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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned to work. The company put Cronan on disability leave. Todd Shuttleworth, a former budget analyst for Broward County, Fla., came down with AIDS in 1984. The county dismissed him and canceled his medical benefits immediately after Shuttleworth revealed his illness. Says Paul Swinney, who lost his federal prison-guard job in California after contracting AIDS: "They simply want...
...following day Mexican authorities seized almost half a ton of cocaine at the border, their third biggest haul in the country's history. A couple of days later the former chief of the federal judicial police in Guadalajara, Armando Pavon Reyes, was sentenced to four years in prison for having accepted $100,000 in bribes from Rafael Caro Quintero, an arrested drug trafficker...
...have been indicted as part of a drug ring dealing coke in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee and Florida. The gridiron trio accounted for more than 56% of their team's points last season. Today they each face a maximum sentence of a $250,000 fine and 16 years in prison...
...Quarterback Dan Marino. "But I think there has to be a lot more research done in this area before we can come out and say | random mandatory drug testing is the cure." Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, a former star running back with the Miami Dolphins who was recently released from prison after serving three years on a drug conviction, says singling out athletes for drug tests is an unfair double standard. "I'd be more concerned about a coked-up surgeon operating on my daughter than whether someone on a football field is using drugs...
...television. Last week a number of prominent pros, including basketball's Julius Erving and baseball's Dave Winfield, filmed commercials urging kids to say no to drugs. A striking commercial currently on the air features Mercury Morris saying to coke users, "A phone call could help you. It took prison to help...