European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 c the stars and stripes thursday december 19, 1991haitian deportations again barred Atlanta apr a . District court judge in Miami late tuesday issued a new order preventing deportation of thousands of haitian refugees to their strife torn nation Only hours after a three judge Federal appeals court panel overruled a previous deportation ban by the same judge. The 11th . Circuit court of appeals panel in a 2-1 ruling said the haitians Arentt protected by an International agreement on refugees because they did no to reach the United states. The court dismissed a preliminary injunction by . District judge c. Clyde Atkins in Miami that had blocked deportation of the haitians held at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Base spokesman maj. Don Kappel said All was quiet there after the ruling. Late tuesday Atkins issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the government from sending Back any haitians before a hearing he set for Friday morning said Ira kurzban an attorney for the haitian refugee Center in Miami. The Center is suing to win political Asylum for the refugees. Before the new order barring deportations haitians in Miami protest a court order allowing refugees at Guantanamo Bay to be sent Home. Epa Booket proposes remedies for toxic air in office buildings Atkins order was based on Federal Law barring arbitrary actions by administrative agencies kurzban said. He said Atkins had asked the government to voluntarily not begin sending refugees Back to Haiti for 48 hours so he could review the appeals court decision and issued his emergency order when1 the government refused. The haitians fled their country after a military coup toppled president Jean Bertrand Aristide in september. Since oct. 29, the coast guard has intercepted More than 7,700 of the refugees at sea. The exodus picked up strength after a hemisphere wide economic embargo was imposed against Haiti to press for Aristides return. The United states and most other countries in the hemisphere do not recognize the current haitian government. Just before thanksgiving the . Military began setting up tents for the haitians at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon said coast guard cutters that had been picking up the refugees at sea had become intolerably overcrowded. Washington up a citing poor indoor air for the loss of a tens of billions of dollars in lost productivity government officials wednesday issued a handbook to help building managers to evaluate and improve air Quality in their office complexes. A building air Quality a published by the environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute for occupational safety and health walks through Steps to identify causes of a sick building  it details ways to limit sources of indoor pollution to improve ventilation and to clean toxins out of indoor air. A we believe that if building owners and managers use this document and learn the lessons it has to offer in terms of prevention problem identification and alleviation it will yield benefits for health and productivity a said Michael Shapiro Deputy assistant administrator of the environmental Protection Agency. Included in the Loose Leaf publication Are forms which can be used to organize information about building occupant complaints and investigations. Epa officials said the increase in problems associated with poor indoor air Quality Are a direct result of the Energy consciousness since the mid-1970s. A attempts to reduce operating costs by significantly reducing air Exchange can be false economies that can be More than offset by indoor air Quality problems a Shapiro said. While expert help May be required in some cases Shapiro said the guide stresses procedures that can be carried out by existing building maintenance staffs. Such Steps include inspection and cleaning of air pathways to remove Bird droppings Mold mildew and other accumulated toxins. Indoor air Quality complaints also can result from unrelated factors such As building overcrowding poor lighting and heating or humidity control All of which the Book addresses. Some of the advice incorporated in the Booklet draws on the Epars own experience with indoor air Quality complaints at its Headquarters building. A a we be had experience As our own Laboratory a Shapiro said. He noted that work done to identify a single chemical cause of complaints May have been the wrong approach. The Agency upgraded its ventilation system removed most of the carpeting associated with complaints set new guidelines for carpet glue to be used and implemented an air duct cleaning program Shapiro said. A looking for single chemical contaminants Isnit the answer an Epa health official said explaining that Steps As simple As paying closer attention to sanitation and trash removal have reduced indoor air problems. Women told walking cuts heart risk Dallas apr women who want to reduce their risk of heart disease Only have to walk a bit researchers said in a study published wednesday. Women Between Ages 28 and 40 can reduce their risk of heart disease by up to 18 percent by walking three Miles a Day five Days a week the study says. A the amount of exercise needed to improve health and reduce risk of heart disease is considerably less than is required to improve fitness a such As losing weight or toning Muscles researcher John Duncan said tuesday. The study of 102 women was published in the journal of the american medical association. Researchers found that women who took 12 minutes to walk a mile and women who took 20 minutes to walk a mile each had the same increase of 6 percent in beneficial High density Lipoprotein cholesterol. For every one percent of increase in the Hal a Good Quot cholesterol the risk of coronary disease decreases by 6 percent according to previous research. A a it a never too late to exercise and exercise at even Low Levels is inherently beneficial a Duncan said. Quot when you look at walking for health intensity does no to seem to be As  in the study conducted at the Cooper Institute for aerobics research in Dallas women were divided into two groups. One group included women who before the study did no to exercise regularly and the other included women who walked at a Pace of 20 minutes per mile 15�?Twhen you look at walking for health intensity does t seem to be As important a researcher John Duncan minutes per mile and 12 minutes per mile. Ail the women walked three Miles a Day five Days a week and had an across the Board decrease in the risk of heart disease. The study also found that women walking at the fastest Pace increased their cardio respiratory fitness by an average of 16 percent roughly the same As women who jog. Duncan said women in the study were 20 percent to 25 percent overweight. But they did no to lose weight in the 24-week study they decreased their percentages of body fat As fatty tissue was replaced by muscle tissue. If we can just convince the masses to take up a Little bit of exercise we can go a Long Way in preventing the number of deaths in America from heart disease a Duncan said. Previous studies have come up with similar results. In Wake of the War reservist awarded posthumous degree Indianapolis Apall of her life Lorraine Moyer Lawton dreamed of being a professor and she had almost reached her goal. But the army reservist was killed in an Accident in the aftermath of the persian Gulf War. This week Purdue University awarded her a posthumous doctorate in comparative literature. A i appreciate the fact that the University did it a her husband Benjamin Lawton said tuesday in a Telephone interview from his West Lafayette Home. Lawton an associate professor of italian and film at Purdue and his wife were sent to saudi Arabia last december As reservists with the 21st theater area army come based at fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis. At the time Lorraine Lawton a teaching assistant in French and italian at Purdue was on an Exchange program with the University of Grenoble in France. A she had been there about two or three months when she was activated and told to come Back to the states to go to saudi Arabia a Lawton said. Lawton who has served in the reserves about 14 years was in the army a inspector general corps. His wife a reservist for about five years was the Headquarters company commander for an administration battalion. Their unit was preparing to return Home in june when a Call went out for volunteers to extend their deployment. Instead of going Back in june Lawton said they decided to stay in order to let some of the others return Home. In july la Gerraine Lawton 28, was killed in a military vehicle  reprimanded for erotic letter incident St. Petersburg Fla. A army officials have reprimanded a Reserve officer for poor judgment when he was lenient on soldiers involved in writing an erotic letter during the persian Gulf War. William h. Overton a Pinellas county judge and army Reserve major serving in the 160th my in was reprimanded in response to a sexual harassment complaint filed by it. Victoria Hudson of Gainesville. Overton said a group of enlisted men and women presented him with a joke Story about a lonely american soldiers sexual fantasies. He said a few Days later Hudson told him she had written a a better letters to Playboy or Penthouse magazines. Overton said he jokingly asked her to write a similar letter. Hudson said she was offered time off in return for writing the letter