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Ted Kulon goski’s plan to combat Oregon’s methamphetamine problem by re quiring people to show identification when buying over-the-counter cold medicines. The rules, announced by the gov ernor last week, target those cold remedies because they contain the main ingredients used in the illicit manufacture of methamphetamine. But the Oregon Grocery Associa tion says Kulongoski’s rule will be a hassle for consumers and retailers and that tougher law enforcement is the key to fighting the state’s methamphetamine epidemic. “It requires the collection of per sonal information, thereby doing lit tle more than infringing upon the lib erties of cold sufferers, not the criminals,” association spokesman Joe Gilliam said Tliesday. However, Kulongoski’s rule drew strong support from White House drug czar John Walters, who said it would help curtail supplies of ingre dients used by local “cooks” to make the highly addictive street drug. Walters, who was in Oregon this week to announce local anti-drug grants, said a similar rule enacted in Oklahoma has resulted in a 60 per cent drop in the number of meth lab seizures in that state. “It has made a profound differ ence,” Walters said. “We are encour aging all states who suffer from this problem to do the same thing. ” Under Kulongoski’s rule, pur chasers must go to a store’s pharma cy counter or front register and show identification to purchase the cold medicines. Retailers will be required to keep a record of every purchase to enable of ficials to keep an eye out for people making multiple purchases in a short time. Gilliam said the grocery industry is worried because details of how names and other personal informa tion will be gathered and stored have yet to be worked out. “There could be big costs in main taining the database, and there’s no evidence that this will really have an impact on the drug problem,” the in dustry spokesman said. But Kulongoski’s spokeswoman, Marian Hammond, said the Okla homa experience shows the rule could be effective in combating meth, a leading cause of child neglect and property crimes in Oregon. “Any potential inconvenience to consumers or retailers is greatly out weighed by the need to protect chil dren, families and communities from the devastation caused by meth,” Hammond said. Walters, meanwhile, conceded that most of the methamphetamine that’s used in Oregon is produced in “su perlabs” in California and elsewhere. Still, Kulongoski’s rule could have a big impact on the problem because there are hundreds of meth labs in Oregon, where amateurs using every day ingredients are making the drug, the White House drug czar said. “They create toxic sites that endan ger neighborhoods and families,” Walters said of the estimated 500 meth labs currently in operation around Oregon. British doubtful that Howard can follow past Tory example The party leader has added life to the faction, but must stunt Tony Blair's power to become prime minister BY ED JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOURNEMOUTH, England - Conservative Party leader Michae; Howard tried to turn next year’s ex pected national elections in Britain into a battle of trust and credibility accusing Prime Minister Tony Blaii on Tliesday of being untruthful about the Iraq war. Seven years after being dumped from power, the once mighty party 01 Winston Churchill and Margarei Thatcher is still trailing in opinion polls and Howard is struggling tc convince voters he should forrr Britain’s next government. Addressing his party’s annua convention, he set out a string o: policies on crime, education, health immigration and Europe that he hopes will woo voters. Bui his core message was simple: We can be trusted; Blair’s Laboui government cannot. “In the run-up to the war, Ton> Blair did not tell the truth. He did noi give a truthful account of the intelli gence he received. He did not behave as a British prime minister should,” Howard said to loud applause. “1 hope we will not face another war. But the world is a very danger ous place and you can never be sure. What if this prime minister asks peo ple to trust him again? Could the British people trust him a second time?” The Tories dominated British poli tics for most of the 20th century. Un der Prime Minister Thatcher, who championed individual initiative and the free market, the party command ed an unassailable majority in the House of Commons. But throughout the 1990s its pop ularity slipped, due to an unpopular new local tax, internal feuding over European integration, an economic recession and repeated sleaze scan dals that damaged its credibility. The public voted en masse against the party in 1997, giving Blair the first of two election land slides and consigning the Tories to the political wilderness. Many key Tory lawmakers lost their seats, leaving the party rudderless, with out distinctive policies and riven by factionalism. Howard took the helm 11 months ago and reinvigorated the party. His sharp wit, tough-talking style and ex perience —■ having served as a min ister under Thatcher and her succes sor John Major — appear to have halted internal squabbling. But polls suggest he has failed to win over the wider public. Only 12 percent of respondents to a survey for the British Broadcasting Corp. thought Howard would ever be prime minister, while 78 percent said he would never hold the country’s top job. Even among Conservative vot ers, 65 percent said Howard would never be premier. Pollster ICM interviewed 1,004 people from Oct. 1-3. The margin of error was three percentage points. Howard hopes a raft of new poli cies floated during the four-day con ference in Bournemouth, southern England, will win support for him and the party. He promised tough action on crime, better discipline in Britain’s schools, more choices of hospitals for patients and tighter immigration con trols — all mirroring commitments made by Blair’s Labour government. Brazil reluctant to give agency access to nuclear ftiel factory The country objects to demands by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but Powell expects a resolution BY MICHAEL ASTOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRASILIA, Brazil — Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tbesday night that he expected Brazil would resolve a dispute with the International Atomic Energy Agency over access to a nuclear fuel factory. Powell, on a two-day visit to Brazil, said he was confident the country would “work out any problems with IAEA when they come later this month.” Brazil and the IAEA are at logger heads over an energy agency demand for unimpeded access to a factory that produces nuclear fuel. Brazil has indicated that it wants less-stringent standards than the IAEA is seeking. Powell, who met with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Foreign BRAZIL, page 6
