Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...within a mile of the town, then held their fire. Though residents and refugees joyously crowded around the huge white relief trucks, shouting and weeping, the shipment did not carry enough to provide for all of them. "We need to get another one in right away," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Meanwhile, Morillon began trying to talk the Serbs into allowing 2,000 sick and wounded citizens to leave...
...agree, it's powerful to have a unified voice. If we don't agree, it's still a spokesman for all of the organizations," she said...
...spiritual leaders as Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. For most of its eight years, the cavernous mosque on the third floor of a white brick building along Jersey City's Kennedy Boulevard has attracted scant interest. "We are a peaceful people; we come here to pray," explains Mohammed Nagib, the spokesman for the mosque's 300 Sunni worshippers. "We do not bother anybody." But last week the mosque was the focus of international scrutiny when federal agents arrested one of its occasional congregants, Mohammed Salameh, in connection with the World Trade Center bombing...
...child pornographers, who use them to acquire subscribers to a worldwide pornographic picture ring. Last week, in what authorities dubbed "Operation Longarm," federal Customs agents carried out raids in 18 different states on suspects whose names were taken from one of these bulletin boards. According to a Customs Service spokesman, computerized transmission of illegal pornography among pedophiles is rapidly becoming more popular than smutty magazines. The ring, based in Denmark, charged its members about $80 a year and used computers and telephone lines to transmit explicit photos of children ages 5 to 12. Customs officials say this is the first...
...spokesman Jack Killorin said that his bureau decided to move because it believed that during a long siege -- or even if Koresh were seized alone outside -- cult members would opt for suicide, taking the children with them. And almost all showdowns with determined and fanatical groups have led to casualties, he insisted, no matter how they were handled. "We've gone about them in a number of different ways -- ruse, ambush, siege and talk," said Killorin. "In almost every one we lose law-enforcement officers...