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Demon Rum By GEORGE BOWLES Whatever else can be said about the 1983 session of the General Assembly, history will not record that it was marked by any great degree of legislative consistency.
Take, for example, the lawmakers’ response to the growing clamor that something be done about the problem of drunken drivers on the state’s highways. Statistics do not seem to indicate that this problem, as bad as it is, has become noticeably worse in recent years, but public awareness of it has increased markedly. Thus the lawmakers, harkening unto what they perceived to be the voice of the grassroots, felt impelled to do something about it. This, after all, is the year when all of the seats in both houses of the General Assembly will be up for election. And what firmer political platform is there to
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