European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 28, 1986 the stars and stripes Paga 7 serial killer May have More victims los Angeles a a least one of two women whose bodies were found in separate schoolyards probably was a victim of a serial killer believed to have slain 17 women in three years police said. The bodies of the two women were found Friday at South los Angeles schools & few Miles apart and the 35-member Southside serial murder task Force was called in to investigate. The task Force awaited results fan autopsy on the second woman before deciding whether to link he death to the serial killer said spokesman sol. Leonard  latest victim of the serial killer was found by a janitor about7 30 . Friday on he 66th Street elementary school playground police said. The partially Clad woman whose identity was not released was probably 16 to 20 years old said police it. John Zorn. The woman apparently entered the locked and fenced schoolyard willingly and was killed during the night possibly through a Combina Tion of stabbing and strangulation that has been the hallmark of the serial killer com  second body a fully clothed woman about 25 years old was found by a summer school student about 8 . Friday in vegetable Garden on the grounds of Leroy Alain Locke High school about five Miles away police said. Police said the woman appeared to have been stabbed. Investigator say All the victims of the serial killer have been strangled and some have been Slabbed repeatedly. The bodies have been dumped in isolated alleys or streets in South Central los Angeles and surround ing communities. One of the ear Lier victims Verna Patricia Wil Liams was found by children on a playground at the 68th Street elementary school on May 26. All but two victims have been Lack and Many of them have been prostitutes police  women have survived at tacks by the killer. Two other kill Ings which Are being handled by the los Angeles county sheriff department also May be linked to the Case. Envoy Prospect is supporter of quiet diplomacy policy Washington not the possibility that the foreign service s senior Black Diplomat May soon be named ambassador to South Africa has revived an eight year old debate Over his View that human rights should Best be advanced through quiet diplomacy and no through Public declarations. The Diplomat Terence a Todman.60, who has emerged As the leading candidate for the Pretoria Post was know Nas a Strong proponent of working behind the scenes to Advance human rights whence was assistant Secretary at state for inter american affairs in 1977-78.me was often embroiled in controversies with the state department s human rights Section headed by Patricia m. De Nan and with Warren h. Christopher the Deputy Secretary of state who headed a group that took human rights into account when deciding How much foreign Aid to give a  state department officials said saturday that Todman was often a Odds with the human rights Section on How Best to Advance human rights i latin America which then had Many right Wing  was t vigorous enough to suit the human rights people said one for Mer colleague who asked not to be named. But that does t mean he was not interested in promoting an improvement in human rights. He did no believe it served any particular purpose to ostentatiously Cut a country s foreign id Over human rights violations and expect to be Able to work with that govern ment to bring about changes.1 Todman and another Black career Diplo mat Edward j. Perkins were described by senior administration officials on Friday Ashe Only candidate for the Pretoria Post. Todman who is ambassador to Denmark was in Washington on Friday for a previously scheduled meeting with Secretary of stale George p. Shultz. Perkins who is ambassador to Liberia was still in that country saturday and a stale department officer said the chances were very Low that he would be transferred to South Africa because he is the Loustale department expert on Liberia and is needed there now because of the sensitive political situation in that country. On Friday and again saturday som human rights activists issued statements critical of  Council on hemispheric affairs a foreign policy organization that was critical of Todman s record on latin America in the 1970s, urged that he note sent to Pretoria. His real credentials for the Reagan administration arc that he is an Ultra conservative the Council said. He Hasa deplorable record of total insensitivity to human rights and if his past is an indication will be far More sympathetic to the oppressors in Pretoria than to the victims of  Stephen b. Cohen who teaches at the Georgetown University Law Center served As Deputy assistant Secretary of stale for human rights in the Carter administration. He said saturday thai Tod Man was a vigorous opponent of the human rights initiatives Orthe Carter  Todman who was bom in the Virgin is lands joined the slate department in 1952. He Speaks arabic French and Spanish and has served As ambassador to Chad Guinea Costa Rica and  state department official scoffed at criticism of Todman. If you want him in the Field he is one of the Best ambassadors the United Stales has he said. When he was in Costa Rica for example he became an extraordinarily vis Ible and popular figure the official  overcame the Spanish reluctance to have a Black ambassador by his ability to move around and make contacts throughout  official said that because he was from the Virgin islands Todman was double outsider and therefore has an extraordinary sensitivity toward those on the  both Cohen and Todman s supporter agree that Todman s effective service As assistant Secretary of state came to Amend after a speech he gave in new York in february 1978 in which he listed 10"don to for human rights diplomacy. Included on the list were warning against expecting latin american governments to change overnight against condemning an entire government for acts of individual officials and against withholding humanitarian Aid from poor  listing was seen As a direct attack on the state department s human right activists. Cohen said Christopher was surprised by the speech and later arranged for Tod Man to be named ambassador to  to at least two former associates Todman said at the time that hews unhappy with the Way the stale department was being run and had sought another ambassadorial Post. He had enough of the backbiting one former associate said. Another former colleague of Todman said that he was not a top notch Man Ager and thai that contributed to the consensus that he should return to the Field. Births among some teens rising Washington up girls be tween 15 and 17 years old Are having More babies and dropping out of school but the Overall birth rate among unmarried Young women has declined in the past is years a congressional study re ported. The general accounting office con Gress watchdog Agency said in its report our major findings Are that the prob Lem is particularly severe and growing for unmarried mothers under 18  More than 1 million teen age women became pregnant in 1983, resulting in 500,000 live births. The study s results were released sat urday. It revealed the ways in which a Large percentage of mothers become de pendent on the government said sen. John Chafee r-r.l., in releasing the study he requested in january. Other key findings were that the birthrate among girls and Young women be tween 15 and 19 Yean old has decline Din the last 1s Yean but births by teens Between is and 17 years old have Rise substantially. The birth rate for unmarried women15 to 17 years old has risen from 23 births Oul of every 1,000 women in 1972to 30out of 1,000 in 1983. Seventy percent of teen age Mother who have their first child before 15 do not finish High school. More than so per cent of the mothers Between is and 17 Yeara old fail to Complete High school. Chafee said Only one Federal Effort the$15 million adolescent family life pro Gram was targeted to prevent teen age pregnancy and to provide services to pregnant teen agers and Young parents Chafee called for providing birth control information for sexually Active teen agers and better government program because Young mothers pay a heavy Price in a lifetime of lost  the study said that in the fint Yea teen pregnancy data was available 1952, the Overall birth rate was 86 in 1,000among women is through 19 years old. In 1972, the rate was 62 in 1,000 and in1983, the last year data was available there were 52 in 1,000, mostly attributable to an increase in abortions. For grandson debates chair in Massachusetts Boston a Franklin d. Roose velt s grandson broadcast a 30-Mmute to commercial saturday night showing him debating an empty chair after his opponent the Nephew of John p. Kennedy rejected his Challenge for alive debate. James Roosevelt or. Bought a half hour on Boston Sonev to in. Hopes of drawing Joseph p. Kennedy ii into a debate in Roosevelt he democratic primary race Lor the House seat now held by speaker Thomasp. O Neill jr., who is retiring. Kennedy the front runner in the 11 candidate race refused saying a two Way debate would be unfair to the other candidates in the race. In addition to showing Roosevelt in theone Way debate the recorded commercial contained 10 minutes of excerpts of an interview Kennedy gave a neighbourhood Cable to outlet in which he discussed South african investment and Libya. A narrator said the interview showed important differences Between Jim Roosevelt and Joe  Roosevelt said he had hoped Kenned would appear despite his Public statements that he would not. He never responded directly to me said Roosevelt he told the press Kennedy 33, the eldest ton of the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy is widely regarded As the candidate to beat in the race. In recent voter surveys he has Helda steady 35 percent while his nearest opponent struggled to hit 10 percent. Roosevelt 40,registered fourth in most surveys. His aides denied that they were Stag ing a gimmick i Hopes of bypassing the second an third place Candi dates stale  Bachrach of Watertown and for Kenn Dymer state rep. Melvin King of Boston. Bachrach 34, said he was willing to debate Roosevelt at Roosevelt s expense but Roosevelt was interested Only i talking to Kennedy As for watching a half hour of Roose velt Bachrach said he could t be both  i were a amt i d be watching the solid gold1 lancers he  s decision to buy the air time was an expensive one. We would nol confirm the Cost but Roose velt aides said it was 17,000. During the7 30 . Time Slot the station has about 64,000 viewers Many of them outside the 8th congressional District. According to the candidates lates Campaign finance reports to the Federal election commission Roosevelt finished the second Quarter of 1986 with 123,315 on hand Oner lending his Campaign $85,000 of his personal funds. Kennedy finished the second Quarter with 1221,672 on hand and has yet to tap any of his own sizable Fortune