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DRUGS Elevated drug czar to Cabinet level, filling the post with a retired four-star general. Has proposed a $15-billion 1997 budget for fighting drug use, an increase of 9.3%. Promises to spend more on antidrug education and treatment programs...
...Dole borrowed Nike's "Just Do It" slogan in crafting his "Just Don't Do It" antidrug catchphrase. Nike just didn't get it. "We are a sports and fitness company," responded a company spokesman. "We're a bit uncomfortable about being brought into the political arena...
...have long braced themselves for a renewed assault on the President's character, fired back Saturday with an ad charging that "to fight drugs, all Bob Dole offers are slogans: 'Just don't do it.'" The spot accuses Dole of having "voted to cut the President's school antidrug efforts--by 50%" and goes on to accuse Dole of nondrug offenses, including having "joined with Newt Gingrich to cut vaccines for children." The ad, and probably others to follow, seeks to shift the battleground to Dole's whole record--wrong, in Clinton's eyes, on many popular issues...
...today nothing has changed. The 2-to-1 split persists. A million more drug-treatment slots are still urgently needed; an additional 1.5 million chronic drug abusers are on probation with no treatment available. And antidrug-education programs in schools have grown in number but not much in effectiveness. Last week a federal study found that drug users among children ages 12 to 17 have more than doubled in four years, to nearly 11%. If nothing is done, that percentage is likely to double again in five years. "It's tragic but not surprising," says Rosalind Branningan of Drug Strategies...
...releasing her first album in 12 years, Djup Andetag (Deep Breath). It's in Swedish, so the songs may prove blessedly less tenacious than ABBA hits like S.O.S. Since the band broke up, Lyngstad, who's married to Italian architect Prince Ruzzo Reuss, has worked with environmental and antidrug causes in Switzerland. Agnetha Faltskog has lived in heavily guarded seclusion in Stockholm, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have been working on music projects. Lyngstad's not the only one resurfacing. Faltskog will publish an autobiography and greatest-hits CD this month. You've been warned...