European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 4, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 aides recommend Reagan veto measure giving new benefits to atomic veterans Washington a president Reagan s advis ers Are recommending thai he veto a Bill which would Grant some new benefits to atomic veterans Ameri can servicemen exposed to radiation in the 1945 occupation of Japan or during tests of nuclear weapons. The Hill was sent to Reagan after the mouse approved it monday on a 326-2 vote which would be far above the two thirds majority needed to override a vein. However the Senate margin last week was just 48 jul. Indicating that a veto could be sustained there. The veterans administration opposes the Bill and says there is no direct evidence proving that such expo sure was inc cause Nucci Irrera health problems. The Bill had been part of a larger measure authorize apartheid protest ends with arrests Middletown. Conn. Up Marc than 100 Ami apartheid students were arrested monday when they blocked a we Oltyan University administration building they had occupied for two weeks in demanding that the institution divest from South Africa. The arrests were made without serious incident by City police after the chanting students ignored a 10 . Deadline to leave South College which houses the office of Wesl Cjan president Colin g. Campbell. The students who had occupied Campbell s outer office since april in sealed off the entrances to the three Story Brownstone building at 6 . The demonstrators said they had pre pared for their Arresia when they decided Ever the weekend to Seal off the building to protest the administration s refusal to comply with their demands for divestiture. We vent three busloads of Stu dents said a policeman at the station where the protesters were processed. Ing benefits for some 2.7 million Veteran but it was stripped out after administration officials said they would recommend a veto of the Overall Bill because of that provision. The measure would cover an estimated 250,000 Mil itary personnel who were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki after atomic bombs were dropped on those cities in August 1945, or who took pan in tests of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific or in Nevada Nufler the War. Many have health problems which they say Are re  to their radiation exposure. But the a says they can t get disability Bench is unless they can show a direct link to their service duly. The chairman of the House veterans affairs com Mittee rep. . Montgomery d-miss., said the a s Westtyan unit rail Security officers carry � protester in a waiting Hus. The protesters want was Cyan to fully divest $10,6 million in stocks with american companies doing business in South Africa. Wesleyan i endowment portfolio totals $240 million. John Stamm a spokesman for the demonstrators said 111 students were charged with creating a Public disturbance fined $68 and released. More than 2,600 students attend the school. Standard can t be met it cause " he level of exposure cannot be  he said that during the tests some personnel did t Wear radial Ion monitoring badges other servicemen lost their badges and some badges were found to he ineffective. The Bill establishes a presumptive link and lists i types of cancers for which the veterans could receive disability payments rep. Hob Mcewen. A Ohio called the Bill a reasonable and modest approach to the problem. If we err in our approach and i think we do not then we err on the Side of compassion he said. According to rep. J. Roy Rowland. D-oa., the a has Only allowed 44 of the 6,001 claims filed by atomic veterans to Date. Memorial to veterans vandalized Washington a the Viet Nam veterans memorial has been de faced with several scratches including one resembling a Swastika. National part service officials said monday. This is ii first time the memorial has been damaged since it opened in 1982, the officials said. The 493-foot Granite Wall inscribed with the names of those killed in the Southeast asian conflict has become inc most visited Monument in the nation s capital. The All itself has such great respect thai we have never had problems Wilh  said Bill Ruback. Superintendent of National Narks in downtown Washington. It had to be someone entry to do this the scratches about b inches Long were discovered on a Center panel and on a panel near inc cast end of the memorial Early last month.  about vandalism from the Lime we began to talk about a memorial said Jan Scruggs president of the Vietnam veterans memorial fund which raised the Money to build the memorial. Many teen agers condone rape Survey shows Providence . A nearly one Quarter of the boys and one sixth of the girls responding to a Survey on rape said it is acceptable for a Man to Force a woman to have sex with him if he has spent Money on her. The Survey was taken by 1,700 sixth to ninth graders who attended the Rhode Island rape crisis enter s assault awareness program at schools across the state. A did t believe  Jacqueline Jackson Kikuhei the Center stuff member who conducted he poll said of the results. She presented the findings last week at the National symposium on child victim mutation in Anaheim Calif Kobuchi said she was most surprised by the sin dents answers on whether it would be acceptable for a. Man la rape a woman if he had dated her for a Long Lime or spent Money on her. Basically the kids were very much into blaming the victim of the sexual assault she said. Among the findings so percent of the students said a  who walks alone at Naglit and dresses seductively it asking to be raped. I i percent of the boys and 41 percent of the girls said a Man has the right to Force a woman to k iss him if he has spent a lot of Money on her. The Quantity of Money was defined by 12-j car Olds As to Lojiw. Among students in grades seven through nine. 14 percent of the boys and 16 percent of the girls said it is acceptable for a Man to Force a woman to have sex with him if he has spent Money on her. 65 percent of the boys and 47 percent of the girls in seventh through ninth grades said it is acceptable for a Man to Force a woman to have sex if they have been dating for More than six months. B7 percent of the boys and 79 percent of the girls said rape is of if a couple is married. So Many of our kids have attitudes that sexual abuse is  Kikuchi said. The Lypps of attitudes evidenced in the Survey probably Lead to Dale rape and other forms of sexual assault she said. To wanly percent of the girls and a percent of the Lions taking the Survey said Pilicy had been sexually abused. Thirty one percent of inc boys and 32 percent of Hie girls said it would not be improper for a Man to rape a woman who has had previous sexual experiences. Kikuchi conducted the Survey from february to december 1987, when she gave workshops to Stu dents at Public and private schools As coordinator of the Center s assault awareness program. Meese is target of Sleazy Graffiti artist sources say Washington a attorney general Edwin a Csc the focus of a criminal investigation and Calls for his resignation is he target of a Graffiti artist who scrawled the word Sleazy in 4 Inch High letters on a Justice depart ment Wall sources say. The Graffiti was scribbled last week with a Black Marker on an out of the Way second floor staircase in the Middle of the main Justice department building far from Meess s fifth floor office. Gra Tili aimed at Mcnese started appearing on Justice department Walls about the time Deputy attorney Genera Arnold bums and criminal division chief William Weld submitted their protest resignations March 29. In one instance the word resign was scribbled on a Wall near Mcnese s office. But was cleaned off quickly Burns and Weld quit out of concern that a desc s continued Len Iii As attorney general was hurting the department s operation morale and Public image. Independent counsel James Mckay last May 11 launched an investigation of Meuse s activities including his involve ment Wilh the scandal plagued cd teen com., a is billion iraqi Oil pipeline. The probe also his examined his holdings of regional Llull Telephone Slock and his wife s s40, Job. The Money for Ursula Melesc s Job comes from a Washington fam ily whose real estate company leases office space to the Justice department