DOLE PLEDGES TO USE TROOPS IN DRUG WAR : CANDIDATE FAULTS RESPONSE TO IRAQIS.

Byline: Katharine Q. Seelye The New York Times

Bob Dole campaigned before two distinctly different audiences here Sunday, telling the National Guard that he would enlist them in the war against drugs and telling members of B'nai B'rith that he was intolerant of discrimination, which he said he understood because of his own physical disability.

The reactions of the two crowds to the Republican presidential nominee could not have been more disparate. The tens of thousands of members of the National Guard, many wearing their dark green uniforms, cheered and applauded mightily at Dole's recognition of their service and their abilities.

Across town an hour later in a smaller hotel room, a few hundred members of B'nai B'rith, the world's oldest and largest Jewish organization, greeted Dole politely but with little enthusiasm.

Many in the audience were Democrats who support President Clinton and are familiar with Dole's public record on Israel, including his call six years ago to cut U.S. aid.

As the crisis in Iraq mounted during the day, Dole told both groups that Clinton had been weak and indecisive toward Saddam Hussein. ``Saddam has been testing American leadership and finding it lacking,'' Dole said, going on to ridicule Vice President Al Gore for saying the United States should merely ``analyze'' the situation.

``We don't need to analyze Saddam's actions,'' he said. ``We need to condemn them.''

To the National Guard, Dole was a tough aspiring commander in chief, asserting that if his plans to deploy the guard to help eradicate drugs did not succeed, he would consider ``giving the U.S. military lead responsibility for stopping the flow of illegal drugs across our borders.''

It was not clear whether he meant he might expand the military's existing role to help stop the flow across the borders, perhaps putting the Pentagon in command of the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Coast Guard, and the customs authorities, or whether he would also broaden the military role to include activities on U.S. territory.

The use of the armed forces for domestic law-enforcement purposes is basically outlawed, and any president would undoubtedly face tough sledding in the Congress in trying to alter that concept.

The National Guard already participates in numerous anti-drug efforts, chiefly involving surveillance. Last week, Dole announced that he would increase the guard's participation, and Sunday he said he would increase the money to allow the guard to become more active, among other things, in the eradication of marijuana.

To growers, he issued this stringent warning: ``If you are growing this trash, beware: You will be whacked, stacked and jailed.''

He similarly put other countries on notice that if they did not cooperate with his anti-drug measures, ``We will halt all assistance and cooperation, and we will impose comprehensive sanctions - no ifs, ands or buts.''

In a statement, the Clinton campaign complained that Dole voted against Clinton's expansion of the safe and drug-free schools program in 1994 and that the Republican Congress had cut the president's overall drug-fighting budget for this year.

The federal government provides $158 million for the guard to combat drugs. Dole said he would raise it to the 1993 level of $230 million - one more spending pledge that came with no explanation of how this fit into his overall economic plan to cut taxes and balance the budget in six years.

Dole also pledged the full force of his leadership to elevate the war against drugs to a priority.

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Photo: Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole smiles du ring his introduction at a National Guard Association meeting Sunday.

Associated Press