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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Campaign '97 Update
2. 9 Year-Old Busted on Candy Rap
3. Another French Official Speaks Out for Legalization of Cannabis
4. Mexican Priest Praises Drug Traffickers' Benevolence... Journalists Attacked by Archbishop's Aides for Asking Questions about the Incident
5. Baltimore Health Commissioner Testifies on Needle Exchange
6. Spy vs. Spy
7. Cia Turns 50
8. Freudian Slip
9. Mexican Journalists Terrorized
10. Former Pakistani Prime Minister's Accounts Alleged to Contain "Drug Money"
11. Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Heroin Maintenance and Other Liberal Drug Policies
12. Dutch Heroin Maintenance to go Ahead as "Pilot Project"
13. Canada's Medical Marijuana Prohibition Challenged by Multiple Sclerosis Patient
14. Reformers Charge Washington State Government with Using Federal Funds to Politic Against Drug Reform Initiative
15. Black Market Meth Labs Kill One Child, Force Evacuation of 30 Families
16. Shalala Continues to be Dogged by Needle Exchange Questions
17. Editorial: World Gone Mad

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