Word: spokesman
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They were not alone: a spokesman for the Government's own Department of Health and Human Services (the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare, minus Education, which is now a separate department) griped that his only information was a fact sheet, handed out by the President's aides, which referred vaguely to reductions in programs to combat mental illness and alcoholism and unspecified other problems. Said the spokesman: "We are not sure what that all means. We are not sure how much these programs will be cut or which health-service programs will...
Washington was quick and unequivocal in its condemnation of the expropriation. "This is not an action destined to improve the peace process," said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III. "The status of any and all territory should be defined by negotiations...
...Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government's major diplomatic achievement. Officials in Cairo and Washington professed not to be worried, however, arguing that the only one who sets foreign policy in Jerusalem is Premier Menachem...
...near disaster. Instead, the commission took aim at what it called the "shallow," "deficient" and "inadequate" operator training system created by industry and Government. In the year since the accident, industry executives and Government regulators have made a number of changes. Says Loring Mills, a spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations: "Before T.M.I., the industry was training people to run plants as if they always ran correctly. Now we throw trainees situations they didn't anticipate and expect them to respond...
Some combination of the plans will be put into effect by the beginning of school next September, Bert Giroux, school spokesman, said yesterday...