Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WILLIAM S. COHEN (R-ME) Institute of Politics...
Leaving his one-story home in the 150-member Gilgal kibbutz, Jerusalem-born Ami Cohen, 35, carries no weapon and seems oblivious to the border with Jordan, just four miles away. Indeed, the auto mechanic often bicycles around Gilgal dressed in little more than a swimsuit and a smile. He says he feels as safe in the kibbutz as he would anywhere else in Israel. Three years ago, Ami and his wife Chantal, 29, abandoned city life in Jerusalem and, with their three young children, joined the thousands of Jewish settlers in the West Bank...
DIED. Wilbur Cohen, 73, scrappy, reform-minded New Deal Democrat who helped draft the Social Security Act (1935) and Medicare (1965), served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1968-69) under Lyndon Johnson, and later became a public affairs professor at the University of Texas; of a heart attack; in Seoul, while attending a conference on aging...
...tedious testimony about secret bank accounts and weapons shipments. As one White House aide predicts, viewers (and the networks) are sure to switch back to the soap operas except when some of the major witnesses are on camera. "Our responsibility is not to entertain, but to inform," says Cohen, whose eloquence in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment debate helped propel him into the Senate...
...often emerges from the accumulation of dry details, the nation will be shown how some in the Administration used a shady network to undermine America's policy of not trading for hostages and to circumvent laws prohibiting the Government from supplying military aid to the contras. The critical lesson, Cohen predicts, will be the discovery that "you can't formulate policy in some dark corner without heading toward anarchy...