Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the DEA is already plunging ahead with Operation Snowcap, a hemisphere-wide program that shifts emphasis from crop eradication to search- and-destroy missions against clandestine labs, airstrips, riverboats and warehouses. Last year DEA chief John Lawn, U.S. Ambassador Alexander Watson and Peruvian officials agreed to build a secure base for Snowcap activities in the Upper Huallaga. The deal called for the U.S. to haul bulldozers to a settlement called Santa Lucia, where an airstrip would be cleared so that cargo planes could land supplies. The State Department, however, objected to having U.S. Army Engineers air-drop the bulldozers...
...family placed a high priority on education,according to Watson. But the school authorities inBrooklyn didn't assign an equally high value toWatson's education, he says. Classified aslearning disabled in elementary school for noparticular reason, Watson continued his career inthe public schools during the height of the BlackPower movement and the urban riots of the late1960s...
...experience he recounts from the period wasformative in molding his commitment to opening upeducational opportunities to Blacks. New YorkUniversity spent eight months filming adocumentary about Watson's school, and the nightit was released, "I'll never forget how I cried,"he says. The reason: "The entire movie was justhorrendous--it just basically said that there wasno talent [at his school], none...
...Watson's response: He "stormed" into theprincipal's office and complained about the movieand its portrayal of his fellow students...
...Watson says he has not had a choice inpursuing his activist course, despite thefrustrations he has encountered. "When you'retagged, you're it--that's what a minister oncetold me. It's something I could not refuse...