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...assertions that the U.S. is making great strides in kicking the habit have become conventional wisdom in the drug war's high command. When he resigned as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy three weeks ago, Bennett proclaimed that success, while not yet achieved, was in sight. He contended that his original goal of cutting drug use in half by 1999 could be achieved five years sooner if the federal, state and local governments maintain their current efforts...
With no Democratic opponent in sight earlier this year, Murrell decided to take it easy on the campaign trail and simply deride young Payton's G.O.P. primary challenge. But Payton aggressively went pressing the flesh, knocking on more than 10,000 doors after school hours, and won. Last week, after a late-starting, intensive $31,000 write-in campaign to keep his robes, Murrell was stripped of his job in the general election...
...agenda. For all his stature as a potential presidential candidate, Bill Bradley very nearly fell victim to a local political battle over New Jersey Governor Jim Florio's detested $2.8 billion tax hike. Bradley tried to hide from voter wrath against Florio, but he was the only target in sight; in the end he squeezed into office with 51% of the vote, down from 64% six years ago. Florio heard the message as well: the next day he agreed to rethink his tax plan...
...learn in return. Speaking of the new generation, Leslie Wolfe of the Women Policy Studies Center says, "I think they are more savvy than we were, about sexism, about discrimination, about balancing work and family, about sex." They may be wiser, too, about seizing fresh opportunities without losing sight of tradition. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin once wrote of a woman's dream: "The special heritage of values and priorities that have been traditionally associated with women as wives and mothers can be seen as sources of strength to create an enlarged vision of society." A society so enlarged and strengthened...
...didn't know if it was day or night, I started kissing everything in sight...love potion number nine," crooned the young congressional representative, with instrumental backup from the five-member Blue Suede Boppers...