Word: spokesman
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...rather than face possible public humiliation are former deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster, who shot himself before the Whitewater investigation; John Hemperley, the chief budget officer of the Library of Congress, who came under suspicion for possible financial improprieties; and Ernie Blanchard, the Coast Guard's top press spokesman, who faced a possible court-martial because of sexually offensive jokes he told in a speech. Each victim, of course, had his own psychological makeup and motives. But collectively, they point up the increasing pressure carried by people in the public spotlight, or even in the nearby shadows...
...pledged its support to a loose coalition of communist, leftist and lower-caste parties called the National Front-Left Front. Leaders of that group claim that it already has the backing of more than 300 members of parliament, enough to win a confidence vote. Says S. Jaipal Reddy, spokesman for the Janata Dal party: "The fall of the B.J.P. government is as certain as death...
ENGAGED. MARGARET WILLIAMS, the First Lady's chief of staff, and Bill Barrett, a spokesman at the AmeriCorps service agency; in Washington...
...Iceman. Governor Pete Wilson of California could have had the job if he hadn't run against Dole last year and in the process sent his own statewide poll ratings plunging to the mid 30s (a Wilson spokesman insists his boss's popularity is actually broader). At 62, Wilson is now looking toward 2000, as he demonstrated two weeks ago when, instead of supporting the Dole position, he repeated his opposition to the antiabortion plank in the party platform. Though Dole and Wilson (and their wives) were once close, the Senator now finds the Governor occasionally confusing. Wilson recently took...
...Ehrenburg's biographer, it is perhaps to be expected that Rubinstein becomes his advocate, trying to acquit him of the moral taint of collaboration. Rubinstein's thesis is a reasonable and, for the most part, well-supported one: namely, that Ehrenburg used his public image as "a harsh spokesman for Soviet interests" as "a cover to pursue his ultimate goal: to challenge the limits of Soviet censorship, revive Russia's connection to European culture, and restore to living memory the names and works of those whom Stalin first killed and then erased from history...