Word: spokesman
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...kind of Disneyland idea of customer service that rankles many war fighters at the Pentagon. Some planes are returning to their bases carrying bombs because crews are under orders not to drop them if they don't have a clear, confident shot. "We are taking every precaution," insists NATO spokesman Jamie Shea, "to ensure the highest possible degree of accuracy against exclusively military targets...
Just as some politicians are at their best when running for office, so Salk came into his own as a spokesman for vaccination. Although it is generally accepted in the field that the real man on the monument should be Enders (who in 1954 shared the only Nobel Prize given for polio research), it seems unlikely that either he or the pugnacious Sabin would have performed half so patiently as Salk the ceremonial chores expected of monuments or would have sat so politely through so many interviews and spread the gospel of disease prevention quite so far and wide...
Tellingly, there was no such explicit statement forthcoming from the White House last week. "We have our own national means of gathering information," White House spokesman David Leavy said. "I'm just not going to get into the details of our intelligence operation." U.S. officials acknowledge that nonanswers like that will make it tougher to get the world community to sign up for such multilateral arms-control regimes in the future...
...that the prosecution of President Clinton is over, get ready for the prosecution, of sorts, of Ken Starr. The independent counsel is on the defensive these days. This week his top spokesman, Charles Bakaly, stepped down--at the same time that Starr asked the Justice Department to investigate a leak from the counsel's office that may have involved Bakaly. The leak in January concerned the revelation that Starr had concluded he had the authority to indict President Clinton while in office. "It looks like Starr may believe that Bakaly was the source of the leak," says TIME Washington correspondent...
...Every time I talk to someone on campus, I discover another aspect of Washington College that attracts seniors," says school spokesman Doug Hanks, citing fund-raising clubs, athletic fields and the student center, in addition to classrooms. "I'm sure they consider the college a big plus for their quality of life. What they may not realize is how much they improve the college's way of life...