Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recommendations came from U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, architect of the Administration's controversial zero-tolerance program, which briefly made headlines with the seizure of huge yachts found to be carrying minute amounts of drugs. Some suggestions are mild -- withholding some federal aid from states that fail to adopt strict antidrug policies. Others are radical -- flooding the market with "benign pseudo drugs" to confuse users. Says Von Raab: "The American people are going to have to suffer some inconvenience in order to win this...
After a storm of protest over the so-called zero-tolerance policy -- under which Brobdingnagian yachts were confiscated if lilliputian amounts of marijuana were discovered on board -- the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service have decided that perhaps they can tolerate a trace or two of illicit drugs on the high seas after...
...search turned up traces of pot in the shaving kit of a crew member along with two marijuana pipes. The ship was returned, but only when its owner, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, agreed to send Customs officials a letter supporting the antidrug campaign and promising to tighten security. Zero tolerance strikes again...
Even as some Americans were asking whether drugs should be legalized, a Reagan Administration under fire for fumbling the drug war was pushing penalties to unheard of lengths. Zero tolerance, as the two-month-old policy is called, directs the Coast Guard, Customs Service and other arms of the Federal Government to enforce existing laws to the utmost degree. That means seizing vehicles, boats and planes if just a speck of any controlled substance is found on board. By last week the Coast Guard and Customs had grabbed some 1,700 conveyances, including the $2.5 million yacht Ark Royal...
...convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance to the White House drug-policy board after a successful pilot program in San Diego, says its purpose is likewise to put pressure on drug users who ordinarily are not reached by criminal penalties. "We have legalization of drugs now," says Von Raab, "because people aren't being prosecuted...