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Article: Bennett Gives D.C. Top Priority in Drug War; New Policy Czar Announces Plan to Direct Federal Resources Here to Combat `Crisis'
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- March 14, 1989
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New federal drug czar William J. Bennett said yesterday that he
expects to move quickly to declare the District the nation's first
"high intensity" drug trafficking city-a step that will enable him to
mobilize resources from throughout the federal government to combat
the city's escalating drug problems.
Minutes after he was sworn in by President Bush, Bennett told
reporters that drug-related violence in the District is "as bad as it
can get," and that he wanted to make the city a "test case" in the
federal drug war.
Bennett, who conferred Friday with D.C. Police Chief Maurice T.
Turner Jr. and Assistant Chief Isaac Fulwood Jr., was scheduled to
meet today with Mayor Marion Barry and ...