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14A DETROIT FREE PRESSWEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1987 Grand Blanc man dies in chase Views asked I I N- ip on cameras iri courts CAMERAS, from Page 1A STATE POLICE in Detroit gave this account: An Auburn Hills police car was on I-75 near Giddings Road monitoring traf fic with radar when officers noticed the car speeding. They turned around and began following it. After they turned on their lights and' siren, the car crossed the grass median near Adams Road in Troy. "The police car stayed in the south--bound lanes and tried to keep up with' him, but sometimes they lost sight of him," Miller said. Under the proposed order, consent of a trial judge would be necessary for reporters to bring cameras or tape recorders into the courtroom.

Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hah. a former circuit judge, said he At times the Auburn Hills officers' only knew where the car was by the has no objection to electronic coverage as long as it does not create disruptions CRASH, from Page 1A Morell was a self-employed builder and excavator, according to his wife, Estelle. They had four children. "I don't know what happened. I just heard about it," she said in a telephone interview.

She said a doctor "tested him for sugar" Tuesday morning. She said she had been trying to get more information from her husband's doctor. State police said they did not know why Morell risked his life and those of probably hundreds of other motorists. "As far as we can tell, his driving record was good and he was not wanted on a warrant," Miller said. Much of the time, Morell drove on the left-lane shoulder of the northbound lanes.

The car, a 1987 Buick Skylark, apparently belonged to a Grand Blanc Township dealership. State police said Morell either had the car on loan while his own was being repaired, or was leasing the car. The hood of the car was wedged Into the retaining wall about 150 feet from where the car came to a stop on the entrance ramp. Police took a blood sample for testing, but said the results would not be available for several days. or Hollywood-type atmosphere, That would never do." BUT FORMER Recorder's Court Judge Samuel Gardner, now in private dust it stirred from the freeway shoulder.

At least two police departments, Troy and Hazel Park, tried to get to the freeway to stop Morell, but by the time they got there the car had sped by. Officials at both departments said they did not pursue the car. State police stationed cars at ramps along the route, thinking Morell might attempt to leave Ate-'' me ireeway. A Detroit police helicopter followed the car. Morell was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was dead on arrival.

AP File Pholo William Stern, shown with his daughter in January, was awarded custody of the child Tuesday in a New Jersey court. Is this your idea of a joke? Father gets Baby custody JWV that of humorists from the Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe (where much of the humor is pointedly anti-; Russian), could present some interesting problems of decorum. HUMOR, from Page 1A "SatiricIronic Humor in International Interfacing of Jokes and Other Comic Media in Three Psycho-Social Areas: Civil Rights, Religion and Feminism," "An Empirical Study Multi-dimensional Scaling Computer Model of the Tho annual Inla.tallino rnntoct urill be held tonight in a local Holiday Anyone with the $2 entry fee and a eood vuk in his or her Docket mav Humor Response" and "Phenomeno- BABY from Page 1A Whitehead, 29, a housewife, was the first surrogate mother taken to trial for trying to break her contract to bear an infant for a childless couple. SORKOW SAID the Sterns had shown a stable, secure, loving relationship, and the ability to provide financially and psychologically for the baby. "The Sterns live a private, unremarkable life," the judge said.

"Mrs. Whitehead seems not to have found the time for family therapy session, while making herself and her children available to the media." The judge said that the Whiteheads' life narticinatfi. r. E. Stern I act vrinw practice, said cameras could distort coverage of a trial.

"The media has a tendency to censor out what they say and hear to make sure the most spectacular part of it remains the most gory part, the most sensational part," said Gardner. Kent Bernhard, executive editor of the Free Press, said: "A lot of states havejn effect rulings that allow cameras find other electronic equipment in courtrooms and nobody has been able to demonstrate any kind of problems with the administration of justice. 'Anything that can make our judicial system more understandable to the public at large ought to be applauded and this kind of move would tend to do Robert Giles, executive editor of the Detroit News, said of the proposed order: "I'm pleased that the court is taking- this step. It places a major burden on journalists in courtrooms to behave in a way that their taking photographs or recording testimony will not disrupt the normal court procedures." WDIV-TV (Channel 4) news director Dow Smith, who was news director of WPLG-TV in Miami when Florida courts were wrestling with a similar cameras-in-the-courtroom proposal ten years ago, said: "My experience in Florida was extremely positive. A lot of judges and lawyers who were skeptical in the beginning came to think it was a good idea." The proposal follows a recommendation by the Citizens' Commission to Improve Michigan Courts, which urged the Supreme Court to direct the State Jl'ar of Michigan to develop, with the news media, a proposal for a pilot program to permit cameras.

Under the order, coverage of jury selection would be prohibited during the experimental program and witnesses block film or electronic coverage of their testimony. fFft news media would have to obtain Advance written permission to use electronic equipment to cover a triat.2-- LWl I KitxtK vvIHval Wlllllcr Wait told by Wesley Haines of Ft. Myers, Fin thp fnrmpr nrpcirlnnt of Frnntlinn Iogical Approaches to a Sociology of Humor." Donald Nilsen, professor of English linguistics at Arizona State and the conference's founder, said, "We have a problem with university professors because they can spend an entire paper and not have any humor in it at all. Our attitude is: 'If vou're a humor specialist. College of Indiana.

Rouehlv. it went ike this: you should be able to actually he a little has been marked by domestic and marital instability, and that Whitehead has been she signed without reading. Lawyers argued about whether a mother could rationally agree to give up a baby before it was conceived, and whether the Sterns misrepresented themselves as Infertile. The second phase of the trial looked at who was most fit to raise the child. Baby who was born March 27, 1986, celebrated her first birthday Friday at a private party with Whitehead and hen family, has been In the temporary custody of the Sterns since July, when police and private detectives seized the child at the Florida home of Whitehead's parents.

Whitehead, seeking to avoid a judge's order that she turn over the baby to the Sterns, had fled to Florida from her home in May. The Sterns testified during the trial, which began Jan. 5 and concluded March 12, that they hired Whitehead to bear their child because they were afraid that pregnancy would aggravate Elizabeth Stern's relatively mild case of multiple sclerosis. Whitehead has two children with her husband, Richard, 36, a sanitation worker. She signed a $10,000 contract in which she agreed to be artificially impregnated by William Stern; not to form any bond with her baby, and to give up the child for adoption by Elizabeth Stern.

She has never taken the fee, which has been held in trust pending resolution of the court action. Whitehead testified that she originally intended to fulfill her contract, but that maternal Instincts overpowered her when the child was born and she was unable to give up the A British cleric was called upon to deliver a sermon in an American -church. He chose the Old Testament passage, "Nahamon was the captain of the Syrian hosts, but he was a leper." The cleric seized on the conjunction "but." to Dreach about neonle's contra- shown to "impose herself" on her two other children. THE TITLES of some papers to be "Too much love can smother a child," presented are indeed suggestive of a Sorkow said. Sorkow dictions.

(To a Britisher, the word is more lighthearted approach to scholarly pursuit. There is "We Do Chicken Discrediting Whitehead's testimony, ntvui, even wiiii an CAiia an Anatnmirnl ripsionntinn I the judge said, "This inability to tell the -I truth establishes a tarnished environment" for raising the child. Write A Fast Exegesis," and "Who Has the Right to Break Wind? A Himalayan Question of and "Why Rambo Won't Eat Quiche: How The judge said the baby best interests are served by termination of parental rights for Whitehead and her family. Humor Forms and Deforms the Males and Society" and "The Ethics, "The court has a valid and enforceable "Nahamon was the captain of the Syrian host, but the cleric intoned. "Well, we all have our buts." The congregation tittered, but the cleric went on.

"Of course, some people's buts are larger than other people's buts." The congregation laughed. The indignant cleric concluded. "It's easier to see other people's 1 buts, but awfully difficult to see one's own." Structure and Application of Hardcore Words in Humor: You Know What the contract," the Judge said. -1 Mean." This year's conference will feature THE DECISION capped a three-month, non-jury trial that was divided into two five humorists from the Soviet Union, including Alexei Pianov, editor-in- parts. The judge first considered the legal ity of the contract, which Whitehead said Whitehead chief of the national humor magazine Krokodil.

Their, presence, along with Who could not but agree? (pity's emergency rooms struggle tQ keep up with influx of patients their emergency rooms and critical care beds. But the surge in patients comes at a time when the nation's chronic nurse shortage has sharply worsened. Between 1985 and 1986, the nation's job vacancy rate for hospital nurses more than doubled, from 6.5 percent to 13.6 percent, while enrollments in nursing schools continued to drop and nurses America's Favorite Store jJ TilCl L7 OPEN SAT. 9-10, SUN. 10-6 -rV saif tunc cat tbimi iTnM ttO Of These odurts Will Help Raise For "7 AND RONALD MCDONALD CHILDREN'S CHARITIES llisB 'BH islli continued to leave hospital employ' ment for other careers.

Hospitals in southeastern Michigan have 1,200 va cancies for nurses, according to the Southeast Michigan Hospital Council. expensive inpatient care. "For regular medical-surgical beds, there's definitely an excess capacity, but for critical care beds there is a desperate need," said Gail Parrish, vice-president for marketing and planning at Detroit's St. John Hospital. Affluence: As the recession has eased, more people feel they can afford medical care, Matson said.

Poverty: Cutbacks in federally funded medical insurance for the poor have left almost 40 million people with no way to pay for medical bills. These, people traditionally seek care in emergency rooms. In addition, as the flight of doctors from the inner city to the suburbs continues, more people are left without a regular source of medical care. "Physicians' offices aren't as plentiful in certain parts of our community as they used to be," said LeRoy Fahle, chief executive officer of Detroit's Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital.

"Patients then have to call upon their neighborhood hospital to assist them." THE INCREASED patient demand might not be such a problem if hospitals could hire more nurses to staff HOSPITALS, from Page 3A began luring patients away from emergency rooms about six years ago. Since as much as half of a hospital's revenues come from patients admitted through or; treated in the emergency room, hospitals were alarmed by the decline in emergency room visits that began in 1 98 1 They cut their charges from $1 00 or more to as little as $15 for a basic visit, and set up their own urgent care centers. "It's simple economios low cost, high volume," said Ted Matson, program manager for the American Hospital Association's division of ambulatory care. "This whole approach signals a change in the industry, and that's being consumer oriented. Hospitals are now paying closer attention to expediting care.

And, because of that, people are more likely to return." New treatments: Heroic emergency room procedures are saving many patients who would have died, and these patients fill up the hospitals' operating rooms and critical care beds. Ironically, Detroit area hospitals have hundreds of empty standard beds as a result of excess construction and efforts by business and government to reduce i-uDiicuy over emergency room closings also has highlighted the chron. ic problems of the city's EMS. Its major proDiem always has been too few ambulances for too many runs: Last year, its 15 ambulances responded to more than 100,000 calls. A Detroit EMS van takes an average of 11 minutes to respond to a call, according to Dr.

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