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Clinton Drug Czar BARRY MCCAFFREY drew flak last week when he visited Colombia President ERNESTO SAMPER, who had been sanctioned by the U.S. for allegedly taking campaign funds from the Cali cartel. But in private, the retired general signaled to key members of the ruling Liberal Party that relations with the U.S. will continue to be strained if the party's presidential nominee for the May 1998 elections is the current front runner, former Interior Minister HORACIO SERPA URIBE, one of the men who took responsibility for letting the drug money into Samper's campaign. "We desperately look forward," McCaffrey...
...types (Timothy Leary was, of course, a fan), K has exploded in the past few months onto the suburban drug scene. In February, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warned that use is increasing at teen "rave" parties, the marathon dances that have spawned a new youth subculture. Anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey's office added K to its list of "emerging drugs" in 1995; the office's latest "pulse check" of the nation found K "all over." St. Louis, Mo., Tampa, Fla., and suburban New Jersey have seen a rash of animal-hospital break-ins by thieves hunting for ketamine...
...Energy Department grants to Molten Metal eventually reached $33 million, money parceled out over three years over the objection of some government scientists. But the favorable treatment bestowed on the firm did not end there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
...Apple czar Steve Jobs floats a tantalizing balloon for the Mac faithful (TIME Daily...