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No Cure For Addiction

"There is no cure for hard
drug addiction...therefore we
have to stop the pusher," he
said. He proposed to do this by
enacting mandatory life
sentences for drug pushers.

"The public support has
been great," he commented,
but he has been criticized by
those who say the court system
cannot handle the load.

"I have said that I would
appoint a hundred new judges
and set up a hundred new
courts to take care of the
problem. This has caused some
of the critics to be confused,"
Mr. Rockefeller said.

With the new laws, he
hopes to eliminate the
situation where 22,000 people

are arrested on drug charges in
New York and only 400 are
jailed.

Mr. Rockefeller also
discussed what he considered
the growing corruption of the
court and police system. He
has proposed to the New York
legislature that judges be
elected instead of appointed
and the commissions be set up
that would be similar to ones
in California that would
investigate corruption.

According to Mr.
Rockefeller, ecology also
presents problems that have
not been faced realistically.

"Our nation owes a debt of
gratitude to the youth of
America for making the
environmental issue known,"
he said.