The Nation - News from Jan. 13, 1986
The publisher of the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times, responding to negative reaction by employees, said he would reconsider a plan to bring drug-sniffing dogs into the building. “I am totally overwhelmed by the response that memo got,” James H. Hale, publisher and chairman of the board at the Kansas City Star Co., said about the notice of a new anti-drug policy by the company’s owner, Capital Cities-ABC Inc. Executives announced last week that drug-sniffing dogs would be sent into its newspaper and television offices as part of a crackdown on drugs.
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