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THE BANNERGRAPHIC October 16,1909

Bayh administration stepping up war on drugs to prevent problems

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Bayh administration is making plans to ask the 1990 General Assembly to approve a wide-ranging package of proposals to step up the war on illicit drug use in Indiana. Currently under review by administration officials are proposals to revoke professional licenses of people convicted of drug offenses, permit state and local law enforcement to seek wiretaps to aid drug investigations, suspend driving privileges of drug offenders and create a new fund to pay for local anti-drug efforts. “OUR MARCHING orders were to put together a tough antidrug package that borrows from the best of ideas of other state governments and the federal government and also any creative legislation we could come up with on our own,” said Jeff Modisett, Gov. Evan Bayh’s executive assistant for public safety. “It’s a major priority of his and he (Bayh) would like to see this implemented next session,” said Modisett, a former assistant U.S. attorney who heads the Governor’s Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana.

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“We do have a problem here. It may not be as bad as on the East Coast or the West Coast, but it’s significant.” —Jeff Modisett

Modisett said administration officials are convinced that drug abuse, although not at epidemic proportions reported in some major cities, is a growing problem in Indiana. “WE DO HAVE A problem here. It may not be as bad as on the East Coast or the West Coast, but it’s significant,” said Modisett. “The other thing is, look at how many problems have arisen in other urban areas because they waited too long to get tough. We think we’re a step ahead and stand a better chance of having long-term success.” The climate is right for passing tough new anti-drug measures, said Richard P. Good, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council. Fighting drugs is not a partisan political issue, said Good, noting that both Republican President Bush and Indiana’s Democratic governor are moving in similar directions on the issue. BUT MORE important, Good

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said, drugs have infiltrated not only urban centers in the state but also rural Hoosier communities, giving the drug war new urgency in the state. “Crack and cocaine are now acute,” said Good, whose group represents prosecutors across the state. “When you get cocaine infiltrating into a community like Adams County, that really gets serious. “When they get concerned about cocaine, it’s a real problem because that’s about as rural and clean a county as we have in the state and cocaine is there,” he said. MODISETT SAID the governor’s anti-drug package will target adults and juveniles, professionals and low-income people, traffickers and casual users. Among the proposals: • Amend professional and occupational licensing laws so that licenses for professionals ranging from doctors and .lawyers to accountants and real estate agents could be revoked automatically following drug-related convictions. Currently, a drug conviction alone is not grounds for immediate revocation but it can be weighed by licensing boards. “WE’RE NOT JUST trying to lower the boom on those who are on the lower end of our society,” said Modisett “It’s just as wrong for a professional as it is for an unemployed person to do drugs.

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We’re trying to ensure the penalties are commensurate.” • Enact a wiretap statute, based on a federal model, that will allow law enforcement, when there’s probable cause to believe drug laws are being broken, to go to court to get permission to tap the telephone of a suspect. • Suspend the driving -privileges of adults convicted of a drug offense in which a motor vehicle is involved, and suspend or delay driving privileges for young people convicted of drug crimes. • Create a drug-free communities fund to promote local drug enforcement, treatment and education efforts. MODISETT SAID the administration hopes to generate $6 million to $lO million for the fund by raising the drivers’ license reinstatement fee for people convicted of driving under the influence, raising the maximum court fee for drug offenders, using federal grants and appropriating about $1 million from the state’s general fund. • Add 50 Indiana State Police troopers for undercover drug investigations. • Expand the state racketeering statute so it would apply to juvenile gangs and other groups involved in drug trafficking. • Create a reward program, modeled after Crimestoppers, that would pay cash for information leading to a drug conviction. • Make drug testing a condition for parole or probation for offenders convicted of drug offenses. • Add a condition to state contracts saying they can be revoked if key employees of a company are convicted of drug offenses. • Allow residents or officials connected with low-income housing projects funded through a new state trust to be evicted or suspended from the program after drug convictions. • Require recipients of state-ad-ministered economic development funds to maintain drug-free workplaces. • Adopt an open-container law that would restrict open alcoholic beverage containers to parts of a vehicle not accessible to the driver. • Enlarge from 1,000 feet to one mile the drug-free zone around Hoosier schools.

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Bush’s signature triggers mandatory budget cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) Automatic federal spending cuts totaling sl6 billion take effect today, with a single stroke of President Bush’s pen, following the failure of Congress and the president to agree on a deficit-reduction plan. The cuts mandated under the Gramm-Rudman balanced budget law formally become permanent when Bush, as required, signs an order activating them. THE REDUCTIONS, spread evenly across many defense and domestic programs, are expected to total about $B.l billion for defense and $B.l billion for domestic initiatives. That works out to reductions of about 4.3 percent in defense programs and 5.3 percent in domestic agencies. The cuts are expected to be rolled back as soon as Congress works out a compromise deficit-reduction bill. The Senate approved its version of the measure late Friday, and House-Senate negotiators could begin their meetings this week. But Richard Darman, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said Sunday it might be best if Congress left the spending cuts in place instead of rolling them back. ‘THIS TIME, IF it goes into effect, I think it would be good if people would live with it and say, ‘don’t restore the cuts,’” Darman said on the ABC-TV program, “This Week With David Brinkley.” Automatic budget cuts took effect in 1986 and 1987 as well, but Congress acted quickly to restore the lost funds, a process that Darman called “phony.” The reductions are not expected to be felt by many Americans, at least initially. TT AFFECTS A relatively

RICHARD DARMAN Keep the cuts

small number of people in our society, and affects them in a relatively small way,” Rep. Bill Fren- , zel of Minnesota, ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, said last week. The automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts, when the law was enacted in 1985, were intended to seem so horrific that Congress and the president would be frightened into cutting the federal deficit in order to avoid them. It didn’t quite work out this year. THE LAW REQUIRES a projected deficit for fiscal 1990 which began Oct. 1 of no more than SIOO billion. If the projected shortfall exceeds the target by more than $lO billion today, the law automatically triggers cuts in spending of whatever is required to slash the figure to SIOO billion. The White House’s Office of Management and Budget which makes the projections estimated in August that the 1990 deficit would be $116.2 billion. The cuts apply to all defense programs except for money already owed because of signed contracts. That means that about $l9O billion out of the budget’s S3OO billion for defense is subject to reductions. NEARLY 75 PERCENT of domestic spending is exempt from the cuts under a series of special rules written into the law. Programs not subject to any cuts include Social Security, payments on the national debt, other federal retirement and disability programs, veterans’ pensions and compensation, and state unemployment benefits. A host of other domestic programs are vulnerable to only limited cuts. Medicare, veterans* medical care, community and migrant health centers and Indian health facilities cannot be cut by more than 2 percent. Early on, agencies which receive their budgets in monthly or quarterly allotments cope by delaying purchases, leaving vacant jobs unfilled, reducing travel and shifting money within accounts. The law forbids officials to save money by cutting workers’ salaries. Technically, the Gramm-Rudman cuts “temporarily” took effect Oct. 1, and agencies have been watching their budgets since then.

Practice key to nation’s top whistler SPARKS, Nev. (AP) Joel Brandon never could figure out how to whistle the way most people do, but that didn’t stop him from winning top honors at the International Whistle-Off for the second time. : • The Altadena, Calif., man whistles while inhaling, sucking air between his teeth and tongue to produce a unique, horn-like sound. “I never used it when I was young,” the 40-year-old Brandon said of his unusual style. “It was so odd-looking, I got a lot of flak.” Brandon won the solo popular male division with his renditions of “Wave” and “Green Dolphin Street,” and captured the solo classical male honors with a Bach concerto. He won in 1987, too. He won SSOO and a trip to anywhere in the United States.