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...week with TIME, Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, a former human-rights ombudsman with little prosecutorial experience, conceded that "Mexico needs a new culture of legality." He plans to announce sweeping new provisions for international participation in the recruiting and training of all Mexican federal police, not just elite antidrug cops. But Madrazo's immediate concern is showing the terrified peasants of Chiapas that their attackers will go to prison for their alleged atrocities. If so, it will be something of a first...
Groping for solutions, Zedillo has put the military in charge of police agencies. The results so far have been disastrous. Last February the President had to order the arrest of his new antidrug czar for being in the pay of a major drug lord...
...Antidrug activists fear that pot clubs, if allowed to thrive, could open the way to further relaxation of drug policy. Steve Dnistrian of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America claims that heartrending medical stories are a being used as a smoke screen "by people whose agenda is to radically change drug policy in America." On that point, at least, Peron seems in agreement. "This is not about marijuana as medicine," he says. "This is a cultural...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
McCaffrey, who saw combat in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, responded to the Speaker's salvo with bemusement. He noted that the Administration is already doing nearly everything Gingrich demands, starting with a $178 million antidrug media campaign to be honchoed by none other than G.O.P. virtuecrat William Bennett...