Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking at Harvard Law School's Ames Courtroom, Dershowitz said he opposed using drugs and that he would wipe them out if he could. But he added, "I just don't believe there's any way to interdict them...
...what was billed as a "refinement" of the controversial program, Coast Guard officials last week reiterated that the Guard's job is to interdict vessels suspected of smuggling drugs into or out of the U.S. Officers will no longer seize vessels in international waters if only an amount of illegal drugs small enough to be consumed before the boat enters U.S. waters is discovered...
...unbalanced in favor of ineffective attempts to cut the supply through police action, while neglecting potentially more effective efforts to reduce demand through education and treatment. Says Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser: "Personally, I'm not willing to say drugs should be decriminalized. But investing large amounts of money to interdict supply obviously is not working. We've spent over $300,000 in the past few months in police overtime alone raiding crack houses. We've brought in front-end loaders to knock down walls to get into some of these places, but as soon...
...made to shoot the missile down, as had been done with the Silkworm that hit the Sea Isle City. Late in the week, however, Kuwaiti officials announced that they were setting up U.S.-made Hawk missile batteries on Failaka, where they will be close enough to Fao to interdict the Silkworms. The Kuwaitis have had the Viet Nam-era missiles since...
...Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which up until then had been trying to mediate the civil war, dispatched 19 fishing boats laden with food and medical supplies across the Palk Strait to the battle zone. Condemning the shipment as interference in its internal affairs, Sri Lanka sent naval vessels to interdict the convoy, which was turned back after a tense confrontation in mid-strait...