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1997
Miss
America
Calls
for
Needle
Exchange
10/11/97
It was not supposed to happen like this for this veritable institution
of Americana, but it has. Miss America, the officially crowned "girl
next door" has come out in favor of needle exchange. This must come
as quite a disturbance to pageant officials, who thought they had dealt
with this year's major controversy when they permitted contestants to wear
two-piece bathing suits for the first time.
Standing on the steps of the Capitol this week, flanked by White House
AIDS policy adviser Sandra Thurman and Illinois' two senators, Carol Moseley-Braun
and Dick Durbin, Kate Shindle, 1997's Miss America said, "I'm not
afraid to take a risk and take a stand on these issues. Let's try to keep
politics out of the equation and focus simply on saving as many lives as
possible."
To send an approving note on Ms. Shindle's stand on needle exchange,
use the feedback page on the Miss America Pageant's web site at http://www.missamerica.org/talktous.html.
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Issue #15, 10/11/97
Media Alert: CNN covering Vancouver's Marc Emery Tomorrow (Sunday night) | First Federally Sponsored Med Mj Research Research Approved | Clinton AIDS Advisors Consider Resignation in Protest of Federal Ban on Needle Exchange Funding | Interview with Alexander Robinson | FBI Report Shows a Record Year for Marijuana Busts | American Medical Association Calls for More Rational Drug Policies | Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Steps Down | Hung Jury for Hawaiian Activist Charged with Buying Legal Hempseed | BC Canada's Attorney General Calls for an Examination of Decriminalization | Aussies Spending $7 Billion Per Year on Illegal Drugs: Report notes failure of Prohibition | 1997 Miss America Calls for Needle Exchange | Quote of the Week: Prominent drug policy researcher calls CASA's work thin | Link of the Week: Expose of some of CASA's thinness | Editorial: The voices of reform are growing louder... whether or not the Drug Warriors want to hear them
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