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Newsbriefs
3/17/00
Mexican Presidential Candidate
Says Ruling Party Tied to Drug Trade
Vincente Fox, the presidential
candidate of the right-of-center National Action Party charged in an interview
with Reuters News Service that the ruling RPI party is in league with drug
cartels. "They have negotiated with the narcos, and many PRI members
have been jailed for being narcos," said Fox. "It's very naive to
think that a president of the republic belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary
Party will sort out drug trafficking."
Iowa House Votes to Ban
Paraphernalia
The Iowa House of Representatives
voted 84-7 last week to create a criminal offense for the possession of
a wide variety of items it terms drug paraphernalia. Rep. Bill Dotzler
(D-Waterloo), who opposed the measure -- which does not require the presence
of any drug residue -- as being far too broad, told colleagues, "I've got
enough objects on my desk that I could be busted right now. This
bill is so general that I don't think there's a household item that you
couldn't claim to be drug paraphernalia." But Rep. Clel Baudler,
(R-Greenfield) spoke for the majority of legislators, saying "Folks, we're
in a drug war, and (this bill) will give officers in the front line a tool
in this fight."
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Issue #129, 3/17/00
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