European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 17. 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 Ozone problems linked to vegetation Atlanta study centers on Impact of frees Atlanta a regulations ignoring he effect of Trees on the Atmos phere arc undermining America s pollution control efforts researchers suggest in a study of heavily wooded Atlanta which frequently fails air Quality evaluations. While not endorsing president Rea Gan s theories of killer Trees the Georgia tech scientists Lay ignoring vegetation s Impact on the Environ ment has sent regulators chasing the wrong culprit a class of chemical com pounds called hydrocarbons in the Batik against of on. Ozone can cause lung Dumarc to humans and Hurt crops when it exists in the lower atmosphere Lead researcher . Chamides admits the conclusions place him and his colleagues out on a scientific limb. But i think there arc other scientists that Are coming along with us. Think that it will be  he said despite what he called institutional  the study published in Friday s Sci ence Magazine says the environmental Protection Agency s decision to attack Ozone through limiting hydrocarbons is doomed to failure because Trees give Oil As much if not More of the Hydrogen Carbon compound As cars and factories. During the 1980 presidential Campaign Reagan angered environmentalists by suggesting thai Trees and other parts of nature were chief culprits of air pollution. The idea led to jokes about killer i rfcs and the appearance of protesters radio reporter Dies new York a Peggy Stockton a Veteran radio reporter who covered City politics and courts for 15 years has died following complications from intes tinal surgery. She was 52. Who dressed themselves As Trees and car ried signs saying. Chop us Down be fore we Kilt  Chameides stressed that the research ers do not suggest culling Down Trees but instead believe pollution control efforts should Center on nitrogen oxides which Are produced by Many of the same processes that Emit hydrocarbons. Trees Don t make Ozone and the hydrocarbons from Trees Don t make Ozone Only when you mix hydrocarbons Sun Light and nitrogen oxides is Ozone Cre ated he said. The clean air act has sought to limit Low lying atone through devices on cars and in factories that reduce the emission of hydrocarbons. Current regulations do Little to affect emission of nitrogen oxide Chamides said. We be pursued the hydrocarbon strategy for about 10 years or so and 1 think it s pretty Clear that for some reason we have not been successful said Chameides a professor in Georgia tech s school of geophysical sciences we need to re evaluate what we re doing instead of continuing Down the same Garden path he said. Epa spokesman Chris Rice agreed that air Quality rules have not succeeded in reducing Ozone Levels significantly. But he said we estimate that in the absence of control programs hydrocarbon Levels would be close to 80 percent higher than they actually Are. We Veba sic ally treated water in the 80s." Cham ids led the study of hydrocarbon Levels in Atlanta which ranks among the nation s worst violators of Ozone level standards. He said the results showed that even if All Man made hydrocarbons were eliminated enough natural hydrocarbons exist on a hot Day to produce a High level of Ozone in the City s metropolitan area which is 57 percent wooded. Cd Arneidus said past studies have underestimated the importance of naturally occurring hydrocarbons. During the creation of Ozone Natu ral hydrocarbons Are used up faster than Man made hydrocarbons and thus can have a significant effect in spite of their Low concentrations the study says. Chameides said his findings should be viewed cautiously but he added just because there Are some Uncertain ties you Don t ignore a source of 50 per cent of hydrocarbons. We be got to in clude All of the scientific evidence that s  he said he is anxious for other scientists to Check his work and for research to be i inducted in other cities than at Lanta. While the Epa has considered natural hydrocarbons Rice said the Basic Bot Tom line As of nine months ago is that our Best scientific judgment is that a i of Genic emissions do not Moke a significant contribution to Ozone problems in Urban  however Rice said Epa researchers would review Chamides work. Carbon dioxide emissions locations of sources in 1985 in millions of ions of Carbon other sources 734 United states 1,186 total from burning of Fossil fuels in millions of ions of Carbon per year 5.500 5,000 4.500 4,000 1971 72 73 74 75 76 77 7b 7s 80 $1 82 b3 84 85 w Chicago Tribune graphic by David Jahntz Suica world Ros Worces Institute estimate Papandreou to get divorce new Romance reported Athens Greece a the govern ment on thursday announced that pre Mier Andreas Papandreou is planning to divorce his amen can bom wife Margaret but made no comment on reports he will Many a 34-year-old airline stewardess Papandreou 69. Is awaiting heart sur Gery m a London clinic. He was hospitalized unexpectedly three weeks ago after doctors Here diagnosed a narrowing of the Aorta the Mam artery carrying blood from the heart. The announcement came after greek newspapers printed front Page pictures of the socialist Premier walking hand in hand with the tall Blond stewardess Dimitra Liani on the grounds or Harefield Hospital Papandreou s private life became a Holly debated political Issue lust week following reports that he intends to retire from poli tics and marry Liani. The government de Nied the Premier was quilling. Asked about persistent reports of a divorce government spokesman Sotiris Kos Topoulos said certainly when the the Premier returns procedures Lor dissolving his marriage will be set in  the spokesman did not say whether Papandreou plans to marry Liani. Two weeks ago her portrait appeared in a respected greek newspaper captian cd the Premier s future  Liani is divorcing her husband Alexis Kapopoulos. A 43-year-old architect who was formerly a prominent member of Greece s pro maoist revolutionary communist party. Friends of Kapopoulos who works for stale run greek television said thursday the divorce will become final next month. Papandreou s doctors have said an operation to replace a heart valve Wilt Lake place later this month. They said he can return to Premier Andreas Papandreou 69, with 34-year-old Girlfriend Dimirra Liani. Athens after a two week recovery period and resume work two months later. The divorce announcement also came two Days alter a bitter statement by friends of the Premier s wife indirectly blamed Liani for Papandreou s health problems. In the future historians will make Clear which persons recently close to him Bear most responsibility for unforgivable negligence Over the Premier s  the statement said. The statement also said mrs. Papandreou had been treated inhumanly in the greek press saying she was going through a personal and family  mrs. Papandreou 65, did not immediately comte Cal on the divorce announce ment. The former Margaret chant of Elm Hurst til., was married to Papandreou in a civil ceremony in the United Stales in 1951, when he was teaching economics at the University Ofamin Scsola. Both had recently divorced. The couple has four children and two grandchildren. They have visited Potpan Dicou in the Hospital where they All met Liani. She accompanied the Premier and a few aides when he flew to London on August 25 for treatment. But mrs. Papandreou has not visited her husband and has no plans to do so while Liani is with him according to members of the women s Union of Greece Egea socialist feminist group she founded in 1575. A senior Ege member who requested anonymity said the Premier s wife be friended Liani who works Tor the greek state Carrier olympic airways in 1985 and arranged for her to Host a a television program called mis miso half and half promoting sexual Equality