European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 22, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5crime against americans fell 3.6% last year Washington apr the chances of being a crime victim continued to decline last year for most americans but Blacks and hispanics were much More Likely than Whites to be victimized the government reported sunday. The National crime victimization Survey released by the Bureau of Justice statistics showed that crimes against people age 12 and Over fell 3.6 percent from 1989 to 1990. There were 18.9 million individual crimes in 1990, compared with 19.7 million the year before the report said. There was no state by state breakdown. Crimes against households including burglaries and car thefts decreased 4.4 percent from 16.1 million to 15.4 million. Violent crimes such As assault increased 3.3 percent from 5.8 million to 6 million. Those numbers were included in the individual crime figures. The figures Are estimates of the total number of crimes committed annually and the rate of each crime per 1,000 people 12 or older or per 1,000 households. A the findings Are a continuation of a downward trend in the number of criminal victimization that began a decade ago a Bureau director Steven Dillingham said. The rate for individual crimes was 24.5 percent lower than in 1973, the first year the statistics were kept the Bureau reported. Crimes against households fell 26.1 percent during the period. But Blacks and hispanics were More Likely to be victims than Whites. For example the report said there were 13 robberies for every 1,000 Black . Residents last year compared with 4.5 robberies for Whites. There were 13.9 robberies for every 1,000 hispanics. Blacks and hispanics also had higher household crime rates than did those of other races the Bureau said. The report also said that Young people males residents of inner cities and the poor were More Likely targets than others. The assault rates for people 16 to 19 years old for example was 63.5 per 1,0 k individuals compared with 1.9 assaults per 1,000 people. Residents of the Western United states were most often victims of individual crimes with 107,8 crimes per 1,000 people. There were 97.7 crimes per 1,000 people in the Midwest 95.6 per i xxx in the South and 72.1 in the Northeast. Household crimes also were More prevalent in the West with 199.8 per 1,000 people. The South was second with 173.2, while there were 148 in the Midwest and 119.3 in the Northeast. Moreover the pattern was similar for violent crimes. There were 34.2 violent crimes per 1, xxx people in the West 31.1 in the South 30.5 in the Midwest and 21.8 in the  reviews its exemption from Bias Laws Washington a the spotlight on sexual harassment has prompted Congress to take a look at itself and consider dropping the exemption that permits it to avoid Laws against discrimination. A that this Congress would pass a series of Laws on civil rights workers safety and yes sexual harassment and then exempt itself is hypocrisy pure and simple a said sen. Dave Durenberger a Minn. Sen. Charles e. Grassley a Iowa is reviving the idea that Congress be covered by the Laws it passes just As a new civil rights Bill is reaching the Senate floor. Like the civil rights act of 1964, the in the stars and stripes 10years ago oct. 22,1981 a Western defense ministers vowed to deploy new . Nuclear weapons in Europe and called for a Public relations Campaign to Stem the rising tide of anti nuclear sentiment. 20years ago oct. 22,1971 a foreign Secretary sir Alec Douglas Home opened a six Day parliamentary debate on Britain s bid to join the booming six nation european economic Community saying that neither Europe nor the world would wait for Britain if it rejected membership in the common market.30 years ago oct. 22,1961 a seven countries asked the United nations to Issue a Quot solemn Appeal Quot to Russia to Call off its plan to set off a 50-megaton nuclear device the greatest explosion of the atomic age.40 years ago oct. 22,1951 a three members of Kentucky University s Quot fabulous five basketball team which represented the United states in the 1948 olympic games were arrested on bribery charges. Alex Groza Ralph Beard and Dale Barnstable confessed to taking $500 bribes to fix a game during the National invitation tournament in 1949. Investigators suspected that every Kentucky game of the 1948-49 season had been fixed. Bill to be taken up next week also exempts Congress. Grassley plans to offer an amendment bringing Congress under its auspices. A How in the world can members of Congress really know and understand the Burden it puts on America when it does no to even have to live under the Law itself a Grassley asked. His idea Hasni to been popular in Congress which has exempted itself from a Long list of other Laws including the Freedom of information act the equal employment Opportunity act the social Security act and the government ethics act. Barring a reversal employees of members of Congress have Little recourse if they Are victims of the Type of sexual harassment that Anita Hill alleged against supreme court judge Clarence  Are House and Senate rules against discrimination which includes sexual harassment. But if not resolved by the member a worker can turn to the Senate ethics the House office of fair practices said Jean Dugan Grassley committee or employment chairwoman of the Capitol Hill women a political caucus. A there is no outside recourse for anyone sexually harassed a she said. Her organization has drafted a sexual harassment policy statement and urged each. House and Senate member to adopt it. The policy defines sexual harassment cites some examples and pledges Quot Swift and serious attention to any complaint of sexual  the Hope Dugan said is that adoption of the policy will prompt any number of Congress to Deal forcefully with sex harassers a and that violations would be viewed More strongly by the appropriate House or Senate panel. Woman who lost ticket sues Florida for lottery pot paying $6.7 million Tampa Fla. Up a acting out the lottery players worst Nightmare a Tampa woman bought a winning ticket Worth $6.7 million and lost it. Nina Miller 39, a landscaper has sued the state for the Money charging that there is no doubt she bought the winning lottery ticket Jan. 13, 1990, and should be paid. The state insists that if she does no to have a ticket she does no to get paid. A we want anyone who bought a winning ticket to collect their prize a said Ken Hart the lottery a general counsel. A but imagine the chaos that would be created if we did no to require a ticket to be presented to pay the  there is a precedent for paying off. Julius Russell of Chicago lost his winning ticket for a $3 million Jackpot in 1985 and won his suit in court. Millers claim is that no one else came Forward to claim the prize she knew where the ticket was purchased some thing kept secret by the state and she could name the set of 10 consecutive lotto entries purchased before and after the Winner. That a because she said she plays the same numbers every week. The Russell Case in Chicago was similar. He also knew where the Purchase was made and the numbers purchased immediately before and after the Winner. In 1989, a judge ordered the state to pay. Millers Case will be tried in Tallahassee before circuit judge j. Lewis Hall. No Date has been set. Miller said she bought the winning ticket Jan. 12, 1990, at Hutton a Corner grocery store and nobody really doubts her Story. She had no idea that she had forgotten to Check the numbers until june 12, 1990, when she was watching a television newscast report about unclaimed lotto winners. When they read the numbers she turned to her Boyfriend Larry Brown and said a Larry those look like my  she said Brown reached for a play slip. A the said a yeah you got the  a and i cannot repeat what i said after that Quot Miller recalled last week. She said she had cleaned House two weeks earlier and had thrown out most of her old lotto tickets including the one in question. The newscast said the deadline to claim the ticket was Only hours away. Miller raced to the Hutton a Corner store and told the night manager she had purchased the winning ticket there. She then staked her claim again with a Telephone Call and a Telegram to lottery offices in Tallahassee. If a judge rules in Millers favor lottery officials say they will happily pay her the Money. A a in be put myself in her shoes a i Lari said Quot and it would be very horrible to feel what she a  5 rescued after 7 7 Day ordeal in raft Anchorage Alaska a five fishermen who spent 11 Days adrift in a life raft after their boat Sank in the Pacific caught and ate a sea Gull and rationed packets of water before they were rescued one of them said. A we took it Day by Day night by night. Every Day we made it we gave each other High fives a Keith Pendleton 23, of Lake Stevens wash., said sunday by Telephone from his room at Sitka Community Hospital. Pendleton and four others drifted in their raft after their 97-foot crab boat went Down about 250 Miles off British Columbia on oct. 8. They were rescued by another fishing boat saturday and were in Good condition the coast guard said. Pendleton said their boat had left Seattle and was headed for King crab fishing grounds when it began taking on water and Sank within minutes. He said a fuel tank May have broken and flooded causing the boat to capsize. They drifted in the life raft for two Days when a storm struck and a wave tipped it Over Pendleton said. The fishermen lost All their food and most of their other supplies and All they had left were survival packets of water he said. Quot the fact is we caught one sea Gull and ate it a he said. The life raft had no emergency signalling gear aboard coast guard spokesman Don Atwell said. The fishing boat Ocean Viking found the raft near British columbian a Graham Island 435 Miles Northwest of Vancouver the coast guard said