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Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential campaigners are
gaining valuable political fringe benefits along with their new
Secret Service protection although the agency says its men
won’t “participate in the politics of the candidates. ”
Campaign aides say the Secret Service can’t avoid helping a
candidate when it sets out to guard him.
Agents are deploying to guard four candidates now or in the
near future, with more to be covered later.
In the process, the government will help finance the candi
dates’ campaign travels and take over much of the advance work
that is essential to a presidential candidate.
The Secret Service has issued an eight-page, red, white and
blue booklet describing what it will and won’t do as it seeks “to
insure a safe environment for your candidate.”
The Secret Service refuses to say how many agents are as
signed to a candidate on grounds that would breach security.
But a Democratic campaign aide said as many as 20 were as
signed to each candidate at the height of the 1972 presidential
primary season. Another said he had been told that about 12
would be traveling with his candidate.
Stringent campaign spending limits have curtailed the use of
chartered airplanes by the candidates this year, but with the
Secret Service aboard, that may change.
For example, Rep. Morris K. Udall may switch from small
planes to a faster, more comfortable, 20-seat turboprop when he
uses chartered flights. Secret Service agents are expected to
occupy up to 12 seats, meaning the government would pay more
than half the charter expense.
Government advance work is an even bigger boon to the
candidate. According to the Secret Service brochure, a day or
two before a candidate visits a city, an agent will go there to
check out and coordinate security arrangements.
“Other advance arrangements are made, including logistics,
coordination of press identification and the designation of
emergency sites. ...” the booklet says.
A Democratic politician put it in plain language.
“The logistics of moving the candidate around suddenly are in
their hands, and they do a first-class job,” he said.
“That’s a big advantage. ”
This allows the candidates’ advance men to concentrate on
political tasks and not the detail work of mapping routes and
other logistics.
The Democrats due for protection now or soon are Alabama
Gov. George C. Wallace, Udall, Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen of.
Texas and former Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Sen. HenryM.
Jackson of Washington hasn’t yet decided when he wants the
Secret Service to join him, and former North Carolina Gov.
Terry Sanford has declined protection.
The 1976 campaign is the third in which the Secret Service
has guarded candidates, a practice begun on June 6, 1968, the
day Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died of an assassin’t bullets in Los
Angeles.
The Secret Service booklet says that in 1968 the agency
protected 11 candidates who made 700 separate campaign ap
pearances. In 1972, the Secret Service was assigned to protect
13 candidates who made 6,100 appearances.
The box score in 1976 is sure to be considerably higher.
Marijuana use MEHlHGI
ups problem
WASHINGTON — Youths
experimenting with marijuana
at an earlier age are contribut
ing to an alarming upswing in
the nation’s drug abuse prob
lem, the government reported
Wednesday.
Dr. Robert L. DuPont, direc
tor of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse, told reporters he
was quite alarmed about the
growing use of marijuana among
young people.
He speculated that use was
increasing because marijuana is
more readily available now and
because of the “contagious
phenomena’ that challenges
nonusers to follow their friends
example.
The institute released four
new surveys costing $2.2 mill
ion that indicated:
V Marijuana use among 12- to
17-year-olds almost doubled be
tween 1972 and 1974.
V Fifty-five per cent of the
three million high school
seniors in the class of 1975 ex
perimented with illegal drugs,
and two-thirds thought
marijuana use should be legal or
only a minor violation.
V About 300,000 of the 19 mill
ion young men aged 20 to 30
years used heroin within the last
year, another one to two million
used other illegal drugs and
seven million smoked
marijuana.
DuPont, who once acknow
ledged that he tried marijuana
himself out of ignorance of pos
sible health consequences, said
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growing trend among states to
decriminalize marijuana use.
“Putting people in prison is
not a good idea,” he said. DuP
ont said, however, that “the
steady increase in the use of il
licit substances is of great con
cern to us.
“It is apparently inevitable
that young people are going to
experiment with cigarettes, al
cohol and marijuana, and that
this experience will lead too
many young people to a regular
pattern of undesirable use of
these drugs.”
On the bright side, DuPont
told a news conference, the
majority of those who experi
ment with drugs either stop or
only use them occasionally, and
the number of “hard core” he
roin addicts has apparently
stabilized at about 400,000 per
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University of Michigan re
searchers who surveyed a ran
dom sampling of 16,000 seniors
in 130 high school last spring
found that 55 per cent had ex
perimented with illegal drugs,
45 per cent had tried them
within the previous year and 31
per cent within the previous
month.
Only 14 per cent of the class
of 1975 said they would use
marijuana more often if it was
legalized. Researchers said
there was no indication that al
coholic beverages have dis
placed illicit drugs among high
school youth.
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