European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 9, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7 Boston firefighters and police officers stand beside the body of Joseph Bulens who died on april 27. Body beside Boston City Hall Lay ignored for up to 4 hours Boston apr while Joseph Bulens Lay on the Concrete next to City Hall no one checked to see if he was breathing or Felt for a pulse a neither the commuters who passed nor the Man who read a newspaper on a nearby Bench. After All Bulens was homeless. No one gave him a second glance. He Lay there dead for hours a in Busy City Hall Plaza in the heart of downtown. A this shows that As Long you have a roof Over your head who gives a Damn about the other Guy a David Solomon said. Solomon was the one person who gave Bulens a second look. He was in his office on the ninth floor of City Hall on april 27 when he saw a homeless Man splayed out on the Plaza below. Solomon was concerned until he saw a Well dressed Man sitting on a Bench just 10 feet away. A i thought a he must just be asleep or that Guy would do something a a Solomon said. But 45 minutes later the Man on the Bench was gone and the homeless Man remained. Solomon went to investigate. A this hands had no color. They were Pale a Solomon said. A this face was purplish Pink. He looked like head been there for a  a Solomon tried to get help from three passers by. No one would Stop. Finally he chased Down a police car. A a it a weird he would die on the Plaza a Solomon said. Jobless rate Washington apr the nations unemployment rate dropped slightly to 7.2 percent in april the first decline in nine months As the economic recovery finally made itself Felt in the labor Market the government said Friday. The labor department said businesses added 126,000 jobs during the month the biggest boost in payroll employment in almost a year. The jobless rate had been stuck at a 6-year High of 7.3 percent in february and March. Economists worried that unless businesses started hiring workers soon the fragile economic rebound that began in january could falter just As a similar recovery stalled last year. While welcoming the april drop in the jobless rate analysts cautioned that further improvements in unemployment were Likely to be extremely gradual Given what they expect will be the weakest economic recovery on record. That View is also shared by top business executives. The business Council composed of chief executives of 100 of the country a largest corporations predicted a a they re always having rallies for the homeless  the Coroner said Bulens 49, died of natural causes and had been dead two to four hours when he was found. Friends said Bulens grew up in South Boston known As Southie a neighbourhood where Whites once battled Blacks Over school desegregation. He joined the air Force but after his 16-year-old sister died he returned Home to help support his family. Later his marriage went bad and in the 1960s he began to drink and became homeless. Dirty dishevelled and drunk Bulens was still liked. A Joe Bulens would give you the shirt off his Back a said Ken Smith director of the new England shelter for homeless veterans where Bulens was often seen. A even when he was inebriated he was a pleasant Guy. A but he had a difficult time with his pain. He medicated himself with  a 19-City Survey last year by the National coalition for the homeless counted the deaths of 750 homeless people. More than half died outdoors. Joan Alker assistant director of the Washington based coalition was there when a homeless person was found dead outside the Justice department last summer. A a it a a pretty chilling indictment when you have a dead body on a grate outside the Justice department a Alker said. A no one of any political stature is speaking out about the fact that people Are dying on our  inches Down thursday that the jobless rate could remain above 7 percent for the rest of the year. Cynthia Latta an economist at Del Mcgraw Hill said she expected the unemployment rate to improve gradually during the second half of the year. Latta said the unemployment figure would still be at 6.9 percent by years end. For april the hiring strength came from a 135,000-Job surge at department stores hospitals and other service industries. It marked the biggest increase in service jobs in almost two years. That surge helped offset weakness in manufacturing and construction. Manufacturing jobs posted a Small increase of 8,000, while construction jobs fell by 11,000. The increase in employment helped drive the jobless rates Down for All categories. The percentage of unemployed Whites dropped to 6.3 percent Down from 6.5 percent in March. The number of unemployed Blacks fell to 13.9 percent Down from 14.1 percent the previous month while hispanic unemployment posted the largest decrease falling from 11.6 to 10.3 percent. Us Texas beekeeper killed wife injured by stings from wire reports new Waverly Texas a Man died thursday after he and his wife were stung repeatedly by bees from two hives kept in their Yard. William Belnoske 11, was stuns several dozen times after he inadvertently ran his Awn Mower too close to the Honeybee hives said a sister in Law. Belnoske a 70-year-old wife Ellie suffered More than 100 Bee stings and was released from the Hospital thursday. The attack took place wednesday night outside the couples Home near new Waverly about 40 Miles North of Houston. Ellie Belnoske was attacked when she ran outside to help her husband the sister in Law said. The bees weren to the so called a killer bees Quot which have been found in parts of South Texas said Patti Jones a Secretary with the agriculture Extension office in Montgomery county. $50,000 Bond contested Brownsville Texas a a Federal prosecutor on thursday appealed the $50,000 Bond set for a former vice president of Al Salvador who was arrested at the mexican Border on charges of smuggling weapons. Assistant . Attorney Ricardo Lara said in a court document that Rodolfo Castillo Clara mount Al Salvador a second ranking official from 1984 to 1989, was a flight risk. Castillo his son and a family Friend were arrested last week at the Gateway International Bridge leading into Matamoros Mexico and charged with trying to Export 11 handguns without permits. They remained jailed thursday. Execution recommended Ocala Fla. A a jury recommended thursday that Aileen Wuornos already sentenced to death in one murder be executed for three other slayings of men who picked her up hitchhiking. The panel deliberated four hours before returning its recommendation to circuit judge Thomas Sawaya who could sentence Wuornos to life in prison. A i waited a year and nine months for this a Shirley Humphreys widow of one of the slain men said after the jury a decision. Wuornos who waived her right to be present for the proceedings has admitted killing seven Middle aged men along Florida highways in 1989 and 1990. The Roadside prostitute claimed she killed them after the men became abusive. Teen bomber sentenced Somerset a. A a teen Ager who bombed a car he thought belonged to his High school principal was sentenced to at least 11 months in prison. Jack Daniel Persuhn 17, of Fairhope had pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief and one count of receiving stolen property. He was sentenced wednesday to a prison term ranging from 11 months to 23 months. Police said Persuhn who was sentenced As an adult used stolen dynamite to blow up the car in Berlin and a Mailbox in Allegheny township in april 1991. A witness testified that Persuhn was angry at High school principal Jack Prendergast for a getting on his cases and decided to blow up Prendergast a car. The bombed car however belonged to another Man. No one was injured. Brother guilty of slaying new York a an elderly Man whose four children died under suspicious circumstances was convicted thursday of killing his sister and stuffing her body in a Box. David Brushingham 66, who lived with his Mother in Manhattan was found guilty in the asphyxiation slaying of his sister no lived in the same building. The body of Marsha Brushingham 47, was found March 5, 1990. Her face was covered with a plastic bag and her body was so decomposed that she was difficult to identify. Her body was stuffed in a Box the defendant had made himself testimony showed