Word: spokesman
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...Italy, neofascists wield no real power in any national parliament, and the Italian case is too much of a political quirk to be considered a harbinger of Europe's future. "The situation today is not at all the same as it was in 1933," says Karsten Voigt, a spokesman for Germany's opposition Social Democrats. "The problem in 1933 was not that there were too many Nazis but that there were too few democrats. Today we have enough democrats." So do France, Britain, Spain and Italy. That, ultimately, is the gift the soldiers brought to Europe...
...suit by shareholders dissatisfied with the takeover of Pacific.) Hurwitz also boosted the rate of old-growth logging; as Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, put it, "looting the forest, meeting monthly interest payments by cutting thousand-year-old trees." Is there a moral issue here? A Maxxam spokesman dismisses the question, saying, "Our position is that sufficient redwoods are protected and that our trees are private property." (Redwood National Park, 50 miles to the north, has 38,000 acres of ancient redwoods...
...Naval Academy that "we cannot solve every such outburst of civil strife or militant nationalism simply by sending in our forces." Europe feels the same way. Belgium, Rwanda's former colonial ruler, lost 10 of its U.N. peacekeepers when the fighting broke out in early April. Said a government spokesman last week: "At the moment, we have no willingness to have contact with the so- called government in Kigali, which consists of a gang of murderers." Neither French troops nor French-equipped African troops are acceptable to the mainly Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Front: France helped arm and train their opponents...
...Klattu barada nikto." -- spokesman for Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming...
...lobby for lifting U.N. sanctions. Since then, according to the weekly Canard Enchaine, representatives of the two companies have made more than 40 trips to Baghdad and preliminary contracts have been drawn up. The French government has frozen the deal until sanctions are lifted, though a Foreign Ministry spokesman insists that "we have nothing against such contacts...