Word: supportive
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Boston. Police are barely holding their own against drug dealers, and a $20 "blow" of crack is still easy to find. "The Federal Government is giving us more lip support than financial support," says William Celester, Boston police commander in Roxbury, Boston's toughest neighborhood. "People tend to believe that if you don't hear about the drug problem, it is somehow subsiding," says Don Muhammad, a minister for the Nation of Islam in Roxbury. "I feel it's going to escalate because of the economy. More people are going to resort to unethical and illegal means of earning...
...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...
...morning of her decision to resign as Prime Minister, Thatcher said with a touch of bitterness, "It is rather a funny old world that it has to come to this, when I had won three elections for the Conservative Party and still have the majority of the party's support...
...future of our nation." In resigning, he invited "others to consider their response" to his "conflict of loyalty." It was an invitation to insurrection. No one doubted that if Howe had not made that speech, Heseltine would not have dared a leadership challenge. On Saturday Howe threw his support behind Heseltine...
Observers of U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf are increasingly puzzled over Washington's failure to play one potentially strong card: seeking the support of Iraqi opponents to Saddam Hussein, particularly leaders of the oppressed Kurdish minority. Washington has dropped heavy hints that it would like to see Saddam overthrown, and the Kurds are among Saddam's bitterest foes. But so far there have been no calls from Washington to the dissidents. The U.S., says a spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a Kurdish independence group, "should look more closely at the internal situation in Iraq. And this can only...