Word: madd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENTENCED. Clarence Busch, 52, drunken driver whose 1980 killing of 13-year- old Cari Lightner in Fair Oaks, Calif., prompted her mother Candy to form Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD); to four years in prison for crashing his car while intoxicated last April into an auto driven by Carrie Sinnott, causing her minor injuries; in Sacramento. After his conviction in the Lightner case, Busch spent about 2 1/2 years in prison, work camps and halfway houses before his parole last February...
Owing to pressure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and other groups, laws and attitudes on intoxicated drivers have changed rapidly. The good news is that deaths of drunk drivers are down 32% since 1980, and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, whose principal cause is heavy consumption of alcohol, declined steadily over the same period. The bad news is that vast ! numbers of Americans are still willing to drive drunk. Ralph Milstead, director of Arizona's department of public safety, estimates that one of every 100 drivers on the road on Saturday and Sunday nights is "absolutely blitzed...
...MADD was founded in 1980 by Candy Lightner, 38, after one of her three children was struck and killed by a drunk driver while walking in a bicycle lane. A year later she said, "We've kicked a few pebbles, we'll turn a few stones, and eventually we'll start an avalanche." In these postavalanche days, MADD is getting just about all the laws it wants. A total of 37 states have "dram shop" laws or legal precedents holding servers of alcohol responsible for the acts of drunks. Happy hours, banned or restricted in 15 states so far, seem...
...MADD and other groups are promoting nonalcoholic postprom parties for high schoolers. To prevent youngsters from slipping away for a furtive belt, the usual rule is that people who leave the party are not allowed back in. Many of the parties are planned around a feverish array of activities, all designed to keep the mind off booze. At Cherry Creek High School outside Denver, the postprom bash this year featured volleyball in the gym, water games in the pool, disco dancing, a magic show, ten video games and a makeshift casino. Free hot dogs, nachos and soft drinks were served...
...Farmington, N. Mex., a city of 35,626, MADD, SADD (for Students Against Drunk Driving), parents and local businessmen are trying to replace the "kegger," the traditional graduation-night beer party held in the hills outside town. A local bank donated use of a health spa, and TV and radio stations are contributing free airtime for SADD pleas asking students to sign lifetime "contracts" with parents promising to avoid drunk driving. In Houston, a cab company is offering free rides to inebriated promgoers, and tuxedos rented from Al's Formal Wear will come with a printed warning about drinking...