Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beseeching Congress "to vote yes," Reagan emphasized his belief that "it is not Nicaragua alone that threatens us." In a televised address from the Oval Office, he asked viewers, "Tell them to help the freedom fighters. Help us prevent a Communist takeover of Central America...
...Democratic Party reply prepared for broadcast following Reagan's address, Sasser said the Democrats agree with Reagan that "the Sandinista government has betrayed the promise of its revolution, has supressed the freedom of its own people, and has supported subversion in El Salvador," but believe "that the President is seizing military options before he has exhausted the hope of a peaceful solution...
Gittelman also told the Boston newspaper that every school needs to develop a policy concerning AIDS. "We have to address the issue and be prepared because we don't know where its going. Everybody should be sitting down and thinking how we're going to handle it," he said...
...reluctant compromise expires at the end of the month.) To kick off the effort, Reagan met with three leaders of the Unified Nicaraguan Opposition, Arturo Cruz, Alfonso Robelo and Adolfo Calero. He made a tough speech to Jewish leaders gathered at the White House, and scheduled a television address for this coming Sunday. The issue was publicly cast by the President, and more strongly by his top advisers, in us-or-them terms, with a blunt accusation that those who oppose aiding the contras are lining up, inadvertently or otherwise, on the side of Communism...
...heavy-handed battering of the U.S. may have reflected Kremlin irritation at the timing of the American reply to a sweeping Soviet arms- control proposal. Reason: the U.S. response came only two days before the congress convened, forcing Gorbachev to shoehorn a Soviet answer into the most important political address of his career. Gorbachev had offered on Jan. 15 to take a step toward complete nuclear disarmament by the end of the century. The first stage called for the Soviet Union and the U.S. to remove their intermediate-range missiles from Europe within five to eight years on the condition...