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)ouble suicide raises parents’ fears again
United Press International
ARLINGTON — Police said
uesday they fear two more
ten suicides in the Dallas area
ay be part of a trend brought
I i national attention by eight
licides in the affluent suburb
■ P|ano within a year.
|| The bodies of high school
I Indents Neil Risinger, 16, and
Ihristopher Glower, 17, were
I und Monday in a field in the
1 ly west of Dallas. Police said
1 e two teenagers apparently
T ed in a double suicide.
■ Autopsies were being per-
limed on the two.
Last year eight teenagers
committed suicide in Plano, an
affluent suburb north of Dallas.
ning clinics on improving com
munication.
A spokeswoman for Arling-
“There were about 30 suicides in Arlington
last year,”police Capt. Bobby Wiggins said,
“So far this year we have had seven sui
cides, which is a 300 percent increase over
the suicides at this lime last year. ”
The Collin County community ton’s 18-year-old suicide hot
reacted by opening schools to line said suicides among adoles-
parents and students for eve- cents have increased by 300
percent in the United States in
the past 20 years.
Increased publicity about sui
cides tends to increase the num
ber of attempts, said Catherine
Geddie of the Arlington Crisis
Intervention Center.
A police spokesman said sui
cides in Arlington had in
creased by 300 percent this
year.
“There has definitely been an
increase in suicides and suicide
attempts in the Arlington area,”
said police Capt. Bobby Wig
gins. “We have been watching
very carefully what has been
happening in Plano and it ap
pears that there is a trend of in
creased suicides among young
people.”
Arlington police said each of
the Sam Houston High School
students was shot in the head. A
small caliber pistol and suicide
note were found in the truck.
Contents of the note were not
released.
Wiggins said Arlington police
are preparing statistics on sui
cides and suicide attempts in
their city and will cooperate
with community organizations
to increase their efforts at sui
cide prevention.
“There were about 30 sui
cides in Arlington last year,” he
said, “out of 116 attempts. So
far this year we have had seven
suicides, which is a 300 percent
increase over the suicides at this
time last year. The percentage
may be misleading, but the
number of suicides is definitely
increasing.”
Arlington Mayor Harold E.
Patterson said the city council
will cooperate with community
efforts to step up suicide pre
vention programs. “WeTl do all
we can to protect our citizens,
he said.
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Geddie said the Arlington
crisis intervention line has been
successful at convincing desper
ate callers to seek further help.
Since its inception, volunteer
listeners have failed only three
times to talk a caller out of com--
milting suicide, she said.
The role of the telephone lis
tener, she said, is to offer an al
ternative to the would-be sui
cide and assure the person that
“someone else cares.”
500,000 bond set for alleged spy
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United Press International
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A
ideral judge set bond at
i00,00() Tuesday for a “de-
ut Mormon” who, the gov-
nment claims, betrayed six
S. double agents working for
eSoviet KGB and has enough
formation to ^ell as many as
^ggieland |vodozen more.
U.S. District Judge Albert
ryanjr. set the bond for Rich-
d Craig Smith, 40, of Belle-
iie, Wash., a former Army
lunterintelligence specialist,
lespite prosecutors’ fears that
lemight try to peddle more in-
Irmation.
I Assistant U.S. Attorney Jo-
Iph Aronica told Bryan that as
■ result of Smith’s alleged be-
layal, “some of our KGB
jentshave been neutralized.”
Aronica said later he did not
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mean to imply that the double
agents working for Soviet intel
ligence had been killed.
“He gave up six double-agent
operations along with disclosing
other intelligence personnel.
He has had regular access to a
tremendous amount of classi
fied material,” Aronica said.
“He has knowledge of between
20 and 30 double-agent opera
tions, including the six he gave
u l ) ”
Smith was indicted Monday
on five counts of conspiracy and
espionage — three of which
carry a maximum penalty of life
in prison.
Smith’s attorney, William
Cummings, argued his client
would not flee the country be
cause he is a devout Mormon
and has “13 years of impeccable
government service.”
The indictment said Soviet
spy Victor Okunev, listed as sec
ond secretary at the Russian
Embassy in Tokyo, paid Smith
$11,000 for information about
Army intelligence operations to
infiltrate thfe Soviet intelligence
agency, the KGB, and promised
up to $150,000 for future dis
closures.
While meeting Okunev in
Tokyo in November 1982 and
February 1983, Smith divulged
information about the com
mand’s double-agent opera
tions, code-named “Landscape
Breeze,” “Canary Dance,”
“Hole Punch,” “Lariat Toss”
and “Royal Miter,” the grand
jury charged.
Authorities indicated Royal
Miter was the most important of
the betrayed operations, al
though there was no indication
why.
In Tokyo, a Foreign Ministry
official said the Japanese gov
ernment was “still in the process
of reviewing the case” to see
whether Okunev should be ex
pelled.
Soviet Embassy officials in
Tokyo called the charges “ut
terly groundless.”
Smith, the son of a Mormon
bishop and a father of four, de
clared bankruptcy in 1982 after
leaving the Army intelligence
command. The indictment
claims Smith first contacted the
Soviets in November 1982.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
deral Communications Com
ission Tuesday approved the
ansfer of control of Metrome-
ta Inc., a major step in allow-
g the publicly held broadcast
iant to become a private com-
any.
f approved by stockholders,
ahn W. Kluge — president, di-
:ctor, chairman of the board
nd chief executive officer of
letromedia — would get 92.6
ercent of the company’s stock
the biggest transfer of a
roadcast property in history.
Kluge has had de facto con-
olof the company for the past
5 years because he owns more
tan 20 percent of its voting
ock. But, last December, he
fined Kluge Partners Ltd.,
hich made an offer to buy
Metromedia.
The leveraged buyout was
coordinated by Boston Ven
tures Management, which
would be an equity investor in
the new company.
The Metromedia board ap
proved a definitive merger
agreement with Kluge’s cor
poration on Jan. 31, but com
pany officials said the deal re
mains subject to approval by
stockholders, conclusion of a fi
nancing agreement, approvals
by various stale regulatory bod
ies and “other contingencies as
set forth in the merger
agreement.”
Metromedia, which had reve
nues of $532.7 million last year,
owns six television stations and
14 radio stations nationwide
and also is involved in program
syndication, cellular radio and
outdoor advertising.
Metromedia owns and oper
ates TV stations WNEW-TV in
New York City, WTTG in
Washington, D.C., NBC affil
iate WTCN-TV in Minneapolis-
St. Paul, KTTV in Los Angeles;
KRIV-TV in Houston, and
ABC affiliate WCVB-TV in
Boston.
It also owns radio stations
WNEW-AM and EM in New
York City, KLAC-AM and
KMET-FM in Los Angeles,
WIP-AM and WMMR-FM in
Philadelphia, WMET-FM in
Chicago,' WOC-FM in Detroit,
WWBA-FM in Tampa-St. Pe
tersburg, Fla., KHOW-FM in
Denver, WASH-FM in Wash
ington, D.C., KJR-AM in
Seattle; WCBM-AM in Balti
more and KRLD-AM in Dallas-
Fort Worth.
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