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FINAL 3 SPORTS CATS HOLD OFF THE DEVILS, 70-61 SUMS MAUL THE MAVS, 108-88 Tee lEPUEOC Final Edition 350 Copyright 1 990, The Arizona Republic Thursday, January 18, 1990 Phoenix, Arizona 100th year, No. 245 1 ni.il in i i ii ii iii ii i ii. i. wwm.m i i i 1 1 It keeps 'em perkin': Coffee, sex in aged tied Oat bran does not reduce cholesterol, study contends A LOOK AT THE RESEARCH In a study by Harvard University Medical School researchers: (Twenty healthy adults lowered their cholesterol levels by about 7 to 8 percent on both oat-bran and low-fiber diets. jThe oat-bran diet consisted of 3.5 ounces daily of oat bran mixed in muffins or main courses, such as meat loaf and casseroles, for two six-week periods.

The low-fiber diet replaced the oat bran with Cream of Wheat and other sources of refined wheat. The foods contained 800 to 1,000 calories a day. The volunteers could eat whatever else they wanted but had to keep track of what they ate and how much. Source: Scripps Howard By Peter Aleshire The Arizona Republic Elderly women who drink coffee are more sexually active, and elderly men who drink coffee are less likely to be impotent, according to a survey published in the January issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Among married women, 62 percent of coffee drinkers said they were sexually active but just 40 percent of nori-coffee-drinkcrs said they were.

Among married men, 36 percent of coffee drinkers said they sometimes had sexual trouble, compared with 59 percent of those who didn't drink coffee. Dr. Ananias Diokno of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, surveyed 744 Michigan residents for the study of sex Sec COFFEE, page A6 By Daniel Q. Haney The Associated Press BOSTON Contrary to cereal advertisements and popular belief, oat bran has no inherent cholesterol-lowering effect, according to a study that challenges one of the biggest food crazes of the 1980s. Critics were skeptical of the findings.

The new research concludes that people who eat lots of oat bran do, indeed, have less cholesterol in their blood, not because of any special powers of oat bran but because they eat less saturated fat and cholesterol. "There really isn't any cholesterol-lowering property in oat bran," said Dr. Frank M. Sacks, a co-author of the study by researchers from the Harvard University Medical School. "Oat bran pretty much docs the same as other cereal products." Oat bran has been promoted as a health food largely because it is rich in soluble fiber.

Several See OAT BRAN, page A6 i A. Kt- Soviets OK firm Cleo Lewis "Everybody on the south side knew he was a police officer before the assault," a DEA informer reportedly told detectives. ''WWWW ff 1 y' 1 -4a Police: Ex-officer in pocket of dealers Allegedly beaten for cocaine debts Y1 r4i If on rioters Troops finally reach "high tension' areas By Ann Imse The Associated Press MOSCOW The Kremlin on Wednesday authorized the thousands of soldiers it has sent to the Caucasus to open fire if necessary on bands of Armenians arid Azcrbaijanis fighting each other in the hills near the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Thousands of Armenian, refugees poured from the southern Republic of Azerbaijan, many beaten or chased from their homes by angry mobs. Some blamed the attacks on Azcrbaijanis who earlier fled ethnic violence in Armenia.

The death toll rose to 58, mostly Armenians, and the number of injured to 169 in five days of civil warfare, an Interior Ministry official said, However, the ministry cautioned that the loll could be far worse. Authorities had not yet determined casualty figures for violence in rural areas where troops had not yet arrived. The evening TV news show, Vrcmya, ran a statement from the KGH and the Interior and Defense ministries, which control troops in the area, that said, "Risking their lives, they have so far refrained from using arms against criminals to prevent bloodshed. However, a sharp increase in outrageous attacks has made the situation unbearable." The soldiers now arc permitted to use their weapons in accordance with military rules and Soviet law, it said. Four burned bodies were found in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the official Tass news agency said Wednesday.

Eighteen Armenian residents were injured in Azerbaijan in the past day. The Interior Ministry also said the military had been forced to airlift troops over roadblocks of Azcrbaijanis trying to keep government forces from intervening in the See SOVIET, page A 12 Photo by Tass A coffin bearing a victim of ethnic violence in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan is carried aloft at a funeral in Gyandzha, Azerbaijan, and weeping women console each other during the ceremony. Five days of civil warfare have left 58 people dead and 169 injured, an Interior Ministry official said. By Jim Walsh and Eric Miller The Arizona Republic A paid informer for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration gency has told Phoenix police detectives that a former undercover officer owed money to cocaine dealers and was "in their pocket," according to a police report. Assistant Police Chief Jerry Oliver confirmed Wednesday that the department is investigating reports that former Officer Cleo Lewis received payoffs from drug dealers, but he said the allegations have yet to be verified.

A badly beaten Lewis told his superiors on Dec. 9 that he had been worked over by drug dealers in a south Phoenix "crack house," a place where "crack" cocaine is sold and used, when they discovered he was an undercover officer. But I-cwis was fired after an internal police investigation revealed that he had fabricated the story and had not been working undercover when the beating occurred. According to the latest report, the DFA informer told detectives "that everybody on the south side knew he (Lewis) was a police officer before the assault." The informer also said, "The assault was a result of Detective Ixwis' owing the dope dealers money, not because he is an Lewis was not killed, the informer' said, because the dealers still wanted to collect on the debt. The police report, alleges that during a 24-hour period on Dec.

8-9, Lewis cashed as many as 10 personal checks drawn on a closed account, raising a total of $600 to $700, some of which he is believed to have used to purchase crack for his personal use. Asked by investigators how much Sec EX-UNDERCOVER, pagcA6 Photo by Tass 'We've cartel admits in Colombia A It rains fender benders in Valley the cartel's statement that it has accepted defeat. Also Wednesday, a Colombian brother and sister were flown to North Carolina to face charges of running a cocaine-trafficking ring. That brought to 13 the number of Colombians extradited to the United States since President Virgilio Darco launched the Crackdown in August. 1 By Tom Wells The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia The Mc-dellin cocaine cartel said Wednesday that the government has won the war on drugs and that, in exchange for a pardon, it will halt its terror campaign and stop dealing drugs.

The cartel released two kidnapping victims to back up its offer, which was similar to previous proposals that have been rejected by the government. The difference in this proposal was The drug! cartel's communique Sec RING, page A 7 Index C7 By Fred Smith The Arizona Republic A storm billed as potentially the biggest of the winter moved into Arizona on Wednesday, bringing 0.43 of an inch of rain to Phoenix by evening, the National Weather Service reported. The storm also brought a spate of fender benders to the Valley. Forecasters said the storm could dump more than a foot of snow on higher elevations of the state and nearly an inch of rain in lower areas. The moisture was a welcome sight in a state suffering from several years of below-average prccipftation, and the snow brought joy to the slate's ski runs.

Just over an inch of rain was reported by Wednesday evening at Crown King, in the Bradshaw Mountains northwest of Black Canyon City, while observers reported 0.56 inch in Scottsdalc and 0.51 in Sun City. The storm can be expected to stay a while, forecasters said, unlike three previous systems that moved quickly through the slate in the past month. Byron Peterson, a meteorologist Sec BIG STORM, PagcA7 INDEX: Astrology Bombcck Bridge Business Classified C7 C7 Dl CLl C6, CL7 Tin J' 4u Comics Blown transformer has ASU dorm in the dark Sec Page I) I Oil production falls while imports rise Sec Page Dl Today's prayer: Grant us the grace, Lord, to forgive and forget hurts we receive. Amen. Today's chuckle: Cover charge: electric blanket.

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