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...reining in his security forces. Despite previous success in crushing illegal A.N.C. military activities, the government has notably failed to punish the perpetrators of township massacres. Says Helen Suzman, a white liberal and former Member of Parliament: "They have got to get cracking on the security forces and weed out those elements known to be against reform...
After shunning inner-city neighborhoods for years, Bush visited four of them last week. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, he toured downtrodden districts that are implementing "Weed and Seed" programs, combining intensive policing with new drug-treatment and job-training services. In Baltimore, Bush was scheduled to speak on health care, but added an announcement of $600 million in disaster loans for Los Angeles...
...WEED AND SEED. Attorney General William Barr and Budget Director Richard Darman have pushed a scheme that would "weed" career criminals out of inner- city neighborhoods through massive sweeps by federal and local lawmen, and would continue to pacify these areas with intensive "community policing." These neighborhoods would then be "seeded" with social programs such as drug treatment, youth recreation and job training. Sixteen cities are set to receive $1 million each under the pilot program this year, and Bush has requested $500 million more in his budget now before Congress...
...sensitive enough, but the first maps of the microwave sky it beamed down showed nothing. That was not a big problem. The research team knew that the cosmic microwaves are polluted with local microwaves from the Milky Way galaxy and that it would take months of computer analysis to weed out the unwanted signals...
...truly trivial issue, revealing only because it illustrates Clinton's penchant for legalistic evasiveness. Questioned about pot smoking, Clinton first said he had never broken U.S. or state laws -- an answer clearly designed to convey the impression that he had never tried the weed, without his actually saying so. When someone finally asked the obvious question -- what about while he was abroad? -- Clinton confessed that he had smoked marijuana as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in the late '60s but felt compelled to add that not only had he not liked it, he had not even inhaled -- an assertion that...