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...rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration hopes that the courts will apply that reasoning to workers in sensitive government jobs. Says Richard Willard, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division: "People who are in law enforcement or who have access to sensitive classified information present an even stronger case than racehorse jockeys...
...Charlie Watts Orchestra: Live at Fulham Town Hall. Last week Watts plus 33 took off on a nine-day, five-city tour of the Northeastern U.S. and Canada to mark the record's release. So what do Charlie's rock-'n'-roll mates think of his swinging sideline? "Keith [Richard] and Mick [Jagger] love it," he reports. "There's no real difference between rock and jazz. We don't analyze the music; we just play...
...faced an uphill struggle to win congressional approval to buy five AWACS radar planes (ironically, for protection against any military threat from Iran), four U.S. officials worked hard to turn the tide. They were North, then a little-known aide at the NSC; Charles P. Tyson, another NSC staffer; Richard Secord, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Robert Lilac, a Pentagon official who moved to the NSC, where he became North's boss. The four worked closely with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan to close the deal, which was bitterly opposed by Israel...
...Carlucci's controversial actions at the Pentagon involved Richard Secord, who was then a deputy assistant secretary for the Middle East and has since become a central figure in the network of private arms dealers supplying Iran and the contras. In early 1982 Secord was placed on leave while a federal grand jury investigated his alleged ties to Edwin Wilson, a renegade CIA operative turned arms merchant. But with Carlucci's approval, Secord was soon reinstated. Secord, who was never indicted, was many rungs down in the hierarchy from Carlucci, and one of Carlucci's subordinates last week took responsibility...
...Joseph Lieberman 27 Richard Gephardt 14 John Edwards 11 John Kerry 10 Al Sharpton 7 Howard Dean 3 Don't know...