Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keith Takahashi, a spokesman for the McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach, Calif., identified the aircraft as a DC-10-30, a popular model in the DC-10 series...
...President announced a $65 million package of emergency military aid to Colombia, more than 2 1/2 times the $25 million the nation had been scheduled to receive. At the same time, the State Department warned that "Americans traveling to Colombia could expose themselves to extraordinary personal danger." Spokesman Richard Boucher said that State "strongly urges Americans to avoid visiting Medellin, headquarters of the drug traffickers' cartel...
...have an impact on Mikhail Gorbachev's political reforms in the Soviet Union. The West applauded carefully, wary that too hearty a response might be considered meddling that could unbalance the delicate experiment. "We would encourage a non-Communist government in the process of pluralism, of course," said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. But George Bush "would not want to do anything or say anything to upset the applecart...
...condemned. Said a Western diplomat in Budapest last week: "The hard-liners will point to Poland and say, 'That's where you finish up if you let the opposition get a foot in the door.' " In Hungary, where multiparty elections are due to be held soon, Geza Jeszenszky, a spokesman for the opposition Hungarian Democratic Forum, said the success of a Solidarity-led Polish government would probably "increase the confidence of the Hungarian voting public...
...techniques and advanced computer data bases that enabled chemists to experiment with formulas for the new gasoline. Besides containing no lead, the new Arco fuel has 50% less benzene, a major source of smog, and 80% less sulfur. "We could not have done this five years ago," a company spokesman contended. "You have to have a good data base...