1.   The role of defending the Church was assumed by the lower clergy, their chief spokesman being Francis Atterbury.

2.   The move is certain to fuel the controversy provoked by an earlier leaked document, endorsed by chief Ulster spokesman Kevin McNamara.

3.   And Sconyers, the chief Air Force spokesman, said the service was still researching the issue.

4.   Another strong signal came this week from Dieter Vogel, chief spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

5.   As chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam, he was among the first leaders to articulate the anger felt by black Americans about segregation and economic exclusion.

6.   At the FAA, Eliot Brenner, the chief spokesman, said his agency had not received anything formal from the safety board.

7.   At the State Department, the chief spokesman, Nick Burns, made a more impassioned statement calling for a peaceful resolution.

8.   Born in Hong Kong, he is an internationalist, and virtually up to his resignation was trumpeting the virtues of Pepsi as its chief global spokesman.

9.   Bob Brennan, the chief spokesman for the Atlanta organizing committee, said Monday that locals would be put on the buses of out-of-towners to provide directions.