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DETROIT FREE PRESS MONDAY. AUGUST 25, 1966 1 1 A Research finds a high carbohydrate diet shakes the blues for some CARBOHYDRATES, from Page 1A the days become shorter and darker. These associations lead the scientists to believe some people may be "self-medicating" with carbohydrates to stave off depression and anxiety. If this is true, high carbohydrate diets might someday be used to treat certain psychological problems, they said. Foods high in carbohydrates include sweets such as pastries and cookies and starches such as bread and potatoes.

One clue that carbohydrates affect cravers and non-cravers differently came from the work of Judith Wurtman, a nutritionist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In studying obese people, she found that those who craved a variety of foods said they became fatigued and more depressed after eating carbohydrates. Obese people who craved carbohy drates, however, became more alert and less depressed after eating their favorite foods. NEIL GRUNBERG, associate professor of medical psychology at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, found a link between carbohydrate craving and nicotine withdrawal. In trying to learn why people gain weight when they stop smoking, he found it isn't that people eat more of everything.

They eat more carbohydrates. "We speculate that changes in consumption of carbohydrates possibly is working to help alleviate the unpleasantness of withdrawal," he said. Deborah Bowen, a researcher at Texas Tech University wanted to see whether a high carbohydrate diet would help smokers kick the habit. Bowen used two groups of smokers, both of which were in smoking cessation programs. One group was given a high carbohydrate diet plus supplements of the amino acid tryptophan.

Tryptophan is a precursor of serotonin, a chemical messenger in the brain, which is involved in mood regulation. Carbohydrate diets are believed to modulate the levels of serotonin in the brain, Bowen said. The other group got a low carbohydrate diet and a placebo (an inert substance) with no tryptophan. PRELIMINARY results of Bowen's study show that more than twice as many people in the high carbohydrate group quit smoking as in the low carbohydrate group. The first group also showed lower levels of anxiety and hostility as they withdrew from nicotine, Bowen said.

The findings suggest that people who try to diet and stop smoking at the same time reduce their chances of succeeding at either effort, said Bonnie Spring, professor of psychology and social relations at Texas Tech. "Carbohydrate may help with withdrawal and help maintain abstinence," Spring said. The trick is to "find ways to retain those beneficial effects on mood while avoiding some of the adverse effects on weight gain." The researchers still are at a loss to explain the different effects of carbohydrates on cravers and non-cravers or what makes some people crave them. "We don't understand whether these people come by their carbohydrate craving because this is an innate phenomenon or whether it's something that can be learned or perhaps something that can be triggered by dieting," said Spring. ONE POSSIBLE explanation comes from Dr.

Norman Rosenthal, a psychiatrist with the National Institute of Mental Health. Rosenthal, who has worked with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) patients for five years, noted that carbohydrate craving accompanies increasing lethargy and depression as days become shorter and darker. Similar to Wurtman's findings, Rosenthal showed that carbohydrates seemed to energize SAD patients while sedating normal subjects. He also found a biochemical change that might explain the results. Perhaps, Rosenthal theorizes, SAD patients have a deficiency in the levels of tryptophan and therefore serotonin in their systems.

An increase in serotonin, triggered by eating carbohydrates, could bring them up to normal levels. In people whose brains have normal serotonin concentrations, however, an increase in the substance could have a sedative effect, Rosenthal suggested. City still shivering Regan sees budgeting, drug war as first goals 3 AP Pholo Carlton Gary's trial has captured the attention of Columbus as no criminal case has done since the 1 971 court-martial of First Lt. William Calley Jr. at nearby Fort Benning.

and brutally beaten. For six years after the killings stopped, no one was charged with the crimes, not until officers armed with submachine guns burst in on Carlton Gary and a woman friend in an Albany, Holiday Inn on May 3, 1984. A Muscogee County grand jury indicted him the next day. During the seven months that the stranglings occurred, and for many months afterward, there was raw terror in Columbus, particularly in Wynnton. The viciousness of the crimes, and the determination of the killer to reach his victims, magnified the fears.

To enter the home of 71-year-old Jean Dimenstein, the strangler removed the hinges of a garage door. To get at Martha Thurmond, 69, he disassembled a dead bolt lock. Every night in Wynnton, unmarked patrol cars roamed the streets, helicopters flew overhead, guard dogs barked, and home owners lit up their lawns like daylight and locked themselves inside to monitor police calls. Psychics volunteered clues to finding the strangler. Detectives spent the night in the homes of elderly women.

Police stopped thousands of men on the street for questioning. One was Carlton Gary, stopped not once but six times. After they charged Gary six years later with the stranglings, police theorized that he had escaped arrest earlier by giving police a different name, Social Security number and address each time. Investigators said that even the police computer did not recognize that it was the same man being questioned over and over. Police missed other chances to ques- TRIAL, from Page 1A vict, went on trial here Aug.

11 in Muscogee County Superior Court In three of the strangling deaths. He was not charged with the other four, but police regard him as their only suspect. Judge Kenneth Followill has permitted William Smith, Muscogee County district attorney, to present evidence against Gary in those cases and in burglaries, armed robberies, rapes and a murder in Georgia, South Carolina and New York. Such evidence is admissible to establish a pattern of criminal behavior, Followill ruled. Because the case had received so much publicity in Columbus, Followill brought in a jury selected from Spalding County, 80 miles away.

THE TRIAL ENTERS its third week today, when Atlanta lawyer August Siemon III is scheduled to open his defense of Gary against three counts of murder, three counts of rape and four counts of burglary. The prosecutor rested his case Friday after 10 days of testimony by 120 witnesses. He is seeking the death penalty. Gary's trial has captured the attention of Columbus as no criminal case has done since the 1971 court-martial of First Lt. William Calley Jr.

at nearby Fort Benning. A six-member military panel convicted Calley of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. The stocking strangler selected his victims from some of Columbus' most prominent families, and he killed them in Wynnton, Columbus' Grosse Pointe. Most of the victims were widows, and ranged in age from 59 to 89. All were alone in their homes when the Killer struck.

All were strangled, raped BUDGET, from Page 1A said he held with his staff last Monday to plan top presidential priorities for 1987 and 1988. He added that he expected to discuss these ideas with the president soon. But the first concern for the rest of the Reagan presidency will be drug abuse, Regan said. He said efforts to combat drug use in the country would be given the kind of priority status in the last half of Reagan's second term that tax revision has had during the first half. Details of an anti-drug program are still being worked on by the White House, but the basic thrust is aimed at discouraging use of illegal substances.

To achieve that end, the administration is considering proposals to require mandatory drug testing of federal employes in "sensitive" jobs and to encourage other federal and private workers to submit to voluntary testing. THE WHITE HOUSE has been considering legislation to overhaul the federal budget for several years but has not proposed a specific package to Congress because of strong opposition in both the House and Senate. Congressional opposition has been particularly fierce in the past to Reagan's call for a line-item veto, which would give him the power to veto specific items in a larger spending bill. Currently, the Constitution allows the president to veto only an entire bill, and Congress has not shown any desire to surrender additional budgetary powers to the chief executive. The president has supported legislation calling for a balanced budget amendment, but several attempts to get congressional approval have failed.

After the last setback this year, the president hinted that he might campaign for a constitutional convention as a way to obtain a balanced budget amendment, but he has not done anything along those lines. REGAN SAID there might be more congressional interest in budget changes now than in the past because of the steadily rising budget deficit and the pressure legislators feel from the Gramm-Rudman law that requires a balanced federal budget by 1991. According to new government estimates, this year's deficit is expected to reach a record $230 billion and prospects for achieving the $144 billion deficit target that Gramm-Rudman has set for 1987 are growing increasingly dim. "In these days of huge deficits and Gramm-Rudman, I think the atmosphere may be changing where people are saying, 'This is a Mickey Mouse Regan said. "If you were running a major agency, how could you plan what your budget would be (a month) before you have to start executing it?" he said.

tion Gary about the stranglings. Several months after the stranglings ended, Gary turned up in South Carolina, where he confessed to armed robberies at five steak houses in Greenville and one in Gaffney. He also confessed to robbing five steak houses in the Columbus area at gunpoint and agreed to talk with Columbus tives if they would limit their questioning to those crimes and guarantee that he would not be prosecuted for them. Columbus police agreed. They sent two detectives to Greenville and cleared those robberies from their books without ever asking Gary about the stranglings.

Sentenced to 21 years in prison in 1979, Gary served five years before escaping from a minimum security facility in Columbia on March 15, 1984. Benning and chased him down on foot. They said later that he gave a phony name, posted bond and went free after an hour in jail. His name still had not been connected with the stranglings. Police apparently acted on tips when they arrested Gary in Albany.

They said they finally linked him to the slayings through a stolen pistol taken in a Wynnton burglary at the time of the stranglings. Police testified that Gary admitted breaking into the strangling victims' homes, but insisted that an accomplice in the Greenville armed robberies, Mal-vin Crittenden, killed the women. Police said, however, that they found Gary's fingerprints at the scene of three of the stranglings and failed to find Crittenden's fingerprints at any of them. Crittenden is not a suspect, they said. About a month later, police spotted Gary smoking a marijuana cigaret in a parking lot outside a bar near Fort Jazz poster doubles as art and ad ONE WEEK ONLY! BACK TO SCHOOL i i 1 THE SHOES EVERYONE'S ASKING FOR! ENTIRE STOCK OF paper used is thick and accepts the ink well, ensuring the richness of the image.

Too, by having an artist-designed announcement Keller is continuing the poster-as-art tradition. McCabe believes using artists like Tinguely and Haring, who have international reputations, is good for the Detroit Montreux. "Jazz is a Detroit art form. A great many world-reknowned musicians came from The poster is another way to establish the fact that we can get world-class artists involved." Keller is lining up future artists. David Hockney, an acclaimed English draftsman, has already agreed to do a poster.

And Christo, the master of the wrapped landscape, probably also will have a future slot. "For the next year I choose Francois Boisrond," said Keller. "He is of the new generation of French artists, a new imagist who has exhibited his work in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago." Along with the imported Haring-Warhol poster, Montreux-Detroit '86 also includes a photographic exhibit celebrating 20 years of Montreux, Switzerland. Some 80 photographs of musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Odetta, Chuck Berry and Roy Haynes ii POSTER, from Page 1A I DETROIT RENAISSANCE, which sponsors the Montreux-Detroit festival, is also selling T-shirts at $10 each, sweatshirts for $15, lapel pins for $5, painter's hats for $12 and coffee mugs for $6, each decorated with the entire Haring-Warhol image or sections thereof. Proceeds go to support the annual jazz festival.

i "Every dollar helps," said Robert McCabe, director of Detroit Renaissance. "We may not sell out all the posters in one year. But we have people every year who are buying former posters and they are becoming collectors' items." Since 1980, when the festival began in Detroit, McCabe has worked with the organizers of the Montreux, Switzerland, jazz festival in the selection of the poster image. The first was by Detroit art student Karen Ringler. In 1982 the kinetic artist Jean Tin-guely of Switzerland set off an explosion of colors against a black ground in a terrific visual counterpart to sound.

This year's collaboration was the idea of Pierre Keller, a Swiss artist and art consultant to the festival, who also orchestrated the Tinguely poster and the later ones. KELLER SEES THE PROCESS as an intimate collaboration rather than an impersonal communication. "First I am friends of the artists and We try to work really Keller. "That's why we get really good posters. Now we are quite well-known through our posters.

"I met Keith Haring in 1981. I immediately thought he was the right guy to do a jazz poster. I invited him to do the poster in 1983. Detroit didn't take that one because they thought it was too rock 'n' roll not jazzy enough. It was in Day-GIo colors.

I also invited Haring to Montreux during the festival that year. He worked on stage drawing on panels during the artists' performances. He did a big mural 36 or 40 feet long outside. He was drawing on T-shirts. He did a car.

He did a motorcycle. He was incredibly generous with his talents. It was the beginning of his big success." Haring began his art career by animating dreary subway stations and buildings in Manhattan, for free, with his anonymous little pictographic characters. These days he's so well known the Swiss watch company which produces the "Swatch" has Haring-de-signed items. FOR THE 1986 POSTER the 20th year of the Montreux, Switzerland, festival Keller wanted to do something special.

"I thought why not do like a jam session," said Keller, "and put two or three artists together. I called Keith and said can you do it? Keith got the idea to ask Andy, who had worked with other European artists. Andy is not speaking a lot, but they are very good friends. Andy immediately accepted. Keith got the poster idea and then they did it together.

They worked for three days. "They had about 10 designs. I chose this because I think it was the best. An artist can do a very good drawing that may not be a good poster. A good poster is not just a reproduction of a painting.

Keith Haring had a fantastic feeling for the public and the real importance of the image as it relates to the jazz festival." THE POSTER WAS PRINTED in Switzerland under Keller's guidance. In the technical hierarchy of poster art, a silk-screened print such as this one is the best. Color is densely layered. The in festival performances over the two decades are on exhibition in the Renaissance Center, on the street level of Tower 300 near the Montreux ticket office, during the festival. A book of the photographs is available for $29.95.

The poster and other Montreux-Detroit items can be purchased at Trackside Trends souvenir shop in the Renaissance Center, the Museum Shop at the Detroit Institute of Arts and 35 retail outlets galleries, frame shops, record stores in the Detroit area. Here's a fantastic back to school sale on the most popular athletic shoes around REEBOKI Choose from every REEBOK court shoe, running shoe and leisure shoe we own. Our regular low prices of $39.95 to $65.95 are reduced to $31.90 to $52.50 just for this sale.so hurry to Sibley's today for the best selection. Sale price good thru Labor Day. Selection will vary at each store.

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