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...nations as Colombia and Mexico that have been unable or unwilling to crack down on the drug trade. Finally, on the left, some advocates contend that legalization would remove a severe threat to individual freedom that is posed by widespread drug searches, demands for wholesale testing and the pending use of the military to enforce drug laws. If the sale of narcotics is permitted, says Harvard Psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon, "there won't be the tremendous encroachment on our civil liberties. Are we willing to sacrifice our freedom for the small increase in the number of people who may use...
...good many people would stop short of full-scale legalization and opt for a rather vague concept known as decriminalization. It is generally taken to mean reducing or eliminating criminal penalties for the use and perhaps sale of drugs, while retaining some form of legal disapproval. Such a halfway solution might accelerate the problems that would come from legalization without solving most of those that arise from the current tough drug laws. Author Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), himself a reformed drug dealer, suggests decriminalizing the sale of drugs by hospitals and clinics in order to "deglamorize ((narcotics...
Reagan and Gorbachev are expected to use the Moscow talks to issue a detailed status report specifying what issues have and have not been resolved. As Reagan said in an interview late last week, "We'll try to see if we can't come up with some help for the people ((in Geneva)) that have been handling the details of this...
...late November, Reagan and Gorbachev met in Geneva for their first summit. The President used the occasion to convince Gorbachev that the two had an opportunity to free the world from the "uncivilized doctrine" of mutually assured destruction. "I simply cannot condone the notion," said Reagan, "of keeping the peace by threatening to blow each other away. We must be able to find a better way." SDI, he said, was a better way. After a long pause, Gorbachev replied, calmly, slowly, in his most authoritative baritone. But his vehemence grew as he spoke about his suspicions: "What you call research...
...nominee. Earlier this year he threatened to hold up confirmation of Major General William F. Burns to head the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The price: a White House promise to submit reports on Soviet compliance with the ABM treaty -- more ammo against the INF treaty. "You use whatever lever you have," shrugs Helms...