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IIE Names Mark Angelson as New Chair
January 25, 2021 GMT
Mark Angelson
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Institute of International Education, the nonpartisan world leader in international educational exchange and scholar rescue, and administrator of the Fulbright Scholarships on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, and two hundred other international educational programs, today announced former Chicago Deputy Mayor Mark A. Angelson as Chair of its Board of Trustees.
Mr. Angelson succeeds Thomas S. Johnson, who chaired the IIE Board for nearly two decades. Mr. Johnson was named Chair Emeritus and Life Trustee, and the Institute’s Internship Program was named in Mr. Johnson’s honor in recognition of his distinguished service.
US counternarcotics in Colombia: a prehistory
December 17, 2020
The aerial spraying of marijuana in Mexico made Colombia the main supplier to the United States, whose potheads were corrupting the South American country, US lawmakers were told in 1979.
The use of the lethal Paraquat chemical had created a major scandal because it was literally poisoning American consumers, yet the US government wanted to also use it to eradicate Colombian marijuana.
President Julio Cesar Turbay “indicated a reluctance to engage in an immediate spraying eradication campaign because of the international controversy” the lawmakers reported to US Congress.
The State Department’s long‐unnoticed involvement in Mexican marijuana eradication has grown into a potential public‐health crisis, another in a series of foreign‐policy embarrassments for the Carter Administration, and, most recently, into a domestic political controversy that has pitted the State Department and President Carter agains