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...approximately $500 million federal subsidy written into the 1989 Drug Free Schools and Communities Act, D.A.R.E. is cost free at the local level. The only problem, according to a study just completed by Richard R. Clayton, director of the Center for Prevention Research at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is that, as Clayton says, "D.A.R.E. did not have any sustained effect on anything." A rating of D.A.R.E. by Drug Strategies, a respected Washington research group, arrived at the same conclusion, as has police chief Norm Stamper of Seattle, which may drop the program. For all its popularity, says Stamper...
...claimed that she wanted him to do it; she complained to the authorities about what he had done to her. Sound like the classic formula of acquaintance rape? The difference, however, is that this case involved an innocent act of affection between two first-graders in Lexington, North Carolina. When six-year-old Jonathan Prevette planted a kiss on the cheek of the girl he liked, he could not have known how great an effect it would have. Prevette was promptly suspended from school in a case that quickly became the object of public scrutiny. A week later...
BORN: Dec. 20, 1931, Lexington EDUCATION: Wentworth Military Academy, A.A., 1951; U of Missouri, A.B., 1953, LL.B., 1956 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Anding; three children RELIGION: Christian Church MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Lafayette County prosecuting attorney, 1957-60; Missouri special assistant attorney general, 1961-63; Missouri Senate, 1970-76; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box A, Harrisonville...
BORN: Feb. 9, 1929, Lexington EDUCATION: Hastings College, B.A., 1951 FAMILY: Wife, Elsie; four children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: Navy, 1951-52 OCCUPATION: Real estate and insurance broker POLITICAL CAREER: Nebraska legislature, 1979-90; U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 176, Grand Island...
BORN: Oct. 10, 1939, Lexington, Ky. EDUCATION: Asbury College, A.B., 1961; West Chester U, M.Ed., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Virginia; three children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Air Force, 1963-69 OCCUPATION: Nursery owner; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Pennsylvania House, 1973- ADDRESS: 107 West Market Street, West Chester...