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Pentagon
Proposes
Ending
Military
Border
Patrols
1/15/98
In the wake of last year's shooting death of American high school sophomore
Esequiel Hernandez by camouflaged marines on the Texas-Mexican border,
the Pentagon has proposed ending all such military patrols. "It's
not worth the legal liability for our soldiers, and the actual amount of
drugs seized throughout the performance of those missions proved to be
modest," a Pentagon official told reporters.
The Pentagon claims that the number of troops who were on such patrols
was never more than two dozen, and so this proposal amounted to just a
"minor adjustment" in strategy. The Pentagon plans to continue
programs under which the military provides communications, intelligence,
logistic and air support for border patrol efforts.
Visit the Esequiel Hernandez memorial photographic gallery at http://www.mapinc.org/DPFT/hernandez/gallery/.
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Issue #25, 1/15/98
Vasconcellos Calls for Medical Marijuana Access in Face of Federal Action Against Clubs | Defense Fund Established for Buyers' Club Defendants | Washington State Bill Authorizing Medical Marijuana to be Considered: Your responses needed! | Pentagon Proposes Ending Military Border Patrols | President Clinton Signs Directive: Authorizes $200 Million to try to Reduce Drugs Use... in Prisons | EU Parliament Delays Vote on Drug Commission Report | Colombian Foreign Minister: "If US Doesn't Certify Us, There Will be a Political Earthquake" | British Medical Journal, Lancet, Calls on US to Act on Needle Exchange | New Australian Harm Reduction-Based Drug-Ed Program Sends Kids to Teach Kids | Nuclear Cruiser USS California Deployed in Drug War | Harm Reduction Workshop in Boston
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