European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 scholarships for minorities to regain Federal approval from wire report Washington the . Department of education plans to Issue a policy soon on Colleg scholarships based on a student s race or status As a minority a spokeswoman said  Boston Globe reported in saturday s editions that the department has decided there is no Lega reason to prevent colleges from awarding minority  Secretary Richard w. Riley who supports minority scholarships is reviewing a report by Congress general accounting office which found that academic scholarships awarded on Thebas Isof race amount to no More than 4 percent of All undergraduate  1990, then education Secretary Lamar Alexander a former president of the University of Tennessee said the schools could not restrict the Pool of applicants for scholarships. Those for which Only Blacks or other minorities could apply would no longer be Legal he said. Runoff set in mayoral race new Orleans attorney Donald mint overcame the election eve indictment of an aide and finished first saturday in the City s Nasty mayoral race. He will face second place finisher Marc Morial in a Runoff March 5.with All 474 precincts reporting unofficial returns showed Mintz with 56,296 votes or 37  had 49,530 votes or 32 percent. Mintz is a former port authority chairman Morial is son of the City s first Black mayor dutch Morial. In a Victory speech Mintz asked for supporters of losing candidates to join his Campaign. Our tent is big he said. We Welcome everyone to our  took shots at Mintz noting the eleventh hour scandal. Mintz s aide was indicted for handing out Anonymous fliers with scurrilous accusations. A Runoff is necessary because Mintz did not get More than 50 percent of the vote. Eight other candidates also sought to replace mayor Sidne Barthelemy. Disability pay often spent on i i leg a i drugs report finds Washington a social Security is paying millions of dollars in disability benefits to alcoholics and drug addicts who turn around and spend the Money on heroin cocaine and other illegal drugs con Gressional investigators say. According to a report issued by sen. William , a Maine More than 250,000 drug addicts and alcoholics collected $1.4 billion in disability benefits from social Security last year. Fewer than a third or 78,000, Are required to receive substance abuse treatment and have someone else a representative Payee collect their monthly Check on their behalf. Even then investigators found widespread abuse Only 15,700 were in treatment and some representative payees were addicts themselves or bartenders liquor store owners and hotel managers. Each month the government is giving vulnerable people the Money to Poison and kill themselves says Cohen the senior Republican on the Senate special committee on aging who released the report. Hundreds of millions of scarce Federal dollars Are flowing directly to drug addicts who Are turning around and buying heroin cocaine and other illegal drugs on the Street the very same Day Cohen said. He described it As Federal Revenue sharing for drug and alcohol  to qualify for social Security disability a person must be unable to work because of a physical or mental impairment that is expected to result in death or last a least year. Social Security awards disability retroactively to the Date a claim is filed. Because the process can take a year addicts often collect Lump sum payments of$15,000 to $20,000. Unfortunately we found disturbing evidence that some of these Lump sums Are being used for huge drug or alcohol binges sometimes with life threatening or fatal consequences Cohen said. His report based on investigations by the Genera accounting office the congressional watchdog Agency and the committee s gop staff found a recipient in Bakersfield calif., who died of a lethal drug overdose bought with thousands of dollars in retroactive benefits. An alcoholic in Van Guys calif., who used Lump sum benefits of $26,000 to buy two cars and a Van went on a drinking Binge wrecked the cars and landed in Ava Hospital his Money gone. A californian who bought a car and went on drinking Binge after receiving $18,000. He was robbed involved in a Drunken driving Accident and jailed. Shot brings doctor $5,000 Fine new Orleans a a surgeon was ordered to pay a nurse$5,000 for shooting a surgical Staple into her buttocks As she stooped to count sponges on an operating room floor. Lola Simpson said she was less interested in thursday s jury award than in bringing or. James Bennett to task for the 1990 incident at children s Hospital. 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