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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1979
the nation
Tropical storm Gloria born
as two others begin to die
United Press International
MIAMI — Tropical storm Gloria
sprang to life in the far eastern At
lantic Thursday, while tropical
storms David and Frederic faltered
in their rampages through the East
Coast and Caribbean.
“They (David and Frederic) were
around latitude 12 (north),’ forecas
ter Mark Zimmer said. “This one’s
up at latitude 23. Normally when
you get a storm that far to the north,
it will turn — the most likely path
— up into the middle of the north
Atlantic.
At noon EDT, Gloria was located
near latitude 23.0 north, longitude
35.0 west, or about 750 miles
northwest of the Cape Verde Is
lands.
The storm was moving toward the
west-northwest at between 15 and
20 mph.
When asked about the recent rash
of storms, Zimmer said, “We’re just
getting back more to the normal
type thing —- normal over the past
100 years or so. What we’ve had in
the last five years is a lack of activity
well below normal. Now we re get
ting back to a normal September —
the peak activity for the Atlantic
hurricanes. ”
David raked the densely popu
lated northeast Thursday, killing at
least three people in 24 hours and
then moving relentlessly towards
New England.
David was losing its strength and
shape but still had winds up to 45
miles per hour and higher gusts
along the coast, according to the Na-
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tional Weather Service.
Gale warnings were in effect from
Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Eastport,
Maine. The weather service said the
onshore winds coupled with abnor
mally high tides will produce tidal
flooding along the northeast coast.
Damage from David was reported
at more than $1 billion in the
Dominican Republic alone and
some observers said the official
death toll of “more than 1,000” was
low.
Pilots who have flown over the is
land reported seeing “bodies float
ing around all over.
“There must be thousands and
thousands of people dead out
there,” one source said.
Tornadoes spawned by David in
the Philadelphia area killed one
man. Two others persons died in
Washington, D.C. and a fourth per
son died in a weather-related car ac
cident in North Carolina.
Three twisters knocked out power
to hundreds of communities in
southern New Jersey.
Heavy rains spread inland and
northward with the area from
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
northward threatened by flooding.
Scattered power outages were re
ported throughout southern New
Jersey, affecting some 80,000 resi
dences, and as far north as the New
York City area.
National briefs
MORGAN CITY, La. — A derrick atop a drilling rig in West Bayou
Pigeon collapsed Wednesday and two men were believed trapped,
Coast Guard officials said.
The accident occurred about 26 miles northwest of Morgan City in
the middle of the Atchafalaya Basin. A work boat at the scene re
ported the collapse to the Coast Guard in New Orleans.
A helicopter was sent to the scene.
WASHINGTON — The government, in its first review of a state’s
compliance with strict limits on federal funding for abortins, con
cluded Wednesday that Pennsylvania improperly spent $2.7
million on such surgery.
The Inspector General’s oflice of the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare conducted the audit of the Pennsylvania records from
February to June 1978. The state has agreed with the findings of the
report and has promised to meet the federal standards in the future,
the office said.
In brief, the audit found that Pennsylvania failed to:
— Accurately identify which federal program they were drawing
assistance from in performing the abortions.
— Specify the kind of abortion conducted.
— Have a procedure to obtain certifications from two physicians —
as required by law — for health-related abortions.
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United Press International
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for 7 hours 29 minutes in Brampton,
Ontario, Canada, in 1976.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Although it
was certainly not his intention, Sec
retary of State Cyrus Vance set a
disturbing tone for Thursday’s re
sumption of debate on the SALT II
strategic arms limitation agreement
with the Soviets.
Among witnesses scheduled to
testify in the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee were retired Adm.
Thomas Moorer, former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Eugene
Rostow, former undersecretary of
state for political affairs. Both op
pose ratification.
Moorer, who maintains approval
of SALT II as it stands would be in
jurious to the security of the United
States and its allies, came armed
with a joint letter to the Senate
signed by 1,678 retired generals and
admirals urging rejection on like
grounds.
The letter based opposition on
grounds the treaty heavily favors the
Soviet Union and cannot adequately
be verified.
The resumed hearings were held
against a new backdrop painted by
Vance at a news conference
nesday.
He said a Soviet combat bri^
complete with tank, artillery
motorized rifle battalions, has
secretly in Cuba for years, (
tected until recently by U.S.it
gence.
Although Vance tried to sepjB
the belated discovery from SALlj
a Senate consensus appeared
growing that the Cuban troops
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Wednesday, called for a U.S.
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ratifies or rejects SALT II.
Hope to duplicate successes of 1976
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — In a major ef
fort to duplicate their success in
1976, President Carter and his fam
ily plan political forays into Iowa,
the scene of one of the nation’s first
presidential caucuses in January.
It was Iowa that gave Carter his
first big leap toward the Democratic
nomination in 1976, and the presi
dent hopes for similar results in his
unannounced campaign for reelec
tion.
First Lady Rosalynn Carter will
go to Cedar Rapids Saturday to
speak to the 36th annual convention
of the Iowa Daily Press Association
and to the Linn County Democratic
Committee’s September Spectacu
lar.
The president and his wife made
several stops in Iowa during their
cruise down the Mississippi River
two weeks ago on the Delta Queen.
Chip Carter, middle son and most
politically active of the Carters’
children, spent three days last
month in Iowa and took part in the
opening of the 1980 Carter cam
paign oflice in Des Moines.
He also criss-crossed the state
with stops at Sioux City, LeMars,
Marshalltown, Avoca, Atlantic,
Webster City, Boone, Indianola,
Oskaloosa, Cedar Falls, Waterloo
and Dubuque.
The president himself was in Iowa
in May, speaking in Des Moines to
the Iowa State Association of Coun
ties and at a state Democratic party
reception.
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day with the National Sec®
Council to discuss “longm
strategic defense” matters,
ently including a decision or
of the MX missile.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Richard Bolling, D-Mo., has always been
a man who could hold his liquor — most of the time. Now he says-bt
won’t hold any at all.
Bolling returned to the House and his influential job as chairmand
the Rules Committee Wednesday after six weeks of treatment
alcoholism at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
His sudden decision to enter the hospital in July came as a shockto
almost everyone. Few of his colleagues had any notion he evenhada
problem, although in past years he had gained a reputation as ama
who could handle alcohol.
The plain-speaking, no-nonsense 63-year-old Bolling isn’t going
the lecture circuit to talk about his problem, and gave every indica
tion he hoped this interview was the last time he would have to
about it.
He has no advice for anyone except to be aware of what alcoholism
is and what to do about it.
Bolling won’t discuss details of the drinking episode that led him to
decide to seek help. But he said he does know what led to the episode
— “a very, very bad back problem” for which he was taking pain
killers.
That episode was only the second time in 12 years his drinking had
gotten out of hand, he said. But it was enough to convince him to seel
help in finding out what was happening to him.
“What I had was a peculiar kind of drinking problem, he said, a
“stress overload form of alcoholism and not the emotional or physical
dependence on alcohol that many assume to be a part of alcoholism
“Ninety-five to 98 percent of the time I am a normal drinker, he
said. “I’m not addicted, psychologically or physically.”
But, he added, “On occasion, it got out of hand. ”
“What I decided at the age of 63 was that I needed to find out what
was causing this problem, he said.
When Bolling entered Bethesda, his closest associates said the)
could detect no change in the quality of his work, and some asked
when the hardworking veteran legislator found time to drink at all
Bolling said there was no drop in the quality of his work because he
had no need to drink constantly. In fact, the episode which led him to
enter the hospital lasted only about two days, he said.
Despite his ability to handle alcohol most of the time, Bolling says
he will no longer drink.
“The only solution to this disease is not to ever take a chance that
you’ll take the first drink that could lead to the 25th,” he said.
Bolling says he has no need, no craving for alcohol, so it willk
relatively easy for him to stop.
In fact, he said, his stay at Bethesda was not so much for treatment
as for education about his problem.
“I just went through a course, ” he said. “I wasn’t ‘hospitalized.
As a result of that course, which involves “your own diagnosis’ of
your problem, Bolling said he discovered he was an episodic alcoholic
— a “binge drinker” who could handle alcohol most of the time but
who might drink too much under great stress.
“People ought to have a greater awareness of what alcoholism is,
he said, especially his form of alcoholism. “The danger is that you
might think you don’t have a problem because you almost don’t.
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