Peter Ueberroth, the Olympics entrepreneur, baseball commissioner and drug scourge, might fill the bill and shore up the ticket in California.

Then came crack cocaine, a drug scourge more socially corrosive than any seen before.

More eloquence but fewer specifics marked Mr. Goldin's remarks, particularly his response to a basic question about the reasons for the drug scourge.

One solution to the drug scourge in our cities is readily available.

Not even those who believe there are some hopeful signs suggest that the drug scourge has vanished.

Professor Friedman said that relying on the criminal law to stop drug use - the policy of the last many decades - in fact helped to cause the drug scourge.

"Eliminating the drug scourge."

Remember your Inauguration Day pledge -the drug scourge will end.

"The drug scourge in America is too much for any locality to take care of," the Mayor said.

Since then, the drug scourge, slightly less virulent as the number of murders in the 105th dropped to 26 in 1988, has moved on.