Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last days of a steamy summer, as pity runs thin, a backlash against beggars is smoldering across the country. Its chief spokesman is New York Mayor Ed Koch, who is urging people to help banish the panhandlers by refusing to give them anything. Koch avers that "many people who panhandle just don't want to work for a living." They are, he insists, addicts, alcoholics and con artists, and those who give them money are easy marks. Sympathetic people would do better to give to established charities, the mayor advises, to ensure that the money be used to help people...
...enough to quash earlier suggestions that the 50,000 troops still in Afghanistan might be home by the end of the year, well ahead of the Feb. 15, 1989, deadline established under the Geneva accords signed by Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Pakistan and the U.S. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "The situation in Afghanistan does not give grounds to accelerate the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...plane, many were convinced that its passengers were victims of terrorism. Officials speculated that Zia's plane was either struck by a surface-to-air missile or, more likely, blown up by a bomb planted aboard and detonated by remote control from the ground. Said Riaz Mohammed Khan, a spokesman for the Pakistan government: "Personally, I am 100% sure -- not 99%, 100% -- that it was sabotage...
...virus uses the natural CD4 to attach itself to a T-4 cell, which it invades and ultimately destroys. Synthetic CD4, however, acts as a decoy by latching onto the AIDS virus and rendering it incapable of binding to T-4 cells -- a process that a National Cancer Institute spokesman likens to "putting putty all over a porcupine...
Shareholders are expected to approve the management shuffle next month. "We're looking forward to getting back to business in a new atmosphere of peace," says a company spokesman. But there is no guarantee that rule by committee will ensure tranquillity. "Unless they finally work out their problems," notes Michelle Proud, an analyst with London's County NatWest Securities, "this couple could find their marriage is on the rocks...