Word: spokesman
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...Deal," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry, "but it ain't bad." Politically, that is an understatement. Thanks largely to a Republican Congress that misread the public mood as drastically as Clinton did at the start of his term, the once scorned President has generally had a double-digit lead in the polls. He has adopted so many traditional Republican themes that the g.o.p. has nothing much to campaign on except character and taxes. And Bob Dole's tax plan gives Clinton a chance, rare for a Democrat, to run as a fiscal conservative virtuously resisting the seductive appeal...
...need to fight terrorism, this latest piece of lex Americana, a sample of Washington's father-knows-best attitude, outrages allies who do dispute U.S. methods. Just last March, Clinton approved a similar bill threatening foreign companies active in Cuba. What this is really about, argues French Foreign Ministry spokesman Yves Doutriaux, "is one nation telling the rest on earth what they can and can't do. Is that right?" The European Union, Canada and Mexico definitely do not think so, and their officials are looking at ways to hit back...
...until next year and promises to waive or apply the D'Amato provisions on a careful, case-by-case basis. "Clinton wants to show he is doing something concrete," says a French diplomat. "We are hearing that things may change by the end of November." Even so, declares French spokesman Doutriaux, "what we want is the abandonment of these unacceptable laws. We will not be muscled on this issue...
...name is synonymous with underpants, or whether the oft-repeated suggestion that the marriage was a sham is true. "They intend to make every effort to work out any issues between them, but in any event intend to remain the closest of friends, as they are today," said a spokesman. One possible translation: she won't have to pay retail...
JERUSALEM: After his attempts to bring Syrian President Hafez Assad to the negotiating table were briskly rebuffed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to turn to the U.S. for help. State Department spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks...