Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-6-1989 The BG News September 6, 1989 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 6, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4965. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4965 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Weather Wednesday High 80° Vol.72 Issue 10 Low 65° September 6, 1989 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY Bush offers drug strategy it the downpayment on a $2 billion, five- and economic development programs. then the war is lost. But if we face this State by Terence Hunt year program for the Andean region, "We can pay for this fight against evil as a nation united, this will be noth- Associated Press writer with allocations earmarked on the drugs without raising taxes or adding ing but a handful of useless chemi- Suburban homeless: A basis of progress in eradicating drugs. to the budget deficit,' he said. cals." researcher at Wright State University WASHINGTON — President Bush, To help offset the cost of his pro- He singled out for praise President Even before the speech, Bush's pro- in Dayton found that a significant calling drugs "the gravest domestic gram, Bush proposed diverting $751 Virgilio Barco of Colombia, where drug gram was praised by the head of the In- amount of women with a nigh level of threat facing our nation," Tuesday million from other areas, including ju- barons have declared war on the ternational Association of Chiefs of education are left homeless. night proposed a $7.9 billion war on venile justice, housing, immigration government. "We have a responsibility Police, Charles D. Reynolds, who said Katherine Rowell, a graduate who did narcotics emphasizing harsher penal- not to leave our brave friends in Co- in a statement that "the criminal jus- her thesis on the topic, said that the ties for users and more money for "We can pay lombia to fight alone," Bush said. tice recommendations of this report average age for these women is 32 and prisons, treatment programs and edu- With cocaine and crack dealing are responsive to critical needs." 25 percenthave children with them. cation. Yush warned Latin American for this fight creating violence and record homicide However, Rep. Don Edwards, the drug lords that "the rules have chang- rates across the country, Americans Democratic chairman of the House Ju- ed" and for the first time pledged U.S. against drugs appear ready for a new assault against diciary Committee's civil rights sub- military help to any government that drugs. committee, said the plan "proposes Nation requests it. without A Gallp Poll released at the White more of almost everything that hasn't Drugs are sapping our strength as a raising taxes House last month said a record 27 per- worked — more arrests, more prisons, Telethon victory: Jerry nation, the president said in his first or adding to cent of Americans consider drugs the tougher sentences." He said a proposal Lewis saw a record amount in his 24th nationally televised addressed from most important problem facing the na- to expand drug testing and step up annual Labor Day Muscular the Oval Office. He punctuated his ad- the budget tion, above poverty, the economy, the arrests of users "poses serious threats Dystrophy Telethon. The telethon dress by displaying a plastic bag of deficit." environment and fear of war. to civil liberties." raised $42,209,727 yesterday, $1 crack cocaine seized across the street "All of us agree that the gravest do- House Speaker Thomas Foley, million more than the 1988 telethon. from the White House. mestic threat facing our nation today is D-Wash., said Bush was not seeking To attack cocaine at its source. Bush drugs," Bush said. enough money to mount a long-term Lewis has brought in $526,524,210 proposed a four-fold increase in the -George Bush,United Bush held up the bag of cocaine, and assault, and said the program will in- since he began televising in 1966. amount of military and law enforce- said it was as "innocent looking as crease pressure for an eventual tax in- ment aid for Colombia, Bolivia and States President candy." But the president added, "If crease. 'Procrastineighbors': Do Peru, to $261.2 million in 1990. He called we fight this war as a divided nation, See Bush, page 3. you borrow things from your neighbors and "forget" to return them? If so, the Procrastinators Club of America is honoring you this year. For the last 15 years, the national Racism alleged in organization has sponsored a "National Be Late for Something Day." There are currently 6,800 members and the organization said lottery ticket case that about a million people are yet to join... they're procrastinating. by Michelle Banks Safer seniors: In Staff writer Morgantown, W. Va., Alice Verhotz, 60, took part in a driving experiment An apparent racial incident involving a University employee was brought to because she was afraid of the driving the attention of the Committee for Racial Justice at a Tuesday meeting. conditions in her town. Verhotz, who Clarence Terry, director of minority admissions, was involved in an occur- had lived in Asia, partook in the West rence July 20 at a gas station on East Wooster Street, said Conrad Pritscher, Virginia University experiment head of the committee. which was designed to ensure older The incident concerned a lottery ticket Terry had bought in Cleveland that drivers become safer on the road. The day and planned on reedeming that evening in Bowling Green. university's techniques include However, Pritscher said, when Terry tried to reedeem the $25, the gas exercise, stress management and station manager thought there was a problem with the ticket because the code driver education. did not match the listing of winning codes she had on file. An off-duty policeman who happened to be in the gas station at the time con- Military sisters: Two ferred with the manager and then the police were called. Vietnamese women are success According to Pritscher's report, Terry said he was surrounded by police and stories for the U.S. Military, Jean detained for 45 minutes. Nguyen-Doyne and Anne Nguyen. However, the police report stated the inquiry lasted only nine minutes. Jean was 12 and Anne was 5 in the "Maybe the time Mr. Terry was talking to the employee and the police middle of the Vietnam War and (combined) was 45 minutes, but the actual report reads nine minutes, said because of the experience, they do not Chief of Police Galen Ash. take the word 'freedom' lightly. Their Ash said the problem could have been because the ticket was bought in father, an officer in the Vietnamese Cleveland or because of the high incidence of stolen lottery tickets throughout army wanted the family to die the state. together instead of being sepaprated, "Maybe the code did not match because it wasn't purchased in this area," but a friend convinced him to flee to Ash said. "I know it would disturb me if I bought a legitimate ticket and I was America. The sisters said they love given that hassle." □ See Racism, page 3. their freedoms and want to protect them. Jean was the first Vietnamese woman to graduate from West Point and is now an intelligence officer Liquor crackdowns while Anne just finished basic training at the Air Force Academy. Cancer Study: Results of the to reduce violations largest study ever done on the effects guilty by the Ohio Liquor Control of birth control pills on breast cancer by Mitch Weiss Commission last month and paid a were revealed recently. At the Associated Press writer $1,600 fine. Harvard School of Public Health, the Organizations are not allowed to study concluded that middle aged TOLEDO — Recent state Liquor have electronic gambling machines in women that began use of the pUl in Control Board crackdowns on frater- places where alcohol is served. The their 20s have no unusual risk of nal organizations that may promote groups could lose their liquor licenses breast cancer while those who started gambling or serve alcohol to minors if found guilty of violating the law. earlier or later do. has begun paying dividends, a state Several telephone messages left at spokeswoman said Tuesday. the Napoleon Elk's club Tuesday Miss America: The 51 A raid on a public event that was were not returned. contestants for the Miss America sponsored by Napoleon's Benevolent Sponsorship of public functions has pageant arrived in Atlantic City, N.J. Paternal Order of Elks lodge on Mon- opened up fraternal groups to in- yesterday. However, it will not be all day was part of the state's new enfor- creased scrutiny of both drinking and glamour though because the next two cement effort, said spokeswoman gambling activities. Napoleon Police weeks will be rehearsal for the Patricia Haskins. Chief George Schmidt said. television production to be aired Sept. The raid resulted in charges being "Normally, without a complaint 12. The contest is 69 years old. filed against six people for liquor vio- from inside the organization, it's very lations and the confiscation of elec- difficult to go in and search for viola- Baby boom: Elizabeth Graber, tronic gambling equipment.