Word: spokesman
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Sometimes even the church's biggest zealots can use a little protection. Screen star Travolta, 37, has long served as an unofficial Scientology spokesman, even though he told a magazine in 1983 that he was opposed to the church's management. High-level defectors claim that Travolta has long feared that if he defected, details of his sexual life would be made public. "He felt pretty intimidated about this getting out and told me so," recalls William Franks, the church's former chairman of the board. "There were no outright threats made, but it was implicit. If you leave, they...
...Carefully. A press release from "CBS News" trumpeted a 60 Minutes investigation: Japanese conglomerates now have the technology to duplicate U.S. currency and produce credit cards that allow "unlimited charges without having to pay the resulting bill." A network spokesman called the fake release the product of a "warped mind...
Inspired by the plight of his people, he said, he decided to become "the voice of the voiceless, an unofficial spokesman of my people...
That perception has started to change, thanks in large part to Evaristo Nugkuag, 41, a Peruvian who has emerged as the leading spokesman for the indigenous people of the Amazon. Born of the Aguaruna tribe and educated by missionaries, he watched firsthand the encroachment of loggers, miners and now drug traffickers on traditional Indian lands. Today, as president of a group representing 229 tribes, he argues persuasively that the best way to save the rain forest is to make the Indians its caretakers...
...through careful investments to cover eventual payouts. Instead he built the company with sizzle and flash, turning in the 1980s to the high- yield junk bonds sold by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken. Of Executive Life's $10.1 billion in assets, $6.4 billion is junk. Says Henri Bersoux, a spokesman for the American Council of Life Insurance: "No other company of that size or larger has invested so much of its assets in high-yield bonds." As the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive reported a stunning $859 million write-down in its portfolio...