Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even so, Bennett's plan has stirred qualms within the Administration. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh worries about militarizing antidrug operations abroad. Says a Justice Department official: "Law-enforcement officers are trained to extract criminals from society, to think about the rights of innocent people and to be mindful of the sovereignty of other nations. Military forces are trained to take on whatever gets in the way, to destroy the enemy...
...President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is prosecuting some formerly untouchable drug lords and officials, notably Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez, the feared former chief of the Federal Security Directorate. But the State Department and the DEA are split over what to do about Cuba. State officials dismiss the executions of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and three other officers, allegedly for drug trafficking, as being really intended to destroy Fidel Castro's rivals. DEA officials argue that whatever Castro's motives, his antidrug posturing should be exploited...
...five. Much maligned New York City was 15th in its overall crime rate and tenth in the homicide rate. No FBI figures were available for Miami, but statistics from local police indicated that the city apparently had the fifth highest murder rate and the fourth worst general crime record...
Although colleges in general have a lackluster record of attracting and holding minorities, a number of programs are starting to chip away at the problem. In some areas, college-public school partnerships seek to get minority students thinking about higher education at an early age and to nurture that goal through high school. "Once kids have the fever for college, you can do a lot of good," says Nathan Potts, principal of West Side High School in Newark, which was "adopted" by Ramapo College of New Jersey...
...political observers believe Lange quit rather than work with a man he had forced out of the Cabinet only last December for pushing economic reforms too far. Ironically, both will serve in the government of the new Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer, where Lange has accepted the post of Attorney General...