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TORONTO — Violence on
television has led to an “epide
mic” of murders, suicides and
assaults in the United States,
especially among young people,
U.S. Surgeon General Dr.
Everett C. Koop said Sunday.
Speaking to about 500 people
at a symposium on violence and
pornography in the media, the
former pediatrician said studies
indicated violence on television
had a significant affect on hu
man behavior.
During the past 30 years, he
said, the homicide rate among
white men under 24 years old
soared from 366 deaths per
100,000 population in 1950 to
2,800 per killings in 1980.
Suicides among young whites of
both sexes and young black
males tripled during the same
period, he said.
Nabil Qawasmi, a senior electrical
engineering student from Jordan,
transcribes names from English to
Arabic at Post Oak mall on
Saturday. This display was part of
Photo by KATHERINE HURT
the 1984 International Arts Festival,
sponsored by the Brazos Valley Art
League, the Arts Council of Brazos
Valley and the TAMU International
Student Association.
In addition, the homicide
and assault rates continue to
climb, he said.
“Violence in our public and
private life has indeed assumed
the proportions of an epide
mic,” Koop said.
Koop said that recent surveys
estimate that 1 million U.S.
citizens are “abused and victi
mized” each year and the figure
for child abuse was twice as high.
The surgeon general said he
discussed the problem of violent
television programs last week
with CBS executives and Would
hold similar meetings at ABC
and NBC during the next two
weeks. He expressed .some hope
that the talks would lead to re
duced violence on network tele
vision.
Besides provoking violent be
havior, Koop said daily carnage
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on the small screen has terro
rized some viewers.
“The political and social
health of our two countries is en-
dangered when any of our
citizens feel unjustly threatened
and withdraw in fear from
casual human contact,” he said.
Leonard Eron, a Unversity of
Illinois psychologist and resear
cher, said a study begun in 1960
of 850 third-graders in New
York state showed that those
who enjoyed watching violent
programs also had a high inci
dence of aggressive behavior in
school.
In a follow-up study 22 years
later, where more than 400 stu
dents from the original group
were re-studied, a link was
found between those who
watched a lot of violent prog
rams and the incidence of cri
minal convictions, drunk driv
ing arrests, or records of spouse
or child abuse.
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! Brazil has the world’s largest
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Westinghouse-built nuclear
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“Clearly it is something we
want to have a cooperative pat
tern with them on,” Shultz said.
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agreement yet on controls on
the sale of sensitive U.S.
weapons technology. But it was
understood the working groups
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basic weapons construction
technology.
Brazil has an ambitious arms
manufacturing industry that
generates hard foreign currency
needed to help service its debt.
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held a broad review of U.S. poli
cy in Latin America with U.S.
ambassadors to South American
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Shultz and his wife Helena
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where Shultz represented the
United States at the innaugura-
tion of President Jaime Luschini
and held meeting with foreign
ministers from Guatemala, Cos
ta Rica and Honduras.
From Brasilia, Shultz will
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where American and Caribbean
forces in October ousted the
Cuban-backed Marxist regime
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