Word: cohen
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...airport restaurant, was on her way to work when she saw the plane dropping its bomb. "When I arrived at the airport a few minutes later," she said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen of Maine were about to arrive in Managua for talks with Sandinista officials when the attack began. Their U.S. Air Force C140 transport was ordered into a holding pattern and then diverted to Honduras. The Senators arrived in Managua later in the day and surveyed the damaged airport with Nicaraguan officials...
...Kenneth Cohen, legal counsel for Charles Draper Laboratories-the local firm that would be most acutely affected by the proposed ban on nuclear research and production and an intervener in the Supreme Judicial Court case on behalf of the council-has challenged the city's right to place the measure on the ballot...
Tower's declaration, coupled with Majority Leader Howard Baker's decision last January not to seek reelection, reflects a rumbling discontent among top Senate Republicans. "A lot of people are frustrated," says William Cohen of Maine, who is up for re-election next year."Some think that the Senate, which is supposed to be a place for great debate, turns into a house of farce from time to time." Part of the problem: Republicans find that having a majority in the Senate, which they gained in 1980 for the first time in 28 years, is hardly more rewarding...
DIED. Benjamin V. Cohen, 88, principal draftsman of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early New Deal legislation; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. One of the brightest of F.D.R.'s bright young men, Cohen came to Washington via Harvard Law School and a New York practice and quickly established himself as the most liberal troubleshooter in the President's brain trust. The bashful, bespectacled corporate lawyer-in partnership with the flamboyant politician Thomas G. Corcoran-masterminded the details of establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act and other governmental landmarks. Cohen...
Robin Freedman, counsel for Nuclear Free Cambridge, said after the meeting that "under the law it should go on the ballot." But Kenneth A. Cohen, the Draper attorney, said. As I understand it, they voted go on the merits on the measure...