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...tests for drug use. The rules, based on Ronald Reagan's Executive Order of last September calling for drug-free workplaces, were drawn up by the Government's Office of Personnel Management. They stipulate that federal agency and department heads may fire workers in sensitive positions, like those with access to classified information, who are found to be using illegal drugs; discharge is mandatory after two such instances. Affected employees will be notified 30 days in advance that they will be required to take a test. Workers who refuse to be tested may also be fired...
...that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration hopes that the courts will apply that reasoning to workers in sensitive government jobs. Says Richard Willard, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division: "People who are in law enforcement or who have access to sensitive classified information present an even stronger case than racehorse jockeys...
...president's principal brief. Last month, she sat idly by in Lebanon when the Israeli government was compared to Nazis, then seemed to express approval for the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank. She has stuck to her internationally unique position that Iran should be denied access even to civilian nuclear power, and even praised the "swiftness" of Chinese justice on a visit this month to China. Diplomacy, then, is not her forte...
...congratulate him on winning the presidency again and to pledge U.S. support in urgent areas like microfinancing for small- and medium-size businesses, which employ most Latin Americans. Experts cite myriad other privations they say the U.S. needs to focus on south of the border, including far better access to basics like health care, schools and potable water, and more reliable institutions like honest courts and cops - the kind that can battle Venezuela's soaring murder rate as well as Mexican drug gangs so vicious they're tossing rivals' decapitated heads into nightclubs...
...Critics worry that taking away what little autonomy the Central Bank has left will give Chavez unfettered access to spend foreign reserves, which they say could further weaken the currency and spike already-climbing inflation. Maza also admitted that the nationalization call was generating investor fear and he even critiqued the management of the state oil company, saying it was sacrificing needed investments in oil infrastructure for massive spending on Chavez's social development programs...