Word: spokesman
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...appeal is directed at the roughly 200,000 Soviet citizens who have immigrated to the U.S. since 1975, many of whom live in the New York area. The purpose of the ads, says FBI spokesman Milt Ahlerich, is the "identification of hostile intelligence activities." That includes the detection of approaches made to Soviet emigres by KGB agents. But couldn't the callers deliberately feed disinformation to the FBI? "That could happen," concedes Ahlerich. "We're prepared to address the problem." Despite the FBI's new glasnost, Ahlerich would not even hint at what respondents to the ad have been telling...
...demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing in malice and omitted nothing out of cowardice...
...recovered from gallbladder surgery, Honecker went on TV to accuse Bonn of trying "to turn East Germany upside down with a comprehensive % attack." West Germany flatly denied that it had reneged on a pledge to shut its doors to new refugees. "There was no such agreement," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jurgen Chrobog. "We would never accept that German people should stand outside a German embassy with small children without giving shelter and care. The East Germans wanted to build a wall around our embassy. Now they're building a wall around themselves...
Nonetheless, U.S. automakers insist that California standards would become burdensome if adopted nationwide. GM's Stempel argued that the stricter requirements would raise car prices in regions that are free of smog. Declared a Chrysler spokesman: "If you lived in Resume Speed, N. Dak., you would be paying for a piece of equipment that you simply did not need to keep your air clean...
...House vote. They complain that a fine-print , provision in the federal action would end California's right to impose even tougher standards on off-road vehicles such as lawn mowers, dune buggies and construction equipment, which account for an estimated 16% of the state's smog. Says a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board: "While the bill applauds California's leadership, it ties our hands to control pollution in our own backyard...