J lie Bull ionOrji ir Aiafe thatb liaiijuei souikeu nese in& toe L'.S atives bn at lythtPal Texas A&M The Battalion WEATHER FORECAST for FRIDAY: Continued partly cloudy with no ticeably higher temperatures, es pecially at night. HIGH:73 LOW:52 Vol. 88 No. 112 USPS 045360 12 pages College Station, Texas Thursday, March 9,1989 Dole proposes 6-month trial period for Tower ys sty far! ia nun at it ms tilt fori talus uti' it itedM kgrount for dt lOOvak- ties hat WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Repub lican Leader Bob Dole, struggling to stave off rejection of John Lower’s nomination as defense secretary, proposed Wednesday nigh 1 an extraordinary six-month trial con firmation period so senators could judge whether Tower lived up to his no-drinking pledge. Senate Democratic Leader George Mitchell expressed “immediate serious con cerns” over the proposal, but promised to consider it overnight. Dole made his dramatic bid to salvage the nomination at the end of the fifth day of a draining Senate debate, and alter conced ing i'. would “take a miracle to win confir mation.” Under Dole’s proposal, Lower would be confirmed, but would submit a letter ol res ignation to President Bush dated Oct. 1, 1989. If Tower’s performance were satis factory, there “probably” would be no need to reconfirm him, Dole said. Otherwise, “he probably wouldn’t be the nominee.” Dole said he offered his proposal after discussing it with Tower. It came as the Senate neared a climax in its bitter struggle over the nomination. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas became the third Democrat to endorse Tower’s confirma tion, but his speech was bracketed by decla rations of opposition from Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, Bennett Johnston of Loui siana, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Charles Robb of Virginia — Democrats who had been lobbied hard by the Bush ad ministration as potential pro-Tower votes. An Associated Press survey found 51 Democrats and Republican Sen. Larry Pressler of South Dakota either solidly op posed or leaning against confirmation with 41 Republicans and three Democrats either supporting or leaning in favor of the nomi nation. Democrats hold a 55-45 edge in the Sen ate. Dole made his extraordinary proposal to deal with Senate concerns over Tower’s his tory of drinking. “I think we ought to give him a second chance that many of us have had,” said Dole, who was seriously wounded during World War II but has risen to a position of power and promi nence in the Senate. “It gives this Senate a second opportu nity,” Dole said. “It addresses the concerns raised by the chairman and the majority leader and by others at the same time it gives President Bush his choice for secre tary of defense.” Earlier, Dole suggested Tower be per mitted to come to the Senate and answer the allegations against him, but did not im mediately press the issue when Mitchell ob jected . There was little doubt that Dole’s maneu- verings were his final bid to save the nomi nation. Earlier, he conceded it would “take a miracle” to do so, and Johnston’s speech seemed to deflate Republican hopes. “In the nuclear age we can’t afford to take a chance on the man who holds the fu ture in his hands,” Johnston said on the Senate floor. The Louisiana Democrat said he was troubled by Tower’s drinking habits and that alcohol altered the former senator’s judgment. “There seems to be a personality change that occurs in Senator Tower,” Johnston said. Earlier, Bentsen became the third Demo crat to support the embattled nomination, saying, “I hope that when I get the next chance to talk with John Tower about the tough job of keeping this country strong, it will be while he’s in his new office at the Pentagon.” Tower said, “I’m both honored to have his prestigious support, and grateful for his humane understanding of what my family has endured.” Despite Bentsen’s decision, Mitchell re peated his claim the Senate will reject the nomination, and he led a chorus of' Demo crats who called for a quick vote. Witness says North pleas trained monev for Contras (1 SPRING BREAK 1989 ■ Student Body U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE NEWSPAPER 25 •tso’ Aell r SAVE NOW! 1. Choose your style of shirt and how many you want. Tee shirts are $12.95 and Sweatshirts are $24.95. 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Living by a different set of rules By Katie Bassman ■ The Daily Texan U. of Texas, Austin If a woman is an alcoholic, people think she is promiscuous, doesn’t love her children or has a weakness in her moral fiber. But for men, drinking is accepted as their reward for putting in a hard day’s work, according to counse lors at Austin Women’s Addiction Re ferral & Education Center (AWARE). These and other myths about women alcoholics are accepted by many people, said Brennan McDonald, director of AWARE. “The nation as a whole hates the thought that the hand that rocks the cradle is a shaky one,” she said. Until recently, society would not rec ognize the fact that women could have drinking problems, because it was simply “a male problem,” said Cynthia Lanier, co-coordinator of the Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Program (CADEP). “It used to be ignored, but now women are coming out of the closet with their problems,” said Jerry Horton, co coordinator of CADEP. Now that the situation has been rec ognized, science has begun to research alcoholism with respect to women, and there are some dramatic findings. A woman is expected to give care; and when she not only can’t provide care — due to her illness — but also needs care herself, she feels a sense of shame con nected to not fulfilling her role as a woman, and a sense of shame connected to her illness. Alcohol also has different physiologic al effects on women than it does on men. “Women get more drunk, more quick ly, and stay drunk longer on the same amount of alcohol consumed by their male counterparts,” McDonald said. This is because women metabolize alcohol more slowly than men. Women have less body weight and more fat cells, thus developing higher blood alco hol levels than their male counterparts after consuming equivalent doses, AWARE said. Another factor women need to be con cerned with is their estrogen level, said AWARE’s Louise Warren. “A rise in a woman’s estrogen level decreases the body’s rate of metabolizing alcohol, so use of oral contraceptives and the men strual cycle increase susceptibility to alcohol abuse,” Warren said. Women are twice as likely as men to die from cirrhosis of the liver, pneumo nia, and other alcohol-related diseases. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, the third leading cause of mental retarda tion, and the only preventable one. “Alcoholism is in a person’s genetic predisposition. Fifty to 60 percent of the children of chemically dependent pa rents are chemically dependent them selves,” Warren said. 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CALL ANYTIME For A Free Brochure (800) 346-6401 •* rederick D. Joe ater Works lion Ameri- ssday. The tition. State senator bids to take Gramm’s seat AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic state Sen. Hugh Parmer launched his bid for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, charging that incum bent Republican Phil Gramm talks one way in Texas while he votes a different way in Washington. Parmer, a two-term senator and former Fort Worth mayor, said Gramm is out of touch with Texas families and their values. “He talks like an East Texas farmer in Lufkin but votes like a Wall Street banker in Washington,” Parmer said of Gramm. “In Texas, he says he wants to be tough on crime. In Washington, he voted against the appropriations for drug enforcement and even the FBI ... In Texas, he says he wouldn’t hurt senior citizens. In Washington, he voted against funding for Meals on Wheels for shut-in elderly.” Parmer, 49, became the first Dem ocrat in the 1990 Senate face. Many party officials had expected Agricutlure Commissioner Jim Hightower to take on Gramm, but Hightower decided in January to seek re-election to a third term and concentrate on populist political or ganizing efforts. Gramm reportedly has said he can raise $20 million for a re-election bid. Parmer said he wasn’t worried about the size of the Republican’s war chest, although he admitted it would be a tough fight. “Sure, I expect it to be difficult,” he said. “One of the good things about American democracy is that we don’t auction off seats in the U.S. Senate ... If you could just buy a seat for $20 million, then I won’t have it. But I don’t believe that. “What I need is an adequate amount of money to get across a message. And the message is: Phil Gramm does not represent the va lues that Texans believe in, and I do. I’ll have enough money to get that message across. 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