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...stay in school or whatever -- they are less likely to dabble with drugs. Employees who fail can be steered toward treatment programs, under an implied or explicit threat of being fired if they refuse. Look, for example, at what happened in the U.S. armed forces after they intensified random mass urine tests four years ago. In 1980, when tests were infrequent, 27% of some 20,000 military personnel surveyed admitted that they had used drugs during the previous 30 days; in a comparable confidential survey last year, the proportion dropped to 9%. Says Julian Barber, a Pentagon health official...
...News poll published last week said they would be willing to be tested. But there is fierce opposition too, and not all of it from professional civil libertarians. The union representing 1,500 Boston policemen has filed suit to block a plan by Commissioner Francis Roache to begin unannounced random tests of all cops, on the grounds that the tests would violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches...
Indeed, the flurry of activity and proposals in the past few months threatens to obscure the most basic fact about drug use in America: border patrols, police raids and even random urinalysis are unlikely to have a lasting impact as long as there remains a demand for drugs and a general social tolerance of their use. A true change can come only if Americans are willing to say clearly -- to their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result...
...Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now to fight the players' unions, which are blocking random drug testing...
Others, cut off from the emergency exits, were caught in the random gunfire. Arun Athavale, of El Toro, Calif., saw a family of four sprayed by bullets but could not tell whether any survived. Athavale, who escaped injury by falling to the floor, said later, "Most of the people who got killed didn't duck." Outside the aircraft, people were walking around in a daze, too shocked to realize they were among the ones who had been spared...