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Anti-drug program sues Rolling Stone
■ D.A.R.E. files a libel
suit against the magazine
for a March 1998 article.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - D.A.R.E.,
an anti-drug program used in schools
across the country, has sued Rolling
Stone magazine for $50 million, alleg
ing it was libeled in an article written
by a journalist who admitted making
up part of the story.
The March 1998 article by free
lance writer Stephen Glass said the
program tried to “silence critics, sup
press scientific research and punish
nonbelievers.”
D.A.R.E. has a separate $10 mil
lion libel complaint against Glass.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday
alleges that Rolling Stone managing
editor Robert Love requested a
derogatory article about D.A.R.E. to
further editor-publisher Jann Wenner’s
“ongoing efforts to discredit anti-drug
oiganizations.” Love and Wenner also
are named as defendants.
“We are taking action against
Rolling Stone to defend our reputation
and recoup the damages incurred by
these libels,” D.A.R.E. president
Glenn Levant said.
Love countered that his magazine
acted responsibly. “We are confident
that the magazine will be vindicated,”
he said.
“We view this libel action as little
more than an attempt to intimidate and
discourage legitimate debate on the
viability of the D.A.R.E. program,”
Love said.
Glass was a writer for the New
Republic when he confessed to mak
ing up stories for that magazine and
others where he freelanced, including
Rolling Stone. He was fired from the
New Republic and is now a law stu
dent at Georgetown University.
D.A.R.E., or Drug Abuse
Resistance Education, was founded by
the Los Angeles Police Department in
the 1980s during the tenure of former
police chief Daryl F. Gates.
Under the program, police officers
visit elementary school classrooms to
explain the dangers of drugs. In recent
years, D.A.R.E. has expanded to
include lessons on such topics as vio
lence, cigarette smoking and date
rape.
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Instructor recalls relief
work in authorial debut
By Bret Schulte
Senior editor
Indochina, late 1970s. Suffering
Vietnamese refugees and UN relief
workers are caught in a fight against
disease, exhaustion and a jumbled
bureaucracy.
Believe it or not, this story is not
about politics.
Paul Eggers, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln assistant profes
sor of English, spent much of the
’70s and early ’80s working in
Indochina, first as a UN relief work
er and then as a volunteer with the
Peace Corps.
His first book, “Saviors,” is a re
creation of the tense situation for
rescue workers in the mass exodus
from Vietnam - and the moral con
flicts that became second nature.
“The main theme has to do with
self-identity issues of the charac
ters,” Eggers said. “It’s not politics
but what politics does to real peo
ple.”
Saturday, Eggers will hold a
book signing and reading for the
release of “Saviors,” published by
Harcourt Brace and Company of
New York, at Lee Booksellers on
56th St. and Hwy. 2.
The reading will allow Eggers
the opportunity to explain the lives
of the book’s three central characters
- fictional creations of a medley of
people and experiences in
Indochina.
“Saviors” centers on the efforts
of relief workers struggling to keep a
refugee camp open amid political
turmoil in Indochina.
“All three are working on the
island and they are exposed in vari
ous ways to issues of self-identity
and the question of what is a good
act and what is a bad act,” Eggers
explained.
“They are put in these moral
dilemmas and they are forced to
make these choices.”
In what is Eggers’ major literary
debut, the author intentionally left
the UN and global politics to the
wayside in order to make room for
the inner struggles of the workers
trying to avoid a human catastrophe.
Eggers said situations in the
book are those faced every day by
relief workers, but, he admits, car
ried out to a more dramatic conclu
sion.
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The main theme has
to do with
self-identity issues
of character. ”
Paul Eggers
assistant English professor
“I got the idea by asking myself
what if a certain situation had car
ried on without somebody coming
in and stopping it before it got
worse?” Eggers said.
Dramatic conclusions have
become a bigger part of Eggers life
since the release of his book, which
was hailed by critics at Newsday and
author Jane Smiley (“A Thousand
Acres”), who published her praise in
the San Francisco Chronicle.
This Saturday marks Eggers’
first ever book signing, which will
be followed by yet another at the
University Bookstore on Thursday,
and upcoming appearances at both
Omaha and Lincoln Barnes & Noble
Booksellers. Currently, “Saviors”
rests on Barnes & Noble’s Discovery
Selection shelves, dedicated to
promising new authors.
However. F.ggers, a UNL gradu
ate, is keeping his hopes for the book
humble.
“It’s a kind of literary serious
novel and I’m sure it’s not a best sell
er,” he said. “Perhaps it’ll make
some small, modest splash in the lit
erary world.”
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