European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday january 19,1990 have a cup and pucker up Royal Oak Mich. Apr older couples who drink Coffee appear to be More sexually Active than older non code drinkers according to a new study. In response to a Survey 62 percent of married women 60 and older who drank code said they were sexually Active. Forty percent or women older than 60 who do not drink Codee said they were Active. Among married men the same Ages 36 percent of code drinkers said they sometimes were impotent compared with 59 percent of those who Don t drink Coffee. The study in the january Issue of the archives of internal Medicine did not give a margin of error or Date for the Survey of 744 Michigan residents done by or. Ananias Diokno of William Beaumont Hospital in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. Diokno attempting to explain the results said Codee stimulates the Central nervous system and relaxes certain Muscles. But he said it also was possible that people who drink Coffee also happen to be a More Liberal in their sexual  a we want to pursue this and find out Why there is this connection Between sex and code Quot he said. The study team did not ask participants whether they drank regular or decaffeinated Codee or How much they drank Diokno said. Some researchers were sceptical of the findings. A ooh lord help us now they be linked Codee and sex a said gait Kershner Riggs associate director of restorative Medicine at the University of Arizona s College or Medicine who has done her own research on sex among older women. A Cdr. Diokno is a respected researcher a said  citizen Tom Stanisic a professor of surgery and urology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. Quot but before anyone starts drinking code to boost their sex life it would be Wise if other people looked into this a Little More. A it s not something i would act on  code and cad Cine arc popular research topics More than 500 studies on their effects have been published in medical journals since 1983. Some studies have linked Coffee to heart disease High cholesterol Levels and pancreatic cancer and others have found no such relationship. Diokno a Survey also found that about 75 percent of older married men and 56 percent of older married women remain sexually Active compared with 31 percent of older unmarried men and 5 percent of older unmarried women. Male mortality rate in Harlem called higher than in Bangladesh new York apr Harlem should be declared a health disaster area according to a doctor whose study found that a Man in Harlem has less Chance of living past age 40 than a Man in poverty stricken Bangladesh. A we have a chronic disaster area right in front of our eyes that most people Are not aware of a said or. Harold p. Freeman director of surgery at Harlem Hospital. The report published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine was compiled by Freeman 56, and or. Colin Mccord 61, who worked in Bangladesh Between 1972 and 1980 and noticed after returning to the United states that the mortality rates were worse in Harlem. The doctors reviewed records from 1978 to 1981 and found that when adjusted for age. The death rate in Harlem was the highest in new York and More than double that of . Whites. A it s a National disaster and a National disgrace Quot said Mccord attending surgeon at Harlem Hospital. Mccord said no formal study has been Donea Brief stay stowaways aboard a ship in Mobile ala., display their Handcuffs wednesday after being captured is they tried the illegally enter the United suits. Nine stowaways from the dominican Republic and one from Panama were being held aboard the freighter Trimarco trader. The dominicans were scheduled to by to their Caribbean Island Home thursday but the panamanian was to remain aboard temporarily because of governmental problems in Panama. Through the 1980s, but a review of records from 1980 to 1987 shows deaths continued to increase with the Onset of aids crack homelessness and increased use of illegal drugs. He said that during the seven year stretch deals among those 25 to 45 years old Rose 35 percent in Harlem. The findings of the formal study Stem from an analysis of new Yorkus Central Harlem health District where 96 percent of the population is Black and 41 percent live below the poverty line. The researchers found that 6,415 people died in Harlem from 1978 to 1981. If the death rate in Harlem had been the same As for Whites across the United Stales 3,994 would have died. Eighty seven percent of the 2,421 excess deaths were people younger than 65. To dramatize their figures the researchers compared them with Bangladesh. By age 40, the life expectancy of men in Bangladesh begins to exceed that of Harlem men. In Bangladesh 55 percent of men and 50 percent of women live to age 65. In Harlem 40 percent of men and 65 percent of women live that  Calls january 1deadliest month yet for nation s capital Washington apr the murder of a Star High school athlete one of 18 killings since Friday in the nations capital is prompting president Bush to club january a the month or murder in the District of Columbia. As Bush was decrying the carnage in the District students coaches and faculty at Mckinley High school on wednesday mourned the killing of 18-Ycar-old Samuel Unger a basketball and football Captain who was shot to death on saturday. A a it a a very empty feeling a horrible sensation a said Steve Milam ungers basketball coach. A the was a Well rounded student and had the world ahead of him. I Hope that my son can grow up to be like him a Unger was one of 29 people killed in the nation s capital so far in 1990. The victims include a woman whose body hearing multiple Stab wounds was found in a parking lot Early thursday. That rate is ahead of the Pace set in 1989 when a record 438 murders were committed. In 1988, 369 were killed in the District. Quot we have seen great Progress where it counts in the streets where record amounts of cocaine have been seized. Yet we have yet to turn the Corner a Bush told a luncheon with the Heads of Federal Law enforcement agencies. A in this very City january has been the month of murder the deadliest month in the history of the District of Columbia a the president said. Last january 52 people were killed in the nation s capital including 18 in the first 2 w weeks. Police blame More than 60 percent of the killings on drug related violence. . Tax amnesty program Drew pile of rubber checks Raleigh . Apr North Carolina s amnesty period for residents to repay Back taxes brought in millions of dollars and 5600,000 Worth of bad checks. A can you believe that people will Send in a bad Check to pay off something like this a asked Revenue Secretary Helen Powers. Quot that s just adding insult to  Powers told a legislative committee that those who bounced Cheeks were ineligible for amnesty and will be chased Down by the state. Not counting the bad checks North Carolina received 538.6 million during the 90-Day period during which lax evasion penalties were waived. Powers said. That total ranked North Carolina eighth among the 30 states that have conducted amnesty programs. There s More bad news ahead for the writers of bad checks tax evasion penalties have  Strauss to shut Down san Antonio sewing Plant san Antonio Texas up a Levi Strauss and co. Will close a sewing Plant and Lay off All 1,100 workers to move production abroad where labor costs arc lower the clothing maker said wednesday. San Francisco based Levi Strauss the world s largest apparel maker Quot is shifting sewing from the Plant to contractors As part of its ongoing Elt Orts to increase manufacturing flexibility and reduce costs a the company said in a two Page statement. Company spokesman John Genoda later said the operation would be moved to the Caribbean but he would not disclose a specific location. The closing Dale for the sewing Plant in a poor Section of san Antonio was set for april 16 to give workers 90 Days notice the company  that killed 16 caused by soldering cigarette Johnson City Tenn. Apr a soldering cigarette apparently caused a Christmas eve fire that killed 16 people at a retirement Center according to investigators who Don t expect criminal charges. The fire began in the first floor apartment of Georgia Jones who was described As a Chain smoker by other residents of the John Sevier retirement Center officials have said. A senior state arson investigator Johnny Robertson and other investigators held a news conference to discuss heir findings. However hey did not say whether Jones 67, was in her room at the time of the fire. "a11 other causes were eliminated a said Robert Frost a fire investigator far the Tennessee department of Commerce and insurance. The fire the second fatal Blaze in two months Al the 10-Fioor Center spread to the second floor and parts of the third floor. Smoke permeated the building before flames were brought under control. Dozens of the 145 residents were injured and 16 were killed. In october a 76-year-old resident died of smoke inhalation in a fire at the Center