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Straw Hospitalized for Depression By Jeff Benkoe Karen Straw, the battered wife acquitted of murdering her husband last month, haa been admitted to the psychiatric hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, suffering from depression, a hospital official confirmed yesterday. Accompanied by a friend. Straw checked herself into Queens Hospital Center on Saturday, then was transferred to LLTs Hillside Hospital on Monday, according to two sources. "She is a patient in our psychiatric division," said Rosalie Kershaw, an LU spokeswoman. "She is now under- said a friend.

"She called me on Friday. She came back from appearing on a television show in Boston and said, 1 have to get out of She just couldn't go unwilling to enforce. Ronnie Eldridge, one of the leaders of a committee which raised money for Straws defense, said Straws continuing problems only underscore "how bad a system the system is, especially being a poor woman. It takes an enormous mount, to survive in the system." Eldridge said Straws supporters were trying to find her an apartment so they could move out of the Lincoln. Her lawyer, Michael Dowd, said that since the trial, going back to the hotel room was more difficult.

Junkies in the area, recognising her from news coverage, were harassing her, he said. "One of the most distressing things is that she has suffered through the tremendous emotional trauma of nine months from the killing to the trial," Dowd said. "If there was any future for her, she had to have been hurt by the experience." back to that one room." Straw and her two children, Shawn, 10, and Tanei-sha, 7, have been living in a room at the Lincoln Motor Inn on the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica, which costs the city $2,500 a month. The children are staying with the friend who went with ho: to the hospital, friends said. Straw, 29, was acquitted on Sept.

30 of murdering her husband, Tony, who had a history of assaulting her. She plaimai ah acted in self-defense when she fatally stabbed him on Dec. 19, 1986, because he had raped her at knifepoint in front of her children and she believed he was about to stab her. Victim advocates and womens rights groups have called Straw a symbol of the failure of the criminal justice system, because she had a court order that her husband stay away from her that police were unable or Karen Straw Ad Plan Offered in Housing Bias Case "These advertisers have published only white models in the past, and created the impression these complexes are only for white residents," Scanlon said. "The 33-percent figure will do something to correct that impression." Blacks represent about a quarter of New York Citys population.

Bill Chong, medal asiatant to state Human Rights Commissioner Douglas White, said developers in the rity said they are willing to work out an agreement to try to avoid possibly lengthy hrings and court procedures. But some who say theyre willing to negotiate expressed reservations. Donald Snider, an attorney representing the developers of the Alfred, a Manhattan condominium project, said did not oppose fair-housing laws, would comply with any reasonable agreement if it were less costly than challenging it. But, he said, "Tm not sure where the Continued on Page 25 By Carol Polsky At least a third of all models in real-estate ads the men and women luxuriating in miM bathtubs and sipping champagne in plush living rooms with skyline views would have to be black under a voluntary plan to be offered by the state Division of Human Rights and civil-rights groups. The plan would also require good-faith efforts to use other minorities, such as Asians and Hispanics, in ads that trumpet real-estate nffeinp by participating developers, including those touting new luxury condominium buildings going up in Manhattan.

Agreement on the plan would resolve complaints filed separately last June with the Open Homing Center, a private advocacy group, by the state and by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored The complainants said they found that newspaper ads studied in 1986 used virtually no minority models and failed to properly display an equal opportunity logo, as required. Such ads constitute unlawful discrimination, state officials say. The complaints were consolidated into an action against -at least 28 buildings and complexes, involving dozens of developers, advertisers and marketing companies. Among the developers Mwmd were the Glick Organization, William Zeckendorf Harry Macklowe and Ian Bruce Eichner. The first negotiating conferences with developers will start next week.

Mbst of the developers and their lawyers still havent seen the proposal. The proposal is nimilar to an agreement covering real-estate ads in the Washington Post. Kerry Alan Scanlon, of the Washington Lawyers Committee fin: Civil Rights Under Law, who worked to obtain that agreement last year, also represents civil-rights groups in the New York case. TV Ad Loses Steam By Daniel Kahn Newsday Advertising Writer A new television commercial for Jovan Musk poses the question: What is sexy? The three major networks quickly provided an answer: Hie commercial itself All three rejected it because of a few scenes deemed too explicit for a mass medium. But Jovan, which reluctantly agreed to edit some of the steam out of the 30-second spot, got maximum media exposure by presenting both versions yesterday at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan.

A sexual atmosphere drenched the screen not surprising to anyone who has seen the films "Fatal Attraction and "94 Weeks, both works of British filmmaker Adrian Lome, who also directed the commercial. The contretemps was the latest incident in a rising wave of sexually suggestive advertising that seems to be moving from tfm more fashionable magazines to the mass madia. And the few product categories that relied on ex jeans and fragrances' now have been joined by running shoes and diet food and even laundry detergents. TravelFox, a shoe company, expressed outrage this summer when its print ad of a man and a woman, unclothed except for the shoes and socks, was rejected by magaainaa. Why ban its ad, the company asked, when the same magazines accept equally provocative ads from Calvin Klein alnfhaa and fragrances, Revlon, Anne Klein fragrances, Guess Jeans, Georges Marciano clothing, Kiel Watches and others? In television, advertisers seem willing to test the limits of the networks departments of standards and practices.

Recent commercials many ordered toned Continued on Page 25 HnSvMalMsm Massachusetts Governor Tries a Real Subway After a subway ride in Boston, a prototype "bullet train" ride to New York, and a press conference at Penn Station, Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mtehael Dukakis rode three subways to get to the Waldorf-Astoria for the next engagement in his push for mass transit in the northeast Parts of the trip were miserable. About 100 reporters, cops and Dukakis' own staffers tried to keep up on the city subway leg of it at rush hour. (Story, Page 25).