Further bilateral and multilateral agreements were also envisaged to ensure that each country's armed forces participated in joint anti-drug initiatives.

Critics say the American military attack on Panama, justified in part as an anti-drug initiative, has only fragmented what is already a largely ineffective effort.

The Mayor said the city needed the additional officers to insure that the crime rate continues to fall and to bolster his anti-drug initiatives.

The target of a new anti-drug initiative now speeding toward final Congressional approval is a worthy one - big international drug traffickers.

The Police Department's anti-drug initiatives have targeted drug gangs and dealers in all boroughs of the city.

The American attack on Panama, justified as an anti-drug initiative, has further bungled plans for a cohesive regional plan, critics say.

In itself, the incremental costs of Mr. Bush's anti-drug initiative are not huge.

One official familiar with the anti-drug initiatives says there are five or six a month.

Now that more officers are out on anti-drug initiatives, the argument goes, they are not in patrol cars, available to respond to 911 calls.

However it also does a great deal of work on its own; environmental surveys and clean-up operations, anti-drug initiatives, social programs, etc.