European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday february 9,1988 businesses should join . Efforts to find drug abusers Reagan says Durham. . Al l president Reagan Mon Day asserted that businesses should join the Federal government s Battle Agrimi drugs and seek Oul workers who abuse illegal subs Lanm. Reagan in a speech loan anti drug seminar at dulse University used inc pc Nipigon s drug testing program As an example for the civilian work Force. I be heard critics say employers have no business looking for drug abuse i the work place. But when you pin the critics Down Loo a Fin they seem to be among inc handful who is ill believe that drug abuse is a victimless crime Reagan said _ _ the drug user is n victim. His employer is a victim. His fellow employees arc victims the family that de pends on his wages Are victim. And America which is Only As Strong and As competitive As All of us together America is the victim Reagan claimed it would be hard to find any crime with More Vic Tims than drug Reagan said. But he made no Moil Ion of the Legal controversies that have erupted since he signed an executive order in i9b6 ordering the testing of Federal workers in sensitive Post Lions critics of his drug testing program have voiced concerns Over such issues As invasion of privacy. Reagan spoke to a cheering standing room Only crowd in Cameron indoor stadium and was greeted by an audience waving posters that ranged from Contra thues peddle drugs to Reagan .a. Ii a drug free. The president s armoured limousine passed by sever Al Hundred Oros listers gathered outside the stadium chanting ".a., Cia Oul of Nicaragua. Reagan praised those companies that have taken Steps to seek out the drug abuser saying that such persons we grateful for the help they received once they were discovered. When it s All Over and drug users look Back on the wreckage of their Careen and their lives. They wish someone had discovered their habit earlier and Given them Reagan said. You Are showing How compassion and campaigns far a drug free work place go hand in hand Reagan said. A study last year by the . Chamber of Commerce showed that in 1 983, Only 3 percent of the Fortune 500 companies were administering drug testing of some Campaign against confirmation to supreme court surprised Bork Washington a Robert h. Bork said Mon due he was caught by Surprise by inc political Campaign waged against his supreme court confirmation and at one Point urged the while House to do More Loiry 10save his doomed nomination. Re decline on his defeat in inc Senate last october i snark Lold reporters he believes inc administration had Hien just As surprised by the massive Campaign which included advertisements saying things i never Hork Spoor Oul in i first major news conference Sinie his rejection by a 58-42 Senate vote and said he is Only beginning id sneak and write about his experience now retired As a judge on the . Court of appeals tar the District of Columbia Bork has joined the inst Lilic la r Public policy research at the american enter pm Institute. The educational and research Organiza Tion said it lakes no positions on Public policy issues. Asked if the White House had dropped the Ball Lurk said "1 Don t really know All the things he while i Louse tid or did not do. I did at one Point urge the White House to become Mare Active in what became the first National political Campaign in a judicial nomination they had to encounter the political Campaign being waged the enormous amount of publicity unprecedented in a judicial Bork was accused by Liberal organizations and Many senators of Reading the Constitution so narrowly that he would not have protected inc civil rights civil Liber ties and privacy of americans. Opponents also said they feared he would vote to overturn established supreme court rulings such As the decision legalizing abortion. But Bork said his constitutional philosophy had been badly misrepresented and gravely Milinder i had no intention of turning the clock Back what Ever that Means Bork said referring to the conclusion in some of inc advertising against him. Bork declined to comment on the actions or views of individual senators who led the fight to reject his nomination. Nato to improve tactical nukes Washington defense Secretary Frank Carlucci mondays and nato s tactical nuclear weapons will be improved with the consent of West Ger Many even As a new .-Sovici treaty sets inc stage fur inc elimination of intermediate Range rockets Sec of the modernisation of nuclear artillery is already going cart Uwi said. The mod Miia Tion program in no Way circumvents the speaking on Nhuc to s today show. Carlucci said the europeans understand that we All have to do Carlucci attended a nato seminar in Munich kind. By 1986, that had skyrocketed to one third of those companies Reagan also praised inc Pentagon s efforts to end drug abuse. We got a head Start with inc military. And since the drug program started there illegal drug use has gone Down by two thirds Reagan said. Reagan attended a seminar hosted by the University and gov. Jim Martin before an audience of students local business people executives educators physicians and government officials. On saturday the president said in his regular weekly radio address that drug use in the workplace Costi our society nearly Loo Boltson in lost productivity each year and poses a grave threat to our Public health and Reagan said he does t want to put users in jail but wants them to receive help so they can Stop using drugs. Drug testing not Only permits us to identify the users but it has been shown to be a deterrent As Well la it a no drug policy in inc military which includes screening and testing has resulted in a two thirds decline id the number of drug users in uniform Reagan said. Where a key topic was what to do about the Western null cur Force once missiles in the 3 Li-Mic-to-4,125 mile Range Are scrapped. The West German government tried last year to persuade the Reagan administration to make reduction of tactical nuclear weapons a High priority item. But the nato allies decided to stress three other Harcaj reducing Long Range nuclear weapons eliminating chemical weapons and reducing the Warsaw pact s Edge Over nato in ground Fortes. At no time have i heard Chancellor Helmut Kohl say that he would not modernize Carlucci said. Tin can Alley a col Bigelo a is watchful Eye of the undue tinn line i the Campbell sep factory in a Juwon n j. Campbell which to marking the 90th ainu Vdrury of us red and Wilile libel reportedly nukes enough can each year to Circle Earth a limes. Defense rests Case in Nofziger lobbying trial Washington a the defense in Lyn Nof it a s trial on illegal lobbying Chargui rested monday without calling the former presidential aide to testify shout the alleged contacts he had with one time White i Luniw colleagues. Altomeas for n of Iger. 63, had called is witnesses on his behalf including a lawyer who Iasi Ifird that he accompanied inc Daft Ondani to a meeting with National Security Council officers about inc a-1q anti Lank plane. The former while House political director is accused in four felony counts of illegally contacting on Linic Coll Cigus on president Reagan s staff for wed Lech corp and two other lobbying clients in 1982. Lawyers for Nof Cigar s business partner Mark a. Brie. Who is charged with aiding and abetting one of the
