Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applause through his audience, a wave of astonishment through professional politicians. In Algiers last week the French army boasted that the rebels had suffered an average of 900 casualties a week in March and April -a claim that scarcely suggested that the Algerian fighting was dwindling. A rebel spokesman, far from denying the French claim, declared that the rebels were in fact losing 500 men a day, but that, despite this, their army had grown...
Word of the new Western position came after an American delegation spokesman called for thoroughgoing discussion in the Big Four foreign ministers meeting of the West's package plan. This envisages a phased program toward settlement of the future of Berlin and Germany and the buildup of a European security system...
...repose the old question: What is truth? Fine. That is what good journalism is all about-the pursuit of truth. But a less elusive and more pertinent question might be: What is news? For some reporters, news can be simply what the government spokesman proclaims it to be in a given country, on a given question, or what the official press release says it is. For many this is not enough...
Victor Hugo's novel went on the Index in 1864 under pressure from Napoleon III, who hoped to curtail the popularity of a book in which revolutionaries were honest and noble. Said one Vatican spokesman: "It occurred to us that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine...
...strongest bids for free trade were deleted. Gone was the sentence: "For the benefit of the economy of the nation as a whole, business and Government should encourage increased imports into the U.S." Also struck out was the chamber's opposition to "Buy American legislation." A chamber spokesman denied that the chamber had changed its views, called the alterations in the text "little sops that helped quiet the opposition." But he conceded: "Now, the chamber has no policy on Buy American. From being against it, now we are officially neutral...