Word: address
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ball, however, confesses that he is "pessimistic about whether we'll have the will to address this central [Palestinian] problem, particularly with an election year coming." Still, concludes Tucker, if the U.S. "follows through on the commitments implied in the treaty, then I am hopeful that it will work...
That is why Brown's fiscal conservatism makes no political sense. Carter is under fire from the urban groups--labor, blacks, and old-fashioned liberals--within his party. Brown has no room to maneuver on Carter's right without becoming a Republican. His inaugural address as Governor, in which he joined some 20-odd state legislatures in calling for a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget, greatly displeased the leadership of the AFL-CIO. He hurried to mollify them, unsuccessfully, at their gathering in Miami. If Brown has visions of wooing the Jarvis vote, he should consider who is more...
...including the entire Congress, who would assemble on the front lawn of the Executive Mansion. The evening was to include an ecumenical religious service at the Lincoln Memorial and a lavish state dinner on the South Lawn of the White House. On Tuesday, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to address members of the two chambers of Congress...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, 71, had another showdown last week. Following days of equal-rights demonstrations by thousands of angry Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...