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Page 12 Southern Illinoisan, Thursday, September 1 1, 1986 From SI Wire Services Mlos may spur suBdd Washington. In interviews, neither Phillips nor Gould advocated censorship. "I would be very upset if people were to use my findings to pressure the news media to reduce coverage of certain kinds of stories," Phillips said. He suggested that news reports about suicides might include mention of the finding that suicides often follow such coverage. This way, friends and relatives of potential suicide victims, as well as despondent people themselves, could be especially alert.

Dr. Leon Eisenberg of Harvard, Medical School. "Yet if this is right, that may be some sort of stimulus to people who are thinking about it. I don't know what the solution is." Although the studies concluded that teen-age suicides increase after television news programs or movies dealing with suicide, neither showed that the victims had seen the programs. Dr.

David P. Phillips of the University of California at San Diego found that the nationwide suicide rate among teen-agers was 7 percent higher than usual following 38 televi- sion news and feature stories about suicide during the 1970s. Dr. Madelyn S. Gould of Columbia University found that the number of teen-age suicide attempts in the New York City area rose significantly following three of four made-for-televi-sion movies about suicide that were broadcast during the fall of 1984 and winter of 1985.

Both studies suggested that teenagers imitate suicides they hear about on television. The reports were published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, along with an editorial by Eisenberg. BOSTON (AP) News and feature stories about suicide, as well as television movies on the subject, seem to induce teen-agers to take their own lives, two new studies conclude. The research suggests that even well-intentioned examinations of the rising suicide rate can prompt troubled adolescents to kill themselves. However, experts are unsure what, if anything, the news media should change in their portrayal of suicide.

"I don't think we should not tell the public that the suicide rate is going up. That would be ridiculous," said The National Broadcasting Co. said another study suggested stories about suicides helped avert more deaths. After accidents, suicide is the leading cause of death among American adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19. Since 1950, the suicide rate has tripled in this age group, and almost 1,700 kill themselves each year.

"There is an implication that there should be censorship. I am very much opposed to that," said lotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center in yirrooat motlheir i i i ii ii i it i I it i mpst odw yp balby Ik? Ik? HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) A judge ruled Wednesday that an infant born to a surrogate mother will remain with her natural father and his wife while the legal battle continues over the validity of the surrogate I 0 ILn contract. 1 I CBS shakeup has chairman leaving firm NEW YORK (AP) CBS Inc. Chairman Thomas H.

Wyman is leaving the broadcast company and will be replaced temporarily by William Paley, the industry partiarch who shaped CBS over the decades, CBS News reported Wednesday. Laurence A. Tisch, CBS's largest shareholder and also a director, was named acting chief executive officer by the company's board, which met all day, according to the report on "The CBS Evening News." The company will search for a permanent replacement for Wyman, who had held both posts; CBS News said. It wasn't immediately clear whether Wyman resigned or was forced to leave. Wyman's cost-cutting programs have caused dissension in CBS's news division.

Senate panel delays hearing judge's claim WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Impeachment Committee on Wednesday delayed until next week a ruling on whether to hear a claim by imprisoned federal judge Harry E. Claiborne, that he was framed by vindictive prosecutors bent on destroying him. The panel headed by Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, agreed to decide on Monday whether to consider Claiborne's crucial defense argument or as House prosecutors are seeking to limit the evidence to details of his conviction for tax evasion.

Companies, Navy settle on payments for movie WASHINGTON (AP) Three companies accused of failing to reimburse the Navy for aircraft flights in the movie The Final Countdown are paying the federal government $400,000, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. payment settle a lawsuit filed by the government against Peter Vincent Douglas, the son of actor Kirk Douglas, and three film production companies. At the time the movie was being made, one of the firms, The Bryna was owned by Kirk Douglas, according to court documents in the case filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Va. Peter Vincent Douglas was the movie's producer.

But Superior In Court Judge Harvey Sorkow said the natural mother, Mary Beth Whitehead of Brick Township, will be allowed to visit her 5-morith-old daughter for Js) mmstiV IH AV725 1 1 one-hour sessions Whitehead decided to keep the baby and fled to Florida before the child was retrieved by authorities and put in the temporary custody of the Sterns. Mrs. Whitehead filed suit to regain custody. Until late August, Mrs. Whitehead, her husband, Richard, and the Sterns had agreed that she had been impregnated through artificial insemination with Stern's sperm under an agreement that she would bear the Tenafly couple a child for $10,000.

Mrs. Whitehead alleges that her husband might be the child's real father, depite a vasectomy. She said she had intercourse with him close to the time of the artificial insemination and the vasectomy. She left the courtroom Wednesday during Sorkow's ruling, wiping her eyes and declining to comment. Stern, a 45-year-old biochemist, would not comment on the impact Mrs.

Whitehead's visits will have on his and his wife's attempts to form a relationship with the baby. The judge ordered the Bergen County Probation Department to conduct a general custody investigation of the parties in the case. In addition, psychiatrists will evaluate the Whiteheads and the Sterns. Sorkow rejected Mrs. Whitehead's contention that she should have temporary custody of the baby because she had been breast-feeding" the child.

He said the baby is thriving on formula and has the benefit of the expertise of Mrs. Stern, a Video Recorder Wireless Remote Front Loading Enhanced HQ Video Circuitry Wireless 1 1 function Remote Control PauseStill Frame Advance. Search in SLP Mode 68 Channel Electric Tuning 2 Week2 Event Programmable Timer Simple One-Touch Recording System 25" Color Console twice each week in Mary Beth a supervised setting, whitehead The judge also lifted a gag order he had imposed in August on the principal parties in the case, saying the public's right to know the details of the case outweighed the infant's right to privacy. Four newspapers, three from New Jersey and one from New York City, had asked Sorkow to vacate the gag order. Alan Grosman, attorney for Mrs.

Whitehead, said he will appeal the ruling, which allows the child to remain with William and Elizabeth Stern of Tenafly. Mrs. Whitehead, who cared for the child during her first 4 months, "has been deprived of meaningful contact with the baby," he said. The dispute began when Mrs. Whitehead, 30, refused to surrender her daughter to the Sterns.

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