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Recession
could cause
more suicides
and murders
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LANSING (UPI) - The economic
slump is literally making people sick
and could ultimately lead to 19,443 ad-
ditional deaths in Mlichigan, including
more suicides, murders, and heart at-
tacks, according to a paper released
yesterday.%
The paper, prepared by the Univer-
sity for a recent meeting of Gov.
William Milliken's human services
cabinet, said the physical and mental
problems of unemployed workers may
be the tip of an "iceberg" of suffering in
their families.
IT WARNED repeated layoffs can
start workers on a downward spiral
which eventually leaves them unfit for
employment.
"Clearly the current Michigan crisis
has all the worst elements present to an
extent unprecedented since the Great
Depression," it said.
The paper was based on research
performed by M. Harvey Brenner for
the congressional Joint Economic
Committee. Brenner found a one per
cent increase in unemployment can
lead to increased deaths, heart attacks,
cirrhosis of the liver, suicides, and
homicides.
BASED ON his national estimates.
the University study concluded
Michigan "could conceivably" see
19,443 deaths linked to the 'current
economic situation. -
There could be 10,120 heart attacks,
247 deaths from cirrhosis of the liver,
460 suicides, and 324 homicides, the
paper said.
Persons at the bottom of the
economic ladder, those with weighty
responsibilities, and the previously
unemployed are most vulnerable, the
study said. It said the person most af-
fected is not necessarily the one who
lost the job.
"Behind every individual pathology
which is observed is the iceberg of the
family suffering from the initial ex-
perience of job separation, consequent
struggles to adjust to the loss of resour-
ces and the subsequent negative out-
comes - mental and physical illness,"
it said.
Physical and emotional illness also
can impair an unemployed workers'
future job prospects, the study said.
"So while we may assert on the one
hand that a certain amount of unem-
ployment of the counter-cyclical type is
essential to reduce inflation we must
also factor into our calculations the real
possibility of producing through this
strategy an ever larger group of hard-
to-employ persons who become part of
our increasing fraction of structurally
unemployed persons," it said.
AP Photo
RAMSEY CLARK addresses the media at New York's Kennedy Airport Sunday
night after arriving from Paris, following a private mission to Iran. Clark said
government officials "should do their duty" if they believe they can legally
prosecute him for violating the president's ban on travel to Iran.
Clark offers to probe
U.S. role in Iran
From UPI and AP
NEW YORK - Former Attorney
General Ramsey Clark said yesterday
he will conduct his own investigation of
the role of U.S. activities in Iran if
Congress refuses to.
Clark also told a news conference
that "calmness" on the part of the
United States could create the stability
needed in Iran for the hostages to be
released.
"Every aggressive action we've
taken has prolonged the hostage
crisis," Clark said.
"THE MAIN thing Iran wants is to be
let alone," he added.
He told reporters the "ultimate un-
American act" would have been not to
travel to Tehran for a conference on
U.S. "crimes" in Iran, but repeated his
challenge that he should be prosecuted
if the government feels he broke the law
by attending the five-day conference.
Clark and nine other Americans who
accompanied him to Iran face up to 10
years in prison and 150,000 in fines if
they are found guilty of violating the In-
ternational Emergency Economic
Powers Act.
President Carter said last week it
was his "inclination" to prosecute
Clark and his companions but said he
would leave the decision to Attorney
General Benjamin Civiletti.
Thek Justice Department has not
,made it clear whether Clark will be
prosecuted.
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Anti-war group to inform
men on registration options
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cense lists as means of obtaining such Roth said according to a book by two
information. men who served on former President
Roth, however, disagreed. "I can say Gerald Ford's draft resisters clemency
for sure that a lot of people aren't going board, more than 250,000 people never
to register and aren't going to be registered for the draft during the Viet-
caught," she said. nam War era.
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