Word: spokeswoman
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...veto the resolution, marking one of the few times the U.S. has failed to back Israel in the Security Council. What particularly upset the Reagan Administration was Israel's use of live ammunition in confronting protesters. "Order must be maintained without the use of lethal force," declared State Department Spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley. "Techniques are available to accomplish this, and we urge they be employed...
...Washington, State Department Spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley denounced Israel's "harsh security measures," while Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy urged Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was visiting the U.S. capital, to use restraint. "We are sorry we have to use force," Rabin said later. "But whenever there is a violent demonstration using Molotov cocktail bottles, throwing stones, setting fires, attacking car passengers, the police and the military will use whatever is needed to prevent...
...They're still asking the same thing. They don't want to go back to Cuba and they'd like not to be prosecuted for what they're doing," said Luenette Johnson, a spokeswoman for the center, which is run by the Bureau of Prisons and the Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...This sends a terrible message out into the community," said Ann Pauley, a spokeswoman for the Women's Legal Defense Fund. "It says to men that there are some circumstances in which you are justified in physically abusing your wife or girlfriend." The National Coalition against Domestic Violence and NOW are among the groups supporting Chalotte Fedders and helping to finance her appeal...
...contras, meanwhile, were feeling the heat for three alleged kidnapings. Two Nicaraguan clergymen, released last week after an eleven-day captivity, charged that the rebels had threatened to kill them. Witness for Peace, a U.S. human rights group, charged that a volunteer, Paul Fisher, had been abducted. Rebel Spokeswoman Marta Sacasa said that all three men had been detained for their own protection and promised that Fisher would be released "as soon as there are secure circumstances...