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Falco, a drug-abuse specialist who was Jimmy Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics matters, has written a new book, The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work (Times Books; $22). A consumer guide to the most promising and cost-effective efforts in antidrug education, treatment and grass-roots action against dealers, Falco's book argues for giving drug education and treatment priority over law enforcement because, she insists, those approaches work better than most people realize. "We know that drug abuse is driven largely by demand, not supply," Falco writes. "And we have learned...
...Reagan-Bush policies that transformed the war against drugs into a vain attempt at sealing the borders while rounding up dealers and users at home. Ronald Reagan dramatically shifted federal drug-fighting dollars from education and treatment to law enforcement. George Bush sustained those priorities, nearly doubling the antidrug outlay to $12 billion but devoting nearly 70% of it to the cops-and-Coast Guard approach. That strategy has contributed to the costly doubling of the prison population during the past decade. But while casual drug use may have declined, the number of heavy drug abusers, a crime-prone population...
Certainly the Mexicans -- and many other Latin Americans -- were upset. Calling the ruling "invalid and unacceptable," Mexico threatened to suspend antidrug cooperation with the U.S. -- a threat rescinded after Washington offered assurances that its sovereignty would be respected in the future. But the diplomatic dust had hardly settled when Mexican officials charged that on June 13 agents from the U.S. crossed the border, seized Teodulo Romo Lopez and returned him to Tucson to face bail-jumping and cocaine-trafficking charges. The Salinas government quickly protested...
...various times suggested blowing up drug-carrying ships and bombing heroin producers in Southeast Asia. Perot also had an association with Bo Gritz, an ex-Green Beret. Gritz has contended in a book that Perot once told him he had government clearance to hire an antidrug operative. According to Gritz, Perot said, "I want you to uncover and identify everyone dealing cocaine between Colombia and Texas. Once you're sure you've got them all, I want you to wipe them out in a single night like an angel of death." A Perot spokesman denies the two were ever associated...
...borders. Panamanian President Guillermo Endara was sworn into office on a U.S. Army base just hours after the American invasion, an act that has come to symbolize the close relationship between the Bush Administration and Noriega's successor. According to dea officials, Endara's willingness to cooperate with international antidrug efforts is helping stanch the flow of cocaine through Panama...