Word: bennett
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Martinez will inherit an effort that has enjoyed some limited successes. Bennett's supporters credit the drug czar with shaping the national debate on drugs into a more mature and less hysterical discussion. He considers the fact that drugs did not figure in most political races this year as a plus because "it means the issue is not a political football...
...credit, Bennett did not fashion a strategy that depended on what he calls "magic bullets." He called for putting steady pressure on every conceivable point, from interdiction abroad to stepped up domestic police work to prevention. His approach won bipartisan support in Congress, which last month voted a record $10.4 billion for federal antidrug programs in the current fiscal year. Bennett and congressional Democrats pushed for dramatic increases, to $2.7 billion, in federal spending for drug treatment and education...
...since a 1978-82 stint in TIME's Washington bureau; among other duties, he covered the Drug Enforcement Administration. He first contributed to a major TIME story on drugs in 1981, when we examined cocaine. This week he takes a look at the empire of Los Angeles superdealer Bo Bennett. Beaty covered Bennett's trial, but also spent months talking to drug traffickers. "At one point," he says, "I actually presided over a conference, with people at all levels of the business explaining to me how it works." Gaining their confidence was not easy. Beaty, who once went through...
...when Caesars Palace sent a luxurious Learjet to fly Brian ("Bo") Bennett to Las Vegas, he must have marveled at how his lot in life had changed. Only three years earlier the youth from the downtrodden ghetto of South Central Los Angeles was stocking shelves in a supermarket. Now, at 23, he was off on the kind of fling casinos reserve for the highest rollers...
...between bouts at the gaming tables, Bennett would be treated to a free ringside seat at the championship fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Donny Lalonde. After Leonard won by a knockout, Bennett would receive the champ's satin dressing gown as a souvenir. He would golf with top hotel executives and tip waitresses with $100 gambling chips. His lavish suite would not cost him a dime...