Drug policy director Gil Kerlikowske says recent findings have suggested a softening in the concerns of young people about the risks of drugs.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

Gil Kerlikowske heads the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

A spokesman for the Japanese whaling fleet earlier accused the Sea Shepherd group of using the Ady Gil to attack its vessels.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Gil Kerlikowske is the top U.S.drug control official, commonly known as America's drug czar.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says one of its boats,the Ady Gil, a sleek high-technology speed boat, was rammed and sliced in half by a Japanese ship,the Shonan Maru.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"The Ady Gil then put out a distress signal, a mayday signal, which was ignored and not acknowledged by the Japanese and then they sped away from the scene of this incident."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"When the skipper on the Ady Gil saw the Shonan Maru moving in to strike him, he put his engines in reverse to get out of the way, which probably saved some of his crew but it ripped the front end of the vessel off and caused catastrophic damage to the Ady Gil,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06