Word: spokesmen
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Pichardo contends that his rituals are no different from hunting or commercial slaughtering of animals for meat. "You can buy Chicken McNuggets in Hialeah," says Jorge Duarte, an attorney for the Santeria church, "but you can't kill a chicken for religious reasons." Santeria spokesmen insist that unlike the gruesome rituals still routinely performed in Cuba, their sacrifices are humane and no animals are tortured. But opponents disagree. "Carcasses are polluting our rivers and rotting in the streets," says ! Marian Lentz of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Pichardo admits that some offbeat cults may be responsible for the animals...
Perhaps the most serious -- from an ethical, if not a medical, point of view -- was that he was infected with HIV. Hospital spokesmen explained that policy forbids transplants for people with active AIDS but not for those who are merely infected, and that he fit the criteria. But critics charged that performing experimental surgery on someone who may have felt he had little choice was inappropriate...
...Bush does not have an undisputed claim to evangelical support this year. Spokesmen for the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant group, complain that the President is squishy on certain issues. In particular, they disdain his reluctance to hammer gay-rights activism as some other Republicans do. Richard Land, head of the group's Christian Life Commission, warns that "it will take clear differences on values to get Southern Baptists to vote against two people of their own denomination. If you want to energize Southern Baptists, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure...
...list of Administration officials has already appeared before the Gonzalez committee to admit that the effort to woo Iraq was a flop. "I have said 15 times today that it didn't work," Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger acknowledged wearily at the end of one session. But Administration spokesmen have also denied they were subject to undue pressure to favor Iraq. The combative Gonzalez has moved to counter their claims by reading into the Congressional Record a cloak of secret documents, mostly concerning White House efforts to secure the loan guarantees, which have become the subject of lengthy examinations...
...spectacle of Miyazawa cradling the prostrate leader of the free world in his lap was doubly unsettling and sent shudders around the globe. White House spokesmen assured the public that Bush was suffering from nothing more serious than exhaustion and a stomach-churning touch of gastroenteritis. Still, the brief fainting spell brought to the fore concerns about the President's health and reminded voters that Dan Quayle remains only a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Far worse for Bush, the image was an obvious metaphor for the American economy: flat on its back, seeking succor from a resurgent Japan...