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- <title>
- Sep. 11, 1989: Bush's Battle Plan
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 11, 1989 The Lonely War:Drugs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 13
- Bush's Battle Plan
- </hdr><body>
- <p> President Bush proposes to spend $7.8 billion next year to
- reduce demand for and supply of illegal substances. But only
- about $1 billion of that is new money. The rest comes from
- existing programs or efforts for which the Administration has
- already sought funding. Highlights of his proposals:
- </p>
- <p> Increasing federal aid to state and local police by an
- unspecified amount for "street-level" attacks on the drug trade.
- </p>
- <p> Encouraging states to crack down on drug users as well as
- dealers and to sentence nonviolent offenders to "alternative"
- punishments like boot camps or house arrest rather than to
- overcrowded jails and prisons.
- </p>
- <p> Expanding treatment programs, including pilot efforts that
- take addicts out of drug-infested neighborhoods and help find
- them jobs and education.
- </p>
- <p> Cutting off federal aid to schools, colleges and
- universities that do not implement drug education and prevention
- programs.
- </p>
- <p> Tripling drug-fighting aid to Colombia, Peru and Bolivia to
- about $300 million a year.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
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