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1 million U.S. employees may be affected .

Reagan orders drug testing

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan today ordered all federal employees not to use illegal drugs on or off the job and directed the heads of each government agency to establish mandatory drug-testing programs for “employees in sensitive positions.” Officials said they could not estimate how many of the government’s 2.8 million civilian employees would be affected, but some published reports have put the number as high as 1.l million. Reversing his position as announced by a spokesman last week, Reagan endorsed the provision in the House bill providing for the death penalty “for those who intentionally cause death while committing an offense” under what is known as the

Education handbook targets drug abuse

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Department of Education is opening up toll-free telephone lines today for the public to call for its new handbook on how to expel the drug problem from the nation’s schools. “We have to get tough, and we have to do it now,” Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said in his introduction to the 78-page guide, “Schools Without Drugs.” The education agency has printed 1 million copies of its handbook at a cost of 40 cents each and will spend as much as 30 cents more to mail each copy free to parents and others who request them. Bennett already has put copies in the mail to every public and private elementary and secondary school and to every school superintendent. The public can call 1-800-624-0100 for copies of the handbook. The local Washington, D.C., number is 6594854. People also can write for copies to: Schools Without Drugs, Pueblo, Colo. 81009. Bennett said use of drugs, including alcohol, is “the most serious threat to the health and well-being of our children.” The problem euts across class lines and geographic boundaries, Bennett said. “In some schools, drug deals at lunch are common. In others, intruders regularly enter the

Senate impeachment trial of judge first since 1936

WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate today begins its first impeachment trial in a half-century, with the duty of deciding whether imprisoned federal judge Harry E. Claiborne should be kicked off the bench because of his 1984 conviction for tax evasion. A seat in the historic Senate Caucus Room was reserved for Claiborne himself, temporarily released from a federal prison in

Peres seeks U.S. support for plan

WASHINGTON (AP) Prime Minister Shimon Peres, opening a two-day visit today, is seeking U.S. support for the international conference the Israeli leader and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have agreed is the best next step in the search for a Middle East peace. But Peres, who will switch jobs with hard-line Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir next month, lacks support of the Israeli coalition Cabinet. “What do we need this trouble for?” Shamir said Sunday after Peres reported to the Cabinet on last week’s summit meeting with Mubarak that produced the idea of working toward an international

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“drug kingpin” law. Spokesman Larry Speakes had said Reagan favored use of the death penalty for some drug-related crimes but would not propose it in order to avoid controversy that could block adoption of his other proposals. The bill Reagan submitted today also would increase the maximum prison term for large-scale drug trafficking to life for a second offense and broaden the scope of existing legislation to include the sale of cocaine and marijuana. The bill contains mandatory prison terms for large-scale drug traffickers if a person dies as a result of using drugs supplied by them, and it would toughen the Controlled Substances Act to provide

building to sell drugs to students. Even schools with strict drug policies on paper do not always enforce them effectively.” The handbook “tells how drug use starts, how it progresses, and how it can be identified. Most important, it tells how it can be stopped,” he said. First Lady Nancy Reagan, who joined President Reagan on Sunday night in a nationally broadcast address against drugs, wrote in a foreword, “Only if our schools are free from drugs can we protect our children and insure that they can get on with the enterprise of learning. ” The booklet is aimed at educators, parents and students themselves, laying out basic facts about drugs, providing a detailed explanation of educators’ rights to search students for drugs and suspend or expel offenders, and listing tell-tale signs of drug use. The latter include bloodshot eyes, conversation and jokes preoccupied with drugs, hostility about discussing drugs, possession of large amounts of money and “distinct downward turns in student’s grades/’ *- - The handbook capsulizes how several schools, including Atlanta’s Northside High School and Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J., have turned the corner on drugs.

Alabama to attend, as the central figure in a nationally televised drama that will unfold before a special impeachment panel of 12 senators. The panel’s first order of business will be to rule on a Claiborne motion crucial to his defense against impeachment. That is the judge’s contention that the Senate should consider his claim that he was framed’ by overzealous prosecutors who ac-

peace conference. The Reagan administration, in principle, wants to provide Jordan’s King Hussein with the broad international reassurance he demands as a back-drop for one-on-one peace talks Israel. But U.S. officials are lukewarm about according the Soviet Union a prominent and potentially meddlesome role. Also, the United States will bar participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization unless it accepts the Jewish state’s right to exist. “Our policy has not changed,” Charles E. Redman, a State Department spokesman, said last week,

Lugar wants tougher U.S. stance

WASHINGTON (AP) Two Senators are calling for tough measures against the Soviet Union unless American journalist Nicholas Daniloff is allowed to return home, including a halt in discussions of a superpower summit, a cutoff of subsidized grain sales and expulsion of Soviet spies. Sen. Richard Lugar, calling for “retaliatory action” against the Soviets, said Sunday the Reagan administration should refuse to discuss anything but the Daniloff case at a pre-summit planning meeting with the Soviets this week unless Moscow frees Daniloff. Lugar, R-Ind., speaking on ABCTV’s “This Week With David Brinkley,” did not specify what he meant by retaliation other than refusing further discussions with Moscow about a summit.

mandatory fines for offenders convicted of drug possession and mandatory prison terms for those convicted of second or subsequent offenses Reagan, unveiling his own plan for combatting drug use as Congress rushes to enact legislation of its own before the November elections, said he would allocate SSOO million in additional spending for law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts in the Southwest border region and in the Southeast. He earmarked SIOO million to help local schools eradicate drug use and a like amount in grants to the states to enhance drug abuse treatment facilities. One day after joining his wife, Nancy, in exhorting Americans to “rise up together in defiance against

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ted illegally. Nine members of the House Judiciary Committee who are serving as prosecutors argued that the Senate should limit the evidence to the details of Claiborne’s conviction for falsifying his federal income tax returns for 1979 and 1980 by failing to report a total of $106,651.89 in income from legal fees. That conviction, the House insisted, is “an independent and suf-

while echoing the reservations of other officials toward the Soviet Union. “We do not see a helpful Soviet role in a peace conference unless their policies and attitudes change,” said another official, who demanded anonymity in briefing reporters Friday at the White House on the Peres visit. “We do not see any breakthroughs on the horizon,” the official said. Before seeing President Reagan today, Peres was to call on Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He also was due to confer with Vice President George Bush, who made a recent trip to the Middle East, and to

But Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., appearing with Lugar on the same show, said it should include curtailing subsidized grain sales to and cultural exchanges with the Soviets and arrests of more Soviet spies in the United States. “We expect Daniloff to come out,” Lugar said. “That would be the purpose of our taking retaliatory action,' of our saying before (Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard) Shevardnadze arrives here, if he does arrive this week, that we anticipate the situation is going to be cleared up or the agenda for the meeting would be Daniloff alone,” Shevardnadze is scheduled to meet in a pre-summit planning session with Secretary of State George Shultz in New York on Friday and Saturday.

this cancer of drugs,” Reagan proposed legislation and administrative steps that would add nearly S9OO million in additional resources to combat drub abuse, bringing the cost of all federal antidrug programs to $3.2 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The president said that all the money would be redirected from other federal projects and that no new appropriations would be necessary. The House has approved a $2 billion package of antidrug measures, including establishment of the death penalty for some drugrelated crimes and assignment of a bigger role for the military in combatting the flow of illegal drugs into the country.

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ficient basis for his removal from office” and that allegations of misconduct by government prosecutors are irrelevant to the question of whether Claiborne should be impeached. Claiborne, 69, a Democrat who was nominated by President Carter in 1978, has refused to resign as chief U.S. district judge for Nevada. He continues to draw his s7B,7ooannual salary while he serves a two-year sentence in a federal prison at Max-

meet on Tuesday with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and members of the House Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations committees. Peres’ summit meeting with Mubarak in Alexandria appeared to bring the two countries closer than at any time since they signed a peace treaty in 1979. Peres, boarding a jet at BenGurion airport, said, “A primary purpose of my trip will be to work out with the United States a peace policy for the future. The time has come to spell out what are the needed peace initiatives.”

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100 Cubans, some held since 1959, arrive in the U.S.

MIAMI (AP) A plane carrying more than 100 Cubans, including some jailed since Fidel Castro seized power 27 years ago, arrived here today on a flight to freedom that followed two years of negotiations. The 111 people, among them the nephew of a former president, made up one of the largest single groups of Cubans to arrive in the United States in years. Many seemed on the verge of tears as they went through the Miami International Airport terminal. “I can say I’m in my country,” said Rene Gonzalez Herrera, an elderly man in a wheelchair, after getting off the chartered plane. “I feel very happy after 28 years in prison.” Domingo Suarez Espinosa, whose 28-year imprisonment in a Havana prison ended just hours before the flight left Cuba, said it was hard to express the joy of being in the United States. He recalled sending his wife and two children away after Castro took over the island. “I preferred never seeing them again rather than seeing them subjected to such a horrible system,” he said. Immigration officials had expected 117 people, 71 former or current prisoners, and the rest relatives, to arrive. But one unidentifed prisoner died today in Havana and his wife elected to stay behind, said George Waldroup, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service here. Another person was kept behind because he was of military age, two people were inadvertently listed twice and one name was an

well Air Force Base, Ala. Under the Constitution, a federal judge, who is appointed for life, can be removed from office only if convicted at a Senate impeachment trial. The Senate’s decision cannot be appealed in any court. The last federal official to be impeached and removed from office was U.S. District Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Miami, convicted in 1936 of

Hoosiers avoiding fees by illegally purchasing license plates in Ohio

CINCINNATI (AP) An Indiana resident pays $513 to register and buy license plates for a $20,000 car. The same car can be registered and plated in Ohio for $26.50. As a result, many border-area residents from both states are sporting Ohio license tags on their cars and apparently risking the penalties if caught in their home states. But Ohio isn’t comfortable with its gains, and officials are helping sister states crack down on offenders, said Bernard Johnson of the Ohio Department of Taxation. “But it’s a real problem (finding offenders), because if a person comes in and gives an Ohio address, we have no way of knowing that’s not really their address,” Johnson said. “We have no button on the computer to push to see who is in violation. We’re taking steps to figure out how to fix the problem.” Indiana violators face fines of up to SSOO, said James Humphrey, prosecutor in the Indiana counties of Dearborn and Ohio. Violaters must also pay the delinquent taxes, and can be assessed an additional fine up to the amount of taxes owed, he said. But apparently the savings is worth the risk to many Indiana residents, especially those in counties bordering Ohio,

erroneous entry, he said. The plane took off from Havana about an hour late and arrived at Miami at 7:00 a.m., said Waldroup. “Glory to God, thanks to God,” said Nery Tejera, whose 44-year-old brother, Samuel Tejera Milian, was among those listed as being on the flight. The Cuban government kept Tejera Milian behind bars for 18 years before his release in May, she said. His wife and young son are accompanying him, she said. Thfe permission for the emigres to leave Cuba came after two years of negotiations among the Cuban government, the White House and the Roman Catholic church. The Reagan administration had long refused to take more Cuban refugees because Castro has refused to take back criminals who immigrated to Miami during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. But three weeks ago, President Reagan announced that all Cuban political prisoners jailed for more than 10 years could seek entrance to the United States. There were 71 former or current prisoners on the release list, and some have been incarcerated for up to 27 years, U.S. officials said. Among those in the group was Ramon Pedro Grau Alsina, nephew of former Cuban president Ramon Grau San Martin. As the head of a five-man committee, Grau San Martin lead Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and served as the elected president from 1944 to 1948. Most of the freed Cubans will settle in the Miami area, said George Lezcano, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Miami.

judicial misconduct. Altogether, the Senate has conducted 13 impeachment trials since 1803, but only four, all involving federal judges, resulted in convictions. The Senate Impeachment Committee, headed by Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, R-Md., is expected to take all this week receiving evidence and hearing testimony.

authorities said. “Because Dearborn and Ohio counties are so-called bedroom communities to the Cincinnati area, it is a violation that is fairly widespread around here,” said Lt. Dave Scranton of the Versailles post of the Indiana State Police. “It seems one of the most prominent areas is right along the state line Hidden Valley Lake, West Harrison and Bright. We get complaints from residents who have bought their Indiana plates and see their neighbors drive on Ohio plates, knowing they live in Indiana. ” Indiana tax officials have no estimate of how much revenue the state loses annually. “But we know it has to involve big bucks, both in leasing and buying,” said Bobbi Canada, assistant director of the Indiana’s excise, tax, titles and registration department. Violators use various methods of avoiding the tax, including giving Ohio addresses that are vacant lots, school yards, offices or relatives’ homes, Canada said. Indiana is trying to launch a program, in conjunction with Ohio officials, to catch the offenders. The program could involve checking records of larger lease agencies, cross-checking income tax files with drivers license records, and comparing data from other states.