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...concluded that criminal sanctions were failing and counterproductive. Over the next six years, eleven states decriminalized pot possession for individual use,* while many others decreased penalties or loosened up their enforcement. President Carter backed a softening of federal laws. But by the late '70s the mood began to swing back. With an estimated 60% of high school seniors having tried pot, and the drug making inroads at elementary schools, frightened parents dissuaded legislators from further liberalization. In step with this sentiment, the Reagan Administration's firm antidrug stance includes pot. Says Dr. Carlton Turner, the President...
DIED. Harry Mills, 68, one of the original Mills Brothers, singer of most of the scat parts and baritone solos for the barbershop-swing group, whose mellow and enduringly contemporary sound (Paper Doll, Lazy River, Glow Worm) withstood shifts in musical fashions and gave Mills a singing career that spanned 57 years; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...that the defense budget has been rigorously examined by Congress. That is never so Congress trusts the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. There is reason to fear that the trust is misplaced. Voters must take the initiative in forcing a review before the present arms buildup is in full swing. H. H. Test Bethesda...
Under the so-called Swing District Project, HSSR has targeted the districts of 27 members of the House Appropriations Committee who the students say have taken no clear stand on the arms issue. The appropriations panel is responsible for allocating funds for arms programs, among other government activities...
Begin is a man of many moods, with a wide swing of emotions. He can be very gentle, quiet, sentimental. Yet he can also act like a thundering prophet out of the Old Testament. He is a man who walks in his own history. His family was wiped out in the Holocaust, and that hangs over everything he thinks about...