Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With events rapidly careening out of control, President Sarkis, a Christian, announced that he could no longer exert the authority bestowed on him by the constitution and would resign. The announcement shocked Lebanon; the squabbling Christian leaders, as well as many Muslim spokesmen, urged Sarkis to reconsider...
Javits also rapped Sadat for not following up his peace initiative with much more than "public rhetoric," and he urged the Egyptian to take a more active role in the negotiations. Yet all that certain U.S. Jewish organizations and "spokesmen" seemed to notice were the Senator's comments on Israeli policy. Some organizations, like the American Jewish Committee, backed Javits and described him as "a very, very good friend of Israel." Other groups had much different feelings. The American Jewish Congress, which tends to shoot from the hip and almost automatically supports Israel's position in any Middle...
...President holds many unpublicized conversations with such fellows as Du Pont's Irving Shapiro, General Motors' Thomas Murphy and A T &T's John deButts. Very often, he seeks the advice of a tall, spare British immigrant who is emerging as one of the three or four most influential spokesmen of American business, General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones...
...international economic order" involving vaguely defined transfers of wealth from North to South. Sometimes these demands have focused on acceptance of cartels that would jack up the prices of raw materials, sometimes on insistence that rich countries give preferential tariff treatment to products from LDCs. Poor-country spokesmen have accused multinational companies of ripping off their resources and proclaimed a right to nationalize them, while contending that multinationals have some kind of obligation to step up investment in the LDCs. Through all these assertions has run a consistent theme: the rich countries are engaging in an economic version of imperialism...
...economic opportunities of blacks across the country. A native of Atlanta, Ga., Jordan worked as an attorney for the Atlanta Office of Economic Opportunity before taking on duties with the United Negro College Fund, and later the leadership of the National Urban League. As one of the leading spokesmen for urban blacks, he has been active in policy advising in Washington--to the point of a well-publicized rift with President Carter over the allocation of federal funds for the nation's cities...