Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan was informed of the indictments by Kenneth Duberstein, his deputy chief of staff. Speaking of Reagan, Fitzwater said, "He had no response," He said there was no White House comment because "It's a matter before the courts...
...Soviet spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov blamed the collision on two U.S. warships that passed within 12 miles of the Soviet coast in what American officials called an assertion of the right of innocent passage from one body of international water to another...
...first official reports spoke of "rampage and violence" caused by "hooligans." As sensational rumors reverberated around the country, a Soviet government spokesman admitted to "certain injuries" and even "several" deaths in the southwestern city of Sumgait. The full extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...Armenian resident of Sumgait, sobbing into the telephone, told Reuters that Azerbaijanis had gone on a rampage of rape and murder against Armenians. He said that seven members of a single family had been killed and that many Armenians were trying to flee the city. At midweek a government spokesman reported that Soviet troops had managed to "normalize the situation" by arresting rioters and imposing an 8 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew...
...Mathematically and politically this process is in gridlock," said Terry Michael, spokesman for Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.), who suffered a shutout in Super Tuesday's round of primaries and caucuses...