puffer's paradise, a place to
blow smoke in your neigh-
bor’s face or even that of the
health minister.

“We are not a nation of

heavy smokers," insists the
government tobacco

monopoly Tabacalera Inx.,
elting annual per capita

consumption of 1,689 ciga-
rettes, more than 30 packs

Police trim the fat

CALGARY (CP) -~ Police
chief Brian Sawyer doesn't
like fat law enforcers.

He wants the 900 members
of the Calgary police force
lean, and he has told his
officers. that they had a
better chance for promotion
if they kept fit.

About one-third of the
force now emulates their

chief by exercising
at least three times a week.
On average, only two per
cent of all Canadians
exercise that often.

David Breckon, the police
department’s physical fit-
ness coordinator, says the
warning about promotions is
an encouragement, but in-
dividual officers themselves
are realizing the importance
of regular exercise.

“Policemen have ta be

able to-.cope with: a Jot.ik-..
physical and mental stress,"

he says. “And mental stress
is really the greater
problem. Tests have shown
that physical fitness is the
beat way of alleviating that
mental stress.”
Breckon saya a lot of
things that go with the job
tend to work against fitness.
"You've got police officers
who neéd a high level of
fitness, but on the other
hand, you've got a lot of
barriers like shift work.”
Many of the recruits
respond to shift work by
developing a routine of work
and sleep, he says.
And when they're at work
they tend to do their body
few favors.

“Ta tough to take a lunch
along im the car, 50
policemen end up going to
restaurants or eating
zas,” hesays. “And the work
is tedious, so they buy some
potato chips or pop to break
the boredom, They're al-

which are
‘positively medieval.”
As many as 70 men and
women use the Calgary
force's exercise facilities
daily in the basement of
downtown headquarters.
‘And most days at about
Za.m., a dozen diligent
policemen can be found

piz- -

sweating ... out in the
racqdetball courts or the
weight room.

The exercise program
encourages officers to stay
in good shape but doesn't
push them to it, says
Breckon. -

A recent RCMP study dis-
covered the folly of a strict
regimen. RCMP reeruits in-
troduced to the old attitude
that strict and tough exer-
cise. teaches discipline
“threw their sweal pants in
the garbage” as soon ag they
finished training.

The RCMP has changed,
and the Calgary police want
to avoid that reaction, says
Breckon,

“We're trying to develop a
lifestyle, not turn people
away from physical fitness,”

“Snake gets evicted ©

LIVERPOOL, England
(CP) — City council has
served notice on its longest
tenant—a =i three-metre
python named Monty.

Monty's owner, Neil
Johnston, keeps him in the
front room of a maisonette
rented from the council in
Hatherley Close, Toxteth,
Liverpool.

“Monty wouldn’t hurt a
fly,” says Johnston, 22, “‘yet
the council says if I don't get
rid of him I must find
another place to live, It’s
absurd—Monty is so soft-

‘hearted he once refused to

eat a rat I gave him for his
dinner. .

“T called the rat Rupert
and now he and Monty are
inseparable—the very best
of friends. | don't intend to
part with either of them.”

Johnston says he bought
the snake about six months
ago after seeing an ad-
vertlsement in a Liverpool
newspaper under Pets For
Sale. Monty adapted quickly —
to his new surroundings and
all was well until a council
workman came to repair the
central heating. He later re-
ported seeing a snake in the
living room.

Council served notice on
Monty, stating firmly that
snakes are not allowed

below what it says is the Eu-
ropean average.

But blue smoke somehow ¢

seems to curl up almost
everywhere in Spain, from
the state dinners at King
Juan Carlos’ palace to -the
cigarette dangling from the
mouth of Communist leader
Santiago Carrillo th
paniarda, plus the more
than 30 million tourists who
visit the country each year,
smoke in stores, taxis,
hallways, hospitals and even
sometimes in gasoline
stations, desplte signa

prohibiting them from doing _
80,
Spain's national airline,

Theria, has yet to designate
nosmoking sections on its
domestic flights. Nota single
cigarette package in Spain
carries a health warning.
Each night after 9:30 p.m.
the supposed bedtime hour
for Spanish children,

cigarette advertisements

appear on national
television.

Hundreds of Madrid bill-
boards invite Spaniards of
alt ages to savor the taste of
a best-selling U.S. brand.

But government health
officials say a countrywide
nosmoking drive launched

iitre thar’ one year age is’ ‘9

making progress, although
slowly, and they point to a
slight drop in cigarette sales
during last summer as one
indicator.

However, from 1973-77,
sales of Spanish cigarettes
with dark tobacco rose more
than 20 per cent, far above
the population growth rate,
and sales of cigarettes with
lighter tobacco doubled.

With implied advice that

no one really should give up .

smoking altogether, the
Tabacalera advises:
“Smoke less, enjoy it more,’

Included in ita tips to
smokers is one to stub out the
cigarette when half smoked,
a habit destined to boost
over-all sales,

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