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...Bill Bennett (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs. and gaining) was not the nation's drug czar then, but he may be next time he encounters those cautious bureaucrats. Bennett was nominated by President-elect George Bush last week to the newly created Cabinet-level post, and instantly lines of contention were drawn for the Senate hearings once Bush takes over...
...only about one-third as much meat as the 55 lbs. consumed by an average American. In a comparison that might have cost him his job not too long ago, the economist asserted that the people of the Soviet Union today have a worse diet than the Russians under Czar Nicholas II in 1913, a year of prosperity before World War I and the October Revolution...
...bill, which passed through the Senate by an 87-3 vote, would create the oft-discussed cabinet-level position of drug "czar." It would also allow the death penalty against drug "kingpins," stregnthen penalties for both the use and sale of illicit drugs, and permit random testing for transportation and nuclear-industry workers...
...watch Molchanov's show find it spellbinding for other reasons. They tune in for a glimpse of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost: a prominent Soviet writer denouncing the "monstrous slavery" of Stalinism, scenes of rusting railway cars in an abandoned stretch of the Gulag, even rare film footage of Czar Nicholas II and the royal family...
...distance yourself from the President?" anymore. One reason is, I'm defining in specific speeches and position papers what I'll do. Some of it might be totally compatible with what the President has done and said. But there are some differences: opening up the tax structure, drug czar, ethics program, a little different emphasis on the specifics of education. This is what George Bush wants...