European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 15, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 6,000 schoolchildren oily to just soy no9 Universal City Calif a thousands of Chccrh-,8 schoolchildren joined first lady Nancy Rea Gan Chi trainers and the Crew of the Ultra Light Voy Ager aircraft wednesday at an Antidrug rally where the children were urged just say no. About 6,000 los Angeles area youngsters Many wearing Green and White just say not shirts crammed the Universal Amphitheater for the two hour rally part or a week of planned activities nationwide Reagan told the children you Are our Hope and Promise Tor the future and we re depending on you. As i be said Many times before when you say no you Are saying yes to a whole lot  the children greeted Reagan and other celebrities with wild cheers and waved tiny Green flags bearing the just say no logo. They listened As country Singer Larry Gallin de scribed his own former drug habit then Sang a son about a troubled youth who drank and smoked his problems away Hen killed himself. Drugs and alcohol nearly killed me Gatlin said. I was crawling around the floor picking up lint off the floor putting it in a Fri base pipe that s How sick  freebasing is a method of increasing the Potency of cocaine. Dick Rulan and Jeana Yeager who piloted the voyager on its record Globe circling journey without refuelling in december urged the youngsters to focus on goals As a Means to combat peer pressure to take drugs or use alcohol. Seyril Moon Frye cleric Johnson and Ami Foster from Abc to s Punky Brewster joined . Bar fits of Abc to s Larman in leading the school children in cheers of just say  Lauren Hovitch and Danielle Walsmith sixth graders at Castlemon elemental 1 school in Tarzana said they planned to give that answer if eve offered drugs or ale Ohot. They said however thai it might be difficult to resist peer pressure especially in a new Junior High school. If you re new in school and somebody offers you something you want to be Cool Horwitch said. "1know i d say no but in d probably be kind of hard. The Joist say no foundation was launched two years ago in Oakland Calif Reagan the foundation chairwoman has appeared worldwide to urge Young sters not to drugs alcohol or tobacco. Heritage also a Factor family environment linked to teen suicides Chicago up although Evi Dence is Strong that Leen agers a Mihaic the suicides of Peers and those reported in the Media family environment and he Rivage remain the Strong Cost causes of Young people killing themselves re searchers report. Supporting the heritage argument a new study released wednesday suggested an inherited chemical imbalance in the brain May to responsible for the mos violent deaths. Public concern about the problem has risen dramatically in the woke of More than a dozen teen suicides that followed the March 10 Carbon monoxide Poison Ings of four youths in Bergenfield . National Media exposure was said by some to be responsible for lie suicides but or. Cynthia Pfyffer said Media and Peers arc far less important influences on teen suicide than the family. I do think the Media contagion i important for some adolescents but probably Only those students who have some vulnerability Felt or said the family really is the Centra focus of  Felter of Cornell University in new York made her remarks while chairing symposium sponsored by the american psychiatric association. The chemical imbalance described Byrd. J. John Mann director of psycho pharmacology research at Cornell is caused by Low Levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. It can be corrected with Many  drugs which May reduce suicidal behaviour in susceptible teens the problem Mann said is identify ing those icons at risk. At present the Only Way to determine serotonin Levels is with a spinal tap which people Aren t very enthusiastic about he said we re working on a blood test but the work is very preliminary recent studies at Cornell indicate that teens with Low Levels of the brain Chemi Cal scr Ionin Are about 10 times More Likely to die from a suicide attempt than those with Normal Levels. Other studies presented at the symposium found links Between teen suicidal behaviour and parental emotional prob lems family abuse parental separation or divorce and conflict Over the teen s peer group or the death of Peers. The amount of support Given by the family was also important. Weaker links were found with expo sure to television programs depicting Sui cide. Psychiatrists at the symposium said twas difficult to determine whether the cause of teen suicide is social biological or Bolh Well probably never say it s one Orthe other 1 said Pfeffer. Other research presented at the meet ing a study of Len age suicide in the greater new York area before and after four suicide related movies were Tele Vised in the fall and Winter of 1984-85found a 50 percent increase in suicide attempts following the broadcasts. A Kentucky study comparing teens who killed themselves with Normal teens found the Een suicides Hail been expose to a family member s or Friend s suicide 65 percent of the Lime compared to 18percent for the normals. Campus Royalty Princess Zenall Mandela do mini he daughter of South african activists Nelson and Winnie Mande la her husband thumb Umili Dlamini Center and consultant Armstrong Williams hold up Boston University shirts for the press wednesday. The Royal couple Hare enrolled at the University. Jury sees tape of Goetz talking with . Police new York not in a two hour videotape played in court Bernhard h. Goetz appearing angry sarcastic and full of rage told new York Cit detectives that he was a murderer in his heart they did t die Goelz said of the four youths he shot on a subway car on dec. 22, 1984. Well. That s what god has wanted evidently if there is a god. Bui 1, in my heart was a  the prosecutor told the jury when the trial began that Good s own words particularly on the video tape made Afler his surrender in Concord ., eight Days after the shootings would be the most Damag ing evidence against him Tho jurors were instructed by the judge that Al though they had been Given typed transcripts of the tape they should rely on their senses and not on the Reading of the words. The two hour interview presented a far different image from the one heard earlier in the trial in stat supreme court in Manhattan when an audio tape was played of Roctz s questioning by the Concord police. In that interview he seemed turned inward in an anguished self appraisal of his actions and values. On the videotape Golz s account of the. Subway incident was no less convoluted and Complex. But twas far More belligerent and hostile toward his questioners and the Siam Legal bureaucracy that he said they Ali rep rescued. New York has never been concerned with Rigau an wrong it s concerned with the paper work the formalities the technicalities Goetz said. I m just sick i am just sick of  Goetz who is charged with attempted murder As Sault illegal weapons Possession and reckless end an Gurment also complicated his defense which has been based on a aim that the four Black youths were about to Rob him a White Man by staling flatly on the tape Oliai whether the four Yonks he shot were really going to Rob him or not did not matter