Executive Director and lead a three-year strategic plan to combat drug abuse.

---- Page 2 DRUNK DRIVING EFFORT PRAISED GVT DGS Drunk driving effort praised Members of a local medical organisation this week heaped praise upon Government for moving to deter deadly drunk driving. And the Bermuda Medical Society Road Safety sub-committee members called for further measures to help decrease the road traffic accident rate. ---- Page 2 MAN LIED IN STATEMENT CTS Man lied in statement A man yesterday claimed that he lied in a Police statement out of fear for his safety. During the second day of a Police assault trial in Magistrates' Court, complainant Harvey Elswood Williams, Jr.

testified that after an alleged beating by Police he concocted a story about selling drugs to avoid further attacks. ---- Page 2 MEETINGS TO HELP SLOOP FUND FNR SLG Meetings to help sloop fund Sailors raising $3 million to build an 1830s Bermuda sloop are to explain their plans at a series of public meetings around the Island. The Bermuda Sloop Steering Committee, which wants to run the ship as a sail training vessel, is already canvassing for funds to pay for the project. ---- Page 3 ROCHE REPORTS JUMP IN SALES BUC Roche reports jump in sales ZURICH -- Swiss pharmaceuticals group Roche Holding AG, which last year said it was buying Bermuda-based Corange Ltd., said 1997 sales rose nearly 18 percent and that it would boost net profit excluding takeover charges. ---- Business, Page 7 ADEN IN THRILLING VICTORY RUN Aden in thrilling victory Somalia's Ibrahin Aden denied Irishman Marcus O'Sullivan a third straight Front Street Mile victory last night when he pipped his rival at the post in a thrilling five-man finish. In wet and windy conditions Aden clocked 4:08.3 nipping O'Sullivan by just sixth tenths of a second with Kenya's Rueben Chesane a close third. ---- Sport, Page 13 FAHY SETS ANOTHER RECORD SW Fahy sets another record In typical Bermuda winter weather -- cool, wet and blustery -- local swimmer Stephen Fahy set a new senior national record of 57.20 seconds in the 100 metres butterfly heats at the World Championships in Perth, Australia, yesterday. ---- Sport, Page 13