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Washington debates a uniform drinking...
...issue that stirred the President is the establishment of a uniform 21-year-old minimum drinking age to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths. Though Reagan has long favored setting the drinking age at 21, his turn-around came in his throwing support to a bill passed by the House. The legislation would penalize states with lower drinking ages by withholding a portion of their federal highway funds. The Senate is expected this week to debate a proposal, sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, containing the same punitive measures plus some bonus incentives...
...agers were being drafted for military service in Viet Nam, more than half of all state legislatures lowered the minimum to 18 or 19. Since 1976, however, at least 20 states have voted to raise their drinking age. Last fall a presidential commission on drunken driving strongly recommended a uniform drinking age of 21. But since autumn, only four additional states have boosted age requirements; 19 states have considered and rejected such legislation...
...Blumenthal, Owens, and others, finding the trade-off they feel comfortable with is not the same as selling out. Yet the process is almost completely uniform for the members of the Class of '69 raise a family, move into a stable career, buy a house, and--perhaps--lose a little idealism along the way. In its place comes a little realism some say; others perceive individual interest; and yet others just say that day-to-day concerns naturally push aside the urgency of their old campus activism...
Realizing that because pre-medical worries focus disproportionately on the five full-year courses required for medical school admissions, several members of the College and Medical School faculty, in tandem with a group of College administrators, have been working informally for the past year to develop a uniform strategy for easing the pressure. The group includes Dowling, Dr. Daniel D. Federman and Dr. James Edelstein, both of the Medical School, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba...