Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman for Pellegrini Hospital said 14 of the wounded, including four Americans and eight Italians, were taken to a hospital. The spokesman, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said the four Americans later were sent to a U.S. military hospital. He said he had no details on the extent of the injuries...
...hobble the messenger. Determined to deal firmly with the widespread protests called to mark Palestinian Land Day without the usual glare of publicity, the army banned all foreign reporters from the occupied territories for three days, except for a dozen pool reporters accompanied by the military. Said I.D.F. Spokesman Colonel Raanan Gissin: "We know the presence of the press incites and instigates the violence...
...tensions mounted, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater implied that the U.S. was reviewing its military options to oust Noriega. Washington announced it would dispatch 1,300 additional troops to Panama this week to bolster security for American facilities and citizens along the Panama Canal. The force will complement a 10,000-troop garrison stationed at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Panama. But Wayne Smith, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America from 1979 to 1982 and now a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, warned against using U.S. force to topple the general. Said...
From its headquarters in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, officials of the outlawed A.N.C. charged that the South African government was behind the murder of September, a "colored" (mixed race) native of Cape Town and longtime political activist. Her killing, said A.N.C. Spokesman Tom Sebina, was part of a "new campaign by South African death squads." In Paris French leftists organized a parade of 5,000 marchers in September's honor and led a window-shattering attack on Pretoria's tourist office...
Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov called the novel approach "unacceptable," and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze again threatened a unilateral Soviet troop pullout. That would leave Moscow with no obligation to help restore peace in Afghanistan or resettle the 2 million Afghan refugees now living in Pakistan...