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...response to public pressure, police are taking a tougher stance. The Los Angeles police department has a driving under-the-influence task force, and Florida's Dade County has a 22-officer police squad assigned to patrol solely for drunk drivers. In New Mexico, police are authorized to confiscate driving licenses on the spot if the driver is under 18 and measures .05% blood alcohol content on a breath test. Adults must have twice that score to qualify as drunk, but, says a state spokesman, "the idea is that a juvenile is more impaired at .05 than an adult...
Boston Correspondent Timothy Loughran was amazed by the radical shift in attitude toward alcohol when he returned to the U.S. last year after four years in Central America. "The newspapers were filled with articles on tougher drunken-driving legislation," he says. "Roadblocks that I equated with military searches for antigovernment guerrillas were being used by U.S. police to catch violators. And everyone was drinking wine, mineral water and fruit juices...
...virtually the same time that Reagan addressed the European Parliament, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev was giving his own V-E day anniversary speech at the Kremlin. He too mixed hard rhetoric with soft sell, but overall his language was tougher than Reagan's. The U.S., he claimed, was "the forward edge of the war menace to mankind." Nevertheless, Gorbachev said his country was ready for a thaw in relations. "From our point of view, detente is not the end aim of politics," he said. "It is needed, but only as a transitional stage from a world cluttered with arms...
...Taser is considered a firearm (because it shoots darts), and its sale is somewhat restricted by federal law, while a handful of states have tougher rules that ban both Tasers and Novas, or limit them to police. Many civil libertarians are cautious supporters of stun guns on the ground that police are more likely to injure suspects with a gun or a nightstick. But the new charges of stun-gun abuse have sharpened their concerns. "The risks are the same as the advantages," answers Greg Thomas, a Washington police researcher. "It all comes back to the judgment and discretion...
...issue faced a much tougher climb in the Democratic-controlled House. Speaker Tip O'Neill timed a vote to be close to that of the Senate, forestalling any victory momentum. Over two days, Congressmen voted on three measures: the already abandoned military-aid proposal, a Democratic alternative providing $14 million for civilian aid and peacekeeping expenses, and a Republican proposal similar to the one adopted in the Senate. The Democratic measure passed its initial vote, 219 to 206. Republicans tried desperately to supplant it with their Administration-approved compromise, and they almost succeeded. When the final tally showed 215 against...