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...Saturday editorial page, The New York Times chimed in with the prevailing view of this new legislation as a sham bill designed to bolster senators' prospects for re-election. "The 100th Congress appears determined not to leave town without serving up a tough-sounding bill on drugs," The Times editorial intoned. The good, gray Times went on to denounce the new drug bill as "one that flashes empty promises under campaign pressure...
...Bolster education, with special emphasis on science and engineering. Everyone agrees that U.S. industry will have an increasingly tough time putting out quality products in a high-tech age if workers are poorly educated, or even illiterate. The Government should provide loans to help school systems revamp their facilities, and federal educational programs like Head Start should be expanded to include all disadvantaged children. Washington should give special grants to universities to subsidize increased salaries for science and engineering professors and scholarships to attract students into those fields. Moreover, the Government needs to launch a ten- year program to refurbish...
That is precisely the point. By talking to Botha, black leaders considered implacable enemies of apartheid provide him with a political breakthrough. They handshake him out of isolation and invest him with the credentials of international respectability. Televised images of black leaders welcoming him to their lands bolster his ritual argument: southern Africa is an interlocking unit that cannot hope to solve its problems without South Africa's wealth and skills. More immediately, the visible evidence that black African states are cooperating with him helps Botha undermine the sanctions campaign in the U.S. and Europe. "Allegations that South Africa...
...knocked down, the legislative threat to withhold tax money actually raised by the citizens for the day-to-day administration of their own elected government negates the principle of local self-government. Unfortunately, such principles mean little to congressmen who believe that anti-abortion and anti-gay votes will bolster their reelection prospects...
...Haiti's law-enforcement capabilities. Only 19 policemen have been assigned to antidrug squads throughout the country. Their only equipment is two jeeps and five radios that the U.S. provided in 1985. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration last year persuaded Washington to earmark $200,000 for communications equipment to bolster Haitian drug enforcement. But the money has not yet been released...