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    "ocrText": "GS: Yeah, that's a tough question. I think as far as orchestrating\nthe government, I think we made the most move in drug abuse. As\nfar as, what has happened is that we got good initiatives going,\nwe weren't able to pursue it, keep on top of it, we lost\nPresidential interest as it were. I mean, you know, you just\ncouldn't keep it going. Now, because of that inattention or\nbecause of our inability to keep hammering away at it, keep it in\nthe forefront of public consciousness, drug abuse is on the rise.\nSo, we are having to look at it more carefully again now. As far\nas a single problem that was put together and solved, it's the\nhijacking program. At the time there was a big effort to create a\nfederal force of three thousand people to supervise all the entry.\nWe worked instead to develop a program where the person flying\npaid the extra cost, rather than the general taxpayer. That was\nself-regulating SO that technological improvements could occur.\nYou know now those metal detector tests are much more\nsophisticated, the x-rays are much more sophisticated. That\noccurred because the airlines were held responsible and the\nairports were held responsible. We had a very satisfactory\nresult: there were twenty-two hijackings the year before we put\nit into effect, we had to--well, [John H.] Shaffer got fired, the\nhead of FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] got fired because he\nfought it SO much, didn't want to acknowledge that hijackings were\na problem. The major reason for his lack of reappointment was he\nwould not take Presidential direction in that area. The other guy\nwho worked on that was Bill [William A.] Boleyn at OMB. He was\nhead of an organization called Program Coordination, you know,\n25"
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