Word: spokesmen
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...that the defection was manufactured by Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, 88, who heads the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has never been to Israel. On Sunday, Agudat Deputy Avraham Verdiger phoned the spiritual leader's office for political guidance. The rabbi's spokesmen implied that this was the first contact between Jerusalem and Brooklyn. Others familiar with Schneerson's modus operandi say that a message had already been transmitted from Brooklyn making plain the rabbi's desire to derail Peres...
Jubilant crowds marched with A.N.C. banners in several cities, but celebrations were short lived, giving way to second thoughts about what remains to be done. U.D.F. spokesmen pointed out that Mandela and other A.N.C. guerrillas remain in prison and that if Oliver Tambo, the Congress's President, were to return to South Africa, he could be arrested under nonemergency laws such as the Internal Security Act. Patrick Lekota, a U.D.F. leader, said the domestic opposition would step up its defiance campaign and call for intensified international pressure on Pretoria...
...European agencies reported, Ceausescu's fall was sealed at a meeting with his security chiefs. Defense Minister Vasile Milea apparently said that his troops would refuse to fire on their countrymen. There seemed to be a split among the Securitate commanders, with only some favoring a continued crackdown. Party spokesmen claimed that Milea then committed suicide, but it was more likely that he was shot by Securitate men. Next morning an unidentified general appeared on television to say, "I am very sorry that my friend the Minister died. It is a lie that he committed suicide." With his defenses crumbling...
...Wednesday's H hour approached, huge military transports were landing at ten-minute intervals at Howard Air Force Base, doubtless alerting Noriega that a U.S. strike might soon be under way. Pentagon spokesmen dismissed the airlift as a routine exercise. But total surprise had never loomed large in Pentagon planning, which depended on vastly superior manpower, firepower and speedy execution...