Word: spokesmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, this one apparently inflicted by their countrymen. In a cross-border strike from their base in Iraq, the National Liberation Army of the People's Mujahedin, a leftist Iranian dissident group, seized the border town of Mehran and drove its pro-Khomeini defenders beyond the surrounding hills. N.L.A. spokesmen claimed to have killed and wounded as many as 8,000 Iranian troops during the ten-hour battle, code-named Operation Forty Stars. Western reporters brought to the battle scene confirmed that the rebels had captured 1,500 Iranian prisoners, as well as tanks and artillery...
There were no news conferences, no gleaming press centers, no ever helpful government spokesmen when James O. Jackson began reporting from Moscow for United Press International in 1969. "We spent a great deal of time covering dissidents," recalls Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief since 1985, "partly because no one else would talk to us." In that grim, pre-glasnost era, scraps of information could be hard to obtain...
...that begins June 28. At that meeting, liberal reforms undreamed of in Jackson's early Soviet years will be debated openly. Journalists from around the world have begun to descend on Moscow for the event, their work aided by the proliferation of news conferences, press centers and ever helpful spokesmen. Jackson, however, will not be there to enjoy them. Instead, he will be in West Germany taking up his new duties as TIME's Bonn bureau chief...
...self-proclaimed `spokesmen' for the Black community--Rev. Al Sharpton. C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox--have been giving advice to Ms. Brawley, the teenage girl who alleges that she was kidnapped, raped and abused for four days by a group of whites in upstate New York...
...long-time Rowan haters, such as spokesmen for the National Rifle Association and right-wing zealot Patrick Buchanan, could not help but join the bandwagon, gloating at this apparent example of "elitist, liberal hypocrisy," and label Rowan "the Jacuzzi Bandit." They and others charged that Rowan has become the 1980s equivalent of the infamous "limousine liberals" of the 1970s, who while advocating busing as a means to integrate the public schools, quietly slipped their children off to Andover and Exeter...