Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From '70 to '73 I did part-time teaching at San Jose State. SDS broke apart in '73. One part wanted to blow up somebody and did blow up themselves and then there was the Progressive Labor faction, which was riddled with class guilt. I thought this was nonsense. So I treaded water for a few years...
...string of government seizures can seem excessive and unfair, especially when they involve owners who may have had no idea that drugs were on board. "Say my kids go out and one of their friends leaves a roach in the ashtray," says Joseph McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused...
Joseph McNamara, police chief in San Jose, in the drug-ridden Silicon Valley, estimates that his department spends 80% of its time trying to enforce the drug laws. "The fight against drugs for the past 70 years has been one long glorious failure," he says. "The courts are overflowing, there is violence on the streets, and the problem seems to be getting worse...
...onto it, as he proved last week. His distrust of the Soviets is boundless and personal. He still suspects that Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983 in part because the Soviets had learned that he was scheduled to be aboard. "Trust them?" he asks. "No way, Jose...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Robert T. Zintl...