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year old who goes out and
drinks too much at lunch and
gets sick an hour later.
“By that time, they’re not
causing any trouble, they’re
more than likely lying on a
couch asking for their mother.
But we have so few cases of that
happening anymore.
“We aren’t facing a large
drinking problem on cam
puses,” Pope said. “Our major
concern is an alcoholic problem
among our teenagers. We’re
seeing 14- and 15-year-old kids
with drinking problems they’ve
obtained before high school.”
Bill Spencer, a teacher at
Stephen F. Austin Junior High
in Bryan, said stricter measures
are needed.
“If a student wants beer or
liquor badly enough, he can find
someone to get it for him,”
Spencer said. “I think we need
stricter laws concerning the peo
ple who sell alcohol. There
should be a better way to hold
someone who knowingly sells
alcohol to minors accountable.
“The answer may be to just
raise the drinking age all the way
up to 20 or 21. I’m not so sure
teenagers are physically or men
tally mature enough to handle
alcohol.”
Spencer also said many teena
gers didn’t need to find some
one to buy alcohol for them;
their parents can provide it for
them.
“In Texas, it’s legal for minors
to drink if they are under the
supervision of their parents,” he
said. “This means they can drink
if their parents will let them,
which in many cases, is quite a
bit.”
Denise Jones, a junior at
Bryan High School, said the law
hasn’t had much of an effect on
her.
“I like to drink beer, but not
so much that I’m going to fall to
pieces if I can’t get any,” Jones
said. “Besides, my parents let me
have a beer or two around the
house, but only if I’m not going
anywhere.”
Law enforcement officials
said a solution to the problem is
Intelligence veteran selected
as new CIA deputy director
United Press International
WASHINCiTON — The
White House has selected John
N. McMahon, a veteran intelli
gence professional, to take over
the No. 2 spot in the CIA, admi
nistration sources said Monday.
McMahon, 52, will replace
Adm. Bobby Ray Inman, who
resigned as deputy director of
the agency to seek a new career
as a civilian.
The Reagan administration
apparently heeded outspoken
congressional advice that Capi
tol Hill would insist on a first-
rate replacement for Inman in
view of its less than enthusiastic
support for CIA Director Wil
liam Casey, who is regarded as a
political, rather than profession
al, appointment.
McMahon easily won the
nomination in view of his exten
sive intelligence background
and his wide support on Capitol
Hill, administration sources
said.
President Reagan will have to
submit McMahon’s nomination
to the Senate for confirmation,
but it is expected to be a for
mality.
“Mr. McMahon was the only,
and I repeat, only, appointment
I would nave found acceptable,”
said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moyni-
han, D-N.Y., vice chairman of
the Select Committee on Intelli
gence.
McMahon, who has been with
the CIA for some 31 years, is the
No. 3 official in the CIA in
charge of the foreign assessment
division. He has served in every
important department of the
agency.
a long way off.
Sgt. Eugene Schoonover of
the Texas Department of Public
Safety in Austin said the prob
lems related to teenagers and
alcohol demand more than what
he calls “stop gap” measures.
“The consequences of teens
drinking are too serious for us to
judge how successful we can be
by keeping alcohol off high
school campuses,” Schoonover
said. “Too many times, the re
sults are disastrous when minors
get a hold of liquor.
“We need some sort of strict
deterrent. As far as I’m con
cerned, we could raise the age to
21 and be better off.”
However, raising the drink
ing age has had a different ef fect
on some college students.
Keith Massa, a sophomore
agriculture economics major
from Plano, said the new law is
unfair to students who previous
ly had the right to drink. Massa
didn’t turn 19 until late Septem
ber of his sophomore year.
“I could go anywhere I
wanted and drink a beer my
freshman year,” Massa said,
“but I came back my second year
and had to wait around for a
month while my friends went
out.
“I could have voted in the
elections, been drafted or tried
as an adult. I was legal in every
way, but I didn’t have the right
to go out and drink a beer.”
Massa said he feels the new
law will create more problems
than it will solve.
“By making it illegal for 18
year olds to drink, more people
are going to be breaking the
law,” he said. "Even though they
are now minors,Mm
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getting someone oldeB
for them.”
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