st: Simplifying multiple cases of the if command

["sanja_lutzeyer@ncsu.edu" <slutzey@ncsu.edu>]

Hi all.
This might be a very easy question, but if I have a number of things
that have to hold when generating a variable, is there a way to
simplify the following?

generate variable if news== 1 | news == 3 | news ==5

to something like
generate variable if news == 1 | 3 | 5? I tried this

Thanks!
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