The pols in Arkansas sure knew about the drugs of Mena.

How come the American press has yet to tell the American
people?  AP reported it, but I am unaware of even one newspaper
picking up this report, or a more damning Mena story that the 
AP ran on September 24, 1991.

Larry
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"Bryant Stands by His Ads, Speeches"
The Associated Press
November 1, 1990

      LITTLE ROCK (AP) _ Lt. Gov. Winston Bryant, the Democratic
  nominee for attorney general, said Thursday he stands by the
  television advertisements and speeches that prompted a defamation
  suit from his Republican opponent.
          In the suit, Republican candidate Asa Hutchinson said Bryant
  made false statements in campaign commercials and at news
  conferences.
         The suit claims the misstatements dealt with campaign funds
  that  Hutchinson accepted in 1986 and his handling of a drug
  investigation when he was U.S. attorney for the Western District of
   Arkansas.
           Hutchinson filed the suit Monday.
          Bryant said Thursday in a news release that he had not received
   a copy of the complaint.
       "I stand by the statements in both my campaign advertising and
   speeches," Bryant said in the release. "I have presented Mr.
   Hutchinson's public record fairly and accurately and will continue
   to so as part of the political process."
          In the suit and in public statements, Hutchinson has said
   Bryant  was wrong in accusing him of accepting illegal campaign
   contributions in 1986.
         The contributions were from the National Republican Senatorial
   Committee during Hutchinson's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S.
   Senate against a Democratic incumbent, Dale Bumpers.
         Bryant also has accused Hutchinson, when he was U.S. attorney,
   of not investigating claims that a suspected cocaine dealer was
   running a cocaine-distribution operation at the Mena airport in the
   early 1980s.