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Panel calls for making 21 legal age
By VIRGINIA TRULL
DTH Slaff Writer
The Governor's Crime Commission
recommended last raising the legal drinking
age from 18 to 21 late last week in an effort
to reduce alcohol-related traffice deaths.
"The commission looked at it only from
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the standpoint of what it would do to reduce
death on our highways," said Jim Van
Camp, chairman of the crime commission.
"It wasn't done as a moralistic thing,"
Van Camp said Monday. "It's just one
method of reducing deaths."
Twenty-one states lowered the drinking
age to 18 in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he
said. Of these, 16 have reversed that deci
sion increasing the age and in those states
alcohol-related traffic deaths have decreased.
Edwin C. Guy, director of the Governor's
Highway Safety Program, said the lower
drinking age was a result of the extension of
voting rights to 18-year-olds.
The drinking age was lowered to 18 follow
ing the Vietnam War, Guy said. The states
that have since returned it to 21 have seen a
28 percent reduction in fatal crashes- involv
ing people ages 16 to 20. North Carolina
could expect the same reduction,, he said.
"It's not any vendetta to hit at that age
group," Guy said. "Voting and drinking are
two separate things. Voting doesn't kill peo
ple." Guy suggested the increase could be done
in progressive stages, raising the age year by
- year, thus giving people time to adjust.
Stephanie Bass of Gov. Jim Hunt's OfficeT
said Hunt had not taken a position on the
proposal. He has appointed a task force to
look into the recommendation and report to
him by Dec. 1, Bass said.
Van Camp said the task force would take
the matter to public hearings before making a
recommendation to the governor for
legislative action.
Van Camp said there were three main pro
blems with the proposal's acceptance. First,
there is the loss of tax revenue; second, the
difficulty of enforcement, and third, the loss
to businesses involved, he said.
"We must make a real evaluation of tax
loss, particularly in times when you need all
the tax dollars you can get," he said. "The
alcohol lobby will have a tremendous impact
on its passage."
Bill Hester of the Alcoholic Beverage Con
trol Commission said the proposal was com
ing strictly from the crime commission. "We
haven't even been consulted or asked about
it," Hester said. .
"From the state ABC Commission's point
of view, it is very difficult to police the pro
blem now," he said. "And if they take away
the privileges from those who are enjoying
them, it will be even more difficult."
Hester said the change might encourage
those who were not drinking now. to start.
Don Murray of the Alcohol Law Enforce
ment Division said the increase in age would
make no difference in enforcement policies.
"The problems would not change," Mur
ray said. "In fact, it would make enforce
ment easier." Murray explained that it would
be easier to distinguish the age differences.
"There are valid arguments on either side,
but it comes down to lives," Van Camp said.
Jilt's kind of hard to argue something that
"will save lives."
Local bars would face
lo of student business
By ALISON DAVIS
DTH Staff Writer
A Friday night in Chapel Hill:
Bouncers stand at the doors of half
empty bars, checking the IDs of all
who try to enter. Those under 21 are
turned away. Down the street, two
sophomores wait outside a grocery
store while a University senior enters
to buy them a six-pack of beer. ' -
Many Chapel Hill bars and package
stores would lose business if a Gover
nor's Crime Commission proposal to
raise the legal drinking age in North
Carolina to 21 becomes law;
The commission suggested raising
the drinking age to reduce the number
of people who drive under the influ
ence of alcohol, Edwin C. Guy, direc
tor of the Governor's Highway Safety
Program, said Monday.
The proposal is based on studies of
other states that , have raised their
drinking ages, Guy said. If introduced
in the state legislature, the age change
will be brought up in the 1983 long
session, he said.
Several Chapel Hill bar owners and
managers said they would lose much
of their business if students under 21
could hot buy beer ' or wine. About
one-third of the students at the Uni
versity (6,500 people) are under 21 .
"It will probably put us out of busi
ness," said Roger Meyland, owner of
Troll's Bar. "Ninety percent of our
clientele are college students, in the
18- to 20-year-old range."
Tim Kirkpatrick, owner of Hender
son Street Bar, said he would lose
about 70 percent of his business if the
proposal became law.
"It won't pass because the state
needs the tax money," he said. "The
students are going to get it freer and
wine) anyway," he said.
Controlling who gets beer would be
difficult, said Dick Lavinder, manager
of wine and beer sales at Fowler's
Food Store. "They'd get someone
who is 21 to buy it like the high
school kids do now," he said.
Lavinder said he could not tell how
a change in the legal drinking age
would affect his business. "We'll have
to wait and see," he said. "But I don't
think it has a prayer of passing."
Clark Daugherty, a Happy Store
employee, said the store's business
would definitely be hurt if the drinking
age were changed. "We'd have to
crack down more, and that would
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Friday says UNC growth, tradition to continue
WiHhm C. Friday
By STEPHEN STOCK
DTH Staff Writer
UNC President William C. Friday told stu
dents that the University would continue in its
growth and tradition despite continuing reces
sion and the proposed financial aid cutbacks.
In a speech before the Dialectic and Philan
thropic Societies in New West Tuesday night,
Friday described UNC-Chapel Hill's expansion
over the last 30 years as an example of the Uni
versity system as a whole.
Friday cited the North Carolina citizens'
strong sense of committment to providing edu
cation for youth, the University's service to the
state and the intellectual challenge which the
University offers, as reasons for this growth.
"This institution above all else must set an ex-
Jordan offers Iraq
troops to fight Iran
The Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan King Hussein,
fearing that an Iraqi defeat in the
16-month-old .war against Iran will
threaten the entire region, has formed a
2,000-man volunteer brigade to fight
alongside the Iraqis.
Jordanian officials say the special unit,
known as the Yarmouk Force, will leave
for the front within weeks. Hussein is ex-.
pected to lead the expeditionary unit him
self. The unit takes its name for a river in
northern Jordan where the Arabs defeated
forces of the Byzantine Empire in the 7th
century. Despite the military fanfare,
many view the force as symbolic because
it is too small to have much impact on the
war.
Hussein's motives have not been ex
plained officially. Diplomats suggest that
Iraq's fading fortunes on the battlefield
since last fall and a recent Iranian-inspired
coup attempt in Bahrain spurred him to
act.
In a recent newspaper interview, Hus
sein warned that "the real problem is that
the Iranian menace does not stop at Iraq
but extends to the-entire Arab region,
particularly the (Persian) Gulf and the
Arab peninsula." He called on all Arab
states to join him in sending volunteer
forces.
A high-ranking Jordanian official,
who declined to be identified, said in
another interview the war options had
been reduced to only two possibilities: an
Iranian victory or a decisive breakthrough
by Iraq that would force Iran to negotiate.
"An Iranian victory would signify the
total destruction for the Iraqi army and
people, and we would hate to see this pos
sibility because it would mean Iranians on
our border," the official said. We feel it .
is Jordan's duty to rally to help Iran win a
decisive battle to stop the bloodshed."
Jordanian officials concede that the
volunteer force mad up of army vete-,
rans has been opposed by Palestinians,
who generally regard the war as under
mining their own cause and wasting mili
tary resources that should be used against
Israel. .
High casualties and the pressure of war
contributions could also prove unpopular
in the long run, diplomats contend. The
move is also likely to heighten tensions
with neighboring Syria, which supports
Iran.
Despite Hussein's call for other Arab
volunteer forces, the expectations here
were that the oil-rich Arab states in the
Persian Gulf will continue to limit their
support to financial aid and condemna
tions of Iran's alleged attempts to export
its revolution. . ,
Jordanian officials said Jordan's con
tribution was essentially "symbolic."
They did not foresee Jordanian army
units being sent to the front because Iraq
lacks neither arms nor manpower.
In the early days of the Iran-Iraq war,
Hussein was the first Arab leader to sup
port Iraq, and offered to send troops at
the time. Jordan's major contribution to
date has been as a supply route for arms
and food shipped through Jordan's Red
Sea port of Aqaba.
"It is very obvious that the king re
turned from Iraq about six weeks ago and
strongly felt the need to make a symbolic
gesture in support of Iraq," one Western
diplomat said.
ample and be the flagship to lead the way for
the support of higher education throughout the
rest of the state," he said.
Friday said he did not agree with the pro
posed cutbacks in. funds for student aid. "I'm
not against defense, but we must make sure that
our all-American boy out there is educated."
President Ronald Reagan's proposal to ask
private citizens to pick up the costs that the
federal government was no longer funding
would cut out the middle-class student, he said.
"It is unrealistic to ask the private sector to pick
up the tab of billions of dollars."
When asked how the University was com
plying with federal government desegregation
j regulations, Friday described more appropria
; tions and degrees offered at the five predom
inantly black schools and an increase in efforts
to recruit and enroll more black students at the
predominantly white universities and more
white students at the predominantly black uni
versities. When asked to compare students' concerns in
the 1960s with those in the late 1970s and early
1980s, Friday mentioned the Vietnam war ver
sus today's pressure of breaking into the job
market, as roles played in shaping students' at
titudes. Friday said he had no political aspirations for
offices such as governor.
But he joked about his role as a television per
sonality (he hosts a show on the Center for
Public Television, Channel 4, once a week),
"One day a lady came up to me and asked, 'are
you that fellow on TV? You don't look half as
fat in real life.'"
Hunt opposes
plans to lease
land to drillin
By AMY EDWARDS
DTH Staff Writer . x
A U.S. Department of the Interior proposal to lease six en
vironmentally sensitive tracts off the North Carolina coast for
oil and gas exploration has drawn criticism from Gov. Jim
Hunt and state environmental exDerts.
The six 5,500-acre tracts make up 2 percent of the Atlantic
coastal areas offered for lease last August. Hunt said he felt
these particular tracts were close enough to the coast to cause
environmental damage if an oil spill occurred.
The governor sued in federal court to block the leases, and the
Interior Department agreed to withdraw the tracts after no bids
were offered on them.
Now those six tracts are tentatively scheduled to be offered
for oil and gas leases in June. Hunt has said the state will again
block the leasing.
But because oil industry interest has been slight, "the
likelihood of its being leased is pretty low, at least for the time
, being," said Barbara Karlen, an Interior Department
spokeswoman.
Karlen said the department would release an environmental
impact statement in May and hold public hearings, during which
states can voice their objections, in August. The actual leasing
would take place in August 1983 if any bids were offered, she
said.
' 'Opposition (to the leasing of tracts close to shore) has come
from Long Island all the way down the coast," she said.
Even with that opposition, the department "would pretty
much stick with offering those tracts," she said. "But it is possi
ble that some tracts would be withdrawn."
She said California was able to keep some tracts off its coast
from being leased. Further, opposition from New Jersey
delayed drilling off that coast for three years.
Initial North Carolina opposition was based on a federal
study showing that a major oil spill from the tracts in question
would have a 25 percent chance of reaching North Carolina
beaches.
But "the 25 percent figure is probably off the top of some
one's head," said Len Pietrafesa, a physical oceanographer
and professor at N.C. State University. Pietrafesa has con
ducted studies for the Department of Energy, the Interior
Department and Sea Grant since 1975.
"Depending on the time of year and oceanographic
phenomena, the possibility of any spill reaching the beach can
range from zero to 100 percent," he said. "More often than not,
the spill will reach the beach."
Pietrafesa said an oil spill in the Cape Lookout area would
have about a 75 percent chance of reaching the beach. "There
are times of the year when the chances are as high as 90 to 100
percent," he said. -",' " ". v-K " " "
If spilled oil reached a salt marsh, the wildlife which spends its
juvenile stage in the marsh could be harmed, Duke University
marine geologist Orrin Pilkey said. "But most geologists feel the
real problem is associated with industry tankers, refineries,
dredging," he said.
"Small daily spills can do damage to coastal areas," Pilkey
said. "Look at Louisiana and Texas. How do you bring
pipelines ashore without damaging marshes?"
Pilkey added that oil companies had done a good job of
repairing damage to coastal areas when strong state laws had
been enforced. "It's a matter of how much backbone the state
of North Carolina has in setting up and enforcing laws," he
said.
Karlen said an oil spill off the North Carolina coast was not
imminent.
Oil companies have had little interest in the Atlantic coastal
area, Karlen said, and most exploratory drilling has been unsuc
cessful. She said no drilling was being done in the mid-Atlantic
area now. "Even is they did get some leases close to shore, they
would have to explore. All of that takes so long another five to
10 years."
Karlen said there was a possibility of a spill during the ex
ploration process, although accidents were more likely with sta
tionary drilling rigs. "All it takes is one anomaly," she said.
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By STEPHANIE GRAHAM
DTH Staff Writer
It was a long time coming, but it may
have been worth the wait.
The UNC women's basketball team de
feated N.C. State for the first time since
1975 78-65 Tuesday night in Carmichael
Auditorium to claim a share of the Atlan
tic Coast Conference regular-season
championship.
The Tar Heels spotted the Wolfpack an
eight-point lead in the first half, but
rallied during the second half to improve
their record to 15-9 overall, 6-1 in the
ACC.
The No. 7 ranked Wolfpack fell to 21-4
overall, 6-1 in the conference. Nationally
ranked Maryland is tied with Carolina
and State for the ACC championship.
"I knew we were going to win today,"
said UNC Coach Jennifer Alley, who
posted her first victory over State since
she joined the Tar Heels in 1978. "I could
sense us building momentum during prac
tice on Sunday.. I knew we were going to
win."
Center Henrietta Walls led the Tar
Heels with 26 points and 1 1 rebounds,
and forward Cathy Crawford chipped in
24 points on eight-of-10 shooting from
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"I think tonight we played with the ag
gressiveness and intensity we have lacked
in a number of big ball games this year,"
Alley said. "We wanted to be aggressive
offensively and attack them early."
It was State, however, that took the
early lead.
"The Wolfpack, behind forward
Ginger Rouse's 10 ttrst-half points, led
the Tar Heels 12-4 with 15:34 left in the
first period.
At that point Alley switched the UNC
defense from zone to man-to-man. The
Tar Heels' pressure forced 12 first-half
State turnovers, and UNC tied the game
at 25 on a three-point play by Tresa
Brown with 3:22 left in the half.
"I thought our zone would surprise
State, but I think it surprised our players
more than theirs," Alley said. "So we
went to the man defense and elected to
stay with it."
The rest of the half was controlled by
the Wolfpack, although the Tar Heels
never trailed by more than five. A
Crawford jumper with 10 seconds left
sent Carolina to the dressing room down
by only 35-33.
UNC jumped off quickly in the second
half to its first lead of the game when
Crawford connected on two free throws
four and a half minutes into the half.
That put the Tar Heels on top 42-40.
UNC never trailed again.
"We were out of our heads with inten
sity," Walls said. "We knew our defense
would win, so we decided to attack and
take control."
It was that defense that contributed to
State's 21 turnovers. Carolina committed
only 12 for the game one in the second
half. And it was the same defense which
held Rouse to only six second-half points
on only three-of-11 shooting from the
floor.
"We knew we had to stop good
shooters like Rouse," Alley said. "If you
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