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...Administration realized that it would be difficult for congressmen to face their consitituents if they voted against any anti-drug bill. So two provisions--one calling for the execution of pushers convicted for the second time, and the other allowing courts to scrap the Exclusionary rule in cases of illegal searches and seizures involving drugs--nearly found their way into the All American drug bill...
College administrators still pay "insufficient attention to the problem," Bennett told about 175 people at a lunch for the department's Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, which in the coming year will award about $8 million in grants for campuses to establish or improve anti-drug programs...
American truck drivers like to think of themselves as kings of the road, but a disturbing number have become mobile menaces, causing truck accidents on interstates to rise from 31,000 in 1983 to 39,000 last year. A provision inserted into the Anti-Drug Abuse Act passed by Congress this month is aimed at putting the brakes on those rising stats. Starting in 1988, truck and bus drivers will be required to pass a federally approved test before being issued a license. At the moment, standards across the country vary. In 20 states, for example, a driver can take...
From the streets and schoolyards of the nation's cities, the drug crisis came to roost on Capitol Hill last week. Though more than half a dozen measures awaited action before Congress's October recess, none were more important in the Senate than the hurriedly drafted anti-drug bill. When public opinion polls showed rising concern over drugs, both Senate and House members wanted to pass new laws that would sweep "crack" off the streets and help the legislators keep their seats in November. "This is war," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott, using the preferred metaphor...
...Senate measure would give the secretary of defense three months to prepare a list of actions the U.S. military could take to increase anti-drug efforts by civilian agencies, and specify equipment that would be used. Congressional committees would have to review the list...