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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, October 29, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 Fitow wednesday october 29,1986 the stars and stripes Reagan signs Tough anti drug page3 Washington a president Reagan Declar ing a major Victory in the Battle against drugs signed into Law on monday the most sweeping anti drug program Ever passed by Congress. Our goal in this crush do is nothing less than a drug free generation Reagan declared As he put his signature on the $1,7 billion measure which doubles the Federal government s budget for chasing drug dealers and smugglers and stiffens penalties for traffickers. The president mindful of the popularity of the bipartisan anti drug abuse Effort in an election year was flanked by several senators and congressmen and his wife. Nancy. Today Marks a major Victory in our crusade against  Reagan said before signing the Mea sure the american people want their govern men to get Tough and go on she  Reagan saluted his wife for having mobilized the american people with her five year Effort against drug abuse among children. Aider signing the Bill the president handed his pen to the startled first lady then Rose from his scat to give his beam ing wife a big kiss. The president asserting thai new Money and Laws alone will not solve the problem asked the american people 10 be Strong in your intolerance of illegal drug use. The vaccine that will end lie epidemic is a combination of Lough Laws like the one we signed today and a dramatic change in Public attitude he said. Reagan also paid tribute 10 Senate majority Leader Robert Dole a Kan. Rep. Charles Rangel . Rep. Benjamin oilman . And sen Paula Hawkins a Fia who were with him on the podium Hawkins who is fighting to retain her Senate Seal and has made her anti drug efforts a hallmark of her Campaign was singled out by Reagan and praised As a driving Foree to rid the nation of Fth plague of drugs. As part of Hii Campaign against drug abuse that was begun in August Reagan has voluntarily submitted to a urinalysis exam to lest for illegal drug use and has required drug tests for Federal workers in sensitive positions. He said the nation must be United to Sec to it that there is no Sanctuary for inc drug criminals who Are pilfering human dignity and pandering  the measure signed by Reagan was passed by the House on a 378-16 Vole while inc Senate gave approval by a voice vote i Linioul any debate. Senate passage in Congress waning hours on oct. 17 was assured Only after some proponents relented on their demand for a deals penalty in murder eases re lated to drugs. Backers of the Bill said it marked a significant change in Congress traditional approach to fighting drugs because it authorized More than s400 million for anti drug education and rehabilitation aimed at reducing demand for drugs. Overall the Bill Autho rim si.7 billion in the cur rent fiscal year for drug enforcement treatment and rehabilitation. Despite the inclusion of anti drug education and rehabilitation funds $225 million for drug abuse treatment and s20u million for drug abuse education programs much of the Money will go toward the enforcement Effort. New boats planes weapons drug enforcement agents Federal prosecutors and jails arc 10 be directed attic Battle. The drug interdiction budget was nearly doubled to $634.9 million under the measure even though the death penalty was dropped the Bill still provides tougher sentences for drug Sci acid crimes and creates new penalties for wiling the particularly insidious new form of cocaine called crack the Hill defines crack As a separate drug from co Caine enabling Federal agents to arrest people with More than five Grams. The Bill also includes language to expand the Power of . Drug agents to operate overseas provides mandatory minimum sentences for major drug traffickers and outlaws distribution and manufacture of so called designer  provides $230 million in Grants to local Law enforcement agencies. Requires that at least 500 coast guard officers be assigned to . Navy drug interdiction ships in Amer ican Waters. Authorizes $63 million in foreign Aid to help other nations combat the drug Trade. 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Head of the Jerusalem Branch of the a i humping Simon pics Anthal Cenich said in a Telephone interview that 40 names had been Given to australian foreign minister Bill Hayden. Another list of 17 names was handed to the British Consul general in los an Geles. Donald Ballantyne. A list of 63 names will a Given to the Canadian solicitor general in Ottawa on wednesday. Zurof said. Most of the suspects came from East Ern Europe including the soviet republics of Lithuania and Latvia and the yugoslav province of Croatia. They include local police command ers members of is units collaborators As Well As propagandists who incited the masses to kill jews said Zuroff. Unlike germans and austrians involved in War crimes the East europeans did not change their names after the War because they did not expect to be tracked Down Zuroff said. U.s., Sovie students Exchange letters opinions Moscow a an cd chafe of ideas Between american and Sobyl teen agers published in a  revealed predictable Rosilio on super Power policies but also irm0calcd the two groups want to know pore about each other. Off the youth new supper Komsomol Kava pravda publish what it said were Al most  of two letters from students in Opaleigh n.c., and Jefferson City Mojo it Abb published responses from 20 Moscow Een agers. The newspaper did not give the names of the american schools. The american students wrote to he newspaper in response to a letter soviet students had sent to vice. President George Bush last year expressing their opinions about . Policies. What were the crimes of dissidents Anatoly Shch Aransky Andrei Sakharov and Ida Nudel wrote the Jefferson City students. They violated the Laws of the country of which they Are citizens and were punished for it answered soviet student Alexander Der Bench. The Jefferson City students brought1 up what they called soviet expansionism in inc Baltic republics of Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania during world War u and in Eastern Europe after the War. Vladislav Sereda replied with the usual Moscow View that the Baltic lands voted in 1940 to join the soviet Union and that the Eastern european nations chose to become soviet allies after 1945. The american students echoed the Reagan administration in Many of their arguments on arms control. The Raleigh students for example id they believed the soviets Are in ged in space weapons research As pc Junt Reagan has charged. Students also defended  nuclear testing As  ensuring a reliable nuclear defense. Tinkis one of the arguments Washington two Jisc to explain Why it will not join Tea Kremlin s moratorium on nuclear lusting to Dehas been in effect since August 198s. Doth sides said they to continue their Exchange  
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