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...Perle and others in the Pentagon were unsigned: the implication was that it was leaked after receipt elsewhere in the Government. A fine point, perhaps, but by week's end Washington insiders were convinced that other players had more motive for mischief. Said Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen: "You can just as easily assume it was the liberals trying to embarrass the President into a negotiating posture as you can believe it was conservatives trying to forestall concessions...
Impatient with the organizational snarl, some Congressmen want to establish the Special Forces as an entirely separate service. Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine is pushing a plan that would carve out all of the Special Forces missions performed by the military and put them under a new civilian-run agency, reporting to the Secretary of Defense, that would control and deploy the units...
...decision has stirred a legal tempest. Harriet Cohen, president of the New York Women's Bar Association, calls it "a major victory for justice and fair play." Philadelphia Lawyer Edward Blumstein disagrees. "The highest court in New York," he says, "has created a legal fiction." In fact, the New York decision is not unique; 13 other states, by statute or court ruling, recognize a spousal property interest in a professional degree. But, asks Harry Tindall, chairman of the family-law section of the state bar of Texas, "if a college professor has tenure, how do you quantify that? Will...
Through the years, both nations have often proclaimed their fealty to a world without nuclear weapons and occasionally presented vague plans with phrases like those used by Gorbachev last week. In 1952 Benjamin Cohen, the American delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission, offered a set of guidelines that included "the dead" of all instruments adaptable to mass destruction." Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 declared Moscow's support for "general and complete disarmament." The phrase became a staple of Soviet pronouncements and a regular item on the U.N. agenda, though the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have never quite been able...
...anticipate that over the next few years the situation will improve, reflecting a higher consciousness about the need for greater faculty diversity resulting from the crisis of this past academic year,” Cohen writes in an e-mail...