Word: spokeswoman
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...pilgrimage to Mecca and returned El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. She kept it after his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 even though it was three men connected to the Nation of Islam that were convicted of the killing. Mrs. Shabazz went on to become a university administrator and spokeswoman for civil rights, and raised the couple's six daughters. In 1994, Mrs. Shabazz reopened the old wounds by charging publicly that Louis Farrakhan had played a role in her husband's death. After her daughter Qubilah faced charges in 1995 for hiring a hit man to kill Farrakhan, her mother...
...savings and loan and the "truthfulness of her statements" to federal investigators. The article also reported that Starr provided background assistance for the piece and that lawyers in his office made no attempt to suppress speculation that the indictment of the First Lady is under consideration. Deborah Gershman, a spokeswoman for Starr, said the prosecutor was en route to Arkansas and would likely comment after reviewing the letter further. Kendall's letter, which marks the first time he has publicly criticized Starr, comes as the prosecution has intensified the probe by filing court papers outlining "extensive evidence" of obstruction...
...evacuated 843 foreigners, among them some 300 Americans, in batches of up to 55 while Nigerian peacekeeping troops stood guard at the hotel entrance. The U.S. Embassy has already shut down its operations in the capital. Embassy staff were headed for Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea, said embassy spokeswoman Anne Wright as she boarded the day's final helicopter. At least 22 other governments had asked the United States to move their nationals out, Wright said; there was not room enough for all. "We are very sorry we could not have everybody on board who wanted...
...driving that red pickup, a man who has been moving eastward, from San Diego to Minneapolis, Minn., to Chicago and now the New Jersey coast, using a series of stolen vehicles, a man who has been charged thus far with only one crime but about whom Philadelphia FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi noted, "Everywhere he's been, there's been a murder...
...strong background in trade and Pacific Rim issues." Huang, who has become the symbol of shady Democratic fund raising, was then an executive with the Indonesia-based Lippo Group conglomerate, and interested in positions at Commerce, Treasury and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. According to Daschle spokeswoman Ranit Schmelzer, the Senator says he doesn't remember how he met Huang, who became Deputy Assistant Secretary at Commerce, and has no recollection of any "economic development projects" the two of them collaborated on. But Huang did arrange an April 1991 fund-raising lunch in Los Angeles for the Senator...