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...rather remote threat of going to jail. If people know they will have to pass a urine test in order to get or keep a good job -- or join a sports team or stay in school or whatever -- they are less likely to dabble with drugs. Employees who fail can be steered toward treatment programs, under an implied or explicit threat of being fired if they refuse. Look, for example, at what happened in the U.S. armed forces after they intensified random mass urine tests four years ago. In 1980, when tests were infrequent, 27% of some 20,000 military...
Last week Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced measures designed to discourage immigration. Airline companies will risk fines of $1,000 if they fail to check the papers of passengers flying to West Germany. Refugees from "problem countries" in the Third World will have to apply for visas even if they plan to spend only a few days in the Federal Republic. And those awaiting a decision on their asylum requests may seek employment only after five years. "It is simply not possible," said the Chancellor, "for the Federal Republic to be a refuge for anyone in economic difficulty...
...like history doesn't exist," Chester Hartman '57 says about the University's planning for the 350th. Hartman, of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, says the symposia fail to investigate some of the more unflatterring periods in Harvard history...
...India, where less than 7,000 AIDS blood tests have been conducted, the obstacles are formidable. Rural clinics and small hospitals typically fail to sterilize needles before reusing them. The government hopes to increase the number of AIDS testing centers from twelve to 29. It has also ordered spot testing of all commercial blood donors and has announced that imported blood must be certified as AIDS free. But these precautions cannot ensure the containment of the virus. More than half of India's blood supply comes from local paid donors, whose blood is usually not screened. Some tests, moreover...
...N.F.L.'s current program, which is part of the league's 1982 collective-bargaining agreement, calls for one mandatory test during the preseason; those who fail are required to undergo drug counseling. Declaring that arrangement ineffective, Rozelle said he was assuming the authority to initiate the new program under an article in the N.F.L. constitution that allows the commissioner to act against "conduct detrimental to the welfare of the league or professional football." The N.F.L. Players Association balked, challenging Rozelle's authority to change the 1982 agreement. The dispute is currently under consideration in U.S. District Court...