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Teens in two-parent families who have fair or poor relation ships with their fathers are 68 percent more likely to use drugs than those in the average two- parent household that was sur veyed, said a report issued yes terday by the private National Center on Addiction and Sub stance Abuse at Columbia Uni versity. By comparison, children raised by their mothers alone were only 30 percent more likely to use drugs than those living in the av erage two-parent home. “Too many fathers are just AWOL in their kids lives,” Joseph Califano, the research center’s chair, told a news conference. “They’re not there to help with homework and kids don’t go to them with important problems.” Some 2,000 youths ages 12 to NEWS IN BRIEF Process to choose Jasper jury begins Student Life offers A&M info stations The Department of Student Life is sponsoring “Reveille’s Info Stations” booths to supply stu dents with information about Texas A&M such as maps of cam pus, academic adviser’s phone numbers, locations of dining fa cilities and bus routes. Reveille’s Info Stations are lo cated at Rudder Fountain and the Student Recreation Center from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. today. 17 and 1,000 parents were sur veyed by telephone in May and June. Researchers assessed the teens’ risk of drug use by asking, among other things, if they had friends who use drugs and if they thought they would use drugs themselves in the future. Fifty-seven percent said it was easier to talk to their mothers about drugs; 26 percent preferred talking to their fathers. The remaining 17 percent said they did not know. Mothers influence their chil dren’s important decisions three times as often as fathers and are more likely to have private talks about drugs, the study found. Fifty-eight percent of teens said they had very good or excel lent relationships with their fa thers, compared with 70 percent with their mothers. It has been difficult to encour age fathers to be close to their children because "fatherhood has not been culturally valued,” said Don Eberly, chair of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a private support group for fathers. “It matters a lot more that the Teen Drug Use in America Among the findings of a report on teem use and the family released yesterday: • Nearly 90 percent of teens said they felt safe in ish • More than half said they attended a school wherej were used, and 20 percent said that if they war buy marijuana, they could get it in less than a I • Almost half of teens who had never used credited their parents with their decision. Margin of error: Plus or minus 2 percentas father not only be present but emotionally engaged, that the fa ther is investing his life in his children, that he knows his chil dren, that he’s a friend to his chil dren,” Eberly said. Califano said fathers should ask themselves if they join with mothers in monitoring their teen’s conduct. He said they should also ask, “How often do I eat meals with my children?” The study found that children who never have dinner with their parents have a 70 percer; risk of substance abuse. Parents should takeife results as a “back-to-sc minder to support theirc and ask them questions.; H. Westley Clark, direar Center for Substance Treatment at the Depart Health and Human Sen: “Too often, people tE parenting role as themoe and this reminds us is the children, the moths father where possible," he Jury selection begins today in Bryan for the trial of Lawrence Russell Brewer, who is being tried for capital murder in the dragging death of James L. Byrd Jr. Fourteen jurors, including two alternates, will be selected to serve on the jury. Although 600 jury summons have been sent out to Brazos County residents, jury coordinator Ginger Lanehart said not all of those are expected to report for duty. “We expect about 175 to 200 people for general voir dire to morrow,” she said. General voir dire is the exami nation process prospective jurors go through to determine their competency to serve. “It’s hard to say how many will be eliminated tomorrow,” she said. “After general voir dire, ju rors go through individual voir dire, where they are questioned by both prosecuting and defense at torneys for about 30 minutes.” Brazos County officials also have sent 300 jury summons out for tomorrow in case too few ju rors report today. Those who have received summons for tomorrow are asked to call the phone num ber on their summons to deter mine if they are needed for duty that day. Lanehart said Jasper County District Judge Monte Lawlis ex pects jury selection to last two to three weeks. House subpoenas Davidian records Punishment Continued from Pagel WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the FBI’s belated admission that incendiary tear gas canisters were used in the hours before the fiery end of the government’s 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidians issued sub poenas yesterday seeking records pertaining to the use of the tear gas. The House Government Re form Committee issued subpoenas to the Texas Rangers, who are in possession of the tons of evi dence sifted from the charred re mains of the Da vidians’ com- pound and an assistant 40 yards from the Davidians’ compound, were responsible for touching off the blaze that raced through the wooden structure hours later. But Reno has pledged a full investigation. Burton, whose committee will hold hearings "We are going to be sending out subpoenas to a number of agencies... in the coming weeks/' , — Mark Corallo House Government Reform Committee spokesperson in the fall, dis patched two investigators to Austin last week to review evidence. Yes terday’s sub poenas will be followed by others, said House commit tee spokesper- I son Mark | Corallo. “We are go- j were harmless, orangey lets. “It was just something to do for fun,” he said.’! think it would turn intoa: dangerous.” DiZerega said thatvvhe; came into view, he sudds came just another target None of the attackers acknowledged who actui Wang, but diZerega said' portant thing was thatti! faced the consequences It in an attempt to make what they had done. Jared Bain, 18; Joil 19; and a 16-year-old nm agreed after mediation® pay Wang $67 each. Tte will perform 10 hoursofco nity service each. Also included in U.S. attorney in Waco who prosecuted criminal cases against surviving Davidians. The committee’s chair, Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., and other Republi cans on Capitol Hill have been in censed over the FBI’s about-face last week after years of claims that only non-burning tear gas was used during the final hours of the deadly, 51-day siege. Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI have said there is no evidence that the incendiary de vices, lobbed at a concrete bunker ing to be sending out subpoenas to a number of agencies that were in volved in the siege at Waco in the coming weeks,” Corallo said. Among them is the Defense De partment, whose secretive Delta Force had troops present at the scene — a point of controversy for some who contend the military played more than an observer’s role. 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