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I u/ear them becd 1/se/’H ■febesqwjre/ Son of president was molested at7 by camp leader NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Rea gan, son of President Reagan, says he was sexually molested repeatedly as a 7-year-old by a “father-figure 1 ’ day-camp leader. In an outline of an autobiography circulating in New York publishing houses and obtained by the Asso ciated Press on Thursday, Reagan described a lonely and neglected childhood in which he was emotion ally unable to resist the molestation. The president and Nancy Reagan only learned of the molestation when Michael Reagan and his family visited them on Palm Sunday in Cali fornia. “The three of them went off for a walk,” said Elaine Crispen, press sec retary to Mrs. Reagan.“They had never heard it before, that was the first they knew of it. They feel ter ribly, terribly sorry for him, that he had to carry this for all these years.” Reagan, 41, of Los Angeles, could not be reached for comment, but his publicist, Dale C. Olson, confirmed in a telephone interview that Reagan was working on the book. “On the Outside Looking In” is to be published by Zebra Publishing of New York. Hollywood columnist Joe Hyams is collaborating on the l>ook, Olson said. Olson said he and Reagan “had not been totally aware” that copies of the outline were circulating. Penthouse magazine first revealed the existence of the outline when it released an article prepared for its June edition on Thursday. The outline presents the story of a confused and neglected little boy, adopted to please another child Maureen Reagan, who had asked a brother. Alter the divorce of Reagan actress Jane Wyman, the youth them only on alternate weekei the outline said. As a result, from theagesof; 10, lie believed that a black fan cook was his mother, he wrotein outline. He also wrote that a day-a leader he idolized as a father-lip molested him “for almost an and once took photographs ofl posing nude. He said he wasali to tell anyone about the molesuti “When Dad ran for president,! had visions of him losing bee those pictures taken 34 year might turn up,” Reagan wrote He broke the news to his fa and stepmother when he, hist Colleen, and his children, As and Cameron, visited the R ranch to celebrate Ashley’s bin Crispen said. The book outline also den, 1983 dispute Michael Reagan with the Secret Service, which the president and others thai chael was a kleptomaniac At time, reports of a rift in the f amily were attributed simpln president’s busy schedule. His father had urged himtoi psychiatrist but would not tel why, according to the outline Later, Michael Reaganrece list of things he had purported! len. The president later apolof. and for the second time ever,a love you,” to his son, Reaganro Peer review system pits watchdog groups against rural farmers WASHINGTON (AP) — Rural doctors squared off against govern ment-funded watchdog groups Thursday over a peer review system they say is discriminatory and offers no avenue of appeal. Nearly 40 doctors have been bar red from collecting Medicare pay ments because peer review organiza tions, or PROs, reported to the U.S. Health and Human Services Depart ment they were providing poor medical care. Seventy-five percent of those doc tors are from rural areas and two- thirds practice in rural Texas. Rep. Ralph Hall, a member of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment that held hearings Thursday, said the sanction deci sions are made without giving the doctors adequate chance to defend themselves in closed sessions. In some states, physicians can’t bring an attorney or expert wit nesses to the PRO review sessions. “This total lack of due process has created a very serious concern among the physicians, hospitals and the Medicare patients of our coun try,” said Hall, a three-term Demo crat from Rockwall. Several Texas doctors testifying before the subcommittee echoed Hall’s sentiments and said that in ad dition to the lack of an appeal proc ess, they fear being judged by big- city doctors who don’t know the idi- osyncracies of country medicine. “I can say unequivocably that doc tors in rural Texas are confused and are scared about the process of ‘peer review’ by the PRO,” said Dr. Billy Bob Brame, a doctor from the West Texas town of Eldorado and presi dent of the Texas Medical Associa tion. "1 know that there are do® West Texas who are airaidtos patients to the hospital beam the excessive scrutiny of the cords by urban physicians very high-tech practice penpett Brame testified. Inspector General Richai: Kusserow told the committet sanctioning a doctor wasthebs sort under the PRO system comes only after attempts toedJ the doctor in question. Vol. Ere ing s a Kusserow said that ofthel lion Med Scare hospital disdfil since the PRC) program was I* in 1983, only 6,500 cases inv j* 2,500 doctors or hospitalshast^H identified by PROs as involvinfi medical care. “Yet,through 1987, only Khi were referred by PROs to the of the inspector general forti and further action,” Kussero “Of this number, 40 resulted: department’s exclusion ofapt? or practitioner — 39 docton one hospital.” In another 22 cases, finest vied, and in 16 cases the insfi general threw out the PROsit mendation. There are26case ding. But Hall said the system more flexibility. He has introdt bill that would give any dotl« ommended for sanctions the: to appeal the decision in his to trict court. SA islatoi super tains Dallas At sal sh tainec sites,” and T The comm House out a Natioi the U, multif Rep tribute House or mo Reps. Charles Stenholm, D| ford, and Beau Boulter, R-Afi-] told the subcommittee they- with the concept of peer rev: that Congress has to dosomethl ensure doctors get their davit G cl in Illinois plans hospital win^ to help mentally ill youth: DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — The pres sures working on adolescents around the nation are also at work in Decatur, and a psychiatrist says they can drive some young people into al coholism or suicide. Those pressures include single parent families, the intense competi tion to get into a good college and to find a job after school. Dr. Ira Brent, director of psychia try at St. Mary’s Hospital, says more young peopjle nationwide — and in Decatur — are seeking psychiatric helpj than ever before. To help meet the growing need, St. Mary’s plans to open an eight-room unit devoted ex clusively to treating youth with men tal illnesses. The adolescent unit, to open in a few months off a hallway near the present psychiatric ward, will have its own recreation area and pjossibly a classroom where teachers from the Decatur School District can work with groups of students. Brent and other local experts have an arsenal of statistics to justify ~ the need for the unit. “Adolescents have their own spe cial needs which make itdiffqg them to be mixed in with)* Brent said. “There’s a highei® divorce, more single fa:j| There’s a breakdown in the ' family. There’s more mobi' transiency. “Kids struggle with pi/; these days . . . that their® never had to face. Kids are* themselves over the issue offl the ACT (American Col get into college.” Mike Bach, who works v . lescents at Decatur Mental I WA Contr; Vice I nectio the Ni recorc finish a top a Rep gress dent c ically presid ongoit said t fruitfi Wh about last wi cus si aides, port scant i signs ( him a panel none c Center, said the center lastyd an average of one youth per local psychiatric care centen marily St. Mary’s Hospital,h five youths were sent to. Mental Health Center ini# “ There are a lot of press®' being a kid . . . drug use,dii sexual activity. Kids see the: as less in control. Parents see out of control,” Bach said. Authorities say that hf “school” on the proposed aw psychiatric unit would help# ers ease back into the routi# ( eryday life. Wa dentia the sh the vi< insist lem a: Tuesd But who i viser, bring office gators House ities. In ; mer C