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Scrapbook HE DIDN’T INHALE, BUT AMERICANS ARE The so-called war on drugs was ever-present during the 1980s but seems to have disappeared from the publicpolicy radar screen in the 1990s. Turns...
...The second HHS report indicates spiraling growth in the number of hard-core drug addicts...
...Marijuana use: up 105 percent since 1992, 37 percent since 1994...
...Two as-yet unreleased Health and Human Services reports on drug use indicate how severe the national drug problem is...
...Ten percent of teens now use drugs on a monthly basis, with monthly cocaine use up a horrifying 166 percent between 1994 and 1995...
...The flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Rafsanjani said, “was raised in the House of Satan...
...FEET OF CLAY Clay Chandler is a reporter covering economic policy for the Washington Post—a position held throughout the 1980s by the late Hobart Rowan, the legendary scourge of Reaganomics...
...Headline: “Economists Question Dole’s Plan...
...White House aides are elated at a Little Rock jury’s acquittal of two Arkansas bankers on four felony counts...
...Clinton’s pre-Washington activities...
...Go get ’em, Great Satanists...
...this is one area where eternal vigilance is clearly called for, especially when you consider just how bad things are getting...
...The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse shows overall teenage drug use has increased by 78 percent from 1992 to 1995—24 percent from 1994 to 1995 alone...
...According to the New York Times, the Whitewater jurors didn’t trust Lindsey, either...
...According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network report, emergencyroom visits related to heroin rose 19 percent between 1994 and 1995 and 58 percent from 1992 to 1995...
...The reporter retaliated with a “news story” last week, the day after Dole announced his tax cuts...
...Even with the escape hatch of waivers, of course, insisting on 10th-grade competency is too much for the leading teachers’ union...
...In an amazing coincidence, Chandler’s news story precisely replicated his opinion piece...
...And they have designated a prosecutor in Little Rock to focus on Mrs...
...They have hired another prosecutor to look at the behavior of Lindsey and other White House staffers...
...In early June, he published an opinion piece in the paper’s Outlook section whose gist is covered in the headline: “Between You and Me, Mr...
...After an Iranian wrestler won the gold medal in the 198-pound class, President Hashemi Rafsanjani— was he one of the moderates?— praised him for “rubbing the nose of America in the dirt...
...Deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey, reportedly the president’s closest friend in the White House, had been an officially designated “unindicted co-conspirator” in an alleged conspiracy to conceal large cash withdrawals by Bill Clinton’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign...
...Not exactly an exclusive requirement, but progress over the former laissez-faire regime...
...Hardly...
...Marijuana/hashishrelated visits: up 17 percent from 1994 to 1995 and 96 percent since 1992...
...Something tells us that the shah, upon his peacock throne, would have been much more gracious— and that the Games in Teheran wouldn’t be a whole lot of fun...
...She “didn’t believe a thing [Lindsey] was saying” because it “just didn’t make sense...
...The California Teachers Association wants the test done away with...
...Now for the first time, the number of waivers has been published: 1,082 in the state last school year, with some districts (like giant Los Angeles) requesting next to none, while others binged (much smaller San Francisco requested 59...
...Now attorneys in the Whitewater prosecutor’s office are telling people they will consider issuing new indictments as late as the end of September—for almost another two months, in other words—before suspending public activity during the presidential election...
...And USA Today now reports that jurors say they would have convicted Lindsey of conspiracy had he actually been on trial...
...Cocaine-related visits: up 19 percent since 1992...
...We find this implicit tribute to the ghost of Rowan touching, but now that Chandler’s hostility to Dole’s economic plan has been so openly declared in the opinion pages, shouldn’t the Post’s editors assign someone else to cover it in the news pages...
...The thing is, the wrestler had beaten a Russian opponent in the final, “despite all the mischief by the Americans to prevent this historic event in Atlanta...
...If this isn’t a campaign issue, we don’t know what is...
...IRAN 1, GREAT SATAN 0 The Olympic Games reassured us of one thing: The Iranian government has not lost its rhetorical touch...
...WHITEWATER: THE JURY’S STILL OUT The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Whitewater’s dead, at least for this election season...
...Alas, Dole ignored Chandler’s sage advice...
...Once again, the conventional wisdom may prove to be wrong...
...Convicted Whitewater felon James McDougal, USA Today reveals, “has been talking to Whitewater prosecutors in advance of his sentencing...
...Turns out that is a very, very bad development...
...California instituted teacher testing 13 years ago, and with it an implicit pledge to the public that their children’s teachers would be able to read, write, and do math at least as well as someone who had finished the 10th grade...
...Why even pretend to guarantee that public school teachers are almost as capable as high school graduates...
...In the past, it was known that some who failed or didn’t take the test, called CBEST, were granted waivers (that’s in addition to the thousands of teachers grandfathered in when the tests began...
...TEECHERZ STINC (PAS IT AHN) Another nice example of now-you-seeit, now-you-don’t school reform comes to us from the Golden State...
...Even when he pretended to be merely a reporter, Rowan made it clear in his dispatches that tax cuts of any kind were a sin against man and God, and Chandler is providing the same service for Post readers in 1996...
...End of story...
...One of them, Mary M. Zinamon, told the Times that Lindsey’s testimony “was the same as Ainley’s...
...Monthly use of LSD/hallucinogens: up 183 percent since 1992, and rising 54 percent between 1994 to 1995...
...Dole . . . Beware Those Tax Cutters and Their Budget-Busting Bill of Goods...
...Another juror, Betty I. Sweeden, said none of the jurors believed Lindsey...
...But Lindsey’s principal accuser, Neal T. Ainley, bombed during testimony, and several jurors told reporters that none of them believed Ainley at all...
Vol. 1 • August 1996 • No. 47
