Media Advisory

REPLY TO CLINTON DRUG POLICY ADDRESS

EXPERTS ON DRUG POLICY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS, AND
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMENT ON WHY US/UN DRUG POLICY IS FAILING

LUNCHEON AND BRIEFING ONE HOUR AFTER END OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SPEECH

NEW YORK, NY - Replying to President Clinton's UN General Assembly Address
will be experts who oppose UN/US drug policy. They will appear at a
special news conference one hour after the conclusion of the President's
speech to offer a substantive response.

The luncheon briefing will be held on Monday, June 8th, 1998, at the Regal
UN Plaza Hotel in the Trygve Lie room on the 28th floor of the East Tower.
The Regal UN Plaza is on 44th street between 1st and 2nd avenues.

The Lindesmith Center, under whose auspices the briefing takes place, is
coordinating a response to the United Nations "Drug Summit." The Lindesmith
Center sponsored a two-page New York Times advertisement which features an
open letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan, in which over 500 global
experts stated their opposition to the UN's drug policy. Among the signers
were former UN General Secretary Javier Perez de Cuellar, former US
Secretary of State George Shultz, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias,
former White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, former US Ambassador to Moscow
Robert Strauss, former CBS News Anchor Walter Cronkite and many others.

Speakers at the briefing will include Dr. Ethan Nadelmann, Director of The
Lindesmith Center, former Ambassador from the Netherlands to Germany, Jan
van der Tas, Joe McNamara, former Chief of Police, San Jose, California and
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute; Coletta Youngers, Senior Associate,
Washington Office on Latin America, Dr. Alex Wodak, Director, Alcohol and
Drug Services, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, and Kevin Zeese,
President of Common Sense for Drug Policy.

Common Sense for Drug Policy has advertised against the UN Drug Summit on
CNN and other outlets. Because the commercial uses film footage of
President Clinton, the White House demanded that the commercials be
withdrawn. The ads were maintained for broadcast nonetheless. Copies of
the ad will be available at the press briefing in Beta, PAL, and VHS
formats. Contact Ty Trippet at The Lindesmith Center for further
information (212-548-0604).

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Checked-by: Richard Lake