Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angola (UNITA), with U.S. and South African backing, has been waging guerrilla actions against the Marxist MPLA Angolan government. Savimbi has vowed that there will be no peace in Angola until he and his political movement become a recognized part of the MPLA government. "If not," warned UNITA spokesman Alcides Sakala, "we will intensify our struggle, we will continue...
...case. Why wasn't Rother assigned a partner during the nocturnal exercises? Why did almost two days pass before Rother was reported missing? Was the required after-actions roll call performed promptly? How could Rother's fellow Marines possibly have left him behind? "Accountability for your Marines," says corps spokesman Lieut. Colonel Fred Peck, "is something that's drummed into you from Day One." In the case of the Rother tragedy, it may not have been drummed in quite hard enough...
...hurried departure for home prompted speculation that he feared that the effects of the quake, if not dealt with promptly and sensitively, could inflame the situation and lead to further upheaval. In fact, shortly after Soviet troops left the Azerbaijan capital of Baku for the earthquake zone, an Armenian spokesman reported that rioters in the city had set fire to Armenian houses. The government newspaper Izvestia urged people to "first be human beings, and then Russians, Armenians or Azerbaijanis...
...Washington, State Department spokesman Charles Redman said Arafat failed to meet conditions for opening a dialogue with the United States because his speech did not clearly recognize Israel's right to exist...
Hope dwindled for those trapped in the ruins, and the smell of decaying corpses filled the air. Rescuers have pulled 18,500 people from the wreckage in the past four days, but only 5 400 people were alive, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov told reporters today in Moscow...