Word: spokesman
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...group founded by the AFL-CIO, the Committee for Quality of Life, supports the existing law and is therefore campaigning against the referendum. The committee is a coalition of 30 groups, including the National Organization of Women, said spokesman John Laughlin. He added that most of the member groups are not union organizations...
Carol Cardozo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation--which supports the referendum--said a study by the Foundation for Economic Research found that in 1987, Massachusetts spent more than $212 million because of the Prevailing Wage...
...Massachussetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG), which supports the measure, disagrees. A spokesman said that "cheaper, safer, more reliable" energy is available and affirms that the state's nuclear plants produce too little energy to be "worth the risk" caused by their waste. The group says nuclear plants provide only 4 percent of the region's power...
Asked if the group was recruiting Harvard students for the campaign, the spokesman said, "We're recruiting everyone"--a sign of the tough battle yet to come...
...thriller: intelligence sources let on that the group outside the apartment had included Florentino Aspillaga, a Cuban intelligence agent who defected to the U.S. last year. In London a Cuban embassy spokesman charged that the CIA and Britain's MI5 were pressuring Medina Perez to defect and that he had opened fire to keep from being kidnaped. MI5 sources said Medina Perez was a Cuban intelligence agent who had convinced the British he was ready to defect. Had he been lying so he could set up Aspillaga for assassination? Or had he panicked? Calling Le Carre...