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Thirty EOP workers have reluctantly filed a class-action suit seeking to stop the tests, contending that the Government has no right to test them without reason to suspect them of drug use. Though there is little evidence of widespread drug abuse among Executive Office workers, their image was not helped by the disclosure last week that two White House guards were fired and one resigned last May after an investigation into allegations of cocaine use among members of the Secret Service's uniformed division. Two NSC clerks were also relieved of their duties. The testing is necessary, says White...
...addition, I suspect that the Conservative Club's hibernation--which, incidentally, dates from 1987, not 1985--resulted from the graduation of its most committed members rather than from a backlash against the Hoppenstein invitation, as your "news" article asserts. The club members whom I knew always enjoyed a good backlash, which perhaps accounts for their choice of speakers. Caleb Nelson...
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...
Maurice Saatchi attributed the setback to a falloff in the firm's consulting business, along with a decline in U.S. advertising spending. But many investors suspect that the British firm's overall strategy of pell-mell growth, including the takeover of the Ted Bates Worldwide agency for $450 million in 1986, may have created an unmanageable corporate sprawl. After many of Saatchi & Saatchi's takeovers, the acquired firms have lost both executives and clients. Last week's announcement suggests that for Saatchi & Saatchi, building an empire was easier than ruling...
...scoundrel?" After defense attorneys began compiling Portell's history, the DEA removed him from its payroll. Guzman, who returns to court this week, may not be the last woman to fall for the dashing Don Juan. But she may be the last one he turns into a suspect statistic in the war on drugs...