Word: spokesmen
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Democrats, however, are poorly positioned to exploit the tiny cracks in $ Bush's armor. To do that, the party needs attention-getting spokesmen who can make a persuasive case against the Administration. But no leading Democrat has yet dared accept the challenge of running against Bush. The party has fielded just two contenders, who so far seem weightless: Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas. When asked about their attitudes toward some Democratic candidates, 74% of those who took part in the TIME/CNN poll said they did not know enough about Tsongas to offer a judgment...
...replace Air Force One, donated $500,000 to help establish the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, and began pumping donations into Carter's Global 2000 Foundation, which provided health care in the Third World. Sources close to B.C.C.I. say Abedi gave "millions" to the charitable project. Carter spokesmen would not confirm the amount but conceded that B.C.C.I. gave $1.5 million last year (the former President was not available for an interview on the subject of Abedi). That gift was accepted after B.C.C.I. was indicted and convicted for laundering drug money, but Carter has indicated that Abedi remains...
Most Democrats in Congress voted against the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, but many say they did so only because they wished to give economic sanctions more time to work; once the resolution passed, they voiced clear support for U.S. troops. Republican spokesmen have made it clear, though, that they will not let the Democrats off the hook. Says former Drug Control Director William Bennett, who now serves informally as a G.O.P. adviser: "The votes for or against this war were important political acts, and they should have consequences...
Several Soviet spokesmen said Moscow had been trying to see on the allies' behalf how far Iraq could be persuaded to moderate its demands. Moscow made another effort Friday afternoon and produced a six-point plan that set the 21- day timetable for withdrawal. It was too little too late. Gorbachev kept trying Saturday, phoning Bush and asking for a Security Council meeting in a futile effort to merge the U.S. ultimatum and the last Moscow proposal. But on Saturday afternoon Ignatenko, at a press conference, agreed with a questioner that Iraq had lost its chance to negotiate a peaceful...
...BOMBS begin to drop, as we begin, as a society, to speak in the vernacular of SCUD and F-15 and our airwaves are suddenly, more than ever, monopolized by generals and Pentagon spokesmen, by understandably trembling journalists and the satellite-dished, horrific images of mothers placing gas masks on their small children, it may, now more than ever, be a good time to ponder the role--or, rather, the nonrole--of poets and poetry in our lives, of the men and women in this country who are dismissed from the daily hurly-burly of significance with the rather glib...