Word: wrobleski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department has accused Lilly of going AWOL in the war against narcotics. U.S. officials say the crucial test for Spike will be conducted in the Andes over the next 90 days and insist that no decision should be made until then. In a press conference last week, Ann Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics, asserted that the Upper Huallaga Valley "is not suitable for crops. Peasants moved into the valley to grow coca, period." She pointed out that the cocaine traffickers, who use the area to process the raw leaf into cocaine paste, have inflicted the most...
...murdered. In the case of Ochoa, a leader of the Medellin cartel who is wanted in the U.S., Hoyos was investigating a group of officials, including two judges, who are suspected of accepting bribes to help Ochoa walk out of prison. "Who's in control in Colombia?" asks Ann Wrobleski, head of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "It seems to me a fair question...
...Chef Henry Haller and his helpers, as well as her personal staff of 24. Among those two dozen are six top aides, who generally meet with her every week as a group: Chief of Staff James Rosebush, Tate, Social Secretary Gahl Hodges, Personal Assistant Elaine Crispen, Projects Director Ann Wrobleski and Marty Coyne, director of her advance team...
...drug use among young people. Her advisers encouraged the shift in emphasis: speaking out against marijuana and narcotics use in the schools, they felt, would have greater urgency and political appeal. The serious-minded displays of the First Lady's social consciousness have been shaped mainly by Rosebush and Wrobleski as part of an overall effort to make her appear more caring, less frivolous. The timing and destinations of her antidrug excursions last year were coordinated with Reagan-Bush campaign officials to satisfy their particular political needs. But the image molders learned they were dealing with a social problem that...