Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only an "act of God" averted a disaster...
...Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities, roads and airports, the rest of the country was largely in the hands of the guerrillas...
...major networks to run a more straightforward, nonfabulous commercial. That spot maintained that Mobil's profits are actually lower, in terms of return on invested capital, than those of the networks. The networks' response was much the same as that of the Post-Newsweek stations, but a spokesman for NBC could not resist noting that however Mobil skewed the figures, its after-tax profits in 1978 were nevertheless more than one-third greater than the pretax profits of NBC, CBS and ABC combined-a not entirely apt comparison that may only have confused the question...
Some Boston University (B.U.) students, upset over an $1120 increase in tuition and fees for next year, may refuse to pay their term bills until university trustees fire B.U. President John R. Silber, a student spokesman said yesterday...
...decided long ago that science would be protected," Edward T. Wilcox, spokesman for the committee and director of General Education, said this week...