ALBANY: ADS ATTACKING PATAKI WON'T AIR

The Spanish-language television station Univision (WXTV) has decided not to
resume broadcasting commercials that attack Gov. George E. Pataki for
failing to offer substantive changes of the Rockefeller drug laws. The
advertisements were pulled last week after an aide to the governor, who is
also running ads on the station, called them "blatantly untruthful." The
Drug Policy Alliance then changed the commercials to fix a factual error,
but a spokeswoman for Univision said the station's lawyers were still
concerned that the commercials were misleading. In a statement, the
Alliance said the station was "caving to Gov. George Pataki's attempt to
squelch free speech."