TITLE

Refocusing

AUTHOR(S)

Fenyvesi, Charles

PUB. DATE

June 1994

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;6/6/94, Vol. 116 Issue 22, p24

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

States that Thomas Constantine, the new head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), plans a basic shift in strategy. Sources who say the DEA will pull back from concentrating on battling major cocaine organizations in favor of renewed emphasis on street-level trafficking and drug-related violence; New links to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

ACCESSION #

9406017559

 

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