Word: cohen
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...addition, the country has been suffering from a huge trade deficit ($5.1 billion in 1983). Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad tackled the problem last fall by devaluing the shekel and slicing government expenditures by 6%. That harsh remedy began to work: the trade deficit for the first five months of 1984 was 25% less than for the same period of 1983. Unemployment remains low by Western standards (5.7%), but many Israelis fear that it will continue to rise if measures are taken to cool inflation...
...deployed controversial intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Secretary of State George Shultz traveled to the Hill to cajole key members. Also making pleas to Senators were ambassadors from West Germany, Britain and Italy. Nunn's amendment was defeated by a 55-41 vote, but only after Maine Republican William Cohen had worked out a less drastic alternative: U.S. troops would stay at the present level while the allies would be prodded to increase their commitments. Said Nunn afterward: "I achieved what I set out to do, trigger a serious debate. The main objective is to provoke European allies into doing...
Reagan telephoned Cohen, saying that he liked the build-down idea. But Pentagon and NSC officials did not. Reagan was interested in the possibility of collaboration with moderates on the Hill; his advisers, however, were concerned about the sub stance of the build-down proposal, which would lump bombers and cruise missiles together with ballistic missiles. That feature, known as "comprehensiveness" or "aggregation" of bombers and missiles, might have helped...
McFarlane told Cohen that the build-down scheme was being "thoroughly scrubbed"-i.e., studied-by an interagency committee; McFarlane told his own staff he was hoping that the idea could be "killed with kindness." Suspecting as much, Cohen accused McFarlane of "nitpicking the plan to death." He warned that the Administration's support for the MX was "eggshell thin." On McFarlane's advice, Reagan appointed a commission of outside experts that initially was supposed to answer the old, troublesome question of how to base the MX; later its charter was extended to advise on arms-control policy more...
...part of the script called for him to respond to Aspin by holding a press conference and by saying that he thought the double build-down "fits well with what the commission has recommended." Flying across the country to attend the funeral of Washington Senator Henry Jackson, Nunn and Cohen conceived a letter similar to Scowcroft's, which they released in mid-September. The Senators stated that the build-down plan that Kent helped devise contained "the ingredients for a bipartisan consensus...