A4 Castlégar News September 6, 1989 Bush backs anti-drug plan WASHINGTON Displaying a bay of erack cox the White, He Bush Went On ask Americans (0 ernment plan to on the drug cartels headquartered in the Colombian cities of Medellin and Cali, the main suppliers of cocaine to North America Bush also sought tougher penalties and called for And he urged state and local authorities to for casual drug users execution of drug kingpins. ‘tlamp down by revoking drivers’ licen ces, informing companies of their workers’ drug abuse and confiscating cars and other assets of drug users TARGETS USERS Drug policy director William Ben architect of the Bush said that unlike past gover nett, chief program nment anti-drug efforts which focused on stopping traffickers — the Bush administration “initiative iden. tifies the chief and seminal wrong as the drug user Elsewhere in the anti-drug plan set aside $261 million in military ¢ aid in the 1990 budge Oct. 1 to battle cocaine ction and marketing in ¢ m bia, Peru and Bolivia: About $2 billion A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BANK WILL BE IN FERNIE SPARWOOD NELSON CASTLEGAR TRAIL... CRESTON fund a South Amerigan war On September 6, 1989 On September 7, 1\989 On September 12, 1989 On September 13, 1989 On September 14, 1989 On September 26, 1989 TO DISCUSS YOUR BUSINESS FINANCIAL AND MANAGEMENI NEEUS WHY NOT CALL US TODAY Al 426-7241 10 ARKANGE AN APPOINIMEN! Federal Business Development Bank Banque federale de developpement L® would be spent over five years to stop the flow of drugs from those Andean countries. The $261 million for South America is in addition to the $68 million worth of U.S. military equipment and training aid Bush previously pledged to help Colombian President “Virgilio Barco fight the drug lords While the administration proposal aims to cut drug abuse in half during the next decade, in part by choking off the supply of drugs into the United States, it will have little impact in Canada. In the 1 Canadian cities where drug abuse proble ne and heroin often come directly from Latin America, bypassing the United State The Republican president's plan. whith still must’ be approved by came under fire trom s for being too skimpy and timed at tougher law enforcement in tead of treatment and prevention. Other critics complained that $2.2 bilhon in new money tor drug abuse $s billion had already been S. Africans JOHANNESBURG (AP) The South African government today held elections it called the most crucial since the Nationalists rode apartheid to power in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised blacks staged a general strike More than 90 per cent of black workers stayed home in major cities, employer organizations and transpor tation companies said Most black schools and many atten: paabechtny- rth nixecrace Suen were closed, valong with most businesses in the black Police banned all election GEORGE BUSH . .. drugs ‘poison’ allocated, pales in comparison with the $150 billion that will be spent during the next decade to bail out the troubled avings and loan industry or the more than $300 billion to be spent next year ondetence vote today Johannesburg, arrested several black anti-election demonstrators at a Dur ban voting station, and dispersed 30 mixed-race protesters at a polling booth near Cape Town. Train service into Cape Town was delayed by damage from an carly morning ex plosion on the track, the South African Transport Service said. No injuries were reported The long-governing National party was expected to lose up to 30 of its 123 September 6, 1989 AS Briefly — Force not ruled out Lithuania's Communist party chief t use military VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. (Reuter) said he could not rule out the possibility the Kremlin r force to quell unrest in the Soviet Baltic republies but he believed it would be unnecessary Algirdas Brazauskas said the Lithuanian party would consider a formal split from the Soviet € a step almost certain to set the republic on a collision course with Moscow Drug profits on agenda PARIS (Reuter) are to discuss ways of stopping drug barony from laundering their profits, nist party The world’s seven leading industrial democracies the French government announced today A meeting in Paris next week. will be attended by senior officials from Canada, the United States, Japan, West Germany, France, Britain and Italy, a statement said President Francois Mitterrand told a weekly cabinet session the meeting would study how to dove-tail national legal systems and boost co: operation to combat the laundering of drug money May Bennett dead at 92 KELOWNA (CP) British Columbia premier W.A.¢ Annie Elizabeth May Bennett, wile of former Bennett died Sunday in Kelowna of natural causes She was 92 Bennett, who had been in declining health for the past few months, was born in Wellington, B.C. 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