European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes sunday february 2, 1992reformed alcoholics found to extend lives Chicago apr most alcoholics who sober up can beat the Odds of an Early death virtually completely even after 15 or 20 years of hard drinking researchers said Friday. A we need to try really hard to get alcoholics into treatment and to quit a said or. Igor Grant a psychiatry professor at the University of California san Diego. A and alcoholics can be encouraged to never give up trying to quit a that no matter How much drinking they be done they can make up some of the damage if they quit a he said. His study of 199 male alcoholics ranging in age from their 20s to their 60s found that those who quit drinking reduced their death rate to As Low As that of nonalcoholic Over the next one year to 11 years. Ninety eight of the alcoholics stayed sober the whole time they were followed. Their death rate during the study period was almost the same As that of men of the court oks repatriation of haitians Washington a the supreme court cleared the Way Friday night for the Bush administration to Send Home thousands of haitian refugees even while an appeals court decides the legality of the policy. In an unusual order the High court granted the Justice departments motion to stay a Miami Federal courts injunction against the forcible return of 9,000 haitian refugees being held at the . Navy base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The ruling gives the administration the Legal authority to Start repatriating the haitians even though the Issue is still being argued before the 11th circuit court of appeals in Atlanta said a senior Justice department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. A was a practical matter it Means the government is free to begin the forced return of haitians until the 11th circuits decision a agreed Ira kurzban a Miami lawyer representing the haitian refugee Center. The state department immediately will begin returning up to 5,500 of the refugees that . Immigration officials have determined to be a without plausible claim for Asylum a the Miami Herald reported saturday. The High courts order simply said that the injunction issued by the Miami judge a is stayed pending disposition of the cases by the 11th circuit court. The Justice department had argued that the haitians challenging their forced return to their Homeland were not entitled to the injunction while the Case was in the courts because they were unlikely to win their lawsuit. Earlier Friday the 11th circuit court erroneously announced that it had ruled in favor of the government. The court later withdrew the order saying it was a clerical error. . Rep. Charles e. Schumer d-n.y., said he would push for Quick approval of legislation preventing the same age in the general population. But the 101 who relapsed died at five times that rate the study found. The study was funded by the department of veterans affairs. It will be published in the journal of the american medical association on wednesday. Subjects excluded women because the research was funded by the a and the vast majority of veterans Are men Grant said. A we  get enough women veterans to make sense of the data a he said. He added that his findings Are Likely to be applicable to women and that previous research among female alcoholics has suggested As much. Research has shown that alcoholics who continue drinking die 10 to 15 years prematurely and that those who quit drinking extend their life expectancies. Grant Diego. Said his study was the first to show the length of that Extension. A a there has been a lot of argument about whether complications of alcoholism Are reversible a said or. John t. Sullivan an expert on chemical dependence at Francis Scott key medical Center in Baltimore. A this data suggests most Are  Grant said an alcoholic who quits drinking reduces his risk of Early death As much As a smoker who quits smoking. Other studies show quitting smoking reduces a smokers risk of premature death gradually to virtually the same As that of a lifetime non smoker. The study excluded alcoholics who had already developed medical problems such As cirrhosis of the liver pancreatitis and brain atrophy a All life shortening complications of alcoholism said Grant a staff psychiatrist at the veterans affairs medical Center in san a member of the coast guard lifts a child up from a boat carrying haitian refugees in the West indies last week. The supreme court cleared the Way Friday for the Bush administration to Send Home thousands of haitian refugees. Forced return of the refugees who say army terror forced them to flee Haiti after the sept. 30 ouster of Jean Ber Trand Aristide Haiti a first freely elected president. The Atlanta court did no to indicate when it would Rule in the Case. Schumer is trying to get the Bill to a vote on the House floor by Early this week. The Bill would Grant the haitians temporary protected status until president Bush certifies to Congress that democracy is restored in Haiti. Food stamp use increases by 15 percent Washington a More americans than Ever Are turning to the government for help in buying food with the number of food stamp recipients increasing 15 percent in the last year the agriculture department reports. A record 24.56 million americans received food Stamps in november up 400,000 from october and 3.27 million from a year earlier the department said Friday. It was the eighth time in nine months that the program has set an enrolment record. A these numbers Are a Catalon of despair a said rep. Tony p. Hall a Ohio chairman of the House select committee on hunger. A this Litany of need continues to document the erosion of the american Middle  at the Pace of recent increases one in every 10 americans is Likely to be receiving food Stamps when the december or january figures Are released said Rod Leonard executive director of the Community nutrition Institute. The Senate agriculture committee says food stamp participation has increased by 5.79 million since president Bush took office rising from 18.77 million in february 1989 to 24.56 million in november. That is an average increase of More than 39,000 new recipients a week. A a it a like adding the population of Concord new Hampshire to the food stamp Rolls each week. These Are the casualties of the current recession a said committee chairman Patrick j. Leahy Dot. To qualify for food Stamps a family of four must have an annual net income of less than $13,405. In november the average food stamp Benefit amounted to $68.98 for the month. The agriculture departments food and nutrition service which administers the food stamp program said the november increase was a not entirely unexpected since participation traditionally rises in the cooler  condoms could be sold in . By year s end Rockville my. A condoms for women could be on american store shelves by years end if the manufacturer and the food and drug administration follow the advice of a Federal advisory panel. A we have a male condom that started 400 years ago and for the first time in 400 years we have a female equivalent a said or. M. Silverman of the american federation for aids research who testified Friday for the manufacturer. Fourteen experts who advise the Fra voted unanimously to allow the female condom onto the . Market if the manufacturer meets All requirements. Those include finishing a clinical test now in Progress among 200 women studying the durability of the condoms by testing them in the lab after they have been used and coming up with Labelling the government approves. Assuming nothing goes wrong the studies could be done by this summer and the condoms could be headed for stores by fall or the end of the year said Mary Ann Leeper who headed the development of the devices for Wisconsin Pha Macal co., the . Manufacturer. The condoms which would sell for $2.25 each already have been approved for use in Switzerland and will be sold in France and England later this year. The female condom is an adaptation of the one for men. It is a 7-Inch tube with flexible rings at both ends. The inner ring fits behind the woman a pubic Bone and the outer ring remains outside her body. During a Daylong hearing Friday before the panel women a advocates pleaded for government approval. They said the condom would give women the control they need to protect against pregnancy and disease