DIRECTOR DEMANDS $141 MILLION MORE FOR DRUG PROGRAM

In an unprecedented move, President Clinton's drugpolicy director ordered
the Defense Department on Thursday to add $141 million to its planned
spending on drugcontrol programs in the next budget year.

In a letter to Defense Secretary William Cohen, Barry McCaffrey said his
office could not certify that the Pentagon's proposed $809 million
drugfighting budget for fiscal 1999 was adequate to implement the
president's drugcontrol policy.

"To correct the deficiencies," the Pentagon must include an additional $141
million in drugcontrol programs to strengthen operations in Mexico, the
Andes, the Caribbean and along the U.S. southern border, McCaffrey wrote.
S At the Pentagon, spokesman Kenneth Bacon said $140 million is excessive
"at a time when we are being asked to do more with less."