Word: spokesmen
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...entirely warranted. More than 500 years ago, Grand Duke Ivan III, the founder of the Russian state, silenced the special bell that summoned the Novgorod veche, but its notes have sounded, however faintly, throughout Russian history. The same nation that bowed down to Joseph Stalin also produced fearless spokesmen for freedom like Andrei Sakharov. Today, for the first time, democracy is of concern to a large number of people, not just a small group of dissidents. Long used to viewing freedom as a gift to be bestowed from on high, ordinary citizens have begun to make their own decisions, decide...
...Chechnya if peace negotiations break down. "There is still fighting all over Chechnya despite the cease fire. Among Chechens, there isn't a whole lot of faith in the cease-fire, or in the Russian army's goodwill." Even as the withdrawal was announced, fighting continued in Chechnya. A spokesmen for the Russian military say its soldiers are only returning fire when attacked, but witnesses say the Russian army continues to conduct offensives against Chechen villages. Despite rolling out a peace proposal last month, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has so far been unable to bring Chechen leader Jokar Dudayev...
Justice Department spokesmen insist they weren't flinching in Montana, just waiting for a grand jury in Billings to hand up federal indictments giving them legal authority to move against the fugitives, who otherwise faced only state-level charges. Whatever the reason for the long stalemate, it gave way last Monday when federal agents arrested two Freemen leaders, LeRoy Schweitzer, 57, and Daniel Petersen, 53. An undercover agent posing as a seminar attendee was said to have pulled a pistol after feigning car trouble near the Clark ranch...
Russians for the most part received news of these events through the filters of official spokesmen and public television. They wanted to believe the operation went well, they had no special affinity for the Dagestani hostages, and they have no sympathy for Chechen rebels. They may even have agreed with Yeltsin when he crowed that "mad dogs must be shot." But now Yeltsin and his hard-line Kremlin advisers are ready to cast aside the tentative peace agreement they worked out with breakaway Chechnya last summer...
...enters the final weeks of budget negotiations with the White House. To allay the image problem, Gingrich transferred responsibility for day-to-day budget bargaining to majority leader Dick Armey and Budget Committee chairman John Kasich. To some extent, Gingrich will try to rely on others, including such unlikely spokesmen as freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will be left in his wake, but that's a problem some...