European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a y the stars and strip shave a cup and pucker up senior citizen Royal Oak. Oldt couples who drink Coffee appear to be More sol May alive than older non Coffee drinkers according to a nor tidy. In response to a Survey 62 percent of marries women 60 and older who drank Coffee said they were sexually Active Tony percent of women older than 60 who do not drink Coffee said they were Active. Among married men the same Ages 36 percent of Coffee or makers said they sometimes were impotent compared with 59 percent of those who done to drink Coffee. The study in the january Issue coptic archives of internal Medicine did not margin of error or Date for the Survey residents done by or. Ananias de Koto of William Beaumont Hospital in the act Petrit suburb of Royal Oak. Diokno attempting to explain the results said Coffee stimulates the Central nervous system andjmn1 faxes certain Muscles. But he said it also  Juial people who drink Coffee also Jef Ipin to be ttm<$te4iticyl in their sexual  a we want tar Miu this a fort find out Why there is this connection a cow it Enop a a do Joc a he said. The study team did not ask  they drank regular or decaffeinated Coffee or Hou much they drank. Diokno said. Some researchers were sceptical of the findings. A ooh lord help us now they be linked Coffee and sex/1 said Gail Kershiner Riggs associate director of restorative Medicine at the University or Arizona s College of Medicine who has done her own research on sex among older women. Quot a r. Diokno is i respected researcher Quot said or. Tomyl Anisto. A professor or surgery and urology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson Quot but before anyone starts drinking Coffee 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  Coffee and caffeine arc popular research topics Jnore than 500 studies on their effects have been. _ a 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 stateside . Tax new York apr Harlem should be declared a health disaster area according to a doctor whose study found thai a Man in Harlem has less Chance of living past age 40 Ihan a Man in poverty stricken Bangladesh a we have a chronic discs scr area right in front of our eyes that most people Are not aware of.1 said or. Harold p.  of surgery a 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 i960 and noticed after returning to the United states that the mortality rates were worse in Harlem. The doctors reviewed records from 1978 to i98j and found that when adjusted for age the death rate in har Jim was the highest in new York and More than double that of . Whites. A a it a a National disaster and a National disgrace said Mccord attending surgeon at Harlem Hospital. Mccord said no formal study has been done a Brier stay slow a a a is aboard a she in mob he ala., display their Handcuffs wednes Lay after being captured As they tried to illegally enter the United Stales. Nine stowaways from he dominican Republic and one from Panama a tre being held aboard the freighter Tram area t Ruder. The dominicans were scheduled to Fly to their Caribbean Island Home thursday but the panamanian was to remain aboard temporarily because of governmental problems in Panama. Quot in this very City january has been the month of turd or the deadliest month in the history or the District of Columbia a the president said. In i amnesty program of rubber checks through the 1980s, but a review of records from 1980 to 1987 shows deaths continued to increase with the Onset of aids crack homeless Ness and increased use of illegal drugs. He said that during the seven year stretch deaths among those 25 to 45 years old Rose 35 percent in Harlem. The findings of the formal study Stem from an analysis of new York s 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 he death rate in Harlem had been the same As for Whites across the United states 3,994 would have died. Eighty seven percent of the 2,421 excess deaths were people younger than 65. To dramatist 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 Long. Bush Calls january a deadliest month yet for nations capital Washington apr the murder of a Star High school athlete one of 18 killings since Friday in the nation s capital is prompting president Bush to dub january Quot the month of 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-year-old Samuel Unger a basketball and Rno Iball Captain who was shot to death on saturday. Quot its a very empty feeling a horrible  said Steve Milam Unger s 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  Unger was one of 29 people killed in the nation s capital so far in 1990. The victims include a woman whose body bearing multiple Stab wounds was found in a parking Jot 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. A we have teen great Progress where it counts in the streets where record amounts of cocaine have been seized. Yet we have yet to turn the Corner Quot Bush told a luncheon with the Heads of Federal Law enforcement agencies. Last january 51 people were killed in the nation s capital including 18 in the first 1 h weeks. Police blame mom than 60 percent of the killings on drug related Violi Drew Pil Raleigh . Apr North Carolina s amnesty period for Russ cats to repay Back taxes brought in millions of doll frs and 5600,000 Worth of bad checks Quot can you of Clicc that people will Send in a bad Check to pay aft something like this asked Revenue Secretary Hon Powers. A that s just adding insult to injury/1 Powers Tola a legislative committee that those who bounced Check were ineligible forum Nasiy and will be chased Down try he state. Not counting the bad checks North Carolina received �38.6 million during the 90-Day period during which tax evasion penalties were waived. Powers Saiq. That total ranked North Carolina eighth among the 30 states that Haye conducted amnesty programs. There s More bad news ahead for the writers of bad checks tax Olasion penalties have increased Levi Strauss to shut Down san Anttonio sewing Plant san Anttonio Texas up a Levi Strauss and co. Will Elute a sewing Plant and Lav off All 1,100 workers to move production abroad a tier labor costs arc lower tha clothing maker said wednesday. San fran Deco hns cd Levi Strauss the worlds largest apparel maker Quot is shifting sewing from the Plant to contractors As part of its ongoing efforts to increase manufacturing flexibility and reduce  the company said in 4 two Page statement. Company spokesman John Onoda Lacr said be operation would be moved to the Caribbean but he would not disclose a specific location. The closing Date for the sewing Plant in a poor Section of san Antonio was set for april 16 to give workers 90 Days in Price the company said. Fire Fht killed 16 caused by a Muldering 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 if Gan in the first floor apartment of Georgia Jones who was described As a Chain smoker by other Reid pts of the John Sevier retirement Center. Oltie als have said. A senior St Laarson investigator. Johnny Robertson and other investigators held a news conference to discuss i hair findings however they did not say whether Jones 67, was Imper room at the Lime of the fire. Quot All other canes were eliminated Quot said Robert Frost a fire investigator for the Tennessee department of Commerce and insurance. The arc the in Ted fatal Blaze in two months at the 0-floor Center Skad to the second floor and parts of the third floor. Snicke permeated the building before flames were brought under control. Dozens of the 1 5 residents were injured and 16 w Ere killed. 1 in october a 7-year-old resident died of smoke inhalation in a tire at the Center