Word: statement
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Tower distributed copies of the statement after reading it on the air. Dated Saturday, it was signed by Tower and witnessed by his doctor at Baylor University, Dr. Warren Lichliter, and Department of Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner...
...Senator Nunn and other members of the Senate relative to my confirmation as Secretary of Defense, namely the extent to which I may engage in excessive use of beverage alcohol, let me state that I have never been an alcoholic nor dependent on alcohol," Tower said in a statement he read on ABC-TV's This Week With David Brinkley...
...seriously, Rushdie, clearly shaken, replied, "I think I have to take it very seriously indeed." He canceled a planned book tour in the U.S., moved out of his four-story house in North London and, under protection of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad, quietly disappeared. Then, in a formal statement released on Saturday, he declared, "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam...
North's wife, Betsy, was escorted to her seat in the packed courtroom by security guards midway through Keker's opening statement...
Neither Khomeini's statement nor IRNA referred to Khamanei's comments, reflecting a widening rift in the Iranian hierarchy over the Rushdie affair...