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Die Television Deaths Want ads Comics 2C 9C DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER, N.Y., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1980 'strike Actor 'It doesn't look good' mews makers fidled everyone from Burt Reynolds, who earns $5 some 30,000 members of other unions who have been thrown out of work by the striking actors. Tl 1.. million per film, to temporary studio pool stenographers earning $5 per, hour. I iitr.m wn Kri.t. iiiiiki.

ill i.nr:iii iiimiiiirrin ill liik Final hearings "It doesn look good, said a former SAG presi- i dent. "It appears the actors weren't prepared for By VERNON SCOTT United Press International LOS ANGELES "Attention Studio Strikers 1st, 2nd, 3rd Trust Deeds Up to $100,000. Swing Loans-Interest Only." That mortgage company ad in Daily Variety gives a clue as to some of the financial chaos created by the actors strike that wiped out the 1980-81 TV season originally scheduled to begin Monday. More than 100,000 workers, at a cost of scores of millions of dollars daily, have been laid off at studios, networks, independent production facilities and other movie-TV related industries because of the strike, now in its ninth week. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists shutdown has Producers insist they cannot afford advance payment at the percentage demanded and still make a fair profit.

They ask the actors, "What if we pay you in advance and then can't sell the product?" At the start of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA demanded 12 percent of distributor's gross and pension and welfare benefits. The guilds have reduced their demands to 5.4 percent after nine days play. Producers have upped their offer from 3.6 percent after 25 days play at the beginning of bargaining to 4.25 percent after 13 days play at last offer. The single percentage point difference, a SAG spokesman said could amount to millions and millions of dollars. But a third force has entered the dispute International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees and the Teamsters, have grown bitter toward the actors although their unions officially endorse the strike.

The disenchanted craftsmen and laborers have: nothing to gain by the SAG-AFTRA strike. Only; actors, writers and directors would profit from the negotiations. Many IATSE and Teamster members say the strike is being prolonged by a power struggle within the SAG negotiating committee involving a militant faction and a moderate group. Turn to ACTORS, Page 2C such a strong stand by the producers who give every sign of being prepared to hold out for months." Negotiations in the dispute were scheduled to resume today for the first time since Sept. 4.

At issue is future salaries from the sale of film and tape to pay TV and cable TV outfits in addition to sale of video cassettes and discs. Actors are demanding a percentage of gross profits of sales by distributors. They seek pay in advance because they mistrust the "creative bookkeeping" cf studios and producers. Grief Death of infant like amputation for the parents -f im-firirtfiiw-riiii-fiar Amiiiiffitiii WinHaMBillrfli Photos by Talis Bergmanis Workmen landscape around statues, above. Below, Jim Smirhgalo sprays on sealer.

New home for old sculptures on radio rules WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission is offering industry and the public one last chance this week to refine their arguments over the panel's proposal to' deregulate the radio industry. The proposal, issued by the commission in September 1979, has generated almost 20,000 public comments; court fights over access to FCC records, and a major policy dispute within the government. As a result, the FCC has taken the unusual step of inviting 17 spokesmen from all sides to participate in two days of discussion with the seven commission- ers today and tomorrow. The deregulation proposal is considered among the most sweeping ever is- sued by the FCC because it would substitute "marketplace forces" meaning competition between stations for certain regulations designed to ensure that radio stations serve the public. It calls for repeal of two internal standards, used by the FCC in reviewing license renewal applications, governing minimum amounts of news and public affairs programming and maximum limits on commercials.

In the first instance, AM stations are now expected to devote a minimum of 8 percent of their broadcast time to news and public affairs. The standard for FM stations is 6 percent. As for commercial time, the limit for all radio stations is 18 minutes per hour. deregulation proposal would also eliminate the formal survey procedure now used by stations to determine community needs, and repeal a requirement that detailed logs of all programming be maintained. The proposal would have no effect on the requirement that all broadcasters must serve the public interest; that radio stations follow the fairness doctrine and equal time standards; that they not discriminate against women or minorities, or that they undergo commission scrutiny every three years to obtain a new license.

The push toward deregulation is based on a tentative finding that the radio marketplace is now so diverse that it is serving major segments of society without commission intervention. AP Back in drug program NEW YORK Carol Burnett says her 16-year-old daughter has slipped back into using drugs and has returned to, the rehabilitation program that helped her last year. Miss Burnett, writing in the October issue of Ladies' Home Journal, said her family was not taken by surprise because her daughter, we know, an addictive personality. She will need ongoing treatment. Nobody ever said it would be easy and it isn't." Miss Burnett and her husband, Joe Hamilton, checked Carrie into the Palmer Drug Abuse Program in Houston against her wishes last June after they discovered the girl had been taking drugs and their efforts to help her were unsuccessful.

AP Thrown from horse TAUNTON, England Princess Anne's husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, was thrown from his horse yesterday and taken to' a hospital with his left hand badly sprained, cut and bruised. Phillips, an avid horseman and former Olympic rider, was approaching the eighth fence at a one-day horse trial when he was thrown. "Quite a few other riders found the No. 8 fence difficult," said Gerald Day, the second-place finisher in the trials.

"Mark's horse was completely upside down and he fell off the side. "They both lay very still, then the horse got up, but Mark just lay there. When he recovered, he said: 'It's my Phillips, 31, was given first aid and taken to a hospital for X-rays, but the injury was not serious. UPI Bob Seger ailing BOSTON Three sold-out concerts by rock star Bob Seger have been postponed until October because the performer has influenza. Boston Garden spokesman Joel Perl-mutter said Seger became ill in New York Saturday night and flew home to Detroit, where he has been hospitalized.

UPI By MARGOT SLADE New York Times NEW YORK Babies newborn and about-to-be-born don't "die." They are "lost." The parents don't mourn. They suffer a misfortune, briefly. For what they lost lived too short a time to win their love or merit their prolonged grief. Besides which, as friends, families and neighbors point out to these almost-parents, "My dears, you can always have So go popular notions of parental reaction to perinatal death death of fetuses as young as 20 weeks to infants as old as 28 days. There's only one problem: All these notions are wrong.

"It's taken us the last 10 years to recognize what we were doing right 30 or 40 years ago," said Dr. Marshall Klaus, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland and, with Dr. John Kennell, author of Maternal-Infant rediscovering the importance of such deaths and the parents' need to participate to hold the dead babies, plan the funerals, have baby pictures, talk and mourn as much as they now participate at births." THAT PERINATAL DEATH is traumatic was clearly demonstrated in a recent study of 100 women and some 20 of their husbands whose babies had died. Larry G. Peppers and Ronald J.

Knapp, sociologists at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., found that not only was the nature and intensity of mourning unrelated to the length of an infant's life, it was unrelated to the length of the fetus's life. Friends, relatives and the community are often bungling and insensitive in their treatment of the parents, as interviews conducted by the two sociologists attest: Women coming home from the hospital to find the nursery dismantled, baby clothing removed, the child buried without their presence; diaper services, never contacted, appearing on the doorstep and inquiring after the newborn. Most innocuous sounding, but perhaps most frightening to parents, is being left without sympathetic listeners: "We had no one to talk to; people studiously avoided even mentioning babies, other people's babies. They stopped me from talking about my own," said one mother in St. Louis.

FIFTEEN YEARS after her son's death, she described her pregnancy, the stillbirth, her meager scrapbook of condolence cards, scraps of fabric chosen for the nursery, a list of names she had penciled on a used envelope one afternoon: "I was supposed to forget this ever happened to me," she said. "But it did; it did." "We must recognize that when a woman loses a fetus or newborn," said Dr. Klaus, "she loses a bodily part she will never regain, much like losing an arm." Erma Furman, a psychoanalyst who has studied grief and mourning and who is a staff member of the Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development, explains: "To a parent, a child is both a separate person and a part of oneself. The younger the baby, the stronger the 'part of oneself identification. When that baby dies, we are dealing with something akin to amputation." Dr.

George A. Little, chairman of Dartmouth Medical School's department of maternal and child health, pointed out: "Today, these deaths happen at a time when Americans are having fewer kids, making each death more poignant. They plan their families, so death destroys their life timetables. They anticipate the birth from the time pregnancy is confirmed, and suddenly find their dreams and expectations in shambles. They are having kids later in life, so the baby's death leaves a fear that time is running out to 'always have an- THIS IS ALSO an era in which new medical technology has raised people's expectations of a safe pregnancy carried to term, an expectation too often shattered.

For with the infant mortality rate dropping, recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics show, for example, that in 1977, 9.9 babies per 1,000 live births still within 28 days. "What we are doing now," said Dr. Little, "is taking our rediscovered information and helping the parents and ourselves the medical staff." Dr. Little says he advises parents to hold their dead babies, if they like. "It sounds morbid," he said, "but it generally helps parents identify what has happened and begin the disengagement stage of the mourning process." Turn to GRIEF, Page 2C 7 If Ji 4w 1 xilt wt 1 iww ft 4' i V1.

I IS Four sculptures of Italian marble, commissioned by Hiram Sibley in 1875 for the University of Rochester's Prince Street Campus, have been transferred to the University's River Campus after being in storage for 12 years. The four statues, each about eight feet tall, are now on pedestals between the University'of Rochester library and the psychology building. The statues have been cleaned and weather-protected with funds donated by the university's Class of 1954 as its 25th reunion gift. A University spokesman said the class donated about $18,000 for the restoration and relocation of the statues. Sibley had originally commissioned eight sculptures, two of which were mysteriously lost en route from Italy to Rochester.

The six sculptures which arrived here were placed in exterior niches of Sibley Hall, a Medina brownstone building given by Sibley for use as a university library. They were put in storage in 1968 when Sibley Hall was razed. The sculptures are believed to represent Navigation, Geography, Astronomy, Science, Commerce and Transportation. In 1955, two sphinxes presented by Sibley to "guard" the entrance of Sibley Hall, were moved from Prince Street to the River Campus when the Women's Turn to STATUES, Page 2C Revised Yes here tomorrow By JACK GARNER 04C Popular Arti Editor Can a 12-year-old internationally known rock band continue to find success despite the departure of two of its best-known members? The answer seems to be YES. In fact, YES is the name of the band in question.

The popular, British-based quintet has maintained a large following with its blend of big-production classical elements, a distinctive, crisp bass line, rock rhythms, and harmonic vocals. And now they're on the road in support of a new album that does not include former keyboard whiz Rick Wakeman and vocalist-lyricist Jon Anderson. They're now pursuing solo careers. The tour is bringing Yes into Rochester's Community War Memorial at 8 p.m. tomorrow.

Once again, Yes will be employing its in-the-round staging concert, working from a high-visibility platform in the middle of the War Memorial floor. The current edition of Yes features the long-time rhythm section of Chris Squire on bass and Alan White on drums, and veteran guitarist Steve to cook." THE NEW BAND came together about five months ago, when Horn and Downes brought Yes a song they'd written. Anderson and Wakeman had left the band, and the remaining veterans were laying down recording tracks as a trio. "They came and played with us and there was a fusion immediately," White said. "Over a period of two weeks we played more together, and it seemed obvious the whole thing could work." Since then, the band recorded a new album, Drama, and also has been rehearsing a lot of the older Yes songs including the ever-popular Roundabout for concert performances.

"On some parts Trevor Horn sounds just like Jon Anderson. It's uncanny," White said, "He doesn't do it on purpose, it just turns out that way. "The concert will be half new material and half older things," White said, "We have to do it that way because of the long-standing Yes fans. Of course, we're interested in getting the material across as well." Turn to YES, Page 2C Howe. They've been augmented with vocalist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes.

Horn and Downes come to Yes from a British group called Buggies which apparently had considerable success everywhere but in America. Drummer White said he and the other veterans see the change in personnel as a chance for revitalization. "Absolutely. We have so much determination among 'all of us to make it work that the enthusiasm is overflowing." He talked by phone during a break from tour rehearsals. "We're getting 100 percent from each of us.

What happened before was we'd get 100 percent from Steve, Chris and myself, and only about 50 percent from Rick and Jon, and you could feel that in the music we were creating." "Yes is a progressive band in which the strongest factor is the combination of the five members. When we all tried to do solo albums in 1976 we discovered that none of us is as strong as the group. The unit of Yes will always be there, even if major members leave. "It's as good as ever right now," he said. "The new combination is really starting To be released soon SANTA MONICA, Calif.

Actor James Stewart, who was admitted to St. John's Hopsital last week for mild sciatica, has been relieved of his pain and will be released in a few days, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. It was the second time in the last month that the 72-year-old Academy Award-winning actor was admitted to the hospital. Stewart spent five days in the facility's coronary care unit last mpnth after complaining of an irregular pulse. Hospital officials said Stewart's sciatica was unrelated to his earlier heart problem.

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