Word: spokesman
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...government on Friday rescinded a controversial new law granting the army sweeping powers, only one day after approving the legislation that had been sponsored by the military. Three people were killed and scores injured in two days of protest against the bill that began Thursday, and a military spokesman said Friday the law had been withdrawn because "half the people do not understand its contents." The climb-down is a second humiliation for the Indonesian military only five days after it was forced to accept foreign peacekeepers' taking control of its old stamping grounds in East Timor...
...extra $14 billion just to keep the government running--especially after conservatives got so angry with them when they did it in 1998. "This year, if spending means so much to him, the President will have to justify dipping into the Social Security trust fund," says John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
...rich programs in the vast, dark Quittner Collection, although the Athlon is supposed to handle multimedia much better, thanks to its 200-MHz bus, vs. the Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though it has cut Pentium prices as much...
...another pending against Fox over the The X-Files. "Steven and I finally have become fed up with this vertical integration and self-dealing," says Bochco's attorney, FRANK ROHNER. Fox isn't talking. "We are unaware of any complaint having been filed and have no further comment," a spokesman said...
...uniforms. But after they were made mandatory in her children's school district--where 66,000 students in 56 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and one high school now wear them--there were "fewer disruptions, fewer suspensions, better attendance," according to Dick Van Der Laan, the system's spokesman. Criminal incidents at the district's schools have decreased 86% since uniforms were mandated in 1994. "A uniform," Hartman now says, "breaks down any kind of social and economic barrier kids may put into place at that age, so everyone is on an even playing field." Marylouise Ortega-Lau, principal...