Word: spokesman
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...rather keep bottled up. "I've had it with the Dole campaign," Newt Gingrich groused to a colleague. Gingrich will focus instead on re-electing his majority, staging eight seminars on how lawmakers should market their agenda. (Example: Don't say "cut" Medicare, say "preserve and protect.") A Gingrich spokesman denies that the Speaker and Dole have gone separate ways. But John Boehner, the fourth-ranking House Republican, says, "There's been a realization on Newt's part that the Dole campaign is going to manage itself...
...been named an unindicted co-conspirator in that alleged conspiracy. News of the verdict had the Clinton camp predicting that the Whitewater scandal would fade from the election-year radar screens. "It takes one more issue off the table for Republicans who think this is an important matter," said spokesman Joe Lockhart. Maybe, maybe not. Within the deadlocked counts against Branscum and Hill, there are a few potential land mines remaining, including charges of conspiring to direct more bank funds to Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial race and to his 1991 presidential exploratory committee...
...troops from Lebanon. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu offered Assad a deal in which Israeli troops would pull out if Syria guaranteed certain security arrangements along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Netanyahu's government flatly denies that the meeting took place. "It didn't happen," said David Bar Illan, Netanyahu's spokesman. If it did, the Lebanese do not approve. Lebanon's President Elias Hrawi said Thursday in Beirut that Lebanon will not stand for a unilateral Israeli-imposed deal. "Haaretz has a good reputation," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Lots of Israelis would like to get out of Lebanon. They...
...create a Palestinian state, according to a senior adviser to Peres. In exchange for statehood, the Palestinians were prepared to drop demands for a capital in East Jerusalem, and allow Israel to annex about 10 percent of the West Bank. That understanding has been tabled by Netanyahu. His spokesman describes the deal as an "intellectual exercise," since neither side had formally agreed to them. Peres and Arafat reportedly had some doubts about the proposed settlement, but felt the understandings might serve as a useful basis for negotiations, said Ibrahim Khreishe, a senior Palestinian Authority official. "The notion that Peres...
...trust fund earmarked for airport and safety improvements has fallen from $1.9 billion in 1992 to $1.4 billion this year, a cut of more than 25%. "The money is collected for aviation, and it should be spent for aviation, not to make the deficit look smaller," says Tim Neale, spokesman for the Air Transport Association. Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, was stunned earlier this year when FAA Administrator David Hinson and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena told him the trust fund was going broke. Jefferson was looking for money to expand the New Orleans airport. "The bottom line is that...