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. From wire reports Washington winners of new government scholarships were selected on the basis of biased tests says a research firm which found that boy received 75 percent of the Grants. The $2.2 million National Academy for science space and technology scholarship program was established by Congress for the 1993-94 school  totalling $4,317 were to be awarded to one student in each congressional District. Congress required that the selection be made on the basis of a 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 to 352 boys 84 girls and 35 others whose gender  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 an pointed out her alleged attackers playing basketball just blocks away. The 31-year-old substitute teacher was walking to a grocery store in Brooklyn to buy her child Mil 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 Jermaine 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  takes about 11 pounds of weapons Grade plutonium to make a 1-Kiloton bomb. About 15pounds of reactor Grade plutonium would make a bomb of the same  Clinton administration plans to halt 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 Tobe enrolled in Nursery schools if their mothers work and have a College degree and their families ear More than $40,000 a year according to the census  study released tuesday suggested that working mothers May View Nursery school As a form of Day  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 unimportant role in determining whether children attend Nursery school. Only 24.1 percent of Young children from families with incomes less than $20,000 were enrolled compared Wilh 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. Stricter Gay policy clears Congress in defense Bill Washington a Congress sent president Clin ton a $261 billion defense budget wednesday that endorses a More restrictive version of the White House policy on homosexuals serving in the military. By a vote of 77-22, the Senate adopted the budget Mea sure for the fiscal year that began oct. 1 a package $2.6 billion less than the amount Clinton proposed and $12 Bil lion below last year s level. The House approved the legis lation monday. Clinton is expected to sign it. One Day after a Federal appeals court ruled that the Mili tary ban on declared homosexuals is based on prejudice and serves no legitimate purpose the Senate voted for policy on military Gays that is designed to guide the courts. The policy includes a series of findings that says con Gress has the constitutional right to raise armies maintain the Navy and set the rules for their operation. The legislation states that military service is unlike any thing in civilian life and that the prohibition against homosexual conduct is a Long standing element of military Law that continues to be necessary in the unique Circum stances of military  forced to abandon his Campaign pledge to lift the ban outright Clinton set a policy of Don t ask Don t Tell Don t pursue on july 19, saying that sexual orientation is not a. Bar to service but that open homosexuals will be forced out of the  chairman of the Senate armed serv ices committee Sam Nunn wrote the policy that was adopted by the House and Senate. The Georgia Democrat has been a leading opponent of ending the ban. The Nunn policy says Don t ask about sexual Orienta Tion but lets a future defense Secretary reinstate the ques Tion. The policy also says open declarations of homosexual Ity pose an unacceptable risk to morale Good order and  the provisions of the Bill Are approximately $3 billion for ballistic missile de sense a Cut of $745 million from Clinton s request and $1.1 billion be Low last year s level. A pay raise of 2.2 percent effective Jan. 1, despite Linton s Call for an across the Board pay freeze. Consistent with Clinton administration policy repeal of the restriction on women serving on Navy combat ships. $2.9 billion to assist communities and contractors hard hit by reductions in defense spending. Last week Congress approved and Clinton signed the defense spending Bill appropriating the funds that this legislation authorizes. President Clinton looks at photographs of Yoshihiro Hattori a japanese Exchange student who was accidentally gunned Down last year. The teen s parents Masashi and Mieko 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 he family s personal pilgrimage brought her face to face with president Clinton on tuesday to remember a son senseless death. In Japan we live life with no guns. We Hope that you too can live life without guns,1 said her husband Masaichi  son Yoshihiro Hattori was shot oct. 17,1992, in Baton Rouge la., by a Man who mistakenly sus acted that the youth was an armed intruder. He was led one Day after seeing then candidate Bill Clintona a rally. Armed with nearly 250,000 signatures on petition calling for an end to gun violence his parents and Dick and Holley Haymaker met privately with Clinton tomake 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 student. 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 ova office their Odyssey ended. Said Masaichi Hattori the petition was a Symbol of the japanese people Slove 01 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 Miek Hattori told reporters the parents spoke about their son s love of America. They also shared an album filled wit pictures of the 16-year-old and photos of Clinton that Yoshi took on the Day before he was  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 Manv groups pushing for the same reduction of guns in the hands of private citizens. Out of the Hatton event has come this  teen s killer Rodney Peairs was acquitted of a manslaughter charge this year. He is facing a lawsuit filed by the Hattori that seeks unspecified damages for wrongful death