Word: spokesman
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...small. At the center of it all was Clinton's special envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, who acted as a sort of diplomatic cruise director, dispatching experts to float proposals, stamp out disagreements and buttonhole delegates. "It's like a living, breathing, international diplomatic biosphere," gushed State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns...
JUST HOURS AFTER THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM ON SEPARATION that came within a whisker of breaking up Canada--and may yet do so--President Clinton pronounced. "Ethnic diversity can be the hallmark of a strong and prosperous society," said his spokesman. "The President has often said that our ethnic diversity here in America is one source of our greatest strength..and hopefully it will be for the people of Canada as well...
...when commenting on an explosive marital spat occurring next door, it is incumbent on a neighbor to be diplomatic and sympathetic. But must one be fatuous too? Here is Canada, a great neighboring country, choking on cultural diversity, very nearly dying of cultural diversity--and the spokesman for the President of the U.S. offers a mindless, mantra-like homily in praise of the very source of Canada's ongoing agony...
...both Southerners competing on their home field, and anything short of victory for Gramm is a major loss. "We're trying to sort of invade their territory and battle them on message and organization," says Warren Tompkins, the senior Southern consultant for the Dole campaign. But Gramm campaign spokesman Gary Koops offers a pointed rejoinder. "Don't forget it was Dole who said Florida would be the big political event of the year. The fact that he is backing away from it fits in with the whole desperation scenario...
...went for naught after Daiwa reported Iguchi's activities to Japanese regulators on Aug. 8 and finally told Washington on Sept. 15. "This investigation is continuing," a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan acknowledged last week. Wall Street watchers don't doubt it. Their suspicion: Daiwa's Keystone cover-up that failed may have more reels full of capers...