"This incident will absolutely have no affect on the drug strategy," Chief Chapman said.

During their years out of power, alternative drug strategies have piled up like Chinese menus under the door.

Seeking to minimize expectations about a grand, national drug strategy, the report said there was no one answer to fighting drugs.

And much of that $2.2 billion would go for Federal prisons needed with or without a drug strategy.

We have responded faithfully to the request of the Congress to produce our nation's first national drug strategy.

The figure was not in the Government's latest drug strategy, released last Thursday, because the details were still being worked out, he said.

President Clinton is scheduled to announce the new drug strategy later this month.

But many scientists and biotechnology executives say they doubt that the drug strategy will work.

The Administration issued a national drug strategy last week that emphasized health issues.

These differences are not irrelevant; they reflect a fundamental disagreement over the future design of drug strategies.