Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first the Carter Administration indicated that it was in no mood for haggling. After Banisadr's interview with the Paris daily, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III said flatly that the U.S. has no intention of "declaring its guilt, either specified or unspecified...
...angry White House immediately launched a counterattack. Press Secretary Jody Powell termed Kennedy's attack "cynical, self-serving, irresponsible and false." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance accused Kennedy of "misstatements ... both numerous and serious," and State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III asserted that Kennedy had got the commission idea from confidential briefings that Vance and Waldheim had given him. Finally, Carter himself said at his press conference that Kennedy's remarks had been "very damaging to our country...
...Foreign Minister. It was published on Nov. 13, only nine days after the hostages were seized. Banisadr asserted that "the American Government should at least accept the investigation of the guilt of the former Shah." He did not say who should investigate, but, according to a U.N. spokesman, Waldheim privately broached the idea of an international inquiry commission to U.S. and Iranian officials on Nov. 17. He pursued it on a year-end trip to Iran and on a visit to Carter in Washington Jan. 6; the same day he finally made it public in a television interview...
...Sunday Times, one of many London papers that printed subsequent stories about the buggings, quoted an "impeccable source" as saying: "That was why Lord Carrington could conduct the conference on the basis of brinkmanship. The intelligence sources told him where all the brinks were." A spokesman for the Prime Minister refused to confirm or deny the report...
...Soviet athletes arrived at the Olympic Village, took one look at their quarters, and pronounced themselves horrified. A spokesman declared that the facility was "unlivable and unsanitary," and altogether too suggestive of the prison it will become...