European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday. December 20. 1985 flight Crews warned of Check with doctor before dieting by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the air Force is warning air Crews to Check with flight surgeons before starting diets especially very Low caloric or herbal regimens that Promise accelerated weight loss. Air Crew members on such diets May experience nausea diarrhoea headache fatigue irritability and mild depression a policy letter from the surgeon general s office said. Less commonly they can Lead to heart damage said the message from Brig. Gen. Gerald Parker director of professional affairs and Quality Assurance. The herbal preparations associated with some pop ular diets May be considered food items but they can contain potent drugs the letter said. The Fra food and drug administration has documented Adverse reactions to these products and condemned a few ingredients As unsafe for food use the letter said. Some of the diets permit As few As 600 calories a Day. Flight surgeons should recommend that air Crews follow at least a 1,200-caloric-a-Day diet combined with exercise to lose weight Parker wrote. An official in Parker s office said the policy was drafted in response to reports that some  Bers were sending for the Low caloric or herbal diets that Are gaining popularity. In some cases they were being sold on base out of Homes he said. No air Force accidents have been linked to such diets but the official said even in peacetime Many air Force missions push pilots and Crews far out on the  air to air combat training in an a-10 requires close to ground Maneu vers that Are extremely Crit ical he said. The diets and their ingredients Are not billed As Medicine and the possibility loomed that some Crew members might believe the diets posed no threat he said. We try to Tell our pilots they re like athletes the official said. They have to protect not just their bodies but their minds completely. Slowed reaction time could be a serious danger. The policy was just a Good piece of preventive  Navy officer who was refugee just Short of dream to be aviator Pensacola. Fla. A a vietnamese refugee who finished in the top 10 of his . Navy officer school class is three tenths of an Inch Short of his dream of be coming a naval aviator. Hung Dinh Vul 24, said wednesday he needs More padding in his seat and is confident he can Correct the problem by eating and exercising. The Navy requires that pilots upper legs measure at least 21.9 inches from buttocks to Knees to make sure they can reach rudder pedals and keep their legs Fiat against their seats in Case they have to eject said it.  Donnie Plombon. An aviation psychologist. My goal is to gain at least 10 pounds if not More said Vul a recent graduate of the Pensacola naval As officer school and a naturalized citizen from Glen Ellyn Iii. I m doing squatting exercises to push it All  Vul who stands s-fool-5 and weighs 140 pounds said he s gained at least five pounds since being measured at the air station s naval aerospace medical Institute in september. He is to be measured again after Christmas. Vul said he was very Skinny when he reported to officer school and was unable to Gam any weight during the 12 week course. I m putting on the padding he said. This is some thing that can do corrected. I m not sore about the requirement Vul said. They Are concerned about my  he said he has gotten a lot of support from Navy officials who have endorsed his request for a waiver in Case he does t make it. It seems like everybody is pulling for  Vul is working at least temporarily As a maintenance officer at the Pensacola naval air rework facility which overhauls aircraft. He is scheduled to report Jan. 6 to maintenance duty officer school also in Pensacola. Vul said he would fit into whatever role the Navy chooses for him and said he would take this latest obstacle in stride As he did when the Navy rejected him As a Security risk two years ago because he had two older Brothers still living in Vietnam. They escaped this year. Vul came to the United states when he was 14 As Sai gon South Vietnam was falling to communist forces. Boy Dies 2 Days after Pond Rescue Columbus Ohio a a 9-year-old boy who spent 43 minutes under water in an icy Pond was rescued and placed in a drug induced coma died thursday officials said. Randy Ketcham a spokesman for children s Hospital said no other information on the death of Jeremy Ghiloni was available. Jeremy was taken to the Hospital after his Rescue near Newark by paramedics tuesday. He tumbled into the Pond when the ice broke under his weight. He was placed in a Barb Turic coma to reduce damage to his brain. Before i death Liis heart beat on its own while his breathing was controlled by artificial Means said or. James Kilman chief of thoracic surgery at children s Hospital. Kilman said in his 20 years there the Hospital had treated three cases of hypothermia All caused by exposure to cold air. But Jeremy s Case was the first caused by immersion in water. Hypothermia is subnormal body temperature that causes the slowing of body functions. None of the three cases previously treated at the Hospital was As severe As Jeremy she said. He said Jeremy s body temperature was about 80 de Grees when he was taken to the Hospital. To raise Jeremy s temperature doctors used a heart bypass machine which draws blood from the body warms it then returns it to the body. Kilman said Jeremy s body temperature was kept at 96 degrees. Jeremy thu on stateside City residents ordered to boil their drinking water Pittsfield mass. A the City has ordered residents to boil their drinking water because of an out break of an intestinal infection that has sickened More than 100 people the City health commissioner said the cases of Gia Diasis. An infection of the Small intes Tine have been reported since dec. 6 in this Western Massachusetts Community of 52,000 people  Louis Bou us the health official. Symptoms include severe diarrhoea abdominal pain and weight loss he said. A 17-Membcr task Force of physicians and state officials has been formed to find the cause of the problem he said. We Don t have it nailed Down he said but we have Strong epidemiological evidence that it s the City s water Supply Bolduc said adding he did not know How Long the order would remain in effect. 27 churches get $100 donation from mysterious Benefactor Fergus Falls Minn. A a mystery Benefactor has delivered a $ 100 Bill to each of this Western Minne Sota City s 27  Rev. James Koch of the first United Church of Christ said a Man called at his Home and gave him $100, saying it was on behalf of in Anonymous donor. Other ministers in the City related similar experiences. Koch said he has a message for the mysterious Benefactor adding that he trusts he is speaking for All the ministers in town whoever you Are god bless  . Judge follows his nose when handing out sentences Beaufort . A circuit judge Paul Moore wants to make sure folks in his courtroom Are Sweet smell ing and sober. Moore told a Man who showed up for jury duty at general sessions court that intoxication had no place in a courtroom. The judge cited the Man for con tempt of court and slapped him with a six month sentence. He was taken to Beaufort county jail. That behind him Moore opened court. But the judge s sensibilities were offended again this time by a defendant. Moore sent him Back to jail for a Bath. I Don t know what i smell but i Don t like it Moore said. He told jailers to give the defendant a thorough scrub Down. But Don t Hurt him Moore added. Judge rules teen must stand at beginning and end of class Honolulu a a 13-year-old who disobeyed a teacher s Rule requiring students to stand at the beginning and end of class is not protected by the . Constitution a Federal judge has ruled. Brand Bettoncourt claimed in her lawsuit against Nia Valley intermediate school that George Nishimura Vio lated her first amendment right to free speech by requiring students to stand. . District judge Harold Fong ruled the requirement helps the teacher to take attendance ensures that the Stu dents Are attentive and ready for instruction and therefore helps to prevent accidents due to carelessness in shop  standing at the end of class also serves to inform the teacher which students have completed their work re placed the tools and provides for orderly transition of changing  Nishimura said he did t require Bettencourt to join the other students in saying Good morn ing or. Nishimura at the Start of class and Aloha  at the end of class. 14-year-old soviet immigrant to study at Mit next fall Boston up a 14-year-old boy whose parents left the soviet Union to give him a better education has been accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. I be always wanted to go to Mit Alexander Goto Disher of Holyoke told the Boston Herald. When he begins classes in september Gorodisher said he will study math. Hut he added i Don t think math will be enough. So i m going to go for a double major Proba Bly in physics or in laser  when he was a Bis parents Vladimir and Raisa left Leningrad .s.r., to come to the United states be cause As soviet jews they said opportunities for them and their sons were limited. It was really a big risk for my parents though the boy said. They had a pretty stable lifestyle but they knew we d have the Opportunity for education and Freedom. For them that was  Gorodisher s academic potential was substantiated when at age 9, he earned the average score of a College bound High school senior on the Scholastic aptitude tet