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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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Brown said he wants to find a chemical pre-treatment to
preserve some of those enzymes without affecting others
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Before becoming chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
Laxalt needs the formal annmuni nf
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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.