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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, April 28, 1972
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CADET SLOUCH
by jim Earie Inexperience costly to Muskie
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WASHINGTON (&> — It was
being a front-runner without
knowing how to run like one that
scuttled Edmund S. Muskie, more
than the public tears and fiery
temper.
He became the front-runner,
and consequently everybody’s
target, extremely early. And
right up to his withdrawal Thurs
day from competition in the pri
maries among Democratic presi
dential contenders he hadn’t real
ly learned how to defend himself,
much less mount an offensive.
The gut of the problem seemed
to be the manner in which Mus-
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dorm is the only day and students
will be fined one dollar for each
additional day the refrigerators
are kept out.
If the units are not returned
by May 4, students will forfeit
their deposit and the refrigera
tors will be collected from the
students’ rooms.
Deposits will be returned when
the refrigerators are brought
back and the amount returned
will depend upon the condition of
each unit.
If the assigned day is missed,
units must be taken to the laun
dry substation at the hospital.
The number of the office is
845-6342.
©‘XU-oo-ytiS.
Legal heroin a working system
for British government, addicts
LONDON (A*) — A heroin ad- grew alarmingly over the past rope,” a Health Departmen
LONDON (A*) — A heroin ad
dict who mistimed his last dose
walked into a London clinic,
twitching.
“You look awful,” a doctor
said. Then he handed out a legal
natfCotics prescription under the
tax - subsidized National Health
Program.
Once again a junkie had
turned up just for another fix
that could eventually kill him,
rejecting the chance for free
withdrawal treatment at a gov
ernment hospital.
But at least there was no need
for him to turn to crimes of vio
lence to raise money for illegal
drugs. And with legal narcotics
available, there was less profit
incentive for gangsters to start
mass blackmarket operations
here.
He was taking advantage of
Britain’s system of treating ad
dicts as patients rather than as
criminals, a practice once de
nounced by former U. S. Atty
Gen. John W. Mitchell as “the
surrender approach.”
There’s a big question whether
the British system could work in
the United States, but evidence
accumulates that it works toler
ably well here, following some
key revisions.
The number of addicts known
to the government is declining.
Perhaps more important, it is de
clining among the younger age
groups.
Britain’s drug situation pales
by comparison to the U. S. prob
lem. At its peak there were
probably fewer than 4,000 addicts
in this nation of 55 million,
against perhaps 200,000 in New
York City alone.
But the British addiction rate
grew alarmingly over the past
decade, calling the whole system
into question and forcing some
major changes.
The system was riddled with
abuse. Rogue physicians pri
vately overprescribed for regis
tered addicts, who then sold their
surplus to pay the rent or buy
food, sometimes hooking a new
young junkie.
A new law in 1968 limited the
legal prescription of narcotics to
government-run clinics. By 1969
the number of known addicts on
hard drugs had dropped.
Part of the drop was due to a
change in the method of record
ing addictions. The new system,
in effect a census taken on the
last day of the year, eliminated
from that year’s figures those
addicts who had died, given up
drugs, left the country or for any
other reason had been deregis
tered. Previously these cate
gories were listed as known ad
dicts.
Abuses continued under the
new system, often because hard-
pressed doctors in National
Health hospitals lacked the time
or training to deal with addicts.
In the early days of the clinic
system doctors were known to
prescribe drugs for a new addict
without even checking his arm
for needle marks. An addict
could give a urine sample to a
“straight” friend, who could then
qualify for drug prescriptions.
By and large such abuses are
dwindling.
“They’re getting craftier at the
clinics,” an addict says. “In the
beginning you could get a pre
scription just by shooting water
in your veins.”
“Clinics have to walk a tight
rope,” a Health Department
spokesman said. “If they pre
scribe too little, the addict looks
elsewhere; too much and he is
tempted to feed the black mar
ket. But the clinics keep the bal
ance about right.”
Although fewer than 25 per
cent of the clinics’ patients opt
for in-hospital withdrawal care,
and many of them return later to
drug use, the clinics can claim
some success.
In setting up the clinics the
government faced the possibility
that addicts willing to get legal
prescriptions from their own doc
tors would shy away from state-
run clinics and look elsewhere.
Addicts themselves claim
tighter control of drugs at gov
ernment clinics has forced up the
price of black market heroin —
from a pound a grain in 1967 to
6 pounds or more today. That
means a rise to $15.60 from $2.40.
To meet the black market, a
law due to take effect later this
year will sharply increase jail
sentences and fines for drug
pushers, while relaxing them for
users.
Many British specialists doubt
if the British control system
would work in the United States.
Dr. P. H. Connell, director of
the Maudsley Hospital’s drug
dependence clinic near London,
says: “Our experience is that if
there are other drugs available
illegally, the addicts will want to
score on them.”
Another British expert, a social
worker, believes there is no real
answer to the drug problem. “It
is like a balloon,” he says, “when
you press it in one place it
swells up in another — and al
ways will.”
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VOTE FOR
CARL A. BELL
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STATE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
My opponent has been in this office 22
years. He is . out-of-touch with the
ranchers.
consumers, farmers, and
Democrats and Republicans will agree that it
is “Time For A Change”. Vote for Carl Bell.
May 6, 1972 Pd. Pol. Ad.
kie, a Maine senator, became No.
1 among the hopefuls. It was
one of those sudden strokes of
good luck when he was picked to
speak for the Democratic side on
national television on election
eve, 1970.
Muskie’s calm talk from an
easy chair before a stone fire
place in a rustic New England
setting contrasted strongly with
the fire and brimestone speech
by President Nixon which the
Republicans chose to show.
Many Democrats who survived
that particularly frightful elec
tion thanked Muskie for it, and
he at once became the image of
what the Democrats wanted to
put up against Nixon, a calm vo-
oice, a steady hand, a healer.
But right off Nixon pulled a
fast one on him and changed his
own style. White House rhetoric
was lowered and the whole Re
publican strategy for 1972 be
came an effort to project Nixon
as a dignified president in the
midst of scrapping Democrats.
Then at the same time the oth
er Democrats did get into it, and
Muskie had to run against them.
He never quite made that adjust
ment. To the end he was still
campaigning against Nixon, not
Humphrey or McGovern.
Add to this the fact that Mus
kie’s campaign seemed at times
to have an absolute proclivity to
ward ineptness at all the wrong
times and his ultimate fate seems
inevitable.
The most obvious conclusion ob
servers jumped to in New Hamp
shire was that the tearful scene
in front of the Manchester Union
Leader in which Muskie de
nounced publisher William Loeb
as a “gutless coward” was the
candidate’s undoing.
The real crumbling of the Mus
kie citadel must be attributed to
some basic weaknesses which
could havie killed anybody’s cam-
paign:
—Muskie was spread too thin,
and he cited this in his announce
ment Thursday.
—Muskie never had the kind
of professional organization at
all levels which it takes to make
a president.
—Indecision caused a big im
age problem for Muskie because
his campaign bureaucracy never
developed the capacity for in
stant political decision.
—Muskie never developed a
constituency.
—Muskie said in dropping from
the active running that a lack
of money forced the decision.
Muskie is down but by no
means dead. He has said all
along that his problem was being
everybody’s second choice while
they voted first choice for others
in the primaries.
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