Word: spokesman
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...bacteria but it can still be of good quality. That's bull as far as I'm concerned." Tyson denies the charges of the workers, one of whom is a union organizer, but says an investigation will be launched. "I don't believe these practices are taking place," says spokesman Archie Schaffer. But if any of them are, "we want to know about...
...would have been washed off. At the meeting, industry representatives grew angry and left the impression that they would protest -- which they may indeed have done. Several hours after that session, Tyson's lobbyist, Jack Williams, met with Espy in the Secretary's office, sources told TIME. A Tyson spokesman insists the zero- tolerance proposal was not discussed, but a USDA participant in the earlier session was later told to "destroy" everything he had regarding zero tolerance for poultry. The plan then languished...
...Simpson's defense team is using its legal muscle to find out why juicy snippets of information about their client end up nightly on America's TV screens. They're forcing a reporter for KNBC-TV, her boss, the Los Angeles police chief and the spokesman for the department to testify in court under subpoena. KNBC-TV, you recall, was the station that reported DNA tests linked blood on O.J.'s socks to that of Nicole Simpson. KNBC-TV reporter Tracie Savage later said her sources provided inaccurate information. Judge Lance Ito will take up the issue of leaks tomorrow...
...tried to frame the answers to these questions, events last week proved that the rules of the game were being fashioned on the ground on a day-by-day, case-by-case basis. The improvisational approach only seemed to force Washington into an ever deepening commitment. On Thursday Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx announced that rather than withdrawing American forces, the U.S. was actually increasing its troop presence. Together with the troops at sea, the total number serving in the Haitian campaign -- some 28,800 -- eclipses the 26,000 Americans who invaded Panama in 1989 and the 25,800 sent...
...Josaphat, the feared and brutal regional military commander, to telephone repairmen who owed their jobs to the de facto government -- had fled. Shortly after U.S. forces arrived, a delegation of local dignitaries approached Marine commander Colonel Thomas Jones. "I guess you are the new mayor of Cap Haitien," their spokesman announced. Asked what were the capabilities of the remaining local government in the nearby town of Gonaives, one American captain explained: "They could consume oxygen and occupy space," but not much more...