CDR: Gores teens and drugs

4:24 PM 10/3/95

Tipper Gore says daughter knows she did wrong

Tipper Gore said Tuesday her 16-year-old daughter, cited for underage drinking last week, "knows she made a very serious mistake." "She broke our rules and she broke the law. Shes extremely miserable and unhappy, I can tell you that," Mrs. Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, said of daughter Sarah. The teen-ager was cited Friday in suburban Montgomery County, Md., after a police officer saw her with an open beer outside a party. Now, Mrs. Gore said, "We are dealing with it privately as a family and talking to her like all families should to their teenagers about the availability of alcohol and the fact the temptations are out there."