Word: bennett
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...claims William Bennett, President Bush's drug czar, who asserts that the Administration's war on drugs has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. That is also the reason given for Bennett's resignation last week, effective Nov. 30, after just 20 months in office. "I feel I've done what I promised the President I would try to do," he said. When the combative Bennett took the post as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, he told Bush that to fight the drug menace he needed a coherent strategy, bipartisan support for the effort and more money...
Many may disagree with that assessment, but Bennett is getting out while his stock is at its highest. Congress has just approved virtually everything that Bennett recommended for fiscal 1991. Opinion polls show that the American public has become strongly intolerant of drug use. "We're on the road to victory," Bush declared last week as he bade farewell to his rumpled drug adviser...
Critics insist that Bennett, a conservative intellectual with an abrasive manner, simply burned out. "I don't understand this idea about declaring victory and quitting," said Democratic Representative Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the House Narcotics Committee. "He must be smoking cigarettes without printing if he thinks he can lead me to any city, town or village and find anybody who will say, 'Thank you, Bill Bennett, there's light at the end of the tunnel.' " "Mr. Rangel," Bennett retorted, "is a gasbag...
...free of that world now," Bennett said ofthe liberal university environment. "Does theSoviet dissident wish to return as the head of thegulag...
When your backyard becomes a war zone, you might grow angry, throw tantrums or call your Congressperson. Or you might even, like the Drug Policy Foundation and the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project, file multi-million dollar lawsuits against William Bennett and his czarist policies. Whatever the gains of troop employment (insignificant by many accounts), the government cannot afford to create this unnecessary hostility towards its assault on drugs...