European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 18, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 9 scholarship tests biased toward boys group says i from wire report Washington winners of new government scholarships were selected on the basis of biased tests says a research firm which found that boys received 75 percent of the  $2.2 million National Academy for science space and technology scholarship program was established by Congress for the 1993-94 school year. Scholarships totalling $4,317 were to be awarded Toone student in each congressional District. Congress required that the selection be made on the basis of nationally administered standardized test. The education department used the America College testing program assessment math scores to award the scholarships. The Center a Massachusetts group opposed to standardized testing Analysed the names of the winners and found that scholarships were Given to352 boys 84 girls and 35 others whose gender could not be determined by their name. Some districts had More than one Winner because of ties. Sex victim finds suspects new York a woman who was sexually assaulted by six teen agers wielding what turned out to be a Cap gun flagged Down a police car and pointed out her alleged attackers playing basketball just blocks away. The 31-year-old substitute teacher was walking Toa grocery store in Brooklyn to buy her child milk monday evening when she was approached by the youths Ages 13 to 17, police said. The teen agers took the woman to a dark lonely lot and took turns sodomizing her for about 20 minutes police said. They also stole her food stamp Sand a pack of cigarettes. After the attackers ran away the woman stopped patrol car and helped officers search the neighbourhood. Ten minutes later she spotted the teen agers on a basketball court police said. The teens were charged with sodomy sex abuse unlawful imprisonment and robbery. Four of the teens were identified As Jermain Dawson and Sam Singleton both 15 Tyrone Smith 16 and Daniel Rivera 17. Two 13-year-Olds were not identified because of their age. Plutonium fears raised Washington a Rand corp. Study say world Power plants will have produced enough plutonium 10 years from now to make 47,000nuclear bombs. It is critical that countries pay attention to the proliferation threat from the civilian Side said the report issued tuesday and paid for by the Pentagon. It takes about 11 pounds of weapons Grade plutonium to make a 1-Kiloton bomb. About 15 pounds of reactor Grade plutonium would make bomb of the same Force. The Clinton administration plans to Hal production of weapons Grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium the study said. But no safeguard scheme including that of the International atomic Energy Agency can be effective if such sensitive materials and facilities Are widely available in non nuclear weapon states it said. Nursery enrolment studied Washington children Are More Likely to be enrolled in Nursery schools if their mothers work and have a College degree and their families earn More than $40,000 a year according to the census Bureau. The study released tuesday suggested that working mothers May View Nursery school As a form of Day care. Of the 7.7 million 3 and 4-year-Olds in october 1992,2.6 million of them were enrolled in Nursery schools the Bureau said. The Survey found that family income played an important role in determining whether children attend Nursery school. Only 24.1 percent of Young children from families with incomes less than 520,000 were enrolled compared with 49.2 percent whose families earned More than $40,000. Nearly 58 percent of children whose mothers had a College degree were enrolled the enrolment rate was 34.9 percent for children whose mothers had Only a High school degree and 25.8 percent for those whose mothers did not Complete High school. . To stress importance of Asia in Seattle a the Clinton administration issuing the asian Pacific Trade conference to serve notice that it has refocused . Foreign policy to make inter National economics a top priority and Asia As important As Europe. Senior officials hammered that theme tuesday a delegates from 15 nations arrived for talks aimed at opening Trade opportunities Between the United stat Sand the huge asian Market. Secretary of state Warren Christopher flew into Boeing Airfield to underscore White House commit ments to expanding Trade. I be personally talked to Heads of state about buying your air planes Christopher told Boeing workers. I be tried to set an example for supporting american Busi Ness around the  in Washington a senior administration official said tuesday that the Asia Pacific economic cooperation forum represents a distinctive imprint of a Clinto presidency to put International economics on the front Burner of foreign policy for the first  the official speaking on condition that he would note otherwise identified also said the conference symbolizes an historic broadening of America s focus to n policy include Asia As Well As Europe and to create american jobs in the process. President Clinton is to arrive today following wednesday night s planned vote in the House on the North american free Trade agreement which would phase out Trade barriers among the United states can Ada and Mexico. Success would Send Clinton to Seattle with a Momen Tum officials hoped would infuse not Only this week s unusual conference but also a round of global Trade talks that must be completed by dec. 15. . Officials arc talking up the huge economic opportunities in a booming Asia a Market with 2 billion people $1 trillion in infrastructure projects up for bid sin the next few years and average economic growth projected at 6 percent to 7 percent a year for a decade. Christopher set out an explicit goal tuesday of Dou bling . Exports to Asia along with the jobs that sus Tain them in a decade. Currently exports amount to about $130 billion accounting for 2.4 million . Jobs. We expect to make Progress toward More Ope Trade a larger investment throughout this asian Pacific Region the kind of Progress that will Spur growth an create jobs for american workers Christopher said. President Clinton looks at photographs of Yoshihiro Hattori a japanese Exchange student who was accidentally gunned Down last year. The teen s parents Masaichi and Mleko Hattori visited Clinton on tuesday. Slain japanese boy s parents give Clinton anti gun petition plea Washington a Serene her voice barely audible Mieko Hattori hardly resembled an activist seeking to curb americans Access to guns. But her family s personal pilgrimage brought her face to face with president Clinton on tuesday to remember a son s senseless death. In Japan we live life with no guns. We Hope that you too can live life without guns said her husband Masaichi Hattori. Their son Yoshihiro Hattori was shot oct. 17,1992, in Baton Rouge la., by a Man who mistakenly suspected that the youth was an armed intruder. He was killed one Day after seeing then candidate Bill Clinton at a rally. Armed with nearly 250,000 signatures on petitions calling for an end to gun violence his parents and Dick and Holley Haymaker met privately with Clinton to make a Case for More strict control on guns. The youth known As Yoshi had been staying at the haymakers Home in Baton Rouge As an Exchange sudent. Both families have spent the past year collecting Sig natures from people who say they have heard and seen enough about handgun violence to want to make Yoshi a statistic that does not repeat itself. And at the Oval office their Odyssey ended. Said Masaichi Hattori the petition was a Symbol of the japanese people s love of the american  he acknowledged that while it has no binding Power he hoped the petition would help America solve its gun violence problem. During their 15-minute visit with the president Mieko Hattori told reporters the parents spoke about their son s love of America. They also shared an album filled with pictures of the 16-year-old and photos of Clinton that Yoshi took on the Day before he was killed. It appeared almost to bring him to tears Mieko Hattori said of the president. Mike Beard president of the coalition to Stop gun violence said the Hattori had inspired a National Effort to fight handguns and Given a focus to the Many groups pushing for the same reduction of guns in the hands of private citizens. Out of the hat tort event has come this  the teen s killer Rodney pairs was acquitted of a manslaughter charge this year. He As facing a lawsuit filed by the Hattori that seeks unspecified damages for wrongful death