Word: spokesman
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...Disturbing the Universe is a fair indication, Dyson spent the first twenty pages of his life as a child, the next eighty as a pure scientist, and the bulk of it, the final 150, as an ill-defined political spokesman, a defender of this and a believer in that. For the middle eighty pages the book soars. This is where we find what we came for: a candid description of the remarkable collaboration between Dyson's mathematical genius and his imagination, or the even more remarkable collaboration of his gifts with the complementary ones of those around...
...Sunday, while the Iranians were still making preparations to release the first of the hostages, came a shocking announcement that promised only to worsen the crisis. Many of the remaining hostages, proclaimed a spokesman for the students, would now be tried for espionage in the Islamic Revolutionary Courts and "punished in accordance with the severity of their crimes." The Ayatullah himself later confirmed the scheme, adding that the trials would only be halted and the hostages let go if the U.S. returned the Shah. Warned a senior official of West Germany's foreign ministry when told of the threat: "With...
Khomeini evidently insisted to his colleagues that they stand firm against the increasing American pressures. Hassan Habibi, the newly appointed spokesman for the Revolutionary Council, reaffirmed the government's position on the hostages: "We are not going to retreat in the face of U.S. imperialism. We are asking for the extradition of an international criminal, and the U.S. cannot long continue its aggressive reaction to our demand." He disclosed that Iran and Libya had agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations after a break of several years. The two countries had been especially at odds for the past year, following...
...that the guerrillas would be subject to the orders of an interim British commander. Spokesmen for the Muzorewa delegation called the 15-word addendum a face-saving artifice to mask "a total capitulation by the Patriotic Front to the original British position." But the Front, according to a jubilant spokesman, took Carrington's statement to mean that "our forces now are lawful forces in the country. What more do we want...
...members of the rival delegations. Following the formal negotiating session, Salisbury's military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, branded as "nonsense" the guerrillas' claim to equal status with his troops. "If anybody shoots at us," he warned ominously, "we will stop them from shooting any more." Front Spokesman Eddison Zvogbo angrily replied that "we are legal forces, we have equal status," and promised "severe retribution" against those who moved to deny that status...