NATION IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Urban Leaders List Drugs as Top Worry
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Drug problems worsened last year in 58% of the nation’s cities, making the issue the top worry of urban leaders, a survey by the National League of Cities said. Fewer than one city in 10 reported making headway in the war on drugs. Alan Beals, league executive director, said in Washington that rather than going to the states, the $2.2 billion in federal drug aid is “needed in our cities where the war against drugs is being fought.”
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