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...Horn's two immediate DEA predecessors in Rangoon, but he still considered it his "dream job" when he arrived in June 1992. Not for long. Horn is bound to silence by DEA rules, but his lawyer has provided TIME with a long letter he wrote to Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel detailing Horn's allegations. It recounts that Horn and Franklin Huddle, the embassy's charge d'affaires, clashed over a report to Washington & that Horn thought unfairly denigrated the junta's antidrug efforts. Horn says Huddle refused to obtain expert help from the U.S. to draft manuals for Burmese police...
...standard thinking is that Clinton's health-care plan is lost without the big Chicagoan. That may be overstating it. In the event of his ouster, Florida's Sam Gibbons becomes the acting chairman and would be expected to work with three committee members -- New York's Charles Rangel and California's Robert Matsui and Pete Stark -- to try to usher Rosty's vision through Ways and Means. Clinton no doubt hopes that between them, they are up to Rostenkowski...
...jails. Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Connecticut will probably soon take the even more dramatic step of decriminalizing the possession of hypodermics. Movements are under way in New Jersey, California and Massachusetts to remove legal barriers and begin officially sanctioned needle programs. Even in the U.S. Congress, Charles Rangel, who has led opposition to needle exchange on the ground that it threatens blacks, has asked the General Accounting Office to reevaluate the effects of such programs...
...last-ditch effort to save Freedom, political and business leaders tried to raise the $6 million needed to keep the bank solvent. But federal regulators closed Freedom after the group failed to meet a Nov. 13 deadline. Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, in whose district the bank was situated, charged that the government moved too hastily. "It was mean spirited," he says. "We needed more time...
Critics insist that Bennett, a conservative intellectual with an abrasive manner, simply burned out. "I don't understand this idea about declaring victory and quitting," said Democratic Representative Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the House Narcotics Committee. "He must be smoking cigarettes without printing if he thinks he can lead me to any city, town or village and find anybody who will say, 'Thank you, Bill Bennett, there's light at the end of the tunnel.' " "Mr. Rangel," Bennett retorted, "is a gasbag...