Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summit with President Bill Clinton in New York City. Clinton and Jiang talked for two hours at Lincoln Center without reaching any new agreements. But they were determined to demonstrate publicly that Sino-American relations, which have been strained and verging on bad, are starting to improve. White House spokesman Michael McCurry offered a painstaking formulation: Clinton was "confident that we have begun a process that will lead to a series of dialogues that will help improve the opportunity" for better relations...
...muttering about taking eastern Slavonia by force if it is not returned to Croatia peacefully in a month or so. The oil-rich territory was seized by rebel Serbs in 1991; negotiations for its return are under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally remonstrated with Tudjman about giving up the idea of using force. With good reason: it could pit the Croatian and Serbian armies against each other in the bloodiest war yet to tear the former Yugoslavia...
...meeting at Hyde Park could be forgiven if they concluded that the relationship was based largely on personalities, but the State Department has another reading. The Presidents agreed that Russia would participate in some way in the force that implements a peace plan for Bosnia. Whatever Yeltsin's condition, spokesman Nicholas Burns says, this agreement is set. For the next few weeks that may be true. But the hard-liners have won powerful support. If Yeltsin falls, it is not at all clear that whoever succeeds him will so readily accommodate the Americans, either in Bosnia or beyond...
...owns Lausanne Investments? "Investcorp does not own Lausanne Investments," a bank spokesman declared. When TIME pursued the issue, the spokesman changed his answer. Lausanne, he said, was owned by the same investors who own Chaumet--a group led by Investcorp. This means Investcorp controlled the seller and the buyer and used that control to slash Chaumet's losses. While there is nothing odd about a jeweler's disposing of excess stock this way, Lausanne's ownership is not disclosed in Chaumet's publicly filed financial statements, which means anyone who read them would get a distorted impression of the company...
...stretcher," said one eye-witness. "He was lying on his side with a bloodstain on his chest and abdomen. His eyes were closed." Rabin, 73, died of the wounds during emergency treatment at Ichilov Hospital nearby. The Israeli Cabinet immediately gathered in emergency session. A Cabinet spokesman said that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will take over as acting Prime Minister...