Word: spokeswoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigation of eight letter bombs disguised as musical Christmas cards has turned toward the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas that is home to Mohammad Salameh, one of four people convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "We are treating it as a terrorism matter," FBI spokeswoman Susan Lloyd said. The bombs discovered Thursday, carrying a postmark of Alexandria, Egypt, were mailed in plain, white, 5 1/2 by 6 1/2 envelopes with computer-generated addresses and no return addresses. Four went to the Washington office of an Arabic newspaper, Al Hayat, at the National Press Building, and one was found...
...officials indicated Monday that a plan outlining their response to the new state legislation directs government agencies to continue to enforce this law to the letter. Doctors who abuse their prescription privilege by following the new state rules could lose the right to prescribe drugs, said Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Catherine Shaw. This could prove devastating for physicians, as they need DEA certification to prescribe legal pharmaceuticals. The federal strategy was drawn up by several agencies at the request of President Clinton. The President has yet to review the plan but it has been approved...
...setting a sartorial agenda, fashion-industry sources say the President's admission on MTV two years ago that he generally favors briefs over boxers has not led to widespread rejection of the latter. "Boxers have been selling better than briefs," insists Mary Ann O'Rourke, a Sears spokeswoman...
...measure of the confusion at the normally damage control-obsessed White House that no one was quickly deputized to swat back the charges; all questions were referred to the Democratic National Committee, whose besieged spokeswoman, Amy Weiss Tobe, was already sleep-deprived with a nine-week-old son. As a next step White House officials justified Huang's visits as courtesy calls, political receptions and "outreach" efforts, and revealed that there were two John Huangs: the one who was doing Internet hookups and the other, who was suspended as a vice chairman of the D.N.C.'s financial committee two weeks...
...Congress to slash aid to Zimbabwe--$23.3 million this year--by more than half unless it repealed its law. Over State Department protests that programs like AIDS prevention would be affected, D'Amato threatened to add the language to an appropriations bill. Zimbabwe backed down. A D'Amato spokeswoman says he is proud to have helped a New York company "unfairly treated by a foreign country." AIG's spokesman says it had intended to restrict only economic, not humanitarian...