Word: czars
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...nationally televised speech? The Pentagon planning to station an aircraft carrier off the coast of Colombia to monitor suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
Martinez will inherit an effort that has enjoyed some limited successes. Bennett's supporters credit the drug czar with shaping the national debate on drugs into a more mature and less hysterical discussion. He considers the fact that drugs did not figure in most political races this year as a plus because "it means the issue is not a political football...
...crack down on the drug lords. In the past 21 months, federal judicial police have confiscated 80,000 kilos of cocaine, more than was seized during De la Madrid's entire six-year term. But the offensive could stall. Last month Salinas announced the resignation of his drug czar, Javier Coello Trejo. Reason: alleged human-rights abuses by police, including murders...
...reputation for imperious leadership, not the best qualification for a man who now may have to cajole Congress, bureaucrats and foreign leaders. "He has talents," said the Miami Herald in an editorial last week, "but persuasiveness is not high among them." If he assumes the post of drug czar, Martinez will need to grasp the drug problem in all its dimensions. Until then, it will be an open question whether he is the man for the job -- or just a man who needed...
...federal judge bans CNN from airing the Panamanian dictator's telephone conversations with his lawyers. The drug czar declares victory and resigns...