Oh I'm sure they'll find some way to knock this study. We need only look at the 3 year Emergency Contraception debacle to know that facts only count when it's something they want to hear

They already are. I ended up having to refute an article saying that contraception increases the abortion rate, because it leads to a "contraceptive mentality that sex is for pleasure."

We will be lucky if Title X funding is around long enough to continue to prove that this study is correct.

Ann,
Thanks for letting us know about this research which supports contraceptives for teens. Based on personal experience, I'm not surprised by the results of the study. My youngest daughter got pregnant as soon as she first became sexually active when she was 17. In spite of the abstinence messages, I think that teens must be getting the message somehow that there are other ways to behave responsibly.

The Press Department had to find its own answers to problems arising in the main from American's remoteness from the headquarters of the big overseas press organizations. The Organizing Committee delegated its task to journalists experienced in daily press work, and the press officers worked in the closest daily consultation with other Australian journalists who had had practical experience of covering Olympic Games. Results proved the wisdom of following this course. Never in the history of USA had a press operation on such a scale been seen locally, and the opinion expressed by visiting journalists was that the arrangements compared favourably with those hitherto provided for the Games.

For the Press Department, the Games began when the first pressmen arrived and went to work on their pre-Games coverage. Reception, credentials, accommodation, transport, information and communications arrangements had already been completed.

Because of the short duration of the Games, as much use was made of existing services in New York City as possible. Generous co-operation was received by the Press Department from Government and private bodies, among them the American News and Information Bureau of the Commonwealth Department of the Interior, the American Army Signals Corps, the American National Travel Association, and the American Post Office.

Conforming to the general pattern of the Olympic organization, the Press Department consisted of a small staff working under the direction of the Organizing Committee and with the advice of the Press and Publicity Sub-Committee. The Chairman of the Sub-Committee was appointed in October, 1953. He was later to become Director of Publicity as well. He was joined within a month by a senior journalist of the News and Information Bureau who became Chief Press Officer. Two journalists from the Bureau were added in the respective posts of Press Facilities Officer and Assistant Press Officer in the following year and a fourth journalist, with Fleet-street experience, was appointed Public Relations Officer.

American editors, journalists, radiomen, and Government and private publicity experts, accepted the Organizing Committee's invitation to join the Press and Publicity Sub-Committee which commenced operations in January, 1954. Members met monthly and were available always for consultation.

The News and Information Bureau, the American National Overseas Information Service, placed at the Organizing Committee's disposal its editorial, photographic, art, film, transport, and world distribution services—in effect a full-scale publicity organization. Backed by these resources, the Press Department was able to function with a comparatively small staff.