European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 7, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 9 plan to dispose of uranium at site in . Called off from wire reports Sal site department spokesman Rick Oborn confirming a report earlier in the Day by sen. Ernest , d-, said belgian officials called of it he works out in one respect pretty Good Oborn said. He said it would allow the department time to Complete an environmental Impact analysis for possible future storage of nuclear waste from overseas. The analysis could take years he said. The disclosure that the Energy department agree to accept the weapons Grade uranium for storage at South Carolina s Savannah River site touched of opposition in the state. Whistle blowing urged Washington the Clinton administration Friday urged government whistle blowers to Tell the truth about environmental problems in Federal agencies but also to work cooperatively. Employees who gathered at a two Day convention to share stories of retribution and Federal wrongdoing heard from four High level administration officials including Energy Secretary Hazel Leary wants workers to know that whistle Blower is not going to be a negative term said Energy department spokeswoman Mary Freeman. Dissent should occur openly assistant agriculture Secretary Jim Lyons told the conference which was sponsored by the newly organized Public employees for environmental. Responsibility. Ticking off fatal shootings new York at the stroke of the new year Ananti gun cat clock billboard in new York s times Square will Start ticking off every fatal shooting in the nation. Three stories High the death clock will Tower Over the Busy intersection of 47th Street and seventh Avenue using digital scoreboard Type displays to also show the number of guns in America. The billboard is the brainchild of new Jersey millionaire Robert Brennan who recently formed the Manhattan based gun fighters of s brother was shot dead 25 years ago in a robbery. Since then Brennan has used his Persona Fortune and the recent winnings of his Racehorse Schere to fund his gun control efforts. Inmate cuts out Testicles Las Cruces inmate who Cut out his own Testicles is suing the prison for allegedly failing to treat the persistent Groin pains he said led him to do it. Jerry Walker 42, of Santa be who is serving a 19 year sentence for child molestation is seeking compensatory and punitive damages from the Southern new Mexico correctional facility and Testate corrections department. Walker who began his sentence in May 1990,accused prison medical staff of failing to adequately treat him for pain he began experiencing two year Sago. The pain drove Walker to remove his Testicles inlay 1992, according to the lawsuit filed last week in state District officials Learned of the self surgery five months later when Walker Hada physical examination the lawsuit said. They still Don t know what Walker used to perform the it was it was something he should t have had corrections department spokesman . Payton still up for Post Washington the White House said Friday that John Payton remains the front runner for the government s top civil rights Post despite concern about his record among members of the congressional Black has a very Strong civil rights record said White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. The front runner remains the Payton the District of Columbia s chief attorney is under consideration to be chief of the civil rights division at the Justice department. Career diplomats assail Washington a the question is almost sold As the country itself should political Campaign contributors without foreign affairs experience do re warded with ambassador ships the Union of career diplomats says they should not and is campaigning against three deep pocketed democrats slated for european Issue Are president Clinton s nominees to Den Mark Switzerland and the Netherlands whose combined political contributions including those of their wives exceeded $200,000 last Are successful businessmen but Tex Harris pres ident of the 10,700-Mcmber american foreign service association complains that none has any foreign policy experience arid therefore should be excluded. In an age of shrinking governmental resources Pecan no longer afford the former luxury of bringing aboard generous political contributors to an 18 to 20-month training session on How to be an american ambassador Harris have got to choose americans who have experience and a track record in International affairs. We can not afford to Send amateurs. The age of amateurs is the foreign service Many of whose members aspire to become ambassadors often has complained about the Quality of political ambassadors but has noted that som have served honorable such As former sen. Mike mans Field in Japan and George Bush at the United nations. Cleophus Prince jr., convicted of killing six women appears in a san Diego court Friday. Sex Sailor convicted in serial killings gets death penalty san Diego a a Man who terrorized an Diego with the fatal stabbings of six women was sentenced to death Friday for the 1990 slay Ings. Cleophus Prince or. 26, stabbed most of his victims with knives taken from the kitchens of their own Homes or apartments. A jury convicted him earlier this year of six counts of first degree murder and other charges including rape burglary and attempted burglary. Superior court judge Charles r. Hayes Fol Lowed the jury s recommendation in sentencing Prince to death. California has two methods of execution the Gas chamber and injection. Prince was arrested in Early 1991 in his Home town of Birmingham ala., where he had gone to visit his family after his discharge from the Navy. Some have been an embarrassment. One frequently cited example is a former ambassador to a Caribbean country who often went boating in the evening using the sail As a screen to show pornographic movies. Two of the nominees for the european posts Are Pri vate investors from Atlanta Edward Elliott Elson picked for Denmark and Kirk Terry Dornbush for the Netherlands. The third is a California Hotelier m. Larry Lawrence slated for Switzerland. Elson contributed More than $120,000 in support of the democratic party and its candidates last year according to his Federal Campaign contribution report. The reported contributions of Nis wife Suzanne last year to tales Over $20,000. Dornbush and his wife Marilyn chipped in More than $42,000 Lawrence and his wife Shelia contributed More than $21,000. Clinton has used the foreign service for about 70 per cent of his ambassadorial appointments somewhat higher than the Republican average Over the past doze years. The gop administrations All were accused of nominating too Many Campaign contributors and Secre tary of state Warren m. Christopher promised a new approach when he met with state department employees week after Clinton s inauguration. Recommendations for ambassador ships will debased upon qualifications that extend beyond Campaign participation and will require some real expertise wit respect to the appointment he said. Mayor elect faces sexuality questions in Cincinnati Flap Cincinnati a just Days after voters rejected homosexual rights ballot Issue the City s mayor elect was deflecting questions about her own sexual to a thursday night radio talk show quizzed councilwoman Rosarine quails with one asking did for did i not vote for a lesbian quails said the question was inappropriate and re fused to answer. It s not an Issue she said in an interview after the show. Questions about private lives of people Are really inappropriate and very clearly distract from the pressing issues for the rumours began to circulate after quails who supported the homosexual rights ballot Issue that voters rejected tuesday appeared the next Day at a Gay rights Are wonderful she said at the time explaining later that we referred to people attending the Issue never surfaced during the 40-year-old demo crat s Campaign for a second two year term on the Cit Council. In Cincinnati the top vote getter in the Council race becomes mayor and quails won the Job with just 8percent of the vote. The Post is largely a ceremonial one the City manager handles the City s Day to Day City of 364,000 has wrangled Over the Issue of homosexuality before. In 1990, City officials prosecuted Anart gallery and its director on obscenity charges Over a display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs that included images of homosexual acts. The gallery and director were acquitted. The same year police arrested women for holding hands in a parked car in a City Park. Dis orderly conduct charges were Mcmichael of the group Stonewall Cincinnati said her organization endorsed quails who is single and10 other Council candidates but the candidates were not asked about their sexual Are very Clear that our Agenda is to make Cincin Nati a fair and equal place for All of its citizens Mcmichael said. There s no hidden Agenda Phil Burress of citizens for Community values an chairman of equal rights not special rights the coalition that opposed the ordinance said quails is perfectly qualified to be a but he warned that if she continues to promote the homosexual Agenda through being a mayor. If she passes another Law Well be Back on the ballot. Cit Council s the one that forced the Issue not quails was one of seven Council members who vote for the human rights ordinance in november 1992. Two members voted against bristled when told of his comments. Neither myself nor anybody on Council is promoting anyone s Agenda she said. All we did when we passed the human rights ordinance was put an anti discrimination Law on the
