European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday janunry25, 1987 the stars and stripes Arm Landers dear Ann Landers this is for inc Purson who wrote to express in concern about government employees being competed to provide a Sample of urine to be checked for signs of drug abuse. The write has a bashful kidney and is Wor ried sick. He asked about doing it a. In priv la i am in the , Navy and can Tell him there is no such thing a privacy. No matter who you Are or what you say they will watch. The tricks people pull to avoid gelling caught Willi drugs in their system Are incredible. One Man carried someone else s urine and tried to pour in into his own bottle. Folks who Are nervous and can t urinal with a wit Ness Hare one Heck of a Lime. They will be kept in that room until they can even if in takes All Day the Good news is that drug use in the armed forces is decreasing because of drug testing the better new Sis that in a Lew years they May Abe Able to lest for drugs by analysing clippings of hair the Best advice for anyone who May be tested is to keep plenty of liquids on hand and when the Call come Mart drinking. Pensacola dear pen since drug testing his been initiated i have received gnat Many letters Tram readers who Are less in in Thiu Tulc about it. Read on dear Ann Landers i Hope you will use your influence to see that people who flunk the drug test in their place of work Are Givena Chance to take a second test or even a third i they request in. T work in a lab and can Tell you that the Labelling i Sloppy ii is not uncommon for a Sample to have the wrong name on it. Also Many of the technicians who work with me arc careless or inexperienced. Some Don t know How to read or Sord results. And this Hazard a person who smoked pot three weeks ago will Stilt test positive. The Active ingredient the Wil show up in a lest after 28 Days of abstinence please Ann be aware of what can happen to inno cent people. The guilty deserve to be caught but he innocent must be protected. No name inn. Y. Hunks for your letter. Here1 another Reader who erect Wilbou dear Ann Landers drug letting sounds like a Good idea especially when one considers that the abusers Are costing Ameri can business and Industry about $30 billion a year in productivity but let s not get carried away. The results can be wrong and when they arc innocent people can be badly Burl. According to . News and world report simple Over the counter drugs or certain foods can produce a positive result. The Vicks inhaler contains a substance that Leunen. Positive for the amphetamine test advil a painkiller will Register positive in the test for marijuana Randall basest director at the chemical topology Institute in Foster City calif., said the staff there has had several Case of people eating poppy seed bagels and showing a positive result for the cocaine screening. Baselt added these test Are no More Tanto percent so dear readers while drug testing might sound like wonderful Way to Weed out die abusers and make this safer world let us not forget there ire inherent Dan Gers such As the loss of jobs reputation and Basic human rights. We must proceed with caution and recognize the possibility of error. A i Matrie ayn Duto of cumin Unm Wax my or Linnon Mill Loki btnpn.apoomiti/. Pago 11 letters Samantha Smith exaltation protested enough is enough i Hove nothing against stories depicting Good deeds by children and teen agers but the he rotation of Samantha Smith for writing a letter to the soviet Premier asking for world peace ingoing too far. Let s face a few facts and be realistic yes she was Given a free Lour of the Beautiful soviet Union hosted by then Premier Yuri Andropov although i m sure that she saw Only what the soviets wanted her to Sec and not what she wanted to see and at her age she probably did t understand much of what was presented to her f now she is a heroine. Why Don t the american peo ple and the press accept the fact thai she was used bythe soviet Union As n tool of Public relations none of the jewish lithuanian and afghan children to men Tion a few that write to the soviet Premier Are riven a free tour of the soviet Union when they ask for world if they live within the soviet Union they arc most Likely further persecuted and if they Are not under soviet control their tellers Are unanswered. The press is making a heroine of a Young lady that had Good intentions Lor doing something Many other children have done but hey weren t a schoolgirl from Maine with an English name. They represented a Reli Gion or group of people that the soviet regime is persecuting and trying to slowly exterminate within the so Viet Union. Now the press is trying to heroine a 16-year-old soviet girl who was on tour in the .a. As a Cosmo naut supposedly promoting peace Between super pow ers even though she probably has less understanding of world peace International politics or space than Samantha Smith Ever had. These two Well intending Young ladies used As tool of the soviet government Nave had absolutely no Impact on arms talks release of dissidents hostages or International peace settlement therefore it is Tim that the press Slop sensational izing them. The american people Aren t he roiling them it the major news organizations and newspaper firms trying to make a Buck to add to their millions. I am a Strong supporter of Freedom of the press but americans need to Stop paying so much attention to sensationalism presented by the press which Only builds false Hopes and misrepresents our Beautiful land. Thanks to our Constitution i am Able to write this letter even though certain elements have been trying to oppress the press stating it is constitutional looking at it this Way 1 Don t think that my Home town newspaper should make so much use of up and a stories about these so called heroines and in Moose that wants to mate with a cow. I do think that the stars and stripes would give a lot More people their Money s Worth with news of Sarel r units and Usarek sports than with a Junior cosmonaut and sports figure big Money con tracts. The stars and stripes needs to remember thai it is eat the National enquirer but is a newspaper for the american military and state department in Europe. Please put Tome Effort in eliminating the sensationalized and scandalized Newt but give the people from your Hometown More recognition. Nine and address withheld Mother Calls for simple common sense living in a Small very quiet fanning Village and being unemployed one has no Lack of time to Ponder the ills of the world. Listening to the talk shows and debates on the television make me just shake my head. They just Don t get to the Basic problem. Reading the newspaper makes me terrified to return no the Stales and after a few conversations with some teen age boys including my sons and their friends knew it was Lime to Stop sitting around feeling helpless. Possibly this letter Wilt spark some interest and a Small step will be made toward some much needed changes in our Hierarchy and ourselves. I Don t have All the answers or 1 would be employed and not have time to think about All the questions. Maybe by putting the questions in writing the people who have the answers will find the time to share them. What is our nation s most valuable asset our youth so that is where we must begin. Why Are our youth so misguided Why do they feel the need to us drugs act m though they Don t care about anything and in horrifying numbers Are killing themselves can it be they see the Forest of problems and Jon t knowhow to change any of in Why is in that motherhood is no longer a viable career As a full time Mother off and on for 18 Yean 1 always round i had either too much time or not enough. Why Are there so few pan time positions available for women so women can be mothers with out risking brain death in inc career sense by the time the children reach school age Why is it the teachers must prove themselves and Noc the administrators a great Many teachers Felt More Job satisfaction when Mey were allowed to teach creatively. Maybe a look into past National test Corej would show when the reports m Triplicate began Tak ing away Energy from the classroom. What percentage of the educational budget is spent on administrative costs Why cant this Money be spent to hire More teachers and aids to reduce the student teacher ratio Why can t we adults live by the same rules we teach our children to lie is wrong to steal is wrong a cheat is wrong and Why Don t our children know Why these things Are wrong Why have we made our judicial system so complicated have the severity of the punishment dictated by the crime and Noi by the social standing of the person involved. Our children would understand this More clearly and know what is expected of them. We simply have too Many loopholes and not enough concern to guilt or innocence it s time we uncomplicated our lives Stop making mountains out of molehills and get Back to simple common sense. It won t be easy but it can be done. Look at what we Are doing to curb smoking drugs an Drunken driving. 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