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WASHINGTON: A joint TIME-CNN report that claims the U.S. military dropped sarin nerve gas some 20 times during the Vietnam war has caused something of a stir in the corridors of power. Defense Secretary William Cohen asked his staff to hunt for evidence of sarin deployment Monday, while Rep. David Skaggs (D-Colo.) of the House Intelligence Committee -- himself a Vietnam vet -- said he found the story "absolutely stunning and appalling if it is substantiated." Skaggs launched his own inquiry to attempt just that...
...this case, however, evidence is a little hard to come by. "Black Ops" don't leave paper trails, and that allows for official deniability. Cohen's Vietnam-era predecessor, Melvin Laird, claims the U.S. shipped a "small amount" of sarin to Saigon in 1967, but never used it. "I have no recollection of any operation like that," Laird told reporters Monday. "It doesn't seem logical to me." As for retired admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told CNN reporter Peter Arnett that President Nixon had approved the use of sarin -- well, Moorer...
Self-interest found its way into this year's race for council offices as Stewart and Samuel C. Cohen '00, current council vice president, baited students with "Larry King Live," "The Real World" and "South Park." The students...
...think in some ways it shows the student body wants us to focus on things that make a day-to-day difference," Cohen said following the election...
...stock has doubled three times in the past four years. Microsoft is now in the midst of a 14% pullback that began a month ago. History suggests this is a buying opportunity. "The value of the enterprise more than offsets the risk of the antitrust suit," says Jonathan Cohen, tech analyst at Merrill Lynch. He hasn't budged from his buy rating. Neither has Art Russell, tech analyst at Edward Jones, who says that "this stock is filet mignon--expensive, but a helluva steak...