European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday decembers 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7ban on repatriating haitians continued Miami apr thousands of haitian boat people remained trapped Between the Homeland they fled and . Immigration Laws wednesday after a Federal judge renewed his ban on sending them Back Home. . District judge c. Clyde Atkins issued a temporary injunction tuesday night that continued and strengthened a nov. 19 order halting the repatriation of haitians stopped at sea by the coast guard. The november order had been set to expire at Midnight tuesday. But Atkins said sending refugees Back now could expose them to a a loss of Liberty or death at the hands of Haiti a military on account of the refugee political  the new order is to remain in effect until the . Government improves procedures for interviewing haitians to determine whether they Are entitled to Asylum. Atkins asked the government to come up with better methods within a week. His order ensured that the number of refugees at the . Military base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba will continue to climb past its current level of 3,000. The military anticipating a steady Stream of haitians has been building Camps there that could eventually hold four to five times the number of refugees now at the base. Coast guard and Navy vessels have become floating Homes for Many of the other haitians who have tried the dangerous 630-mile journey to Miami in often Leaky overcrowded boats since the overthrow sept. 30 of president Jean Bertrand Aristide. The . Government contends the refugees Are fleeing poverty and thus Are not entitled to Asylum. Under the Law Asylum is granted to those who can show a Well founded fear of persecution. Advocates for the haitians sued saying that the Brief shipboard interviews afforded the refugees were insufficient to determine whether they were fleeing persecution. Earlier tuesday state department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler in Washington argued that conditions in Haiti Are not As bad As suggested. She said 71 of the 100 boat people Given temporary Refuge in Venezuela have decided to go Home. Teen suicides linked to guns in households Chicago a troubled teenagers May be much More Likely to commit suicide if they live in households with guns researchers say. As a result the researchers recommended that All firearms be removed from Homes of at risk Young people. A study of 141 Pennsylvania adolescents found that guns were nearly twice As Likely to be present in Homes of suicide victims As in the Homes of teen agers who unsuccessfully attempted suicide or never tried to kill themselves. Restricting teen agers Access to guns could help reduce the nations adolescent suicide rate which has quadrupled during the past three decades said researchers whose study appeared in wednes Days journal of the american medical association. In an accompanying editorial researchers at the National centers for disease control said Many Young people who commit suicide May actually be ambivalent about dying but kill themselves impulsively a to communicate that they Are in great  National figures show that of 2,059 Young people aged 15 to 19 who committed suicide in 1988 a the latest year for which statistics Are available a 1,261 used a gun. That Means for every 100,000 teenagers in the country 6.92 committed suicide by firearm up from 5.5 per 100,000 in 1982. Bicycle helmets could save 1 life a Day experts say Chicago up one death every Day and one head injury every four minutes could be prevented if every bicyclist in the country wore a helmet Federal researchers say. Experts at the National centers for disease control estimated tuesday that 84 percent of bicycle related head injuries and deaths were preventable. They based their conclusions on data collected Between 1984 and 1988. Or. Jeffrey sacks and colleagues from the cd said children under age 15 accounted for 41 percent of the Hea \ injury deaths and 76 percent of bicycle Niu Ries Overall. The under-15 age group has a very Low helmet usage the cd said. Less than 2 percent of Young children and 10 percent of bicyclists Overall use helmets the researchers said. A since the majority of bicycle associated head injuries occur among children less than 15 years of age and their helmet use rate is Low targeting this group for helmet campaigns holds Promise of maximizing results with limited resources a the researchers said in the journal of the american medical association. Injury prevention experts recommend that people giving bicycles As gifts should give helmets also. Sacks urged doctors to educate their bicycling patients about the importance of wearing helmets. The researchers also called for Community based safety  Star is born christmastime returned to new York City on tuesday night when a 65-foot-Tail tree at Rockefeller Center came to Light above the 80-member Christ Tabernacle Church choir of Brooklyn performs after disabled children threw a switch to illuminate the Trees 25,300 lights. They will go out Jan. 7, and the Norway Spruce will become mulch. Mayors to push for importation of ru486 abortion Pill new York up a mayor David Dinkins has announced the formation of a coalition of 30 . Mayors that will lobby Washington to permit importation of the controversial ru486 abortion Pill. Joining Dinkins to announce the coalition tuesday were or. Etienne Emile Baulieu the French inventor of ru486 rep. Ron Wyden Dore. City health officials and abortion rights activists. Dinkins charged that the Bush administrations opposition to even testing ru486 was based solely on its anti abortion politics and not on the safety of the Pill. The Pill is widely used in France and Britain to induce abortions. In april Dinkins asked 33 mayors to help him in efforts to get the food and drug administrations a import alerts removed from the Pill. The Alert bars its importation for testing or marketing. Thirty mayors from California to Georgia have offered their support. Among those joining Dinkins in the coalition Are mayors from san Francisco los Angeles Kansas City Kan. New Haven Conn. Washington Boulder Colo. Minneapolis Philadelphia Atlanta Newark and Trenton . Hartford Conn. Austin Texas and  women having 1st child out of Wedlock Survey says Washington apr american women Are now almost twice As Likely to have a first child out of Wedlock than women 20 years ago the . Census Bureau said tuesday. A Survey showed about one out of every four initial births in the late 1980s were to unmarried women. In the late 1960s, Only about one in seven first babies were bom outside marriage. Similarly pregnant single women now Are far less Likely to marry before the baby is born the Survey found. In the late 1960s, More than half the pregnant single women married before the birth. In the late 1980s, about one in four did. Census Bureau researchers did not ask Why women decided against marriage. The Agency a report speculated the reason May be economic. Some women May believe they would be better off relying on parents and relatives a than by entering a potentially unstable marriage undertaken solely to prevent an out of Wedlock birth a said the reports author Amara Bachu. Unpublished census Bureau numbers showed a pregnant unmarried woman is less Likely to get married before the birth if she is poor or lacks a High school education she said. Others said the numbers showed that americans have changed their ideas about babies and marriage. A a it a not necessarily seen As an economic and social disaster if a woman has a child out of marriage a said Carl Haub demographer at the population reference Bureau a Washington research group. A it May Well be if they have careers of their own they can afford to have a child outside of