European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 27, How to ignore 25.0oo deaths a year alcohol driving Don t mix but no one cares by Robert f Buckhorn Washington up Man adult americans drink. Most drive. Put the two together an they equal potential catastrophe. But the Public remains Apa thetic. Most americans seem to operate under the theory ican drink and drive even if oth ers can tors in the nation today who Are alcoholics the report said. It produced studies that indicated alcoholism plays a very substantial role and probably Amajor one in traffic accidents. But it said any attempt to re Voke the licenses of these Drivers would produce a wave Flegal counter moves. The hew report urged As Thebes possible course of action a massive Federal program concentrating on the disease of transportation depart ment study agrees on the role of alcoholics in the traffic death study showed that Alco Holics were four times As Likely to die in Highway crashes As non alcoholics. Alcoholics involved in accidents very commonly have serious psychiatric problems and alcoholics have nearly twice As Many Accident Sas non alcoholics the study is the answer to the driving and drinking problem the transportation depart ment study urged a uniform agreement be made by the states on the allowable amount of alcohol in a Driver s blood. This was established a use could be made of if of called breathalyzer test us in Britan. This involves this simple system brought a or sent reduction in Brillh traffic fatalities. In the the record shows this f idea is based on an intensive Effort to ignore the facts. To accept them might mean that some Drivers would have to give up either their car or their cocktails neither of which they Are willing to do. What Are the facts about drinking and driving a recent study by the transportation department painted a grim fright ening picture. It said that drinking by Drivers and pedestrians accounts for 25,000 deaths a year or about half the yearly death toll from accidents. Put another Way the yearly death toll from alcohol related traffic accidents nearly equal the total number of american combat deaths in the six year Long Vietnam War. But so Little attention is paid to the problem that less than 20 research scientists Are no known to be at work on it either in the United states or else where. According to the transportation department report ignorance of what alcohol does is on of the problems. For example alcohol is widely believed to be a stimulant. It is not. The apparent stimulation actually is the result of a depression of the mechanism sin the brain that normally mod Erate the Driver s behaviour. It is True that alcoholics account for a very Large part of the Overall problem the re port said. But alcoholics can t be give Nall the blame. The report shows that adults who use alcohol in moderately but Are not prob Lem drinkers frequently Are involved in accidents. The role of Light drinking and driving is at present unknown the report said. The report said there Isno doubt that in the Case of All Drivers alcohol degrades individual driving performance in Many ways including deterioration in judgment ability to concentrate comprehension vision and Public opinion surveys show that outwardly americans Are in favor of stronger penalties for Drunken driving. At the same time they tend to rationalize driving after some drinking. One Survey indicated that Many people feel drunk driving is simply an error in judgment that is the Driver did t real ize he had too much to drink. Other studies have pointed out that people who drive after drinking tend to do so because they have no other Way of get Ting Home. Earlier this year the depart ment of health education and welfare hew issued another report on traffic safety which included a study of alcohol an driving. There Are literally millions of licensed motor vehicle opera Jungle warfare a formation of air Force c123 cargo planes flying Only 100 in South America feet Over the Hills West of Hue Spray chemicals to kill Jungle growth in an Effort to hinder enemy infiltration int South Vietnam. A photo militant priests heed Pope by Ray Moseley Vatican City up Pope Paul i has sought to Chart course for the Catholic Church in latin America that is patently controversial and May subject his own authority to a new crisis. Dec plans i duplexes Washington a . Atomic Energy commis Sion is developing plans for hug nuclear complexes which would each give employment to 100,000persons and provide food for 5 million people dec chairman Glenn t. Seaborg disclosed Sun modest Type of such a Complex could be built now he said using reactors of the Type that Are already under Seaborg defined the duplex As a giant agro Industrial com plex built around nuclear reactors and using advanced Agri cultural and Industrial for one billion dollars he said a duplex could be built to sus Tain 100,000 Farmers Labore Sand their families. The same no plex would feed 5 million other Sand Export fertilizers to grow food for 50 million other the complexes would generate their own electricity and pump oceans for unlimited quantities of water for irrigation and Industrial uses he dec chairman told of the plan in a copyrighted interviewing the Magazine . News and world report. In his speeches in Latina Erica the past week the Pope tried to wrench the Church away from the association with wealth and privilege it holds income countries in the South american continent and to identify it with the cause of the he denounced revolution As a Means to attain social jus Tice in perhaps the most unequivocal terms he has overused. His prescription for social Justice was the development of a greater social awareness inthe Church and More Resolute action by Public authorities to stars and stripes an comment end inequalities including the imposition of heavier taxes on the wealthy classes and Idle Rich. This is a courageous message which if heeded could cause a revolution a peaceful revolution in latin american life. It implies a political commit ment by the Church to act As a spokesman for the poor and us its influence in Public life to obtain social the question that arises now is whether it will be heeded whether the Pope s words have any practical value for the contemporary crisis in latin american of All it seems doubtful the Pope s moral authority is of sufficient weight to have much Impact on those latin govern ments that have been slow to respond to the demands of the poor people. The latin american Church Hierarchy has an obligation however to translate the Pope swords into action and it is Here that the real controversy is cer Tain to come. Some conservative Church men May find the message too Radical for their Way of think ing. Those liberals who have spoken out in favor of armed revolution must certainly no be dismayed. It is doubtful any of them expected the Pope to give Blanket endorsement to revolution but equally they May not have expected such a Blan Ket the past the Pope has not ruled out revolution to Over throw Long standing Tyran in his latin american speeches he slammed the door on revolution so hard that his critics May wonder whether he would not have condemned the american revolution of 1776 had he lived revolutionary minded priests Are a minority in Latina Erica but an important minority and the Pope s Over Al message places a heavy moral Burden on priests can oppose the Pope s Appeal for pro Grams of social Justice passively without doing or saying any thing. But the revolutionary fac Tion has now been put under astern obligation to desist from an activist policy to which it i already seems Likely some of themore militant will rebel against this creating on a smaller scale the same sort of crisis of authority the Pope already face because of the refusal of Many catholics to accept his recent encyclical against birth control. European edition editor in chief col. James w. Campbell Usa. Nine to editor in chief it. Cup. F. 8. Michael jr., u8afp Manarino editor Mert Proctor. Production manager Elmer d. Frank. A re film 1henry Epstein. Circulation thai newspaper it an author Ltd publication of the u.8, armed Force Oversea the stars and tripe internal., a Nman Donn chief . European command in Epport of the Starl an information program of the department of defence. Content of in. T 8rstripe do not reflect the official View of the . Pm can. 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