Word: spokesmen
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James S. Kunen was 19 and a Columbia University sophomore when he wrote The Strawberry Statement, a wry account of Columbia's 1968 student strike against the Viet Nam War. The book's instant success transformed Kunen into one of the spokesmen for the rebels of his generation. Since then, Kunen, now 37, has served as a conscientious objector, worked as a public defender in the Washington court system, been married and divorced. Now a senior writer at PEOPLE magazine, he was asked by TIME to comment on what has happened to him and his protesting peers...
Another source of concern is the stalemated effort to reach a Middle East peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Fahd remains a staunch backer of Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole spokesmen for the Palestinian people. Despite the collapse of oil prices, the Saudis continue to provide hefty financial support to several other Arab states and the P.L.O. At their meeting last week, the King and Vice President Bush agreed on the need for stability in the region, but they differed on how to promote an Arab-Israeli peace...
...exports to Europe and Japan. Sales of about 1.3 million bbl. a day last year provided the Kremlin with about 60% of the currency it spent on Western grain and technology. The Soviets could retaliate by trying to increase their influence over troubled oil producers like Libya. Soviet spokesmen now routinely characterize the oil-price decline as a conspiracy by "Western monopolists...
Four of the 10 obstetricians who will graduate in June from residency programs at Harvard-affiliated hospitals plan to begin practices in Massachusetts, and none of the four neurosurgical residents scheduled to conclude their four-year residencies this year plan to stay, according to spokesmen for the hospitals' programs...
Administration spokesmen tried to transform public backing for standing up to Gaddafi into support for the less popular policy of aiding the contras. "Americans understand what type of people we have to deal with in this world," said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan, speaking of Gaddafi, "and they expect that from time to time we as a great power have to assert our right. That has to carry over into the Central America issue. & Sure, contra aid is a divisive issue in a dirty little war, but it takes courage to do what's right in that situation...