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...even as they announced the Chief Executive's bold plan to use "the full power of the Presidency" to counter illicit drug use, Mr. Reagan's spokesmen were forced to make a humbling admission: that there are no plans underway to increase funding for drug-treatment centers already overwhelmed by the increased abuse of crack and devastated by previous cutbacks in federal subsidies. But that should come as no surprise. For years, while his wife has toured the country spouting anti-drug rhetoric, Ronald Reagan's budgetary priorities have overlooked drug-abuse prevention and rehabilitation programs...
Although small in scope and results, the operation represented a significant escalation in the Reagan Administration's open-ended commitment to use the military against cocaine, the addictive white powder that is now the fastest-growing segment of the approximately $125 billion illicit U.S. drug market. American soldiers will remain in Bolivia for at least two months, transporting the Leopards on search-and-destroy missions into the countryside. U.S. officials are said to be reviewing similar requests for military assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold...
Barco, a 40-year public servant whose posts have ranged from mayor of Bogota to Ambassador to Washington, must now confront the Betancur legacy. High on the new President's agenda: the continuing terrorist attacks, growing pressure from the U.S. to clamp down on illicit drug traffic, and a 13.4% unemployment rate. Barco will have to move quickly to contain the proliferating drug business. He has already pledged support for programs to eradicate the coca plant, which provides the raw material for cocaine, and he has indicated to Washington that he will cooperate with efforts to extradite Colombians accused...
...Levine case was the largest insider-trading complaint ever filed by the SEC, and it spurred anxiety and soul-searching in Wall Street boardrooms. Levine had allegedly amassed a total of $12.6 million in illicit profits while working for three investment firms--Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Bros. and Smith Barney--during the past 5 1/2 years. Insider-trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been...
...have a whole lot to work with in terms of character development. In the role of a co-detective trying to help Billy solve the mystery of his father's death, she is about as believable as one of Charlie's Angels. What kind of investigator discusses top-secret, illicit information over a phone from her desk at the Police Station...