ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, March 11, 1997                TAG: 9703110120
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-2  EDITION: METRO 

IN THE NATION

Mass. teen charged in overdoses

WOBURN, Mass. - A 14-year-old girl was charged Monday with stealing a mail-order shipment of a muscle relaxant from a neighbor's porch and passing out the pills at a dance where more than a dozen students overdosed.

The girl was charged as a juvenile with distribution of a prescription drug and stealing a controlled substance.

She pleaded innocent and was released.

The girl was among 14 teen-agers hospitalized after taking baflocen at the Feb. 28 dance at the Woburn Boys and Girls Club.

The students took the pills by the handful, doctors said, and many arrived at hospitals in critical condition. All have made full recoveries.

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gore accused of illegal fund raising for 1988

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Former aides to Al Gore said he made fund-raising calls from his Senate office while running for president in 1988, The Knoxville News-Sentinel reported today.

One former aide told the newspaper that Gore made at least two dozen such calls in 1987.

Former staffers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they thought the fund raising was just part of running for president:

Federal law says members of Congress cannot use their offices to make campaign fund-raising calls.

Gore spokeswoman Ginny Terzano said that ``to the best of the vice president's memory, he left the office to make these kinds of calls,'' the newspaper said.

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

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