Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 10:54 a.m. (2:54 a.m. Washington time), but more than eleven hours passed before what had happened became clear. At midday the U.S. was sticking to its contention that the ship had defended itself against an F- 14. Finally, at 1:20 p.m. Washington time, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater read a statement from President Reagan, who had been awakened at Camp David at 4:52 a.m. and told of the new fighting. "I am saddened to report," said the President, "that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the U.S.S. Vincennes this morning...
...advanced aircraft like the A320 are also programmed to prevent pilot error by limiting the plane's response to dangerous commands. But some pilots believe such safeguards could be a handicap in emergency situations that require sudden maneuvers, like those necessary to avoid a collision. Says John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "A computer can only react to the possibilities that have been programmed into it." Some experts speculate that because the Airbus jet's wheels were down as it swooped over the air show, the computers might have been tricked into thinking the plane...
...fact the plane's transponder was using a military channel helped lead to the conclusion aboard the cruiser Vincennes that the ship was about to be attacked, said Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard...
...information, however, is not included on all the tags. Says a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration: "If you're a consumer and there's a rack of sunglasses, you usually have no way of telling the amount of ultraviolet transmission." The agency is now considering proposals to establish mandatory labeling standards for the sunglass industry. Ultimately, say experts, the best solution may be a simple rating system similar to the numerical system now used with sunscreens...
...Middle East proposing peace can be a dangerous move. That lesson was forcefully driven home last week when bitter feuding broke out among Palestinian factions over an unusually conciliatory statement written by Bassam Abu Sharif, chief spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Abu Sharif's key proposals: 1) direct negotiations between the P.L.O. and Israel over a future Palestinian state, and 2) a referendum in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prove that their Palestinian populations recognize the P.L.O. as their legitimate representative...