Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 27, 1990 TAG: 9004270525
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"I would like to seek help for myself, and I would like to help others," Feldman, 18, told reporters Wednesday outside court in Los Angeles .
"He realizes he has a problem and he wants to do something about it," said Feldman's attorney, Richard Hirsch.
Prosecutors say police found about 25 balloons, each containing about a tenth of a gram of cocaine or heroin, in Feldman's car during a March 9 traffic stop.
C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general, says promoting old-fashioned morality is the key to preventing deadly diseases.
"At the base of each one of these painful, tragic, destructive and, of course, preventable health problems is an equally tragic and destructive human behavior," Koop told 500 people Wednesday at a fund-raiser at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Koop, who retired as surgeon general last year, said the biggest lesson he learned was the link between people's behavior and disease, including smoking, alcohol abuse, unwanted pregnancies, child abuse, domestic violence and AIDS.
"Stern warnings about behavior can eventually lose their effectiveness if they are used too often," Koop said. "Instead, we must affirm in the next generation a new sense of respect for each human life.
Brigitte Bardot, the one-time screen sex kitten turned animal activist, is emerging from seclusion to be host of a four-part TV show about animal abuse.
Bardot said Wednesday she was "tired of fighting windmills," but decided to do the series anyway. The first part airs May 9 and deals with trafficking in animals.
At a news conference, Bardot said she hadn't decided what animal causes the other three episodes would address: "There are so many (things) to denounce that we have difficulty with a choice."
The first show will take viewers to warehouses near Bangkok, zoos in the Congo and hangars at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.
Since retiring from movies, Bardot has devoted herself to saving animals, mostly notably baby seals.
by CNB