Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addressed to Italy's top political figures, including Andreotti, Fanfani, Craxi, President Giovanni Leone and Chamber of Deputies President Pietro Ingrao. The blizzard of Moro appeals promptly raised a new mystery: was his family, like those of so many Italian kidnap victims, secretly in touch with the kidnapers? Spokesmen said no. But the letters, like some in the past, were delivered in as yet undisclosed fashion to the family and members of Moro's staff, who then passed them on to the addressees. Moro's three closest aides were called in for questioning...
Several State Department spokesmen yesterday declined to confirm the authenticity of the telegram--which "Southern Africa" received from an undisclosed source--and denied that there is widespread support for corporate withdrawal...
...reckon that McLean, who has a modest office in New York City, would like to run U.S. Lines with a minimum of interference from Washington. Some $44 million in U.S. Lines loans has been guaranteed by the Federal Government. "If McLean retired the loans," said one of his spokesmen, "he'd have a much freer hand in running the line. He just wants wheeling and dealing latitude...
...between the speeches by members of the African National Congress and the Patriotic Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe, spokesmen for the front announced plans for a mass demonstration and march on Monday. That is when the Corporation is scheduled to decide on a South African investment policy...
...flag of adversary relationship has flown over much valuable investigative reporting, but it also gives sanction to the increasingly truculent, bearbaiting questioning of officials and press spokesmen that has become one of Washington's major blood sports. A cynical posture in such reporting assumes all Government to be bad, all privacy to equal concealment and all explanations to amount to lies. The adversary relationship, most evident in rat-pack journalism, gives a false nobility to the second-rate and the lazy...