European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday May 14, 1992 Agency rejects Aid requests for Art depicting sex organs Washington apr the acting chairwoman of the National endowment for the arts is following through with her Promise to reject Grant applications for sexually explicit Art. Anne Imelda Rad ice overruled two advisory panels tuesday and denied applications for two projects parts of which depict sexual organs. Based on artistic excellence and artistic Merit the two projects a did not measure up to these criteria and therefore Are unlikely to have the Long term artistic significance necessary to Merit endowment funding a radice said. The two applications were from a the list visual arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge mass., for $10,000. A the Anderson gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond for $20,000. The Mit exhibit included works by four artists that portray body parts including sexual organs in various ways. The works include wallpaper imprinted with female and male genitalia a class sculpture of sperm and sculptures of disembodied breasts and buttocks. The Virginia Commonwealth exhibit consists of 10 works by four artists one of whom is also featured in the Mit exhibit and whose work includes photographs of genitalia. The near a announcement that the Grants had been rejected did not mention the sexual Content of the proposals. Both arts centers plan to seek other  executes Man who raped murdered College student in 77 Starke Fla. Apr a Man who raped and killed a College student nearly 15 years ago was put to death in Florida a electric chair tuesday after the supreme court rejected his claims of mental incompetence. Nollie Lee Martin was pronounced dead at 7 13 a.m., the governors office said. He became the 28th inmate to be executed since Florida resumed the death penalty in 1979. He died after giving a Long statement in which he said he might meet his victim in heaven a because i truly believe that is where in a  Martin 43, was convicted in the june 1977 slaving of Patricia Greenfield a 19-year-old student at George Washington University in Washington d.c., who was working during the summer at a convenience store. She was kidnapped during a robbery raped strangled and stabbed in Martin the Throat. Defense attorney Richard Burr said Martin was brain damaged and mentally ill. Burr said the urges that caused Martin to commit the crime were the result of repeated beatings sexual abuse and childhood accidents. Burr circulated a videotape showing Martin rocking Back and Forth cradling his head and picking at sores on his skin. Martins Cousin Gary Forbes who took part in the robbery and rape is serving a life term. Greenfield of Boynton Beach was working at a cum officials of the two arts centers assailed Radicek a decision saying the Nea was setting a new course to censor Art and was using them As examples. Quot Anne is establishing her leadership As chairwoman of the Nea and is painting a very conservative traditional Safe picture of what Art should be and can be Quot said Helaine Posner curator of the list visual arts Center. A that sexual organs were depicted threw up a red Flag to the Nea but the fact is there is nothing sexually explicit about the photographs and sculptures she said. A there Are genitals. But they Are not depicted in a sexual  people for the american Way a civil liberties group also criticized the decision. Executive vice president Mclane Verveer said it was the a result of months of far right demagoguery. Certainly for the foreseeable future we should expect to see the Nea Bend its artistic assessments around the political needs of the  but rep. Ralph regular Ohio supported Radicek a decision saying a it was clearly congressional intent that projects or programs that would be offensive to the great majority of the Public should not be supported with taxpayer  a from what i know of the two proposals i think it was a Wise decision a he said. A a it a a step toward restoring Confidence of the Public in the National endowment for the  sister Dorothea Murphy and Joseph Barrett protest the execution of Nollie Lee Martin on tuesday. Berland farms convenience store in Delray Beach on june 25, 1977, when Martin and Forbes walked into the store grabbed two cases of Beer and ordered her to give them the Money in the Cash Register. They then kidnapped her and drove to Martins apartment  both men raped her. She was then driven to a Lantana dump where Martin choked her and stabbed her repeatedly in the Throat Martin also was convicted of setting fire to an apartment building in 1972 that killed three people in Guilford county . He was paroled Afier four years. Irate Driver rams doors of police department Hollywood Fla. Up a police say a Man upset Over having to pay $5.50 for a copy of an arrest report rammed his car through the front doors of the Hollywood police department on tuesday and then drove off before being captured 10 Miles later. Police spokesman de Cunningham said the Man came into the building about 3 45 . To get a copy of an arrest report apparently of the Many a arrest april 4. Cunningham said the department routinely charges for copies and the Man was told he would have to pay $5.50. A the became irate he was shouting and angry at the records people and he stormed out a Cunningham said. Cunningham said the Man ran jul the front door sprinted across a Grassy area and disappeared a re turning minutes later in his Small car. A the came Back and drove right through the fron doors Quot Cunningham said. A the smashed two Glas doors. Nobody was Hurt. Fortunately there was nobody there at the  the car came a  feet into the building and thei the Man backed out and drove off Cunningham said sgt. Mark May a detective who was in his car outside the building saw the incident and chased the Many a Ca As he drove off Cunningham said. After a Chase of about 10 Miles the Man a stopped Cunningham said. He said the Man began fighting with May but was taken into custody with assistance from metro Dade  cases Rise nationally with Atlanta heading list from wire reports Atlanta a this City a tuberculosis rate has soared in the past year to the highest in the nation Federal health officials said tuesday. The National rate was also on the Rise with 10.4 cases last year per 100,000 residents a or 26,283 cases a up 2.3 percent from 1990, the National centers for disease control reported. Newark n.j., which had the worst to rate in 1990, was second with a rate of 71.8, still up from 68.3 the year before. New York City increased from 48.1 to 50.3 percent. Atlanta reported 301 Active cases in 1991, for a rate of 76.4 cases per 100,000 a the highest in the nation. It moved up from third place in 1990, when the rate was 51.5.rain subdues Forest fires Tower Minn. A firefighters looked for hot spots tuesday and vacationers went Back to fishing after rain helped douse two fires that scorched 7,400 acres of Forest in northeastern Minnesota. A a it a real dirty real tedious work a said Mary Laplant of the . Forest service. A a it a not real glamorous. We re trying to put the fire  gov. Arne Carlson toured the blackened area later in the Day. The fires both near Tower about 200 Miles North of Minneapolis destroyed 36 structures including four Homes. No injuries were reported. The cause of each Blaze was being investigated. Both fires which began sunday were contained monday night after an abrupt change in wind direction and heavy Rains slowed the flames.3 rescued from Tower Baltimore a a helicopter rescued three men after they became stranded tuesday at the top of a 150-foot water Tower when a ladder broke an official said. The men who were replacing aircraft warning lights on top of the Tower were stranded for about an hour after the last Section of their ladder broke free said state police spokesman Chuck Jackson. Two police helicopters and the Baltimore fire departments High Rise Rescue team were called to the Sam chemicals corp. Plant Jackson said. A firefighter and Basket were lowered by Cable from the helicopter to the top of the Tower and the men were then set safely on the ground he  in Hospital Washington a sen. Howard m. Metzen Baum a Ohio was resting comfortably tuesday in Georgetown University Hospital where he was being treated for a blood clot a spokeswoman said. Metzenbaum 74, checked into the Hospital monday because of persistent swelling in his left ankle spokeswoman Nancy Coffey said. The problem was diagnosed As a minor clotting in his vein a she said  to visit Africa Richmond a. A gov l. Douglas Wilder announced tuesday that he will Lead a 23-Day Trade and cultural Mission to six african countries this summer. Final e8 of the trip the longest by a Virginia governor Wilder will spend nearly a week in South Africa where he notes to meet with president . De Klerk and Nelson Mandela president of the african National Congress. The Mission planned from june 13 to july 5, apparently will be the first headed by a . Governor to sub saharan Africa. No other Virginia governor has visited Black Africa though Gerald Baliles visited Egypt when he was governor. Wilder who held a luncheon tuesday at the executive mansion for dignitaries from the  of will visit As Well As Anc representatives said the african states have a a built in need for equipment technology and expertise to improve their agriculture and Virginia is a a a natural to Supply them. Medical supplies and other products and services also Are on Virginia a list to sell he said