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Opponents of Government screening argue that it is an "unreasonable search," barred by the Fourth Amendment. They contend that employees should be tested only if there is good reason to suspect drug use. But Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of both decisions, concluded that in the cases of rail and Customs employees, the Government need not have "individualized suspicion." Train workers, he explained, "discharge duties fraught with . . . risks of injury," and "employees involved in drug interdiction reasonably should expect effective inquiry into their fitness and probity." Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented bluntly: "Compelling a person to produce a urine sample on demand...
Another heavy blow in the '80s was deregulation of rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...
...indirect costs of deregulation are adding up. Moving grain by truck instead of rail increases the rate at which highways and bridges are being degraded. Says Tierce: "In the long term the public is going to pay the price, and rural America will pay a terrible price...
According to the MBTA feasibility study released last week, building a circumferential rail line would cost more than $4.5 billion. Even if approved, the line would not be completed until 2010, said MBTA project coordinator Esther A. Johnson...
...Gomez-Ibarez, an expert in light-rail transit, said the new line would probably not ease the city's traffic problems...