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21 U.S. News features excerpts from Sen. Long's speech charging cheating and mismanagement are inflating welfare costs. Long says the welfare system and HR 1 condone and encourage such actions and that Cong. has responsibility to correct short-comings by whatever means it takes to assure honest administration of the program. NBC noted Senate Finance voted unanimously to increase Social Security benefits so that everyone who's worked 30 years will receive at least $200/month with $300 going to married couples. Long said the increase should help reduce the welfare rolls. DRUGS Justice's Ambrose said the dept. will ask $2. 3M to finance its 33 city drive to disrupt heroin traffic. UPI notes program efforts already underway in NYC Ambrose said the new anti-heroin crusade represents an approach not tried before -- disrupting heroin traffic at the local level. In its 6-page cover article on drug abuse, U.S. News features an interview with Ambrose on how the nationwide crackdown on heroin peddlers will work. He, pointing out the US is in the midst of an epidemic of hard-drug usage of which black victims are a "very substantial" percentage, says RN has personally mounted a campaign involving all facets of gov't. to do something about the problem. U.S. News also outlines increasing internatl. support of US drive on drug traffic. Kleindienst said he believes marijuana is harmful and will not be legalized. In its lead note Time notes RN's "bad time with special-study commissions - - they keep recommending things he doesn't approve of. 11 Newsweek also notes RN's and the public's - opposition to pot legalization. U.S. News in article "Drive To Curb Hard Drugs Gets a No. 1 Priority" reviews last week's dramatization of the "Fed. blitz against narcotics;" highlights RN's message to criminals and addicts that drug trafficking won't be tolerated, and says RN has "assumed direct

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