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While sticking to their original demands that the military be punished and that information on the disappeared be released, the mothers have broadened their political profile to become visible spokesmen for the left wing. Journalists regularly contact their offices, like those of the five or six political parties and splinter factions, for reaction to current events. The mothers voiced strident and widely publicized opposition in July, for example, when the church and other anti-divorce groups held a moderately successful "march for the defense of the family" in anticipation of congressional debate on a divorce bill (Argentina...
...posturing and showmanship that are a committee chairman's institutional prerogative. Presiding at last week's stormy hearing, he sat primly with his hands folded and his jacket on, oblivious to the heat generated by both television lights and the querulous exchanges between wrought-up Senators and bristling Administration spokesmen. Precise and undramatic, Lugar, 54, comes across more like a fusty academic than a hands-on vote getter. He is regarded as thoughtful -- as opposed to purely brainy -- by friend and foe alike, a quality that stands out among legislators given to impulse. Always dressed in shades of dark gray...
Word leaked out almost as soon as the giant U.S. Air Force C-5A transport plane touched down in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. As U.S. embassy spokesmen in the capital city of La Paz and Defense Department officials in Washington tried to downplay the matter, headlines in Bolivia and the U.S. were blaring the news: in the first use of a U.S. military operation on foreign soil to fight drugs, Army Black Hawk helicopters, armed with .30-cal. machine guns and escorted by about 160 U.S. soldiers, had been flown into the South American jungle to assist Bolivian...
...usually quick to come forward with details of the accident. But after an aircraft went down during night operations near Bakersfield, Calif., last week, the military cordoned off the crash site just outside the Sequoia National Forest and refused to allow planes to fly above the wreckage. Tight-lipped spokesmen would do little more than acknowledge that a pilot had been killed...
...press members too generally slip into covering official spokesmen without going behind what the spokesmen are saying," said Wicker. "Reporters who don't know what they're talking about rely on spokesmen who usually inform them self-servingly...