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Departing are Jill McCorkle, who had completed her five-year term as a lecturer, and Robert Cohen, who is leaving after his fourth year to accept a similar job at Middlebury College...
Over the Easter weekend, President Bill Clinton gave his approval for U.S. defense contractors to market jet fighters to Chile. The decision represented a victory for the new Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, whose Pentagon had pushed hard for lifting restrictions that Washington has had for almost 20 years on the sale of jets to Latin America. For Madeleine Albright, who argued against rushing into the jet sales and who had vowed to reign supreme over U.S. foreign policy as Clinton's second Secretary of State, the decision represented a defeat. Latin America is thus poised to begin an arms...
...Bill Cohen, who as a Maine Senator received $10,100 from the jet manufacturers' PACs, had signed the letter to Christopher demanding an end to the restrictions. Now he lobbied the White House to send Chile the F-16 and F/A-18 specifications before March 31, warning that the Americans would be left out of the bidding if they missed the deadline...
...misgivings. The Chileans weren't serious about their deadline, she argued. They would wait. First, before aerospace companies began peddling their wares, the Administration needed to decide whether it wanted to change its Latin American arms policy. But by now the arms lobby was too formidable. Clinton sided with Cohen, insisting that the green light to send jet specifications didn't necessarily mean the Administration would later approve their sale. But in the past, sales licenses have almost always followed if an American company won a bid overseas. "We have a different situation now than we did in the late...
...rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center. "If you don't learn the rules fast, you could be dead...