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  1. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ukma!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
  3. From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
  4. Subject: Lawrence Summers and Clinton
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov22.193832.6754@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Followup-To: alt.activism.d
  7. Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  10. Organization: ?
  11. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:38:32 GMT
  12. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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  15. /* Written 10:19 am  Nov 22, 1992 by clevenstein@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.hazards */
  16. /* ---------- "Lawrence Summers and Clinton" ---------- */
  17. In yesterday's New York Times, it was reported that Robert Reich,
  18. one of Clinton's key economic advisors, had insufficient credibility
  19. because he was not "really" an economist, but a lawyer.  To
  20. counteract this attack, Lawrence Summers is taking a leave from the
  21. World Bank to work with Reich.  Wasn't it Summers who wrote a memo
  22. at the World Bank (that was leaked) arguing for the economic 
  23. reasonableness of shipping hazardous waste to Third World countries?
  24.