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linal 2rs, liers Tie Tack ainted Women s Lib? Female alcoholism goes up THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1974 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Women who once nursed the bottle at home are turning more openly and in greater numbers to alcohol and to the once male-dominated Al coholics Anonymous, an AA survey showed Tuesday. The report released to the North American Congress on Alcohol and Drug Problems said women account for31 percent of AA’s new members in the past three years. Dr. John L. Norris, AA board chairman, told a news conference that drinking no longer is regarded as purely a man’s domain and that women are less inclined to hide their drinking. "When I was coming up, the ac ceptable social drink for women was tea, said the white-haired physi cian. “Now, it’s cocktails.” Doctors said increasing social ac ceptance of alcohol, changing women’s roles and jobs in which women come under more stress are major reasons for the increase. Women now make up 28 percent of the group’s membership, com pared to 22 percent in 1968 and 26 percent in 1971. The survey was designed to give a profile of Alcoholics Anonymous and is taken every three three years among AA groups in the United States and Canada. A total of 11,355 of AA’s estimated 285,000 members were polled. In the latest survey, 38 percent of the membership polled identified themselves in the executive- professional-technical category. Another 32 percent were identified as clerical or blue collar and 11 per cent as housewives. Increased drinking among women is not the only reason for increased female participation in AA, said Norris. “Because of the increased atten tion among women to alcoholism and because of changing social cus toms, it’s less of a disgrace, ” he said. Walter Murphy, a spokesman for the drug and alcohol conference, cited changing social customs and more pressure at work as reasons for the increased number of identified women alcoholics. “Always there were housewives who stayed home and no one knew they were alcoholics. Now since they are going into professional and executive positions, the woman is no longer the hidden alcoholic,” Murphy said. (////<//yS OPEN MON THRU SAT 9:30 - 9:30 PHOTO FINISHING SPECIALS Nothing seems to stop Irish killings Christmas spirit evades gloomy country Focal or Kodacolor Developed and Printed OtvVi 12 EXPOSURE ROLL $^97 Focal or Kod acolor Developed and Printed OeW 20 EXPOSURE ROLL ET N BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Santa Claus can kill that’s the British army’s Christmas message to its troops in Northern Ireland. Military bases are plastered with warning posters that give even Santa a sinister image in this violence-ridden city. A death-head skull in a red cap hovers over a Christmas gift, beck oning with a skeletal linger. "Don't accept Christmas presents from strangers,” it warns. The stranger, the army reasons. could be a terrorist and the present a bomb. Peace and gotxl will are grudging visitors in Northern Ireland, where a sectarian conflict has raged for five years. Nearly 1,140 men, women and children have died and about everyone in the population of 1.5 million knows someone who has been killed or maimed. Christmas here is: —No toy guns for the kids. Nerv ous soldiers can mistake youngsters playing in a gloomy ghetto street for armed terrorists. OR % > ICE Haircut refusal leads to Army conviction BERLIN (AP) — A U.S. Army special court-martial convicted Pvt. Robert Nuchow, 19, of Leonia, N.J., Tuesday of refusing to get a haircut. Nuchow faces a maximum six- months confinement at hard labor and loss of pay. Sentencing is ex pected Thursday. 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The heart of Belfast, once a free-fire zone for the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA), is a network of steel fences thrown up by the army. —Businessmen, terrorized and bombed to the brink of bankruptcy, abandoning the traditional trees and necklaces of Christmas lights on Royal Avenue. —A British patrol, bellies full of army-issue plum duff, moving down a Belfast street past a graffiti-daubed wall with the IRA warning, “Infor mers will be shot.” No Foreign Film Coupon must accompany Order One Roll per Coupon Smnmmnnmmmmki No Foreign Film Coupon must accompany Order One Roll per Coupon 2700 SOUTH TEXAS AVE. he cut his hair and trim his sideburns, which still reach to his chin. Immediately after the judge’s finding, Nuchow’s lawyer liegan in troducing witnesses to testify on behalf of Nuchow’s character and to attempt to show extenuating cir cumstances. 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