European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday april 14,1991activists dispute census homeless count Washington apr activists say the 228,621 homeless people counted by the census Bureau fall far Short of the True number of americans who Lack a place to live. The. Census Bureau said when it released the numbers Friday that it never intended to enumerate the entire homeless population y y 4 Carol Fen Nelly the Leader of a homeless rights group in the District of Columbia called the count a bogus from the  / Quot they intended to produce a Low count so the gov Crement the administration the republicans could say there Arentt that Many homeless and continue to Cut programs a she said. Her organization the Community for creative nonviolence refused to let census takers enter the largest shelter in the capital. Census Bureau spokesman John Connolly said the cholesterol no problem for woman1 Kansas City to. A Helen Boley simply wanted to get her cholesterol checked when she went for a free screening two years ago but what that test showed about her genetic makeup has made her a subject of scientific fascination. The 5-foot, 98-Pound woman a blood had one of the highest Levels of a a Good cholesterol Ever recorded. That substance is the High density Lipoprotein or Hal form of cholesterol associated with Long life because it seems to prevent arterial clogging and heart attacks some have called the 62-Ycar-old worn and a secret a sort of Methuselah Factor after the biblical figure said to have lived 969  her Hal cholesterol is just outstandingly remarkably outlandishly High Quot said or. William Harris director of the lipid Laboratory at the University of Kansas medical Center where a Olcy a unusual cholesterol was first detected a a we be never heard of Levels like this and neither has the National institutes of health. Its a genetic condition where something a gone nuts.�?�. A desirable level of Hal cholesterol is anything above 40 milligrams per Decilier of blood scientists say. Boleyn a latest Reading was 230. A if we can understand from her what makes her produce so much Hal perhaps Campaign a was not intended to and did not produce a count of the homeless population of the  the largest number of homeless people counted on the night of March 20-21, 1990, was in new York City a 33,830. That a 15 percent of All the homeless people found by the census Bureau that night and 0.5 percent of the City a 7.3 million population. Forty percent of the homeless counted were in two states new York and California. The country a most populous state California had 48,887 homeless people a 0.2 percent of its 29.7 million residents.  found 43,204 homeless people in new York state 0.2 percent of the states 17,9 million people. The Overall count is less than 0.1 percent of the total . Population of 248.7 million. The $2.7 million Campaign to count the homeless was called shelter and Street night is night for Short. The Bureau divided its count into two components people found in emergency shelters for the homeless and those spotted on the Street. A More than three fourths of the homeless counted were in shelters. The National Street count found Only 49,793 homeless people. Fred Kamas the executive director of the National coalition for the homeless said the Bureau May have missed As Many As two thirds of the people it was trying to count. V a Quot a. A y y y he based his figure on reports by a night monitors obtained from the census Bureau through the free Dom of information act. One of the reports prepared by the los Angeles homeless health care project concluded that Between 59 percent and 70 percent of the homeless in los Angeles went uncounted. Advocates for the homeless have said they were worried the census bureaus count would become accepted As an accurate figure for the number of people in the nation without a place to live. 4 sex Oakland cops convicted of brutality Helen Boley and her husband James go for a walk in their Kansas City mo., neighbourhood. The pharmaceutical Industry or researchers can develop genetics or a drug that can mimic her condition a Harris said. Boley has her blood drawn at the medical Center each week and the National heart lung and blood Institute in be Thesda my is doing the More sophisticated genetic investigation. All available relatives including Boleyn a 85-year-old Mother Are being tested. Her Mother has also been found to have a higher than Normal Hal level. For her part Boley is a shocked just shocked Quot to have become a genetic Star. But she says she a Happy to participate in the research. A. San Francisco up a Federal jury has convicted tour former Oakland housing authority police officers of a Campaign of brutality intimidation and false arrests of project residents in the largest Federal probe of a police Agency in Northern California. The four sex officers members of a Jpe Cial anti drug squad were convicted Fri. Day of conspiring to violate the civil rights of a dozen residents of the housing authority by beatings intimidation filing false police reports and lying in testimony against people accused of drug dealing. Jurors found the men innocent of lesser counts involving alleged thefts from the vie Tims. They were deadlocked on one theft charge in the 19-count indictment. One witness during the three week trial accused the special anti drug police squad of roaming the projects like a a Wolf pack on orders to brutalize citizens and concoct phony evidence against them. Jury Foreman David Iventosch 62, of Orinda said after the verdict that the four had a a tacit agreement among themselves to beat people up.�?�. Of the brutality involved Iventosch said officer Scott Dwyer a seemed to be. A Loose gun. He seemed the most anxious to engage in unprovoked  Dwyer 29, of Vallejo was convicted on six counts of conspiracy and use of excessive Force. That was the largest number of any of the officers charged. The four convicted included Dwyer Daniel Broussard 40, Oakland Juan Reese 35, Milpitas and Larry Houston 25, Al Cerrito the special drug unit set up by the Oakland housing authority was disbanded As a result of the Case. Iventosch saw irony in the verdicts a a inadvertently we made the streets of Oakland safer for drug dealers and have not done anything to improve the lives of people who live in the housing  recent National attention focused on the Issue of police brutality prompted . Attorney general Richard Thornburgh to Issue a statement on the convictions. Quot this is the 58th conviction within the last three fiscal years for the abuse of official authority under our civil rights Laws Quot he said. A securing a conviction in a police brutality Case is extremely difficult because criminal evidence against a police officer is often next to impossible to  the los Angeles police beating videotape scandal erupted into National headlines just before the Oakland trial. Peter Robinson attorney for Dwyer said a it would be misleading to say the los Angeles videotape changed the outcome but it did affect the credibility off it olice generally. It made them less believable. Given the climate in the stale today about police brutality the verdict was not a Complete  he said he would Appeal the verdict to the 9th . Circuit court of appeals their possible prison sentences Range from 20 years to 60 years but Robinson indicated current Federal sentencing guidelines suggest they Are More Likely to receive three year terms. So Boston apr Many americans Are willing to restrict expression they consider offensive , even though most say they cherish the right of free speech the nations newspaper editors were told. / a it is doubtful that the first amendment could pass a popular Vole today a Burl Osborne president of the american society of newspaper editors said Friday. Osborne was commenting on the results of a Survey 2 cd tej Ecby Robert a a it a att a journalism professor at Middle Tennessee state University. The Survey was presented by the american society of newspaper editors during the groups annual convention. A it is apparent that free expression is in very deep trouble Wyatt commented. The poll found americans would give the most Protection to political speech with 70 percent saying it should be protected All the time. Seven per cent  should not be protected. But Only 40 percent said they would offer absolute Protection to someone who Speaks in favor of a communist country one fourth said they would give no Protection. When people were asked whether they would support the right of others to take gods name in vain 39 percent said not at All while 32 percent said that a a right that should be protected in All cases. Portland Ore. Apr two women who got lost hiking in a Snow filled Canyon were Down to a bite of applesauce and a handful of raisins when they were found after five Days in the wilderness. Patricia e. Lidrich 51, and Katherine k. Spencer 47, were discovered thursday outside an abandoned Metal Cabin at an Altitude of 3,000 feet. They started out for what was to be a Day hike the previous saturday from the Horsetail Falls Railhead in the Columbia River Gorge about 30 Miles East of Portland. An air Force Reserve Rescue helicopter spotted the women waving a cloth tied to a ski pole. The women were in Good condition and survived because they were Wen prepared hikers said officials at Portland adventist Hospital. They had worn Thermal underwear Woolen clothing and water resistant pants and jackets. After losing their Way the women huddled together for warmth and slept under a tree saturday night. On sunday the pair decided to hike Back survive 5 Days in Oregon Canyon n n to Pap Mia it. I a a a a a the Way they came and found the draft abandoned Cabin. They paced the Cabin a and did yoga exercises to keep warm. A we kept our sense of humor a said Spencer an accountant. A we knew we had to stay  they survived on two Peanut butter sandwiches some applesauce and raisins doling out a couple of spoonfuls and five or six raisins apiece for meals. The women were reported Missine uni a  Dic it show up of a search began tuesday but was called off the next Day because the Snow was too deep mul Tomah county sheriffs spokesman Bart Whalen said. Relatives of the hikers criticized that decision. Volunteers searched the area on wednesday and authorities resumed their search thursday morning. Y the sheriffs office will conduct a Tique of the search Effort Whalen said. A a in a getting a lot of criticism about Why we called the ground search Oit tuesday Quot Whalen said. A i can understand that. It was a judgment