Word: lightner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When, as now, there is hope ready for harvesting, excellent ideas become especially fertile. The examples of some national heroes -- Candy Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving; Bruce Ritter, father of Covenant House for kids in trouble; and Eugene Lang, whose I Have a Dream program has spawned innumerable imitations -- all proved what extraordinary good can be reaped from one person's crusade. Faced with a desperate need, many new volunteers see not only a moral challenge but also a tactical one: to do as much as possible with as little as possible, and then share the idea...
Even so, Baby Boomers can be found quietly agitating for change in small, direct ways. "They are on the local school boards, the neighborhood committees, the grass-roots movements," says Atwater. A striking example of grass-roots success is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, founded by Candy Lightner, 40, after her teenage daughter was killed by an intoxicated motorist in 1980. MADD is largely responsible for toughening the drunken-driving laws and raising the drinking age in 38 states. Arlene Joye, 35, took a $15,000 pay cut when she left her job as a director of a pay-TV subscription...
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...
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...
...believe that for every problem there is a solution," Lightner says. "We are changing the way people think about drinking and driving. But more than that, we have caused people to change their behavior, and that is saving lives. I believe in the rights of victims. And I do feel that if you believe in something badly enough, you can make a difference...