Word: anti-drug
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...Reagan may not be as dumb as he lets on. He knows that drug abuse peaked in the early 1970s and has been leveling off ever since. Yet, at the same time, he also knows that anti-drug hysteria is the perfect way to make Americans ignore the rest of his pernicious policies. Ignore the fact that his Administration has seen the poverty rate escalate to its highest level since the late 1960s; the fact that he won't introduce stricter sanctions against South Africa despite opposition from even his most steadfast supporters; the fact that his elevation of Associate...
...they announced the Chief Executive's bold plan to use "the full power of the Presidency" to counter illicit drug use, Mr. Reagan's spokesmen were forced to make a humbling admission: that there are no plans underway to increase funding for drug-treatment centers already overwhelmed by the increased abuse of crack and devastated by previous cutbacks in federal subsidies. But that should come as no surprise. For years, while his wife has toured the country spouting anti-drug rhetoric, Ronald Reagan's budgetary priorities have overlooked drug-abuse prevention and rehabilitation programs...
...current anti-drug hoopla began last March, when a presidential commission looking into organized crime issued a report on governmental drug-enforcement policy. In the report, commission members called for widespread mandatory drug-testing for all government employees. Preserver and Defender of Our Liberties Edwin Meese immediately defended the constitutionality of the proposal. But civil liberties groups, members of Congress and employees unions attacked the idea just as quickly, and the Administration did not follow up with any specific proposals...
...recent drug deaths of two prominent athletes and the increased media coverage of crack abuse revived and intensified anti-drug sentiments. Baseball commissioner and former Olympic impressario Peter Ueberroth, for one, has turned the elimination of drugs from his sport into a personal crusade. (It won't be long until he begins to take bids from companies wishing to become the "official urinalysis of Major League baseball...
...piece of raw liver, calling it a pound of flesh. Hart's attorney said she was unable to appear in court last week because she was in West Germany "campaigning for patriots" in that country's upcoming parliamentary elections. Hart garnered attention earlier this spring by leading an anti-drug parade through Chicago's Loop. She rode the streets in a 1942 armored vehicle with Robert Patton, a LaRouchite Senate candidate in New Hampshire...