Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well...
...political unrest, combined with Macias' increasingly anti-Spanish attitude, was enough to persuade more than 2,000 Spaniards to flee the country. According to Macias, Ibongo poisoned himself in prison, though some Spaniards maintain he was beaten to death in his cell. Spokesmen for Macias said Ndongo was being treated in a Bata hospital. The 260-man Spanish garrison still remains. Macias, after first ordering them to leave, seems to trust his own troops no longer...
...inciting to riot and endangering the national security-clearly an attempt to head the former Foreign Minister away from a presidential challenge later this year. By that time the opposition had hardened about demands for abandoning the "basic democrat" system, and Bhutto had become one of its loudest spokesmen...
...Harvard is an institution, and as such it has spokesmen. Last Friday its spokesmen spoke, and reaffirmed on behalf of all of us that Harvard stands committed to what the Congress, mindful of the lessons of history, has determined...
...refer to the strong and positive statements made by the leadership of such organizations as the Urban League and the N.A.A.C.P. Rather, there was the tragic regression to the old irresponsible habit of singling out the vicious words of individuals who in no way can be considered representative spokesmen for black people...