Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon. The number of "intensive" (weekly) cocaine users is up a third, to 862,000 people; nearly 300,000 of them may be using cocaine daily. Those estimates could be low, since the pollsters surveyed only households, not transients or people in hospitals and prisons. Said drug czar William Bennett: "We're now fighting two drug wars": a manageable fight against casual users and a more intense battle against crack addiction. "On this second front," he added grimly, "we are not winning...
...Bennett's national antidrug strategy, to be announced formally on Sept. 5, will propose federal grants of $200 million to state and local police agencies for reclaiming crack-infested neighborhoods. Federal law-enforcement efforts would focus on the hubs of the drug-importation and -wholesaling industry: Miami, Los Angeles, New York City, Houston and the U.S.-Mexican border...
...valedictory, Von Raab has written to Bush warning that drug czar William Bennett's efforts are being undermined at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels by "political jockeying, backstabbing and malaise." Von Raab has warm words for Bush but scorns the President's cautious, pragmatic advisers, including Brady, Secretary of State James Baker and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Except for drug czar Bennett and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, he says, the Bush team is afraid of taking risks and making waves...
Such talk is anathema at State and Justice, where military intervention is viewed as a blatant violation of international law that would inflame the Latin nations. Bennett supports limited use of U.S. military advisers, but only for training and only at the invitation of the host nations...
...Raab is not without allies. Bennett says admiringly that his "style is often imperfect, but the substance is on target." An official at the Drug Enforcement Administration who has sparred bitterly with Von Raab on turf issues says, nonetheless, "You've got to hand it to him. Willy has guts...