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...officials of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Chicago Correspondent Barbara Dolan and New York Reporter Jeanne McDowell talked with employees and employers. "From $100-a-week Wall Street runner to $1 million-a-year chief executive officer," observes McDowell, "no individual was exempt, no group of people too smart, too talented, too educated or too successful to be touched by the problem." Los Angeles-based Correspondent Jonathan Beaty was reporting his third cover story on drug abuse since 1981. He observes that "corporate antidrug programs and proposed mass testing of Government workers amount...
...crime. Over the years, U.S. opponents of the treaty, most of them Senate conservatives, have said they had no quarrel with its sentiments but argued that the pact would permit foreigners to meddle in American domestic affairs. Last May the Senate passed a resolution that allows the U.S. to exempt itself from World Court jurisdiction over treaty cases. That provided the cover Congress needed and finally cleared the way for the U.S. officially to endorse an end to genocide...
...meet the law's deficit targets ($144 billion for fiscal 1987, which begins Oct. 1, vs. an expected $202.8 billion this fiscal year), Congress by Aug. 15 would still have to calculate equal percentage cuts in the 50% or so of all federal spending that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied in a joint resolution brought up for a straight yes-or-no vote within one week. Congress could reject the resolution, or the President could veto it, but they would still...
...city's stringent rent control laws apply to about 17,000 units built before 1970. Affiliated housing is exempt from rent control...
...military. In December, 14 dissident officers planned to overthrow the government. Their plot was uncovered, but it underlined the fragility of Babangida's regime. As army Chief of Staff, his confident, wisecracking style won him the backing of the officers' corps. As President, however, he refused to exempt the army from wage cuts of up to 20% that he ordered for all workers. Said one Western diplomat: "Babangida is reaching outside the military, trying to create new political forces to sustain him. As long as Nigerians feel that the screws are tightening on everybody, they will feel better about...