Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill is designed to address what legislators called a serious mental health problem in the state. State officials said that more than 50 percent of homeless people are mentally ill and Massachusetts has inadequate facilities to meet their needs...
...recipients, like so many other decisions made in the name of the University community, is the affair of a few Corporation members and University overseers. Consequently all we know about this year's 10 honorands is that Richard von Weizsacker, the West German president who will give the commencement address, will certainly be among them. If O'Neill does not join the West German statesman on June 11, Harvard will have failed to recognize a hometown boy who has earned national distinction serving the Cambridge community the University shares...
...long overdue. For three months Reagan had refused to speak out on the crisis that swirled about him. Since the diversion of Iran arms profits to the Nicaraguan contras was disclosed last Thanksgiving week, the President had made only one major public appearance: his recycled State of the Union address in January. But the Tower commission's report, with its damning disclosures of ineptitude and malfeasance, seemed to serve as a catharsis for the White House. Finally, now that the Administration's sins had been exposed, the President was forced to act decisively, beginning with the ouster the following...
Since the Tower commission could not answer the question of what happened to the funds diverted to the contras, Reagan hardly discussed the matter, simply expressing confidence that the "truth will come out." He did not address a central finding of the report, that NSC officials secretly managed the contra war effort at a time when U.S. law prohibited U.S. military assistance to the rebels. As he has done previously, Reagan assured his audience that "I didn't know about any diversion of funds to the contras," adding, however, that "as President, I cannot escape responsibility...
While the President showed that he can still do wonders with a carefully wrought address, the aftershocks from the Tower report are likely to continue. He might be forced to confront two remaining aides who have been criticized for their behavior in the Iran initiative. Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger objected last week to the Tower report's critique of their performance in Iranscam. According to the document, the two officials "simply distanced themselves from the program. They protected the record as to their own positions on this issue. They were not energetic in attempting...