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1 Peru: Evolution Of A Policy: A TimelineTue, 24 Apr 2001
Source:Seattle Times (WA)          Area:Peru Lines:44 Added:04/26/2001

Here is a brief timeline of how the United States became involved in interdicting drug-laden planes in Peru.

1986: President Reagan issues a directive declaring that combating drug trafficking is a national priority. With host country consent, U.S. military forces and assets can be used, in supporting but not lead roles, to detect and interdict drug traffickers.

1989: President Bush approves a $2.2 billion, five-year Andean Initiative to help Bolivia, Colombia and Peru dismantle drug-trafficking operations, eradicate coca crops and encourage farmers to grow substitute crops. More law-enforcement, military and economic aid is offered.

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2Peru: Accidental Downing Was 'Worst Fear'Tue, 24 Apr 2001
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Rotella, Sebastian Area:Peru Lines:Excerpt Added:04/26/2001

Attack: The U.S. Defends Program In Peru, But It Was Aware That Smugglers, Evangelists Fly Same Routes.

BUENOS AIRES--U.S. and Peruvian anti-drug officials knew all along that missionaries and drug smugglers fly the same routes over the Peruvian jungle, and they had worried about just such an incident as Friday's inadvertent downing of a plane carrying an American missionary family, former officials of the U.S. Embassy in Lima said Monday.

"Our worst fear was: 'What if we shoot down [some] missionaries.' " said one former embassy official involved in anti-drug efforts. "You don't know how much we talked about that at the embassy. We went through all kinds of pains to put the right sequence of protocols in place so that couldn't happen."

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3 US MD: PUB LTE: Drug War Worse Than DrugsTue, 24 Apr 2001
Source:Frederick News Post (MD) Author:Prue, John Area:Maryland Lines:50 Added:04/26/2001

This is in response to Victoria Parker's March 20 letter to the editor, (" 'Pot not that bad' writer mistaken"). The phrase used by the Drug Policy Foundation (an anti-drug-war organization based in Washington) that drugs are bad, but the drug war is worse, hits the nail right on the head, and is an appropriate reply to Ms. Parker.

I don't think that anyone would argue that, under normal circumstances, pot use is not very good for one's health — probably akin to the danger of drinking coffee. Certainly, cigarette smoking is far more dangerous. ... Most Americans know this from first-hand experience. But no law will keep all people from personal folly, and it is a fool's chore to even try.

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4 CN MB: LTE: Legalizing Ecstasy No AnswerWed, 25 Apr 2001
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Seggie, Jim Area:Manitoba Lines:38 Added:04/26/2001

This letter is in response to Chris Buors' April 23 letter What a bummer, Mahon.

Mr. Buors, you are an extremely irresponsible individual. Comparing lime with ecstasy is inane and not at all funny, as I am sure you meant it to be. Yes, drugs are inanimate objects. However, when they are ingested to induce a high, they become dangerous.

I see the end results of addictions to various substances, including alcohol, every day I step into work. For you to advocate legitimizing illegal drugs is irresponsible. Rather than work to ensure people don't become addicted or help those who are addicted, you would rather see them remain addicted. Is this the attitude we as a society should adopt? Mr. Buors, you are advocating that we take the easy way out and do nothing when it comes to dealing with addictions to drugs.

Perhaps it's you who needs to sit on a pile of lime.

Jim Seggie

Winnipeg

(It might be difficult for him to do that since his head would be in the way.)

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5 US NM: Editorial: Missionary Family - Drug War CasualtiesThu, 26 Apr 2001
Source:Albuquerque Journal (NM)                 Lines:62 Added:04/26/2001

The deaths of a 35-year-old American woman and her 7-month-old daughter -- struck by bullets from a Peruvian air force jet while passengers in a small plane flying over the Amazon jungle -- must convince even the staunchest of defenders that efforts to stop drug trafficking have crossed over from law enforcement to bona fide war -- complete with civilian casualties.

In launching the attack Friday, the Peruvian government made good on former President Alberto Fujimori's July announcement that Peru would use its fleet of 18 Russian-made Sukhoi-25 fighters in the anti-drug fight. And the U.S. government finds itself a very uncomfortable accomplice in the tragedy: CIA personnel aboard a U.S. surveillance plane helped target the aircraft -- although American crew members say they repeatedly appealed to the Peruvians to refrain from shooting until the small plane's identity could be established.

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6US CA: New Arrest Ends 'Ally' For DowneyWed, 25 Apr 2001
Source:Tampa Tribune (FL)          Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:04/26/2001

LOS ANGELES -Actor Robert Downey Jr. was arrested again early Tuesday in a Culver City alley on suspicion of using drugs and promptly checked into a rehabilitation clinic, according to authorities and Downey's publicist.

The arrest ends his filming for the television show "Ally McBeal" for this season, a Fox spokesman said. Downey was scheduled to be on the set filming for the next few days, but now has been written out, producer David E. Kelley said.

The producer had supported Downey, 36, until his latest arrest even signing him to more episodes after the actor's arrest in November on drug charges.

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7 US TX- Lockney ISD Ends Court Battle Over Drug-Test ProgramThu, 26 Apr 2001
Source:Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (TX) Author:Fuquay, John        Lines:86 Added:04/26/2001

LOCKNEY - The Lockney Independent School District is dropping its appeal to use a mandatory drug-testing program that a federal judge ruled was unconstitutional.

"We're happy it's over with," said Larry Tannahill, who filed the lawsuit along with the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of his 13-year-old son, Brady. Tannahill refused to sign a parental consent form, and the teen-ager refused to take the test.

Tannahill said his attorney told him about the district's decision Wednesday afternoon.

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8 Afghanistan: Inspections Seek Evidence Of Drug CropThu, 26 Apr 2001
Source:Register-Guard, The (OR)          Area:Afghanistan Lines:30 Added:04/26/2001

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Inspectors from skeptical foreign governments began crisscrossing Afghanistan on Wednesday to check claims that the world's main producer of opium, the sticky sap used to make heroin, has wiped out the crop in less than a year.

Fields of green poppy pods, a major cash crop in the war- and drought-stricken country, were banned in July by the ruling Taliban militia's hardline leader, the reclusive Mullah Mohammed Omar.

The United Nations Drug Control Program sent inspectors and concluded in March that the plants were gone. But countries battling heroin addiction are doubtful, and on Wednesday they sent a team of 15 investigators, including two Americans.

Last year's opium harvest in Afghanistan was 4,000 tons - about 72 percent of production worldwide.

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9 US WA: Judge Calls For More Argument In Murphy's TrialThu, 26 Apr 2001
Source:Herald, The (WA) Author:Haley, Jim Area:Washington Lines:103 Added:04/26/2001

Castleberry May Issue His Own Ruling After Jury's Verdict.

Former Snohomish County Sheriff Patrick Murphy may not have produced enough evidence to legally support a jury finding rn his favor in claims against a state agency.

But maybe he did.

Superior Court Judge Ronald Castleberry Wednesday said he's not sure.

That's why be took the unusual step of ordering Murphy's lawyer and assistant attorneys general to produce written arguments on the law before he makes a decision.

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10US IA: Senseless SentencingSun, 10 Jan 1999
Source:Des Moines Register (IA) Author:Pratt, Robert W. Area:Iowa Lines:Excerpt Added:01/10/1999

A Federal Judge Speaks Out

On Dec. 17, 1998, nine of my fellow citizens appeared before me in Davenport for sentencing on drug charges. The cost to U.S. taxpayers for incarcerating one person for one month in federal prison is $1,910.17. Based on the nine sentences I had to impose under the largely mandatory Federal Sentencing Guidelines, taxpayers were handed a bill of more than $2 million.

There are approximately 650 federal judges across the United States responsible for sentencing drug offenders. If sentencing nine offenders in Davenport, Ia., on one day cost more than $2 million , the effect of 649 other judges doing the same thing across the nation on a daily basis is mind-boggling.

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