The Region - News from Aug. 11, 1985

Already campaigning for his party’s nomination in next year’s U.S. Senate race in California, incumbent Democrat Sen. Alan Cranston climbed aboard a bus to tour areas of high crime in Southeast and South-Central Los Angeles. Cranston announced support for several proposals to try to stem the tide of hard drugs into the United States, including the use of U.S. military personnel at the borders. Cranston, touring the areas with representatives of the South Central Organizing Committee and the United Neighborhoods Organization, said he supports the groups’ demands for an “anti-drug czar” to oversee local and nationwide enforcement of drug laws. Cranston, first elected to the Senate in 1968, said he also backed a SCOC-UNO proposal to abolish the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System headed by Vice President George Bush, calling the system a “well-intended” but ineffective arm of the federal bureaucracy.