Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE ARE HOPEFUL signs that the Reagan Administration is reassessing, at long last, its callous treatment of American allies...
Reagan's speech used stern words to criticize the Soviets, not only for their treatment of Daniloff, an American journalist arrested in Moscow, but also for their treatment of civilians in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan and their insistence on supporting Marxist-Leninist insurrections around the world...
...President planned to reiterate his initiatives for the fight: drug-free schools and workplaces, expanded drug treatment, stronger law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts, and greater public awareness. "Drugs are menacing our society," Reagan planned to say. "They're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions. They're killing our children." The First Lady was going to stress further the vulnerability of the nation's youth: "Today there is a drug and alcohol epidemic in this country, and no one is safe from it -- not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written...
...billion House bill, which has not yet been considered by the Senate, would provide significant new funding for drug interdiction, law enforcement, education, rehabilitation and treatment. Passed by a 392 to 16 vote, it contained several hastily drafted, and not always wise, amendments...
...controversial part of the President's plan is the recommendation for random drug testing of 1.1 million federal employees. In discussing the proposal last week, a Cabinet counsel agreed that a worker who flunks his first test should undergo drug treatment, but there was some dispute over whether a second failure should result in firing. Presidential Counsel Peter Wallison objected that dismissal "would be punitive." Shot back Education Secretary William Bennett, a hawk in the drug war: "It's meant to be punitive." Noting that his own plan for getting rid of drugs in schools called for expulsion of second...