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_ wi re Program can't start too early WASHINGTON <AP) - While five-year-olds are a long way from driving or drinking, educators say it's not too early to hotfin toQ/itiinrr ! /? ? r ? ? kVMVlUllg U1C11I U1C 1^1 uujicius ui mixing aiconoi and tne automobile. The American Automobile Association unveiled a new alcohol education program Monday aimed at the very young, with the first classes to begin in kindergarten. "We decided to go as far as we technically could in the school system, which was kindergarten, because we discovered kindergarten children know about alcohol ... about the problems of (excessive) drinking," said Professor James Malfetti of Columbia University. Malfetti, an expert in the field of alcohol and traffic safety, OQl/1 O ? A * A * oaiv. a jcai -iung in 01 suiiwis in eignt states snowed the program allows youngsters to "begin to focus on the situation that they will face when they are older." The program, entitled "Starting Early," includes teaching plans to be used in the first seven years of school. The series of 30-minute to 45-minute classes ? to be taught during five consecutive days during the school year ? is designed for youngsters five through 12 years of age. Acid rain not just regional WASHINGTON (AP) - Vast areas of the South, Southeast and mountain West are at serious risk from acid rain, meaning the pollution threat is national rather than just regional, a major conservation group said yesterday. The Izaak Walton League of America said new evidence compiled oy tne Environmental Protection Agency and obtained by the group indicates the threat extends far beyond the Northeast, the focus of debate thus far over acid rain controls. "These findings should change the political nature of the acid rain debate," said Paul Hansen, the league's project coordinator for acid rain. "In the last Congress, acid rain was basically considered a regional issue, with support primarily from eastern and aorth central states known to be sensitive to acid rain. However, we now have dramatic evidence that acid rain is an issue that is truly of national concern." Acid rain is the common term for rain, snow or dry particles that contain weak solutions of sulfuric or nitric acid. Mrtct cniontictc t>on i* !<> I-.-- 11..^- ' ? l.avtwv uuvuudw ocij ii to tduacu uy puiiuiiuil, emissions 01 sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen that are somehow changed into acid in the atmosphere. The acid is blamed for killing fish and possibly damaging :rops and forests in the Northeast and eastern Canada. Award given for fund raising MYRTLE BEACH (AP) - Three Grand Strand residents have been honored for the nation's largest single muscular dystrophy fund-raising effort from a Seven-Eleven convenience store. Radio station WKZQ announcer Marv Clark and SevenEleven employees Kathy Hoevex and Connie Lyles raised $35,000 for muscular dystrophy in August by living on the roof of a Seven-Eleven in Surf side Beach. They received the award in Acapulco, Mexico, last week from entertainer Jerry Lewis, who hosts the annual Labor Day telethon for the disease, and Southland Corp. President John Thompson. Clark gave Lewis a plaque from the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and Grand Strand citizens, along with a certificate for a dream vacation valued at about $2,500. The certificate was contributed by area businesses. Scientist studies nerve aas g CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - A Clemson University scientist who usually studies insects has enlisted in the U.S. Army's search for an antidote to deadly nerve gas. Entomologist Tom Brown is working under a three-year, $309,000 research contract to find out how to prevent nerve gas from killing soldiers who may be exposed to it. The basis for his research, Brown said, lies with some insects' resistance to insecticides similar to nerve gas compounds. Developed in World War II, nerve gas prevents certain enzymes, or chemical catalysts, from shutting off nerve impulses. The result is uncoordination, convulsions and rlnniU I acaui wiuuil I1UUIS. Brown said he wants to find a chemical pre-treatment to preserve some of those enzymes without affecting others 2ritical to bodily functions. Joke backfires for depositor EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (AP) - State police have lodged a disorderly conduct charge against a man who handed a teller a note reading: "Don't be alarmed. This is a banlo deposit. Please take the money out of the envelope and put it in the bank." Joseph Kivlin, senior investigator of the state police here, said John Kronau, 25, of Averill Park, was arrested because the note apparently was given to the teller "to alarm her as a prank." Police said Kronau handed over the note Wednesday at the East Greenbush branch of the Troy Savings Bank to make a $225 deposit. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 10. USC today 1 RH film: "The Philadelphia Story" starring Katharine Hepburn, Gary Grant and James Stewart, 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m., FREE. Fiimnoan Hp w*m+mm wg*VMia uv WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite the vocal nuclear freeze movement on both sides of the Atlantic, NATO officials say there are no plans to delay the stationing next year of new American atomic weapons in Europe. "We are determined to go ahead with the deployment" of the Pershing II missiles, said Paolo Pansa Cedranin fnrmpr Italian amhacca^nr to the United States. Air Vice Marshall J. Gilbert of the British Defense Ministry reiterated that view, adding, "TTiere is no question at all. The government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is absolutely committed on this." The comments by Gilbert and Cedronio came Monday at a news conference as a group of officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began a tour of the United States. Precision Members of the Delta Sigma Theta So Tunnel disastei ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (AP) - Up tc Soviet soldiers died from asphyxiatic mountain tunnel in Afghanistan, Western reported yesterday. The sources said the off the tunnel after a fiery auto crash, they were under rebel attack. There was no independent confirmat Neither the Marxist Afghan regime nor Iiuvti OV/UI uwps IV mgII(i(llM<lIl in lift Moslem rebellion, have commented on the Afhanistan's Radio Kabul has been br< lists of death notices each night, withou cause of death was, the sources said. Reagan will run WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Reagan's choice of Sen. Paul Laxalt to take over the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee is viewed by administration officials as a signal that Reagan plans to seek reelection. But Laxalt said that the nation's economic problems, including the rising unemployment rate, could stand in Reagan's way. Laxalt has said that he told Reagan he would not take the job without an assurance that the president would run for a second term. "I got a clear enough siDnai _ - O vv satisfy me," the Republican from Nevada told a small group of White House aides. While Reagan smiled, Laxalt made a similar statement to a group of Republican Party officials who had lunch at the White House on Saturday. The senator, who developed a close friendship with Reagan when the two were governors, also ?old reporters "my political 4rtistincts told me he would be a candidate." "I'll be frank to tell you that if I personally didn't think that he was ployment pla trip is part of an effort to * 4.1 ? A 1 ril _ A A.1 1 convince me unueo oiaies uuu Europe is shouldering its fair share of the NATO defense burden. U.S. officials have often suggested that European NATO members should spend more on defense. The NATO officials noted the growing peace movement in a number of their countries. In addition, a number of states and cities in the United States approved in last week's mid-term elections a proposal calling for a freeze on U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons. Starting late next year, the United States plans to put 108 Pershing II and 464 nuclear-tipped cruise missiles in five NATO nations. The weapons are in answer to the Soviet deployment in western Russia of intermediate range SS-90 miQcilpc The United States has run into Mil " >!|!''w*r > rority Pyramid Club performed on the Russ r kills 2,700 in > 2,700 civilians and The sources, citi >n in a car-filled Afghan capital, sail diplomatic sources killed in the early soldiers had sealed Salang Tunnel. 11.0( apparently tearing range and a major g; They said as man have died, while anc ion of the report. It was not clear how the Soviet Union, Bodies were still b r9 to help crush a the disaster, the so reports. condition they not be radcasting lengthy described Kabul as a it saying what the 4'Whatever the bo Kabul who has not lo i anain new nhi going to be a candidate, I wouldn't be accepting this position," he said. But, he said uncertainties about the political climate over the next two years, and economic questions, including the course of the unemployment rate, would have an impact on the nresident's dp^ieinn "That's one of the problems," Laxalt said when asked about the political impact of unemployment, which just reached a 42-year record of 10.4 percent. In his weekly radio address to the nation, Reagan said Saturday that "in /?.? ?1~ i- ? ? uui eiiuiu* 10 revive our economy, jobs must be our most urgent priority and lasting solutions must be our constant and consistent, principle." His emphasis on fighting joblessness, rather than inflation, . reflects his successful effort in lowering inflation, now projected at 4.8 percent annually. But it also demonstrates the stubbornness of the unemployment rate in responding to the cures offered by the president's economic program. And, it represents the failure so far of a campaign promise to battle price ins continue problems testing the Pershing II. A rocket blew up during the first attempt. A second test failed last week when the rocket did not ignite. Alfons Boecker, deputy chief of the West German mission, said his nation is happy with the "two-track" western approach of deploying the missiles while arms reduction talks are going on in Geneva. "The peace movement is important to take note of," but there is support for the new nuclear weapons, he said. Bernard Bot, deputy chief of the Dutch mission to NATO, said the European peace movement "has had a significant setback because of the Soviet repression in Poland." "It is our hope that the cruise missiles will have a beneficial impact on the Russians" and make them talk seriously about arms reduction, he said. Photo by Andy LavaHey ell House patio Monday afternoon. Afghanistan ng reports from their mission in the d between 400 and 2.000 civilians were November disaster in the 1.7-mile-long K) feet high in the Hindu Kush mountain ateway for Soviet Union-bound traffic, y as 700 Soviet troops were reported to >ther 200 were said to have been injured, the soldiers were killed or injured. eing flown from the area one week after turces said, briefing reporters here on. ' identified hv namo nr awliiV VTA WJ VUU11VI Jf X IlCjf city in mourning. dy count, there seems to be nobody in st. a friend or relative," a source said. airman says hikes without putting people out of work. Before becoming chairman of the Republican National Committee, Laxalt needs the formal annmuni nf ?f-f- "* the Republican Party and a rules change to let him perform the role part-time while day-to-day operations are directed by someone else. Reagan decided not to keep the current chairman, Richard Richards, for a second two-year term. Although Laxalt said he hoped Reagan would announce sooner, rather than later, his candidacy for a second term, an early declaration would risk tainting every step he takes with allegations of political motives. It would fnrrft manv an tivities into categories regulated by campaign finance laws and equal time requirements for political broadcasts. By contrast, should Reagan announce too soon that he is stepping aside after one term, or even send our signals that he is not interested in reelection, he would lose much of the leverage of an incumbent president.