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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall Khalil also founded the Arab-JewishDialogue, an unofficial student group, with thehead of Harvard's Zionist League, Daniel H. Nevins'89. She says the Dialogue represents asmall-scale effort of what should transpire in theMiddle-East. Until the Palestinians and Israelis"Break down misunderstandings, misconceptions andfears of the other side, then I don't thinkanything constructive can be achieved. Until thetwo sit down, there will be no real peace. This isnot a game. People are suffering and will continueto suffer until one side recognizes the other,"she says...
...sobering moments of the Wall Street crash appear to have been short-lived. An article in yesterday's New York Times finds that the reported demise of the luxury merchants was highly exaggerated. In fact, it seems there has been an upswing in luxury sales on an even greater scale than before the crash...
Operating on a more limited scale under a 1986 antidrug law, the Navy and Air Force flew 16,300 hours in surveillance flights last year. The Navy devoted 2,500 ship-days of patrolling with Coast Guard officers aboard to make drug arrests. Military interception gear and intelligence were shared with civilian agencies. The cost: $67 million...
...suddenly emerged as an imaginable alternative. The case begins with a simple proposition: all wars on drugs are doomed to fail, no matter how many Viet Nam-style escalations the authorities order. It is a simple matter of supply and demand: as long as demand exists on the scale of the U.S. craving for, say, cocaine, someone is going to supply it, legally or illegally. Significantly, this line is voiced by a growing number of public officials who were once enthusiastic soldiers in the war on drugs but have been bitterly disillusioned...
...good many people would stop short of full-scale legalization and opt for a rather vague concept known as decriminalization. It is generally taken to mean reducing or eliminating criminal penalties for the use and perhaps sale of drugs, while retaining some form of legal disapproval. Such a halfway solution might accelerate the problems that would come from legalization without solving most of those that arise from the current tough drug laws. Author Claude Brown (Manchild in the Promised Land), himself a reformed drug dealer, suggests decriminalizing the sale of drugs by hospitals and clinics in order to "deglamorize ((narcotics...