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News
Teen poll links parents, dru
Survey points to problems with fathers as key to substance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most
teen-agers find it easier to talk
about drugs with their mothers
than with their fathers and those
who do not get along with their
fathers are at far greater risk of
smoking, drinking and using
drugs, a survey found.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
Pentagon officials have said that
three Army special forces officers
were present outside Waco, Texas
on April 19, 1993, but that they
were not in any way involved in
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