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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (160959)	7/14/2001 11:56:21 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

Good thing Bush isn't applying for college aid.......Drug Clause on Student Aid Form Could Turn Away Thousands By Associated Press Sunday, July 15, 2001; Page A02 A ban on giving federal aid to college students with drug convictions could mean more than 34,000 people will be denied loans and grants in the coming school year -- more than triple those turned away in 2000-01. The increase would be the result of new wording in the Education Department's aid application, enabling it to screen for people with drug records. But the change has brought loud protests against the ban on aid to people with drug convictions. Even the ban's author says enforcement has been taken too far. Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.) intended the aid ban -- approved by Congress in 1998 -- to apply only to college students already getting loans or grants when convicted, an aide said. Instead, education officials -- first in the Clinton administration and now under President Bush -- are denying aid to people with previous drug convictions. Souder is trying to get enforcement efforts to match his intent, said Angela Flood, Souder's chief of staff. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) has introduced a bill that would repeal the relevant provisions. The fledgling Students for Sensible Drug Policy, with 140 campus chapters, is also aiming for repeal.

To: puborectalis who wrote (160959)	7/15/2001 12:27:56 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

U.S. Ballistic Missile-Shield Test a Success dailynews.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department shot down a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean late on Saturday in a successful test of a controversial anti-ballistic missile defense. Two out of the three previous tests had failed. The $100 million test involved a Minuteman 2 intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California and an interceptor fired from Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 4,800 miles away. The Defense Department said the target was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:40 p.m. EDT. Twenty-one minutes and 34 seconds later, a ground-based interceptor lifted off from Kwajalein Atoll, it said. The target was destroyed 140 miles above the central Pacific, outside the earth's atmosphere, by the 120-pound ``kill vehicle.''