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1US CA: Youths Want More Money For SchoolsMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Author:Lee, Henry K. Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:10/05/1998

The high school students came by the thousands via BART trains yesterday, taking to the streets of sleepy San Leandro to once again make their demand: Spend more money on schools, not jails.

About 2,500 students from throughout the Bay Area left class and converged on the Bayfair train station in San Leandro. From there, protesters marched to an Alameda County Sheriff's Department substation, chanting, ``Education, not incarceration.''

Raquel Lavina, 27, a leader of a Latino youth group that helped organize the protest, said the state spends $60,000 a year to incarcerate a young person but only $8,000 a year to educate the same youth.

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2UK: Amnesty To Take On AmericaMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Houston Chronicle (TX) Author:Crossette, Barbara Area:United Kingdom Lines:Excerpt Added:10/05/1998

Rights group to cite police system abuses

Amnesty International, in its first campaign directed at any Western nation, intends to publish a harsh report on the United States on Tuesday, saying U.S. police forces and criminal and legal systems have "a persistent and widespread pattern of human rights violations."

Amnesty International, the 37-year-old human rights organization based in London, plans to make its report the focus of a yearlong effort in more than 100 countries and in international bodies like the United Nations to protest what it calls a U.S. failure "to deliver the fundamental promise of rights for all."

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3 US IL: PUB LTE: Protecting The KidsMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Chicago Tribune (IL) Author:Santiago, Luz Area:Illinois Lines:28 Added:10/05/1998

CHICAGO -- The 7-year-old in "Family mourns a young life lost" (Metro, Sept. 25) is one of many who have died or been caught by gang cross-fire every other day on the streets of Humboldt Park. There is gang and drug activity practically on every corner of the Humboldt Park area.

I grew up in the Humboldt Park area, and have seen so many innocent and not-so-innocent kids perish because of the gangs and drugs. The residents in the area are used to the drive-by shootings that occur at all hours of the night and day. It becomes part of their daily lives.

I implore the Chicago Police to put more patrols in the streets of the Humboldt Park area. Protect the children--they are our future.

Luz Santiago

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4 US CA: No Selling Alcohol To AlcoholicsMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Santa Barbara News-Press (CA) Author:Lee, Jean H. Area:California Lines:29 Added:10/05/1998

SAN PABLO - A city trying to clean up its town square of public drunkenness launched its newest tactic Thursday: Going straight to the source by making it illegal to sell booze to drunks.

Dusting off a little-known state law, police passed out flyers about eight homeless men and warned merchants that they could be charged with a misdemeanor for selling the men alcohol.

It's believed to be the first time a town is enforcing a law that started in 1889.

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5US NY: OPED: Drugs, Science And SenseMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Times Union (NY)          Area:New York Lines:Excerpt Added:10/05/1998

The nation's drug czar offers a sound plan for treating heroin addicts.

Add the reasoned voice of Barry McCaffrey to the all-too-often strident debate over how to treat heroin addiction.

Mr. McCaffrey, a former Army general who now serves as the White House drug policy czar, has come forth with a sound plan to make methadone more available to heroin addicts. He wants to allow some doctors to be able to prescribe methadone, which prevails on brain receptors to block the craving for heroin, directly to their patients. He also wants to improve the quality of the clinics that now dispense methadone to about 115,000 addicts nationwide, including 42,000 in New York.

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6 US OR: PUB LTE: A Simple Interim MeasureMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Bulletin, The (OR) Author:Thomas, Paul Area:Oregon Lines:26 Added:10/05/1998

You rightly state the issue in your " NO on Measure 67 " editorial, but appear a little muddled in conclusion. At this time, with federal intransigence at odds with state's rights, a tidy little distribution network with government oversight, as logical and proper as that sounds, is simply unrealistic. The " grow your own " concept is not " a ludicrous solution," but a direct and simple interim measure.

It allows the federales to get used to the idea of states rights, and gives the state time to develop appropriate controls.

No single measure is going to answer all contingencies; all we need to do now is respect the capacity of our citizens to act in their own best interest and apply controls as the need arises.

- --- Checked-by: Rich O'Grady

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7US CA: Raid Ruins Probe Of Housing StaffMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Author:Derbeken, Jaxon Van Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:10/05/1998

Pacifica police mistakenly uncover FBI investigation

A federal probe of suspected drug dealing by San Francisco Housing Authority workers was derailed after Pacifica police stumbled onto a secret FBI listening post, The Chronicle has learned.

The yearlong investigation, which federal officials say had to be restarted after the incident, has focused on several painters and other workers hired by the Housing Authority.

The FBI probe began after videotapes were turned over to authorities that officials say showed Housing Authority painters engaged in drug dealing while on the job.

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8 US CT: Probe Of $28,000 Theft From Police At IssueMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:New Haven Register (CT) Author:Storace, Robert Area:Connecticut Lines:27 Added:10/05/1998

ANSONIA - Fed up by what it sees as an investigation going nowhere, city leaders this week demanded the Chief State's Attorney personally expedite the investigation into how $28,000 in cash ended up missing from the police department's evidence room.

"Someone in the city is collecting benefits while also laughing at the city. Someone in the police department is benefiting from the money and drugs," said Alderman Joseph Cassetti, R-2. "Someone is obstructing justice and, personally, I'm fed up waiting for answers."

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9 US: Medical Marijuana Will Lead To Doped Up DocsMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Bulletin, The (OR) Author:Gottlieb, Scott Area:United States Lines:29 Added:10/05/1998

New York- Imagine walking into your doctors office and finding a lit bong. Would that scare you? As a fouth year medical student, I have been taught how to prescribe medications. Appreciating a drugs pharmacological benefits, however, is often a tempting inducement for some of my fellow medical students to give it a try. Students cleverly argue that their motives for self prescribing medications are puurely educational. After all, they say, how can they prescribe a drug they have not taken themselves?

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10 Pakistan: Wire: Narcotics Available In Muslim TownMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:News Network Int'l. Pakistan          Area:Pakistan Lines:43 Added:10/05/1998

RAWALPINDI (NNI): Muslim town has turned into den for narcotics smugglers who are selling drugs without any fear.

The business is in full swing but law enforcing agencies have shut their eyes towards such a heinous crime. Youth of the area are special target of the drug traffickers. Earlier the "traders of death" used to keep contraband with their chest and only the selected people or their regular clients knew about the secret places of the business. But now the situation is totally different and drug traffickers have as usual succeeded in purchasing the conscience of the police officials. Now everyone can have easy access to it as the drug trafficking has assumed the shape of a legal business.

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11 US MA: Rally Call For Drugs Goes To PotMon, 5 Oct 1998
Source:Hong Kong Standard (China)          Area:Massachusetts Lines:40 Added:10/05/1998

BOSTON: With swirls of marijuana smoke wafting through the air, about 40,000 people gathered in Boston on Saturday for a rally supporting legalisation of the drug.

Police, who had vowed a crackdown on the 9th Annual Freedom Rally, arrested about 40 on drug possession charges. That's far fewer than the 150 arrests at last year's event, which attracted about 10,000 more people.

``The cops were trying to intimidate people from coming but I don't think it worked,'' said Bill Downing, president of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition.

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