LOERRACH APPLIES TO JOIN THE NEW DRUG PROJECT

The district of Lorraech has made formal application to the Ministry of
Health for permission to participate in the projected drug model which has
recently been the subject of heated controversy. This was confirmed by the
district office on Friday, 20 November 1998.

The Catholic Workers Party recently asked for 50,000 marks for the planning
of 'guest rooms,' also known as 'injection rooms,' for drug addicts. The
Social Democrat delegate, Joerg Lutz, said there was still no such project
in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

No legal basis exists as yet for such a project. The question of who is
competent to settle the legal question is likely to be controversial. If
the federal government rules that the projected clinics are legal, the
Stuttgart social affairs ministry, which has thus far opposed the plan,
will have to put on a `happy face' and go along with it.

Checked-by: Richard Lake