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ID might be a requirement
when buying cold medicine
Oregon might follow Oklahoma's example to lower
the number of methamphetamine labs and drug users
BY BRAD CAIN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM — A grocery industry
group is criticizing Gov. 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
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