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S.itunl.iv. Junr 17, ",2 'M KOI I Rn. nder Way acK iLxpo (ie is clroiliTrccJJrco Week-Long. Event it Fairgrounds The Back Page 'kx Richard Austin and Recorders Court Judge George W. Crockett.

Expo is sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. will be a Martin Luther King tribute at 4 p.m. Sunday at the fairgrounds coliseum featuring Angela Davis, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, U.S.

Rep. Charles Diggs, D-Detroit, State Sen. Coleman A. Young, D-Detroit, Secretary of State A "Brotherhood March" by 150 schoolchildren marked the opening Friday of a weekend-long Black Expo at the State Fairgrounds. The number of marchers fell far below the 2,000 expected by Expo organizers.

Leading the procession were several black politicians, veteran civil rights crusader Rosa Parks and Newark, N.J., school board member Law rence Hamm, who was appointed to his post by Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson at the age of 17. Designed to promote black political and economic awareness, the event will include exhibitions of black arts, crafts, business and industry, as well as concerts by black musicians and speeches by black politicians. Highlight of the exposition fit Free Press Photos by Richard Lee mid Don Hernandez Death's Like Scx-Behind Closed Doors 4 Diane Jones, 17, of the at the crowd. i. it, lliisi la AMERICANS TODAY treat death much the same way the Victorians treated sex.

It is not discussed in polite company. The language is loaded with euphemisms about it. It happens behind closed doors. A Wayne State University study of attitudes toward dying may illuminate some more general feelings about mortality. The subjects of this study were 400 persons whose current or anticipated careers put them in daily contact with death: Mortuary science students, nursing home administrators, nurses and psychology students interested in dying and death.

Pychologist Robert Kastenbaum and graduate student Paul Sabatini designed their research so that each participant had to confront his own death in cold, statistical terms: by filling out a do-it-yourself death certificate. ON A FACSIMILE of the actual Michigan Death Certificate, each participant was asked to indicate when, where, and how lie fxpected to die, the length of time he would spend on his deathbed, and how his corpse would be disposed of. Even in this relatively sophisticated group, there was substantial reluctance to face up to the matter. Many students agreed to answer questions about death in general but could riot bring themselves to complete their own death certificate. One woman became so upset she destroyed it.

The nervous laughter and graveyard humor surfaced, too. Some imagined dying during an amorous escapade. One person requested that his corpse be orbited perpetually around the earth. Most people in the study (53 percent said they expected to die of heart failure, a speedy demise taking a day or less not the long, lingering death associated with arteriosclerosis, for example, or with coronary artery disease. Thirteen percent named "natural causes" associated with old nge, and 1.1 percent expected to die from an accident or violence: murder or suicide.

Only 4.2 percent expected to die of cancer, which actually causes about 16 percent of U. S. deaths. None of the 13 nurses who tend cancer patients said she expected to die of the disease herself. THERE WERE LARGE differences in the expectations of men and women.

Fifty percent more men expected to die of heart attacks. Five times as many women as men expected to die of old age. Twice as many women expected to die of cancer and three times as many women expected to die in car accidents. They were evenly divided in murders and suicides. The vast majority said they wanted a sudden death, even though studies in the past have shown that the next-of-kin suffer more anxiety, depression, and disorganization when faced with sudden death than with a death which is expected.

i' Eight-seven percent said they didn't expect to live as long as Ihcy wanted to. The mortuary science students were in a relative hurry to reach the grave. They expected the earliest deaths at the age of 72. The nursing home administrators expected to hang on the longest until 79. The study also reveals a growing disenchantment with tradi-I tional burial services.

Excluding the mortuary science students (who have a vested interest in such matters), only 56 percent wanted to go through this. Among people under 40, the pcrcen-" tage dropped to 40 percent. Of the remaining group, most wanted cremation. Two percent wanted cryonic suspension preservation at a very low temperature in hopes of being resus-' citated when a cure for an incurable disease becomes available. Dr.

Kastenbaum, who is director of Wayne's Center for Psychological Studies of Death, Dying and Lethal "Behavior, believes that a person who can consider his own death realistically can be "much more useful to others who are in life-death situations. He can avoid being completely zapped by the prospect of death. He can see death as part of the whole fabric of life." "Right now," he adds, "it's like the old days when S-E-X was a no-no. As long as people avoid anything, there's a lot of emotional energy tied up in the avoidance." ill lvN Civil rights crusader Rosa Parks helped lead the "Brotherhood March." High Saints drill loam gives a salute at Black Expo Youth Action Group, waves UPI Pholn "AS9 names faces Little Old Lady Loves Those Bells The Cooley Despite being 78 years old and weighing a wispy 101 "pounds, Margaret Murdock proved she still has the beat as she began her 50th year as carillonneur on the University of California campus. "I'm an LOL (little old lady) you know and it's a bit of a workout," Miss Murdock.said, explaining that she has cut her concerts on the carillon's huge bells down to twice a week.

"You've got to cofne' down hard to get a tone." Miss Murdock began playing the 12 bells smallest of whichc is 350 pounds and largest two tons in 1923. She comes down on the keys big levers with mow-worn wooden grips which pull the wires that clap the fixed bells. As the strains of "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton" drifted over the campus and the city, Miss Murdock beamed while television cameras recorded her bouncing from key to key. The first master carillonneur she served with was Henry King. She has.

through the years, been an assistant to his three successors, including the present master, John Noyes. Miss Murdock plays from music, and over the years has transcribed some 1,500 pieces for her bell repertoire. Once when she burst out with a Doxology "Glory to she recalled, the university switchboard lit up with callers wanting to know if the legislature had passed the budget. When asked being so near to the bonging bells had affected her hearing, she impishly replied: "How's that?" Then, with the ques- tion repeated, she said: no, not in the least." "Oh, Sinatra Splits Again Frank Sinatra, still sought by a U.S. congressional crime committee, dropped out of sight in London again Friday as mysteriously as he did earlier this month.

Officials at Luton Airport said the singer-actor left there QUESTION: With all our knowledge and power, I can't understand why (here is so lit tie peace in the world. P.P. ANSWER: The trouble is that we are trying to build a peaceful world when there is no peace in the hearts of men. We are reaching the human impasse that Christ warned about. On the human level the situation seems hopeless.

Events are now in the hands of (iod. It is His turn to act, and the Scripture promises that He will act. Events are moving rapidly toward a climax, but it will be God's climax, when He sends His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the rightful ruler of the entire world. The Bible teaches that the present evil world system will pass away and come to a climactic, dramatic end. Jesus talked about the end of the world-system and the establishment of a world kingdom of righteousness.

in an executive jet chartered under an assumed name. They were under orders not to disclose the aircraft's destination. The London Daily Mail quoted Harold Davison, Sinatra's European agent, as saying the singer left London after abortive discussions involving a possible comeback from retirement to star in a film musical. The London Evening Standard said Sinatra had been in London rehearsing for the film "The Little Prince" and discussing the part with Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who wrote the musical. Sinatra flew to London earlier this month ostensibly to discuss the part after failing to appear before the House Crime Committee about his role as vice-president of the defunct Berkshire Downs race track in Hancock, Mass.

He disappeared from London's Savoy Hotel the day he was originally to appear voluntarily before the committee. He Denies Grudge World chess champion Boris Spassky said Friday that he believed American challenger Bobby Fischer was suffering from a "persecution complex." At a rare appearance before the press in Moscow, Spassky said Fischer appeared to believe that Soviet players had it in for him. said that wasn't so. Spassky and Fischcer will meet July 2 in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide in a 24-game test whether the world chess title will pass from Soviet hands for the first time in 24 years. mmfmmt liiiiiipi ill I3tm ii isiiii miigsmsm wmm mmm i mmm The Name Game SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK The former child film star says women should have more power in regulating environmental matters.

Attending the UN world environmental conference in Stockholm as a U.S. delegate, she said a petition to that effect has been initiated by American anthropologist Margaret Mead and British economist Barbara Ward and that all delegates will be asked to sign. The women delegates already have signed, she said. FIDEL CASTRO The Cuban premier was given a carbine rifle by a group of communist workers in Halle, East Germany. He vowed to use it personally if his country were attacked, the official East German newspaper Neucs Deutschland said Friday.

He visited Halle as part of his two-month tour of Europe and Africa that also will take him to the Soviet Union- Some 80,000 attended the, rally at which he received the workers' gift. 4 Mountain of Bolls "THIS SMOOLP GIVE YOU RELIEF FOR HOURS. JUST GIVE HER ONE TABLESPOON." Tammy Leibolt, 9, has what any other little girl would gladly trade her baby brother for a collection of 125 dolls. The Ashland (O.) fourth grader says her teeniest doll is y2 inch tall; the biggest is over three feet. 4.