Word: czars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After weeks of rumblings, federal drug czar William Bennett last week unveiled an $80 million emergency plan for an assault on the drug-and-murder epidemic in Washington. But the proposal looked more like an outline for a skirmish than for an all-out offensive...
...known as the godfather and czar of Mexico's drug trade because he reputedly pioneered an alliance with Colombian druglords of the notorious Medellin cartel to move cocaine through Mexico...
Federal drug czar William Bennett is on the brink of declaring Washington the nation's first "high-intensity drug-trafficking area," making the city a "shock-treatment" test case in the war on drugs. He will soon announce a federal-local strike force that will try to close down the district's nearly 100 open-air drug markets. Bennett's staff is also toying with the possibility of converting abandoned military buildings into makeshift jails for drug pushers. Since 1986, Washington police have arrested almost 40,000 suspects in drug cases, but the District has long since...
...Tuesday, one day after he was sworn in as "drug czar," Bennett talked * the import ban over with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, whose department oversees the BATF. Bennett got word to White House chief of staff John Sununu about the plan. When the White House did not object, Bennett and Higgins went ahead and announced the import ban last Tuesday...
...President Bush's drug czar. (William Bennent is much more sensitive...