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Glennon also informed us that the U.N. charter provides for a supranational police force which would undertake peacekeeping missions. I had always assumed the isolationist fears of an international army that did not operate under U.S. supervision were paranoid fantasies, but I didn't know that such an army was, in fact, the brainchild and fondest hope of those who founded...
EDUCATION Backs increased public-school choice, including more publicly funded but independent "charter schools" but opposes vouchers for private schools. Has called for a $43-billion plan of tax credits and deductions to make college more affordable...
BORN: Dec. 6, 1932, Boise, Idaho EDUCATION: U of Southern California, B.A., 1961; U of Utah, M.S.W., 1964; Arizona State U, C.P.M, 1979. FAMILY: Wife, Jennie RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1950-53, 1954-57 OCCUPATION: Management consultant; professor POLITICAL CAREER: Maricopa County charter government commissioner, 1995-96 ADDRESS: 1525 N. Central, Phoenix...
...flee to South Florida, and the Administration began discouraging more escapees by detaining the rafters indefinitely at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The core group urged Clinton to punish Havana by halting airline flights to Cuba, but State Department moderates lobbied to maintain informal exchanges, including charter flights. Morton Halperin, the National Security Council's point man on Cuba, circulated a draft presidential speech offering carrots to Castro if he adopted reforms. Hard-liners, led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, Michael Skol, allied themselves with the core group and launched a guerrilla...
Rollins received a planning grant in 1991 from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop a charter school. He hopes to open the South Bronx Academy of Art soon...