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House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anxious to right himself after a bruising year, is turning his guns on a retired four-star general: BARRY MCCAFFREY, President Clinton's drug czar. "Dismal. Baloney," GINGRICH scoffed at McCaffrey's antidrug strategy. "I met with General McCaffrey two months ago and said, 'I want a World War II-style victory plan--a decisive, all-out, cataclysmic effort to break the back of the drug culture...
...related violence on the wane, President Clinton agreed Tuesday to ease off on a policy many activists call racist because it imposes far heavier penalties on crack users, who are more likely to be black. Under the plan put forth by Attorney General Janet Reno and drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the disparity will be reduced to 10-to-1: five years would be the mandatory sentence for selling 25 grams of crack and 250 grams of powder cocaine. The revision is now headed for Congress, where Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Maxine Waters has already rejected the new sentence ratio, saying...
Responding last week to a lengthy New York Times investigation of grave lapses in U.S. efforts to curb Mexican drug smuggling, the White House drug-policy chief, General Barry McCaffrey, told the paper that he had recently begun an effort to build "a newly defined architecture" for the disparate agencies engaged in the narcotics war. A better reason for optimism in the fight is that Carrillo is unlikely to be replaced by anyone as skilled as he was. For the time being, his younger brother Vicente, 34, is expected to run operations. "Carrillo was a force to be reckoned with...
...speech, McCaffrey joked that she is thinking of combining her father's favorite saying, "The mark of a Harvard graduate is effortless superiority," with her amazement that she has survived this long...
...McCaffrey says she has enjoyed her life's work, and she continues to write stories every...