Word: spokesman
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...East European members. "He's upsetting not only NATO members, but prospective members, because he's making it sound as if Eastern European countries would be second-class members, as if Russia has veto power over the conditions of their participation," says Nelan. Get used to it: Yeltsin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky says that Russia's "struggle" with NATO over the agreement's proper interpretation has just begun...
...learned its gory history. The killer had apparently traded the Cherokee for Miglin's green Lexus, now missing. On Thursday Philadelphia police got a call from their Chicago colleagues warning that the Lexus' phone had been activated in their area. The Philadelphia police went on alert, although, as a spokesman pointed out, "the guy [in the car] does not necessarily have to be the bad guy." That night, with the bulletin from Finn's Point, it became obvious the guy in the car was indeed the bad guy. He was now in the Chevy pickup, headed--where...
...move came after Arafat refused to meet with Ross out of a growing frustration that the U.S. envoy was not taking an active enough role in talks. Palestinian negotiators have in fact for weeks been pushing President Clinton to dump Ross. "Palestinian officials . . . don't trust him," Arafat spokesman Marwan Kanafani told TIME last week. Palestinians say Ross has not pressed Netanyahu's government hard enough on the issue of new Israeli construction in the West Bank. Although the U.S. has strongly criticized Israeli building projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Clinton Administration has so far appeared...
KINSHASA, Zaire: As rebel forces advanced within 60 miles of Zaire's embattled capital, U.N. mediators worked feverishly for a last-minute peace deal and State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns urged Americans to leave, saying "the end game is approaching." U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate Americans from the capital. On Tuesday, Mobutu Sese Seko's government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city's residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final...
...five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents, FBI agents, SWAT teams, armored personnel carriers and bloodhounds. "This is not the Alamo, and I'm not Davy Crockett," said Texas public-safety spokesman Mike Cox. "All we are trying to do is serve major-felony warrants...