Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when the President turned his attention to a serious domestic issue, teenage drunk driving, the scenes were scripted to be picture-perfect. Reagan traveled to the River Dell High School in Oradell, N.J., site of an ambitious anti-alcoholism program. Flanked by photographers, he cracked, "I don't drive much any more," then climbed into a simulator designed to test the reflexes of vehicle operators. Why this trip? Explains an aide: "We're trying to create an overall image that he's on the side of the angels...
...airlines service Barrow. Their cargo bays are filled with booze. The town is dry-it used to be wet, with a package store that deposited $4,000 a day in earnings in the Alaska National Bank of the North, the only bank in town, but people were getting drunk, staggering off on the tundra and freezing to death, so it was voted dry. Now the only way to get a drink is to order spirits in from outside. People call liquor stores that service the bush from Anchorage or Fairbanks, ask for E.S.P. (expedited small package) rate...
...Rather than embrace the political, social and religious delusions that draw the masses toward self-destruction, he prefers the company of his private demons. The less kindly reading of Geoffrey's character is that he is yet another example of a familiar type: a pretentious and self-pitying drunk...
Late one night in 1978, a few minutes after two Massachusetts policemen stopped and then waved on a drunken driver, he smashed into a car, killing 20-month-old Misty Jane Irwin and her young father; the drunk died too. Civil justice in the case was meted out last year, when a jury ordered the town of Ware (pop. 8,953) to pay Widow Debbie Irwin, now 25, $873,697 for the negligence of its policemen...
Irwin, now an official of the central Massachusetts chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, was back in court last week for the first time since the judgment, in sad and unlikely circumstances. Ware police say that she was driving erratically. When they pulled her over outside the Cue and Cushion-the last bar her family's killer patronized-she refused to take a Breathalyzer test. Says Officer Richard Primavera: "She swayed, she stumbled, her speech was slurred, and there was an odor of alcohol...