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REGIONAL Senator faces foes’ allegations of misconduct WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Brock Adams, I)-Wash., slaked out a politically risky position on war in the Persian Gulf. Re publicans say it could make or break his troubled bid for re election next year. Adams says his outspoken criticism of President Bush's policy is based on moral princi ples, and acknowledges it could cost him his seat. GOP strategists say it is a cal culated move to shore up his liberal support and deflect at tention from his political liabil ities. including an uncorrobor ated 1987 allegation of sexual misconduct. Adams has taken a lead role in opposing an attack against Iraq, last month he said the United States should withdraw half its troops from Saudi Ara bia. Washington State GOP Chair woman Jennifer Dunn said Ad ams is grandstanding to ward off Democratic challengers in the 1992 primary. But she said the plan is politically astute and could work in the long run. "He is in a lot of trouble out here. He's got to grab some kind of liberal issue that gives him support," Dunn said in a telephone interview from Belle vue. Wash. "He needs to do several things before the election and this is one of them He's got to build credibility." she said "I'm sure it will help him with the liberals and that's exactly what he is aiming for " Adams has been on the na tional GOP's hit list since a fe male aide, hari Topper, ac cused him of drugging and sex ually molesting her at his Washington. D.C.. home in March 1‘1H7. Police, citing a lack of evi dence. never filed charges. Ix»st month Adams made public a 3 year-old polygraph test that he says proves his innocence "Brook Adams desperately needs an issue to deflect public attention away from the issues that now identify his tenure in Kids conquer computer art AUBURN, Wash. (AP) They still use the tracing paper, mechanical pencils, triangular rulers and plastic triangles. But high school drafting classes are going high-tech these days, teaching students to transfer their illustrations from the drawing hoard to the com puter screen. At Auburn High School, stu dents in Mike Newman’s archi tectural engineering class sit .it computer terminals program ming their illustrations. Then the computer goes to work. An inking stylus zip* back and forth on a track while the printer rolls the drawing paper backward and forward. The result is a professional looking inked illustration of machinery parts, floor plans or construction details that would take hours of work to reproduce by hand at a drawing board "Every day 1 watch this thing, and I'm amazed at what comes out," Newman said of the computer-assisted drawing system The blend of computer tech nology and drafting has been luring more students, many of them interested in careers in ar chitecture, engineering, con struction or technical illustra tion. Some of them just enjoy drawing. "The beginning classes are overfilled. And the advanced classes are at maximum," New man said. Like other high schools. Au burn shifted over to computer ized drawing systems to help students prepare for futures in a high-tech society. There's a growing demand for engineers and technical il lustrators experienced with computerized systems. Some where along the line during production, there must be a drawing of every part of every product manufactured. The benefit of computerized drafting is that drawings and information can be produced rapidly. And if revisions are needed, they can be repro grammed in short time and a new drawing quickly pro duced. saving time and money. Computers also convert two-di mensional diagrams to three-di mensional drawings, and art used to compute volumes of materials and produt tion costs "Boeing, for example, is go ing toward a lot of three-dimen sional work by computer." Newman said. Hut beginning students don't go straight to the computer ter minal They start learning tint basics at the drawing hoard, then begin plotting more and more complex drawing on com puter. Advanced projects in clude floor plans, elevations or construction details A project by senior Craig Nel son shows a cross section ol a wall and foundation for a house, what amounts to a builder's working drawings for a structure meeting current building codes "For example, we have to use the charts in the books to look up the size of the joists we need to carry the dead weight of the floor in the house." Nel son explained. Like other students in the class, he hopes to go to college and study engineering and ar chitecture Some are more in terested in construction, like Wayne Porter. "Eventually, I'd like to have my own company, and I could draw up plans for the houses we build." said Porter, who was working to produce eleva tions of a home. There are 130 boys and 27 girls enrolled in the Auburn High drafting classes. Most class projects, such as drawings of construction plans or cross sections of machine parts, "probably are more of a male-type thing." said Darcy Stoughton, a senior in the ad vanced drafting course Stoughton plans a career as a physical therapist, but she's also interested in architecture. Newman said an advisory panel of professionals helped design the program, which in cludes projects requiring stu dents to delve into building codes and other technical data A few years ago. students wouldn't reach those levels un til college or vocational school. the Senate." said John (Prison, president of a conservative think tank in Bellevue, the Washington Institute For Policy Studies. "He is searching ahnut for an issue he hopes will command such public concern and atten tion that he can ride it as a poli tical wave into the 1<)U2 elec tion." Orison said. Adams, who is in his first term, said he resents the allega tion that his role in the Gulf de bate is politically motivated "That's the most outrageous thing I've ever heard This is a matter of principle." he said in an interview "This is a matter of far greater risk than gain, but it has nothing to do with ei ther." Rep. Jim McDermott. !)■ Wash., defended Adams He said Adams and Sen. Tom Mar kin. U-lowa. have "taken the most courageous stand of any body in the Senate. " “To accuse him of grand standing whan we are trying to stop a war seems to me like the most cynical political analysis you could put on that." McDer mott said Adams told members of the Cato Institute, a liliertarian re search group in Washington. DC., that most congressmen are unwilling to challenge the president while troops are in the field "It may cost me my seat, hut I've long since made up my mind that had no force with me I firmly believe this nation deliberately created a presiden cy that did not have the power to unleash the dogs of war." Adams said Karen Marchioro, chairwom an of the Washington State Demur .rat it Party, said Adams has long opposed war He stood up against the late Sen Henry "Scoop" lack son. D Wash . in debate over Vietnam, she said. "It isn't as if he is some hawk that suddenly is veering to the left to gel something." Marchioro said "If you don't do anything they say you are ineffective. If you do some thing. they say you are grand standing." Ted Galen Garpentor of the Cato Institute said Adams has "done more than any member of the Senate in recent times to reassert Congress' prerogative on foreign policy." 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