Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bold effort to move beyond the stalemate of protest-open letter, point-counterpoint. The organizers of the rally, which will feature such tested crowd-drawers as Jesse Jackson and Mel King, expect it to bring as many as 5000 to the Yard. And while the speakers will address the broader questions of apartheid and U.S. South Africa policy, the demonstration will undoubtedly take on the question of Harvard's South Africa-linked investments. The event, moreover, is certain to win extensive local and national coverage. That attention could potentially galvanize born students and alumni to direct new pressure toward...
...Reagan Revolution failed to address the issues that pose the greatest long-term threat to America's economy. Glow growth in both the GNP and productivity give the economy fewer resources to use in the future. Even after two years of plenty created by budget deficits and an upswing in the business cycle, the prospects are not good for continued quick growth. American technological advances the mainspring of our economy since well before the time of Henry Ford, are being challenged more effectively by the Japanese while cheap labor countries are taking over other markets. The problems of conserving and/or...
...almost no opposition to supporting Afghan and (non-Communist) Cambodian rebels. There is a consensus that resistance to invasion warrants support. But by what logic should support be denied to those fighting indigenous tyranny? It seems curious to decide the morality of a cause on the basis of the address of its chief oppressors...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev might visit the U.S. this year. Late last week the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun quoted Viktor Afanasyev, editor in chief of Pravda, as saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...
...with which Gorbachev was ratified as the General Secretary of the Communist Party--less than 24 hours after Chernenko's death--puzzled Western diplomats. Some insight into Gorbachev's confirmation emerged last week with the release of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's nominating speech to the Central Committee. The address seemed to Western analysts to have been aimed at blunting potential criticism that Gorbachev, 54, was too outspoken. Gromyko lauded the new leader for expressing himself with a "Leninist directness." Gromyko also stressed that Gorbachev had in effect been "brilliantly" running the country during Chernenko's illness...