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...Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is under fire over a series of recent disclosures that have some calling for him to resign from the powerful position. In July, it was revealed that Rangel was renting four rent-stablized apartments in his home district of Harlem, New York, including one he was using as a campaign office, which is illegal. (He gave up the campaign office apartment, but kept the other three.) Soon after, Rangel admitted he had used congressional stationery to set up meetings with potential donors to a new college center being named after...
...Rangel is a lifelong Harlem resident. After dropping out of high school and being wounded in the Korean War, he went on to get a bachelor's degree from New York University and a law degree from St. John's University. After working as an assistant U.S. attorney, he was elected to the New York State Assembly and then Congress in 1970. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and has championed many causes in the House, including low-income housing in urban communities and divestment from U.S. companies operating in South Africa during apartheid...
...intelligence officials provided an answer last week. They said Noriega supplied Washington with valuable Cuban intelligence reports, even as he was selling U.S. secrets to Cuba. They also warned that his ouster might disrupt U.S. military and intelligence operations based in Panama. Some Congressmen were unimpressed. Said Representative Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control: ''We cannot allow diplomatic concerns to override our efforts to control drug trafficking and abuse...
...their more than 700 army, police and civilian hostages. And no captives were as valuable - or as much a symbol of their continued leverage - as Betancourt and the three Americans: Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves. "The FARC will never be able to recover from this," says Alfredo Rangel, a military analyst and head of the Security and Democracy Foundation in Bogot...
...walked into Rumsfeld's office at 1:25 p.m. on April 19, 2006. He had just returned from a meeting at the White House, and the only other person present in the room was his new Chief of Staff, John Rangel...