European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday november 6, 1991 ban urged on alcohol ads aimed at Young people from wire reports Washington a surgeon general Antonia Novello. Called on the alcohol Industry monday to halt any advertising that targets Young people particularly ads that associate drinking with sex Appeal sports activities and other glamorous themes. A the ads sell an escape from reality a a venture into fantasy a Novello said at a news conference. A they make drinking look like the key to fun and a wonderful and Carefree lifestyle. The ads have youth believing that a instead of getting up Early exercising going to school playing a sport or learning to be a team player a All they have to do to fit in is learn to drink the right alcoholic the surgeon general said that she is especially concerned about liquor wine and Beer ads that feature a certain lifestyle appeals sexual Appeal sports Appeal or risky activities or that use cartoon characters or youth Slang. She noted that alcohol advertising a never communicates the True consequences of drinking or its health risks a including automobile accidents drownings Falls fires child abuse and homicides. Novello cited a 1990 California study which found that 41 percent of drowning deaths were associated with alcohol and a 1983 National transportation safety study which estimated that alcohol was involved in 69 percent of boat related drownings. Alcohol Industry officials insisted monday that they strongly oppose alcohol consumption by people younger than 21 but said that Banning advertising would not solve the problem of underage drinking. A we will be working cooperatively with the surgeon general a office on effective programs to reduce the problem said Janet Flynn speaking for the distilled spirits Council of the United states. Jeff Becker a spokesman for the Beer Institute insisted that the Beer Industry a does not advertise to customers who cannot by Law consume their products and attacked Novello for failing to work with Industry before going Public with her comments. Novello said alcoholic beverage consumption is linked not Only Tiffith Drunken driving deaths but also with drownings fires Date rape random violence absenteeism and suicides. It also leads to risky behaviour such As unprotected sex she said. A alcohol slows the reflexes and these ads portray athletic prowess and show activities such As scuba diving Iet skiing diving and driving. The last thing we should be doing when we re doing these activities is to be consuming alcohol a Novello said. She said ads referring to a Beers taste or How a beverage makes someone feel could be acceptable. A just done to show me images of youth a she said. The surgeon general scheduled a dec. 11 meeting to discuss her request with Industry officials. If they do not comply a i will take it As far As i can a she said. Novellow a comments came As she released the third in a series of reports on youth and alcohol. The longer Young people delay drinking for the first time a the fewer problems with alcohol and other drugs they will have in their lives a she said. She noted that the 21 minimum age Law a has saved the lives of about a thousand Young people Between the Ages of 16 and 20 every year since it was enacted in 1984.�?� rap music artist Bender 19, slain in his car by 3 gunmen Brockton mass. Up a Christopher Bender a High school dropout who was trying to break out of the Cycle of drugs and violence As a rap music artist was shot to death this weekend by three hooded gunmen As he sat in his new Mercedes Benz in front of his mothers housing project apartment. Police said monday that they had no suspects in the shooting of Bender 19, who recently signed a recording contract and planned to go to Atlanta next week to begin work on his third album. Police said Bender was sitting in his car with a Cousin Early sunday at the Crescent court apartments when three men wearing hoods approached the vehicle and opened fire. Bender was taken to Brockton Hospital where he was declared dead. Police said he had been hit by six of 16 rounds fired into the vehicle. His Cousin Jessie Starks 17, was not injured. Bender had dropped out of High school in his Junior year relatives said. He recorded an album for epic records in 1989 when he was 16. The album baby doll and a single by the same name received limited Success but his Talent was apparently noted by music Industry officials. Lie signed a Multi album contract earlier this year with a subsidiary of Atlantic records. His second album draped was released in july by Atlantic s East West records America. His aunt Bobbie Starks said he was to go to Atlanta next week to begin work on his third album. His Mother Betty Anne Bender said her son planned to go to new York this week to produce a video for a song on his draped album. His aunt said Bender had several a a minor run ins with police while he was a youngster. Earlier this sum Mer another Cousin Damien Price 20, was shot and killed not far from where Bender was shot. Bender had been arrested in a drive by shooting in july 1990, and was arrested in March 1990 for allegedly possessing and trying to distribute cocaine. He was also arrested in november 1990 on a drug charge. However his manager Terryl Calloway said Bender was in the process of straightening himself out. A the had a bad past but he was trying to get out of it a Calloway said. A it came Back to haunt Bender admitted in an Bender interview with the Boston Herald after the release of his second album that he was just a a typical kid like any kid in any major City of the world with drugs around you and crime around you. You just have to go through what a kid goes through grow older and grow out of that and look for something Calloway said some others in the area were jealous of his Success and were determined not to let Bender escape his past. A there was a lot of jealousy a his Mother said. Sylvia Rhone chairman of East West records said a this brutal senseless death brings us face to face with the violent life which is a Day to Day reality for his generation of Young Black demos to for travel shirts taunt Bush Washington apr the democratic National committee is taking a swipe at president Bush a frequent foreign travels with a to shirt promoting his a anywhere but America the president Heads for Rome today to attend a two Day nato meeting a trip that inspired the wording on the front of the to shirt a George Bush went to Rome and All i got was this Lousy on the Back the to shirt lists More than 30 foreign cities Bush has travelled to in the past year or plans to visit soon. Modelled after shirts sold at Rock concerts. The cities Are listed under the headline a George Bush. The anywhere but America a a it a High time for president Bush to phone Home a the National committee chairman Ronald Brown said in a statement monday. Quot rather than return to Washington and face up to the economic mess left by Rea Gan Bush Supply Side policies George Bush will once again run away from the party is Selling the to shirts for $10, with the payment considered a contribution to its Federal fund raising researcher Dies after being hit by Rock from wire reports Charlottesville a. A National institutes of health researcher hit in the head by a Rock thrown from a passing car died monday. Gerald Aurbach 64, of Potomac md., was chief of the metabolic disease Branch of the Nih. He was hit saturday and died from brain injuries at the University of Virginia medical Center Hospital spokesman Tom Doran said. Police said Aurbach was struck after getting out of his car which he had just parked in downtown strike averted Concord Calif. A a strike by thousands of Northern California supermarket butchers was narrowly averted Early tuesday when negotiators reached a tentative contract agreement officials said. A strike had been scheduled to begin at 6 a.m., but the contract was extended until saturday to allow five unions representing about 7,000 butchers to vote on the pact said Stephen Hill spokesman for the food employers Council the employers bargaining group. Terms of the agreement were being withheld pending Union ratification Hill said. A strike would have affected Chain stores throughout much of Northern . Protesters warned Cranston . A a judge monday warned abortion protesters arrested at a clinic that they could face contempt charges if they lied about their identities. Nearly 100 arrests were made saturday outside the women a medical Center after protesters rushed a police line to Block entrances at the abortion clinic. Some of the protesters chained themselves to Entrance railings. The first two of 14 women brought before judge Gilbert Indeglia gave him names and address in Massachusetts but said they remember their social Security numbers which could be used to confirm their identities. Indeglia released them on $100 bail but said they could face contempt charges if they leaves prison Chattanooga Tenn. A a former prominent Tennessee figure convicted of Bank fraud in 1985 returned to his Home state monday to serve the final six months of his prison sentence at a Halfway House. Jake Butcher 55, twice ran for governor and organized the 1982 worlds fair in Knoxville. He once ran a $1.5 billion financial Empire in Tennessee and Kentucky. Butcher pleaded guilty to Bank fraud in 1985, two years after the failure of his United american Bank triggered the collapse of 22 Banks con trolled by the Butcher family. A he was accused of embezzling $20 million in Bank deposits and received a 20-year sentence. Until monday he was in a Federal prison in Atlanta. If paroled As scheduled he will have served six years and eight months. Butcher will live in the Halfway House run by the salvation for the . Bureau of prisons until his parole which is scheduled for april 30. Congressman to run Washington a Republican rep. Sid Morrison said monday that he would run for governor of Washington in 1992 to replace retiring democratic gov. Booth Gardner. The six term congressman said his statewide name recognition has increased in recent years and added Survey tells me it will be Toueh but i can do Morrison 58, said he has formally filed As a candidate with the state Public disclosure commission and would make a formal announcement of his candidacy later this year in the state
