Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case last June (Merrill Lynch is appealing). The judge issued an injunction prohibiting Merrill Lynch from calling Schlesinger, yet barely two months later, a Merrill Lynch broker rang him up. The attorney filed a complaint for contempt of court, and Merrill Lynch was ordered to pay $300. Said a spokesman: "We tried everything to keep Mr. Schlesinger's name off the lists. But we have 12,000 brokers. One of the calls slipped through...
Most of Eastern Europe followed the lead of Moscow, which attempted to avoid intra-alliance finger pointing and instead blamed Bonn. As for Hungary, the Soviets displayed cautious sympathy. In an interview with the BBC, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that Hungary was "in a Catch-22 situation. On the one hand, it had an agreement with the ((German Democratic Republic)) not to allow G.D.R. citizens to travel to a third country. On the other hand, it had all these people there. It was a very difficult, very unusual situation...
...because beaches often became re-oiled. In many cases oil that had seeped down through shoreline sediments to a depth of as much as three feet was pumped back to the surface by 15-ft. tides. "We treated some of those areas as many as seven times," says Exxon spokesman David Sexton. In all, the company says, it recovered 61,000 bbl. of the 260,000 spilled. The $1 billion spent on the cleanup translates into $390 for each gallon of oil recovered...
...plane was carrying 55 passengers and seven crew members and was being evacuated, said a Fire Department spokesman, John Mulligan...
...Foreign Ministry formed a crisis team to maintain contact with the countries over which the plane could have flown, including Niger and Algeria, a ministry spokesman said, speaking on condition of anonymity...