Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nation's key drug-smuggling cities, crack addicts are stealing any piece of metal they can to sell for scrap, from awnings to aluminum stepladders. Along State Road 112, only 2% of the lights work, because thieves have ripped off the copper wiring. At one point, Florida had 5,800 addicts begging to get into treatment programs. The number this autumn fell to under 2,000. But experts say that is because many of those who want help most have despaired of getting it and gone back to the street...
...Angeles. Police continue to make drug arrests at a rate of 60,000 a year, roughly the same as in 1988 and 1989. There would be far more if the jails, courts and parole system were not already strained to the breaking point. A 1989 seizure of cocaine at a warehouse in the San Fernando Valley's Sylmar illustrates the size of the problem. Though 21 tons of coke were confiscated, records showed that at least 55 tons, worth $1.1 billion, had passed through the warehouse in the previous three months. According to Deputy Chief of Police Glenn Levant...
...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...
Wood drove home that point in rendering her decision. While she acknowledged that sentencing Milken to community service would permit him "to work productively with others," she asserted that "a prison term is required for the purposes of general deterrence." Moreover, she added, Milken had committed "serious crimes warranting serious punishment and the discomfort and opprobrium of being removed from society...
...disrupt the alliance against him. More important, hardship for civilians does not necessarily indicate any lessening of Iraq's ability to fight; Saddam's dictatorship can and will squeeze the civilian economy as hard as may be necessary to maintain supplies to the armed forces. Case in point: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley that "tires are in short supply," but nongovernment sources in Washington say only civilians are affected. The Iraqi military has stockpiled all the tires it needs...