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...bills differ in specific provisions but are similar in thrust, proposing a broad approach that would pour money into enforcement education, rehabilitation and crop eradication, and would withhold aid from recalcitrant producer countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drug Bill Easily Passes Through Senate | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...allow local governments to reject low bids on road work contracts from companies which do business in South Africa. Personally, I feel that only people crazy enough to carry on business there are crazy enough to work on American highways. No sane man would dodge speeding El Dorados to pour molten asphalt for a living...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Who Cares Anyway? | 10/1/1986 | See Source »

...mean, how do you react to something you've been waiting for ever since you became a conscious being? You jump in the air, fists clenched, a la Bruce Hurst, or you pour champagne all over your pals...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: A September to Remember | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

...that drug abuse isn't worth attacking too. But anyone genuinely concerned with the drug problem would spend more time and money on drug education and rehabilitation and less on attempts to punish drug dealers. Yet Reagan continues to pour money into border patrol programs that have proven utterly ineffective while there remains a three to six-month waiting list for treatment at New York City drug addiction centers...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Drug Hysteria | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...crossing legally into West Berlin. They then fled West Germany because they were worried that authorities would reject their applications for asylum. Since 1949 Bonn has accepted any foreigner "persecuted on political grounds" in his native land. This lenient policy has led more than 37,000 Sri Lankans to pour into the country since 1980. The flood has provoked racial conflicts and calls for stricter immigration laws; new arrivals meet rising hostility. At the same time, rumors spreading through Tamil communities in West Germany depict Canada as an asylum seeker's haven where refugees can find comfortable lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas a Twice-Told Tale with a Twist | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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