European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 9, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 top . Black radio station bans violent vulgar tunes from wire reports new York Wols one of new York City a most influential Black radio stations is Banning songs that advocate violence or have lyrics that arc profane or hateful toward women. Quot if we play it we re putting our Seal of approval on it Quot Frankie Crocker said tuesday. Quot we re taking the higher Road. We re doing what is morally right. Crocker is vice president of Wal so a owner inner City broadcasting corp. Wols is consistently among the highest rated new York stations. The policy is aimed at encouraging other radio stations to follow suit and to pressure record companies into reconsidering the material they release said Pierre m. Sutton inner City chairman. Sutton refused to discuss which records or performers would be affected. But Many recent hits Are Likely victims such As j Kcf around rapper tupac Shakura a tribute to Bachelor Hood or downtown a demand for Oral sex by the female singing Trio Sov. Civil rights Leader the Rev. A1 Sharpton said the ban was Long overdue. Quot you have the right to speak but not the right to shout fire1 in a crowded theater Quot he said. Quot some records Are Yelling shoot1 in neighbourhood crowded with  Quot Federal reactor to be shut Richland Wash. A the government s last reactor on the Hanford nuclear reservation is being shut Down because it Hasni to been Able to support its $100 million annual budget. The five year shutdown of the fast  facility will begin next wednesday Energy Secretary Hazel r. O Leary said monday. The reactor s 1,000 workers will be transferred to other jobs in Hanford the department of Energy said. For most of its 13 years the reactor was used to test the durability of reactor equipment and components. It also was used to make some radioactive isotopes for Medicine. Last year it was switched to standby status. Efforts to entice foreign governments or private business to share in operating costs  to dose office san Francisco a the russian news Agency itar Tass is closing its san Francisco Bureau at the end of the month leaving it with Only two . Offices. Quot the reason we Are closing is simple Money Quot correspondent Gennady Shiskin said monday. The office on the 12th floor of a downtown High Rise costs about $50,000 per year to run he said. The closure will leave itar Tass with . Bureaus in new York and Washington. It has had a san Francisco office since 1976. A we will miss California a lot Quot Shiskin said. Quot you can say we lost our heart in  May get woman head Philadelphia a behavioural psychologist Judith s. Rodin has been chosen to become president of the University of Pennsylvania and the first woman to head an Ivy league school. The 49-year-old Yale University Provost and 1966 Penn graduate was selected monday by a search committee. If approved by the Board of trustees As expected dec. 16, Rodin will succeed or f. Sheldon Hackney appointed by president Clinton to head the National endowment for the humanities,.priest wants to quit Dallas a Church officials say a priest accused of molesting boys at two North Texas parishes has told the roman Catholic diocese of Dallas that he intends to quit the Priesthood. The Rev Rudolph Kos who has denied any wrongdoing notified the diocese by letter monday that he wants to be relieved of his duties As a priest. He is currently undergoing Church sponsored counselling in new Mexico. Two men have filed a lawsuit alleging Kos sexually abused them while he was assistant pastor at St. Luke a Catholic Church in Irving Between 1985 and 1988, and while he was pastor of St. John s Church in Ennis from 1988 to 1992. In july two More plaintiffs a Young Man and a boy joined the suit. At that time court records showed the diocese had been told in 1986 of concerns that one of its priests had boys spending the night with him. Benefits used. A a. A a a \ to b by d r u g a a i c o h o i Washington a some of the growing number of addicts and alcoholics who collect Federal disability benefits use the Money to buy illicit drugs or liquor because they can to get treatment to kick their habit. The social Security administration said 72,137 drug addicts and alcoholics were collecting supplemental Security income disability benefits in september. But it. Huty. Said fewer than one third 22,000, were in treatment. As a result some addicts on ssi a Federal welfare program for the Low income disabled and elderly spend benefits on liquor or drugs. A social Security unknowingly unwittingly provides More Money to aug dealers and bars than any other organization in the whole world Quot said Francis j. Of byte an administrative Law judge in Chicago who hears appeals from people who have been denied social Security benefits. A no drug addict no alcoholic should Ever have their hands on Cash. These people should be put in a Hospital in detox to make them better not. Given Money to buy a better class of  of Byrne said he asks people applying for disability benefits if they will use the Money to buy alcohol. He said a common answer is Quot Well yes. But ill steal . V a the problem said advocates and social Security officials is that there Arentt enough treatment opportunities the United states has More than 23 million and Buffalo soldiers honoured on 94 Washington a americans heritage in courage arid creativity music and movies wartime valor and labor leadership will be featured on the nation s 1994 postage Stamps. The approximately 50 new Stamps planned for next year will include 15 honouring Black americans or including Blacks in their designs. A 29-Ccnt Quot Buffalo soldiers Quot stamp recalling the Black cavalry that served on the Western Frontier is scheduled for release in april. The soldiers earned their nickname from indians because of their big Coats curly hair and fierce fighting style. That stamp was the feature of tuesdays announcement at the National postal museum with two surviving members of that unit attending. William Harrington 99, of Salina kan., and Mark Matthews 98, of Washington Drew a standing ovation As they helped unveil the stamp. Navy cmdr. Carlton Philpot chairman of the Buffalo Soldier educational and historical committee at fort Leavenworth kan., said the significance of the Buffalo Soldier stamp is that Quot courage valor patriotism and loyalty has no ethnic bearing Quot May the spirit. Of the Buffalo Soldier guide and ride with you always a Philpot told postmaster general Marvin Runyon. A the Black cavalrymen Are not the Only reflections of the nations Western heritage a a set of 20 Stamps of legends of the West is scheduled for March. Buffalo Bill Geronimo chief Joseph and Wyatt Earp and a Host of others will also appear on Stamps. American musical heritage Stamps will continue to appear focusing on blues artists in the Spring and popular artists in the fail. The 10-stamp blues set will include such performers diets alcoholics and problem drinkers but fewer than 90,000 federally funded treatment slots a this is one of the social consequences of our utter failure to provide adequate substance abuse treatment a said Al Guida vice president of governmental. Affairs for the National mental health association. But he said he thinks most ssi benefits to recipients disabled by addiction go for rent food and Day to Day survival. The number of drug addicts and alcoholics on the ssi Rolls has been growing rapidly from 16,569 in december 1989 of 53,464 last december to 72,137 this past september. Today the average disability Benefit from ssi is $405 a month. The Cost of ssi disability benefits to drug addicts and alcoholics this fiscal year is an estimated $350 million. Five years ago the government  about $55 million a year in disability benefits to addicts and Alco holies. A to qualify for ssi disability benefits a person must be unable to work because of a physical or mental impairment that is expected to result in death or last at least a year. Social Security determines who is eligible. About 5.8 million people receive ssi benefits and just 1.5 percent of them Are addicts and alcoholics said social Security spokesman Fhil Gambino. William Harrington left and Mark Matthews on tuesday sit before a huge copy of the Quot Itu Fruto Soldier Quot postage stamp that will be released next year. As Muddy Waters and Billie Holiday while the five popular artist Stamps will include Bing Crosby and Ethel Waters. 1 labor Leader George meaty will appear on a stamp As will journalist Edward k. Murrow and the series of world War ii stamp sets will cover the events of 1944. Secret service Veteran to Lead Agency Washington apr an officer with nearly 20 years of experience with the . Secret service was selected As the Agency a director tuesday. Eljay Bowron 42, becomes the 18th director of the secret service since it was established just before the civil War ended in 1865 to combat counterfeiting. Since then its More than 2,000 employees have taken on a wide variety of responsibilities. They protect the president and vice president and their families presidential candidates past presidents and visiting foreign Heads of state. Uniformed secret service officers guard foreign embassies while other agents investigate fraud involving credit cards and financial institutions. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said he selected Bowron after interviewing 10 candidates. Quot he a intelligent and energetic and he has nearly 20 years of seasoning at a number of challenging posts throughout the secret service Quot he said. Bowron is the son son in Law and brother of Detroit police officers. He began his jaw enforcement career with the Detroit police serving 13 months. Most recently at the secret service he served As assistant director for protective operations responsible for guarding the president