Dole offers anti-crime package t Villanova

The Associated Press ''President Clinton has opened the crime pipeline up again,'' Dole charged. Surrounded by 13 Republican governors, including Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, Dole said Clinton "talks like Dirty Harry but acts like Barney Fife.'' Dole promised to cut drug use among teens in half, double federal prison spending, require work from prison inmates and try violent juveniles as adults. He also said he would use the White House spotlight to teach America's young people that drugs and crime are wrong. Dole's anti-crime package also proposed a tracking system to keep handguns away from criminals, his response to the Clinton-backed Brady law, which also requires a five-day waiting period to purchase guns. Dole opposes the waiting period. And Dole said he will support a constitutional amendment protecting the rights of crime victims. ''Thanks to the liberal wink-and-a-nod policies of this administration, drug use among teenagers has not just started up again but is skyrocketing upward,'' Dole said. ''When I'm president, I don't intend to wink at drugs.'' It was the beginning of what the Dole campaign promises will be an aggressive focus on drugs and crime to erode Clinton's double-digit lead in national polls. But the president, traveling to Ohio yesterday, threatened to overshadow Dole on the traditionally strong Republican issue of crime by picking up the endorsement from the nation's largest police union -- the 270,000-member National Fraternal Order of Police.