Word: spokesman
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...fact that Taiwan is part of China and its leaders are only leaders of a region in China." Beijing prefers a peaceful reunification, said Li, the man generally credited with sending tanks against democracy demonstrators in 1989, "but we have not forsworn the use of force." Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian even suggested a timetable of sorts, saying that after China reclaims Hong Kong in 1997 and Macau in 1999, then Taiwan will be "high on the agenda of the Chinese people...
...Congress passed last week requiring armed-services personnel with HIV to be discharged from the military, even if they are otherwise in perfect health. President Clinton is expected to sign the defense authorization bill despite this rider, but has made it clear he finds it offensive. As a Pentagon spokesman put it last week, "We've all seen recently, in watching Magic Johnson's decision to return to basketball, that people who have tested HIV-positive are fully capable of carrying on near normal lives...
...that the Tooele incinerator is within months of "going hot," the Tooele County Commission, a longtime supporter of the project, is trying to stall. "The county has identified $5 million worth of things that need to be done to move along the emergency-preparedness process," says Myron Lee, spokesman for the county's emergency-management program. The list includes disaster training and sirens that can sound throughout the area...
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: North Korean officials have refused new offers of food aid for their flood-damaged country, saying they are "disappointed" by the response to their appeal. Even as he praised U.S. efforts, Pak Dok Hun, a North Korean spokesman in Geneva, said that North Korea decided not to request more aid even though the country is gripped by food shortages, and struggling to repair an estimated $15 billion in flood damage. Hun accused "hostile elements" (translation: South Korea) of obstructing aid from the United States and other nations. According to the U.N. Department of Humanitarian Affairs, only...
...Pennsylvania Republican William Clinger, chairman of the committee, said the Administration is deliberately dragging its feet in releasing documents and called the subpoenas the "only avenue left to ensure that all relevant documents that I have legitimately, responsibly and repeatedly requested are produced to the Congress." Nonsense, countered Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry. "They're running around trying to keep this alive as a political issue. They're more interested in making political hay around these issues than they are in shedding any further light on the truth. That's the bottom line. It's politics." With its search for some...