European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 14,1693 . The stars and stripes 0 Page 7 . Children in poverty show staggering increase. From wire reports Medford mass. A More than 20 million children in the United states will be living below the poverty line within two decades unless there arc. Sweeping changes in government policy researchers say. A. A. Their study conducted by the Tufts University Center of hunger poverty and nutrition policy found a a a staggering 37 percent increase in the number of poor children Between 1970 and 1991. It attributed the Sharp Rise to several recessions and Federal cutbacks in Quot crucial Domestic programs for the poor in the 1980s. As or 1991, there were an estimated 14 million children living in poverty in America virtually unchanged from the Early 1980s, it said. Nearly half of them were living in families with incomes 50 percent below the poverty level the study said. Houston a All 29 members of a University marching band caught shoplifting $23, in. Electronics while in Tokyo have been suspended for an indefinite period or placed on probation the school president says. Quot we Haven to expelled any student because we done to want to put Awer manent end to their education a Texas Southern University a William Harris said tuesday. The band members were in Japan to perform at the coca cola bowl. Most of the items were returned when authorities threatened to Stop the students from leaving the country japanese police said. Smoking Rule considered Washington a the labor department is considering whether to restrict smoking in the workplace in Wake of a finding that secondhand tobacco smoke is a cancer threat to nonsmokers. A spokesman said tuesday that labor Secretary Lynn Morley Martin has instructed director Dorothy Strunk of the occupational safety and health administration to prepare options. Osha has no rules regulating smoking in the workplace. Discipline cases studied Washington a state medical boards Are not moving firmly enough to discipline bad doctors a. Consumer group says. A report tuesday by Public citizens health research group rated Alaska Oklahoma and Georgia highest in the rate of serious actions taken against doctors. The group founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader said state medical boards took serious actions against 2,013 doctors in 1991, for a rate of 3.44 actions per 1,000 doctors. The group said the discipline rate is about one fourth what it ought to be based on a 1989 Tufts University study that found medical malpractice insurance carriers imposed sanctions at a rate of 13.6 per 1,000 doctors. Bones Point to lost boy Tampa  child size Cowboy boots found in. A septic tank with skeletal remains convinced a medical examiner that they were those of a 2-year-old boy last seen in 1974, a a to a a positive id As far As in a concerned because themes the same boots 1 bought him just before he came up missing a said Vernon aired the father of Matthew aired. Hillsborough county medical examiner Robert Pfalzgraf agreed saying monday that his examination confirmed the Bones were those of a boy no older than 5. A based on the fact that a 2-year-old disappeared in the neighbourhood and was found in a septic tank obviously someone wanted to conceal it a Pfalzgraf said. A therefore it was probably a  Matthew aired disappeared Jan. 24,1974, from his front Yard in working class Clair Mel City. Testicular implants studied Washington a the food and drug administration tuesday proposed that manufacturers of testicular implants prove that the devices Are Safe and effective enough to remain on the Market. Testicular implants Are pouches that Are placed in the scrotum. They Are made of solid or gel silicone and have a silicone covering. Some types Are coated with polyurethane foam. Husband of police chief Bloomsburg a. A the husband of Bloomsburg University a new police chief is accused of raping a co worker and is under investigation in four More attacks a one that occurred when he and his wife were in town for her Job interview. Michael Reece Boykin blamed his arrest on racism and a University trustee said resentment and suspicion Haye dogged the couple since the wife took Over Campus Security. A Bloomsburg University is famous for shafting men of color a Boykin who like his wife is Black said in a letter to University officials. A i did not relocate to this unfriendly forbidden town to have Lait  Bloomsburg Sas Susan Harris my Good name  Boykin 41, a University maintenance worker is married to former Chicago police officer Margate Boykin. They took their jobs oct. 31. That afternoon a student was raped in a gymnasium. Rapes on or near the Campus followed on nov. 27 and dec. 11. On dec. 18, one of Michael Boykins co workers was raped in a University pickup truck and she named Boykin As the attacker. He pleaded not guilty to rape charges monday in Battle intensifies in Allen new York a filmmaker Woody Allen had sex with Mia Farrow a oldest daughter while his 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son watched Farrow a lawyer said tuesday. Allen denied the allegation at a news conference and said he is considering filing child abuse charges against Farrow. The allegation was made by Farrow s attorney Eleanor alter at a hearing to discuss Allen s visitation rights with three children. Alter said Dylan the couples 7-year-old adopted daughter told Connecticut police last month that she and her brother Satchel saw Allen and their older sister soon i Previn having sex. Satchel is Allen and Farrow a biological child. A for the Petitioner Allen to have sexual Intercourse with the sister of his children while they were present is unthinkable a alter told the court. Alter said Dylan reported the encounter when police investigating allegations that Allen had sexually abused Dylan asked Why the girl knew How to position anatomically Correct dolls to depict sex. The lawyer also said Allen once pushed Dylan s face into a plate of hot Spaghetti in anger. Later she said whenever Allen became angry with Dylan he threatened to fix Spaghetti. Another time the lawyer said Farrow had to pull Allen off Satchel after he twisted the boy s legs and threatened to break them. At the news conference Allen accused Farrow of a drumming lies Quot into Dylan. A i think that when Mia needs something she takes our daughter and makes her say it a he said. Farrow 47, was Allens Lover and the leading lady in his movies from 1980 until last year. That attack and was held on $75,000 bail. A District attorney William s. Kreisher said state and Bloomsburg police were investigating the possibility that Michael Boykin committed the other attacks. He Atso said Michael Boykin is a suspect in another Campus related rape dec. 15, 1991 a when the Boykins were in town Tor Margaret Boykins interview. After the rapes started last semester women walked in groups and those who lived off Campus were offered dormitory rooms though Only a few took advantage of them. The University also set up an escort system. Investigators took blood and semen from Boykin after his arrest for comparison to evidence taken in the previous cases. Genetic tests linked some of the earlier rapes to the same person Kreisher said. A but there was nobody to compare them to. We had no suspect until now a he said. Bloomsburg a town of 12,000 in North Central Pennsylvania is mostly White. Only 206 of the University a 6,378 full time students Are Black. University trustee Howard Johnson who is Black said the arrest has Quot overtones of being racially  a there Are people who done to want Maggie and her family Here a he said. A they look at Blacks As criminals rapists and  Margaret Boykin who has taken leave from her Job is paid up to 541,804 per year. Her husbands pay is is Paic. $7.21 per hour. Woody Allen denies allegations made tuesday at a court hearing in his custody dispute with Mia fan of. Allen 57, has acknowledged he is now romantically involved with Previn 22, who is the adopted daughter of Farrow and composer conductor Andre Previn a former husband. 1 Allen is seeking custody of Dylan Satchel and another of his and Farrow a adopted children 14-year-old Moses state supreme court Justice Elliott Wilk ordered another hearing Jan 26 to determine whether Allen May visit Dylan and suggested that lawyers work out a visitation schedule for Satchel he said Moses  be told to visit Allen if he does t want to. The judge refused to order psychotherapy for Satchel Dylan or Farrow. New Hampshire to Mark King Holiday Concord n h. A gov. Steve Merrill will recognize slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. In a state Holiday bringing new Hampshire in line with the rest of the nation. Merrill a Republican who was sworn in last thursday issued an executive order wednesday changing the name of the states civil rights Day to Martin Luther King or. Civil rights Day. In november Arizona voters approved a proposal recognizing the Federal King Holiday. That left new Hampshire As the Only state that does no to recognize the assassinated civil rights Leader with a Holiday. Two years ago the legislature passed a Bill marking a civil rights Day on the third monday in january the same Day that the rest of the nation observes the King Holiday. This session lawmakers will consider changing the name of the Holiday to include Kings name. Ail attempts to establish a King Holiday have failed since 1979. Conservative lawmakers have voted against the Holiday because they say King was unpatriotic during the Vietnam War. King was assassinated in 1968