Word: cohen
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Jackson cites a history of racially motivated insults directed his way, including his daughter's admissions interview for Harvard three years ago. In a Crimson interview. Jackson charges Chicago attorney Stephen B. Cohen '61 with "harassment" of Santita Jackson because of her father's 1979 meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat...
...Moscow, a pair of visiting U.S. Senators thought they saw signs of a new Soviet interest in an old U.S. nuclear arms-control proposal. Republican William Cohen of Maine and Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware met with Soviet leaders last week to discuss the so-called build-down concept, which would require the two superpowers to destroy one or more old nuclear weapons for each new one they make. The idea, first proposed by Cohen just over a year ago, was embraced by the Reagan Administration and incorporated into a new arms-control offer shortly before the Geneva talks broke...
...trade reductions in large, land-based ICBMs, in which they have a big lead over the U.S., for limits on bombers and cruise missiles, in which the U.S. has the edge. "If you don't like the ratios or percentages," the Senators said, "then make your own proposal." Cohen told Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kornienko: "You can call it the Kornienko Plan, I don't care. But don't stay away from the table." Asked by the Soviets whether the build-down proposal was just posturing by the President to win reelection, Democrat Biden stated...
...Just because we have more money to give out, we're not going to lower our standards" in distributing funds, said Ethan H. Cohen '86, the co-chairman of the grants committee...
...resolution to that effect would reach the House floor in about a month. Though Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker insists that his Republicans will back the President, many are restlessly eyeing opinion polls favoring withdrawal. "There is a lot of discontent on our side," says G.O.P. Senator William Cohen of Maine. Still, few Congressmen want to be blamed for "losing Lebanon." As a result, Congress may seek a compromise. Among the proposals: stationing the troops on ships offshore and ferrying them to the mainland for patrols; calling for the accelerated withdrawal of the Marines, but without setting a deadline that...