Word: druggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government may settle the issue with a national AIDS survey, which began last week in Dallas. The residents of 3,400 households were sent letters asking them to take anonymous AIDS tests and answer questions about their sexual practices and drug use. Some AIDS groups protested, charging that the money used for the survey could be better spent on treatment and the search for a cure...
...begins and the budget is hammered out. In the next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...
...other amendments were added to the bill,including one by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)which would add 20 new federal judges to helphandle the increased number of drug-related cases...
...Harvard expert whose writings have beeninfluential in the federal drug policy debate saidthat the new judges would have little effect...
...bill was also amended 13 times by Sen.Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.), the chair of theJudiciary Committee. Among Biden's amendments weremeasures expanding treatment programs for addicts,hiring more federal agents to target drugtrafficking organizations, increasing funds forstate and local drug enforcement officials andextending incentives encouraging companies toresearch drug treatment...