European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 20, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 Leoc wins $35 million in Bias Case Pittsburgh a the equal employment Opportunity commission said thursday it reached what appears to be its largest Cash settlement in an employment Dis cremation Case a $35 million Deal with Westinghouse electric corp. Leoc negotiators were armed with a . District court ruling that Westing House violated the age discrimination in employment act when it denied sever Ance pay to employees who were eligible for pensions at the time their jobs were eliminated in Plant closings. We broke some new ground said Leoc general counsel Charles Shanor. The District court held. That forcing a pension eligible employee to choose be tween the pension and Severance is in  Westinghouse estimates that 4,000 former workers should share the $35 Mil lion an estimate that the Leoc will Check. Most of them were Blue Collar production workers according to Sha nor. The Leoc sued Westinghouse in new Jersey and in Pennsylvania in the Early 1980s. The Pennsylvania suit was expanded in 1984 to include All Westinghouse employees nationwide except those rep resented in the new Jersey suit. A Federal judge in new Jersey dismissed one suit and the Leoc appealed to the . 3rd circuit court of appeals in Philadelphia. A Federal judge in Phila Delphia ruled in the Agency s favor and Westinghouse appealed that decision to the 3rd circuit court. The tentative settlement covers both cases Shanor said by Telephone from Washington . The 3rd circuit court must agree to suspend ruling on the Case until a . District court in Philadelphia rules on the fairness of the settlement. The Westinghouse Case is probably the biggest age or title Vii settlement in terms of Cash Shanor said. Title Vii applies to discrimination based on race sex religion and National origin. In other cases the japanese car maker Honda agreed to pay $6 million adjust the seniority and expand recruiting promoting and training of Blacks and women at its . Operations. Ford motor co. Agreed earlier this month to spend $17 million to assist Public schools and minority businesses. Pan am agreed to pay $17.2 million and offer training to pilots whom it had barred from work As flight engineers after they reached age 60. Runners in the annual monster run crowd the starting line Friday at the Cambrai Fritsch Cavern in Darmstadt West Germany for the Jaunt to monster Mash Frankenstein Castle. The frightening run was sponsored by Darmstadt s he co 440th signal in. Some runners ayoung As 12 cover the 4% mile distances a Dave Didio half of it a calf pulverizing Uphill. By that time they May wish or. Frankenstein was around to put some new life into their legs. Disabling chronic fatigue traced to depression Chicago a chronic fatigue can be As disa bling As a heart attack but it May Stem More from depression and anxiety than from any physical cause a new study indicates. In a report in Friday s journal of the american medical association or. Kurt Kroenke assistant chief of Medicine at Brooke army medical Center at fort Sam Houston Texas said Many doctors Don t take chronic fatigue seriously enough. Such fatigue which he compared to lower Back pain can result in impairment in Day to Day activities resembling that in people recovering from a heart at tack or suffering from other serious diseases. Fatigue tends to be underestimated Many times in the physician s mind As a minor complaint Kroenke said thursday. Fatigue is a symptom that does t affect the patients lifespan but it causes a lot of disa  Kroenke and his colleagues said 24 percent of 1,159 adults who answered questionnaires at base clinics in 1986, identified fatigue As a major problem. He and his colleagues conducted further studies on 102 people who complained of fatigue lasting at least 30 Days but had no identifiable illnesses. Fifty seven of them showed evidence of depression on psychosocial and physical tests while 58 of them had scores suggesting abnormal Levels of anxiety and a total of 82 people 80 percent of the group had one or both. In a comparison group of 26 people who had suffered no chronic fatigue Only three people or 12 per cent showed abnormal Levels of anxiety or depression the researchers reported. They said a cause and effect relationship does t necessarily exist Between fatigue and anxiety or de pression because fatigue could result from an unrecognized illness. But the consistent and powerful find Ings on psychological tests combined with an absence of significant differences in lab tests Between fatigued and non fatigued groups indicate that emotional fac tors play a role in chronic fatigue they said. Therapy for fatigue sufferers could include reassurance counselling psychoactive drugs and exercise they said. The study did not explore the possible connection Between tiredness and infection with the Epstein Barr virus which causes mononucleosis and has been suspected As a cause of chronic fatigue. But another study in Friday s Ama journal found a test for Epstein Barr virus not helpful in determining the cause of chronic tiredness said authors led by or. Walter Hellinger of the Mayo clinic s facility in Jacksonville Fla. They found no significant differences Between 30 fatigued patients who tested High for Levels of a sub stance indicating the presence of Epstein Barr virus and 30 fatigued subjects shown by the test to have Low Levels of the same substance. One co author or. Robert Van Scoy of the Mayo clinic in Rochester minn., noted the study did not Deal with All tests for Epstein Barr but just with the test for the Early Antigen or indicator of the virus. Other researchers had reported in 1985 they found the Early Antigen test very useful in establishing the link Between the virus and chronic fatigue