Word: spokesman
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...delegated any of my powers to anyone, and I will not," he said. As to the vice presidency, says Chernomyrdin, that will have to wait at least four years: "I never heard of a country voting separately for a Vice President after the President has been elected." Nicholas Burns, spokesman of the U.S. State Department, says, "Right now Chernomyrdin is the second most powerful person in Russia." As Prime Minister, Chernomyrdin has been No. 2 all along. The positions Lebed has been given are purely advisory, and he could be dismissed from them at any time. The Yeltsin government...
...million in fines for making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the Clinton campaign jumped on the opportunity to attach the words criminal and illegal to Dole. "He needs to give the details of his relationship with Mr. Fireman and what he knew about this illegal scheme," said campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart. Fireman acknowledged making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the 1992 Bush-Quayle campaign and to Democratic Representative Joseph Kennedy. The 70-year old businessman made the contributions through his employees and sales representatives who were then reimbursed in cash. His company, Aqua-Leisure, will...
...State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns frankly admits, "We have no leads whatsoever," but American experts assume that the terrorists this time are homegrown Saudis, probably Islamic extremists, as were the four who were beheaded. Some officials suspect the cases are linked, that it is the same group, and that the bombers were fulfilling their threat to punish Americans if the four suspects were executed. Saudi and U.S. officials do not rule out the possibility that another country was involved...
...president is inevitably the nation's No. 1 political boss. Yet he is, at the same time, if not in the same breadth, the leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power...
...senior Buchanan aide who expressed concern that the Taxpayers Party was not trying to get on the ballot in Indiana, Georgia and Michigan, states important to an independent Buchanan run. So Phillips is raising money to get on those ballots--and dunning Buchanan backers for the purpose. Officially, Buchanan spokesman Greg Mueller says Buchanan is going to San Diego as a Republican to fight for the pro-life plank and other issues. At the same time, Buchanan is angry he hasn't been given time to speak at the convention--or even been invited to attend. So, Mueller adds pointedly...