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...fixed on the nation's drug problem to blast George Bush savagely. "Bush confuses being tough with being smart," Clinton told me in 1992. "You can't get serious about crime without getting serious about drugs. Bush thinks locking up addicts instead of treating them, or teaching kids to resist using them in the first place, is clever politics. Maybe so, but it's lousy policy and the consequences of his cravenness could ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: THE PHONY DRUG WAR | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...Belgium," says TIME's Jay Branegan. "The press is asking 'How could a sex offender be released after only three years to commit more crimes?' Now, people are calling for no parole in sex cases. The whole issue is so enormously emotional that it seems unlikely the government will resist the calls to change the legal system." -->