Word: druggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN President Bush announced his drug plan on September 5, he called for an all-out war on drugs. In the nationally televised speech, Bush moved away from the simplicity of Reagan's "Just say no" philosophy and included more emphasis on decreasing local demand for drugs...
...Each day drugs threaten to destroy neighborhoods, corrupt society and take the lives of people in cities across the country. The images of the drug war are powerful: a Natick women reports her son and his friends to police for smoking crack in her basement; an 11-year-old girl breaks into houses in South Boston to support her drug habit...
DESPITE the horrors of the drug war, it seems that Bush's message of total war on drugs has yet to enter the collective consciousness of members of the Harvard community. Admittedly, if Bush had allocated adequate funds for the war it would have helped...
...classic battle between old and new is the one shaping up in Detroit. Last week four-term Mayor Coleman Young, 71, finished first in the city's nonpartisan primary in a campaign in which opponents hammered at Detroit's drug and crime problems. (The mayor's image was also tarnished when paternity tests forced him to acknowledge having fathered a child out of wedlock six years ago.) If Young is getting on in years, it has not cramped his boisterous style. At a victory rally last week, he urged his jubilant supporters to "go home, get some rest and come...
...crop of hopefuls cut from the same professional cloth is lining up to challenge Washington's Marion Barry, who has been weakened by continuing allegations of drug abuse. Barry's dilemma worsened last week when a grand jury heard testimony from a witness who said she saw the mayor in a Virgin Islands hotel room last year with convicted drug dealer Charles Lewis and a quantity of cocaine. If Barry is forced to resign or decides not to run for a fourth term next year, Jesse Jackson may enter the race...