Word: joycelyn
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Meanwhile, to the religious right, Clinton is practically the Anti-Christ. During the campaign, they waved placards warning TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON IS TO SIN AGAINST GOD. More recently the Virginia-based Christian Action Network called on Clinton to "fire the four horsewomen of the apocalypse: Joycelyn Elders, Kristine Gebbie, Roberta Achtenberg and Jane Alexander" -- respectively, the Surgeon General, who advocates condom distribution to high school students; the National AIDS policy coordinator; the Assistant Secretary in the Housing and Urban Development Department and the first openly lesbian nominee to be confirmed by the Senate for a high office...
...JOYCELYN ELDERS...
That was then. Since taking office, Clinton's passion for the issue has flared only once -- last week, when he stomped on Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for suggesting a study of the possibility of legalizing illicit drugs. Clinton's knee-jerk, anti-intellectual response, which can be fairly summarized as "No way, nohow; not now, not ever," is bad enough. Worse is his silent acceptance of policies that shortchange drug treatment, an abandonment of his pledge to invert the ratio of funds spent on drug interdiction vs. treatment, a split that continues to allocate $13.1 billion of federal antidrug money...
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders remarked that legalizing drugs would reduce violent crime and suggested that the consequences of drug legalization should be studied. The White House forcefully repudiated Elders comments, and G.O.P. lawmakers called for her resignation...
...weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...