GINGRICH ATTACKS DEMOCRAT DRUG USE.Byline: Tara Tara (târ`ə), village, Co. Meath, E Republic of Ireland. The Hill of Tara (507 ft/155 m high) was the seat of the high kings of Ireland from ancient times until the 6th cent. Meyers Meyers may refer to: People
Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A late night at the Olympic Opening Ceremony didn't keep House Speaker Newt Gingrich from launching a fresh attack Saturday on Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law staff members who've admitted using drugs. But the Clinton-Gore campaign immediately fired back, saying Gingrich himself has admitted using marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. as a graduate student. Gingrich, speaking to about 50 people at a Republican breakfast, criticized White House press secretary Mike McCurry, who acknowledged last week that he had used marijuana 20 years ago. On Wednesday, McCurry said, ``I was a kid in the 1970s. Did I smoke a joint from time to time? Of course I did. The FBI knows that.'' He also said, ``The point is, if I use drugs now, in any shape or form, I'm gone, I'm history.'' Gingrich said McCurry should have admitted it was a mistake. ``They have a presidential press secretary in the White House, on camera, who says, of course he did marijuana in college, as though every student in America this year ought to say, well, I can be like Mike McCurry,'' the Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. Republican said. ``The whole point of `just say no' is to try to reach out to people and say in the '60s, you may have experimented, in the '70s, you may have experimented,'' he said. ``It was a mistake. It wasn't an `of course.' '' In an instant reaction, Joe Lockhart, spokesman for the Clinton-Gore campaign, said Gingrich has been quoted in print indicating he, too, had used marijuana as a student. Lockhart supplied a copy of an article in the Sept. 30, 1995, issue of The Economist in which Gingrich was asked about marijuana smoking when he was a student. The reply: ``That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era.'' Lockhart's comment: ``It seems like the speaker is trying to have it both ways here. Given his criteria, one can only conclude that the only people who didn't use marijuana were dead.'' At the GOP breakfast, the speaker also attacked Clinton on a matter the president hopes will aid his re-election campaign against Bob Dole dole, distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. - a lasting economic recovery. ``Under Clinton, this economy's growth is slower than in 23 of the last 30 years,'' Gingrich said. ``It was supposedly recovery. It's the weakest recovery in recent history. We need to lower taxes, to lower litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , to lower regulation and to have more economic growth and more jobs.'' The breakfast was a quick political appearance for Gingrich, still a bit bleary-eyed from Friday night's Olympic ceremony. |
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