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...Reagan administration, governed by the long-term misconception that drug addiction is a moral failure and not a physiological phenomenon rooted in serious social inequities, is treating drug problems as a low priority item. There are an estimated 12,000 heroin addicts living in Massachusetts, and the number of emergency room heroin-related cases in the state's hospitals is up by 4 or 5 percent. Rehabilitaion officials are finding the Reagan budget curs crippling to an already chronically underfunded social service. The combined effects of the recently passed federal block grants, Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, and budget cuts...
...item was tucked away in a breathless potpourri of gossip on page D1 of the Washington Post. Diana McClellan, whose trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...
...distinctly unamused "listeners" were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. The former President's press secretary, Jody Powell, denounced the item as "unfounded and false" and demanded a retraction. So did the Carters' Washington lawyer, Terrence Adamson, who wrote to the Post that the article falsely leveled "a criminal charge" at the former President, and was "libelous." Even if the Post were to apologize, Adamson said, the Carters intended to sue the Post for libel and claim at least $1 million in damages...
...very least, the item raised questions about the Post's journalistic proprieties. Powell had a valid question: If the Post really believed that the Carters had been bugging visitors to Blair House, including heads of state and the next U.S. President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove...
Economists and financiers worry about the size of the national debt primarily because interest charges on it have become a major budget expenditure. The Government this year will pay a staggering $94.5 billion in interest on the debt, the third largest item in the federal budget after defense and Social Security...