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Soviets say no to drugs
MOSCOW (AP) — More than
4,000 people were arrested in a
sweep called Operation Poppy
86. Pravda said Tuesday in a
report indicating that narcotics
are the latest target of Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev's war
on social ills.
The Communist Party daily
said drug abuse has increased
significantly in the past five
years and 46,000 Soviet citizens
are classified as addicts, but the
extent of the sweep suggested a
greater problem.
Interior Minister Alexander
Vlasov, who is in charge of the
nation's police, castigated the
practice in previous regimes of
calling drug abuse a capitalist
phenomenon that did not exist
here.
Narcotics join alcoholism,
prostitution, corruption and in
efficiency as targets of Gor
bachev’s attempt to stamp out
problems that hamper
advancement.
Hotels to be inspected
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico (AP)
— Puerto Rico's fire chief said
Tuesday every hotel on the
island would be inspected for
safety violations, starting at
once, to head off any repetition
of the Dupont Plaza Hotel
disaster.
The New Year's Eve inferno
at the 439-room luxury hotel,
officially called a case of arson,
killed 96 people and injured
more than 140, many of them
American tourists.
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Rivera told The Associated
Press, “Today (Tuesday) and
tomorrow we are going to take
out the inspection reports (of all
the hotels) to determine which
should be reinspected im
mediately. And then we are go
ing to extend the inspection to
the other hotels” in this U.S.
commonwealth.
Most of those killed at the Du
pont Plaza were burned beyond
recognition, but a forensic ex
pert reported 80 of the dead
were identified by Tuesday.
National
Probe panel approved
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
new Congress formally
chartered the first of a pair of
Iran-Contra investigative panels
Tuesday, while Attorney
General Edwin Meese III pledg
ed Justice Department coopera
tion with an outside counsel's
quest to get to the bottom of the
arms-and-money scheme.
"Our first duty in this new
Congress is the restoration of
public trust in the formulation
of American foreign policy,"
said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.,
the majority leader in the new
Democrat-controlled Senate, as
the body opened for business.
Senators voted 88-4 to
establish an 11-member panel
that is expected to begin
holding public hearings in mid
February into the allegations
that proceeds from clandestine
sales of U.S. arms to Iran were
used to benefit the Contras.
New budget sets record
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi
dent Reagan proposed the na
tion's first trillion-dollar budget
on Monday and ran into im
mediate congressional skep
ticism over his plans to trim the
deficit and cut dozens of
domestic programs while still
adding billions to Pentagon
spending.
The $1,024 trillion budget for
the 1988 fiscal year — an in
crease of 0.9 percent over
estimated spending for this year
— offered a renewed attack on
the soaring budget deficits that
have bedeviled the country dur
ing the Reagan presidency.
But Reagan held firm against
any general tax increase to
reduce the red ink. Rep. Jim
Wright, D-Texas, who will
become speaker of the House,
last month proposed increasing
taxes on the wealthy to combat
the deficit, but found little
support.
Israeli power reviewed
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Statements by a former Israeli
nuclear worker have led U.S.
experts to conclude that Israel
has far more atomic weapons
and that they are far more
powerful than previously
believed.
According to Mordechai
Vanunu's account. Israel has
exploited an experimental reac
tor. secretly built for Israel by
the French in 1957-1964, to pro
duce 88 pounds of plutonimum
a year, enough to build 10
bombs. The plant uses much
more advanced technology to
extract plutonimum than
methods used by other nuclear
powers early in their nuclear
programs.
Vanunu, 32. is charged in
Israel with aiding an enemy in
wartime and of espionage
because of his interviews and
because of 60 photos said to
show the Dimona nuclear
facility.
Vanunu's assertions have not
been denied by Israel.
Regional
State targets lawyers
PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon
leads the nation in the percen
tage of lawyers facing claims for
negligence or malpractice, state
Willamette Center
For
Sex Education
is offering classes on per
sonal sexual enhance
ment/education beginning
January 23rd, for in
dividuals or couples.
Format includes:
*Use of a workbook with at
home exercises
•Film
‘Discussion
call 741-4581
or
343*1 739 FOR DETAILS
bar officials say.
About a fifth of the 5.000 at
torneys practicing in Oregon, or
one in five, are facing a lawsuit,
said [oan Johnson, loss preven
tion director for the Oregon
State Bar Professional Liability
Fund.
Oregon, however, is the only
state that requires attorneys to
purchase liability insurance to
practice. F.ach will pay about
$2,000 next year to receive
$300,000 coverage for defense
and liability costs.
The number of claims filed
against the professional liability
fund, the only such fund in the
nation, climbed from 76 in 1978
to 565 in 1985, lohnson said.
The number of claims fell to 450
last year, but the decline is con
sidered only temporary.
Counties stand to lose
PORTI.AND (AP) - Oregon
counties could lose more than
$70 million in federal timber
receipts under President
Reagan's proposed new budget,
based on timber income for the
most recent fiscal year.
Reagan, in his budget issued
Monday, recommended a
change in the method of sharing
federal timber sales income
with counties where the timber
is located. The change would
have the federal government
deduct its expenses before
calculating the counties' shares.
That would increase federal
revenue and reduce payments
to counties.
Spokesmen for the US.
Forest Service and Bureau of
I.and Management said they
couldn't immediately deter
mine what exact fiscal impact
the proposal would have in
Oregon because they hadn't
seen details.
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