11.   A Coca-Cola Portugal spokesman told the paper that the residue was harmless.

12.   A Gingrich spokesman told Roll Call that the speaker had no interest in the offer.

13.   A health department spokesman told the New York Times that the remarks would have been too political.

14.   A Secret Service spokesman later told a reporter that White House guards are issued rubber search gloves for use at their discretion.

15.   A PGA Tour spokesman told Associated Press commissioner Tim Finchem would speak to both players.

16.   A police spokesman told me they found the woman later, still on Seventh Street, and escorted her to a treatment facility.

17.   A police spokesman told the New York Times that Hopson was identified by an anonymous caller who recognized him from a broadcast of an amateur videotape of the assaults.

18.   A Random House spokesman told Roll Call that the publisher was free to reprint them, even for commercial use, because they were part of the Congressional Record.

19.   A spokesman told the paper Commonwealth Edison has received proposals from four undisclosed companies to buy the plants.

20.   A spokesman for Sibur told Bloomberg News that a senior vice president of the company, Valery Pisarev, would take over as acting president.