Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slepak by name as a cause for personal concern during his 1976 election campaign. What is more, when Carter spoke last week to a Washington gathering of 26 foreign ministers from the Organization of American States, the issue of human rights took up one-fourth of his 20-minute address. Though Carter was obviously referring to violations in Latin America, his warning that "there are costs to the flagrant disregard of international standards" was presumably meant to be heard in Moscow as well...
...committee finally tied together a package of first-year emergency aid that will considerably soften the impact of Proposition 13. The solution was swiftly approved by the full legislature and signed into law by a pleased Brown, whose own relief plan had been only slightly modified. In a televised address to Californians, he declared: "Proposition 13 creates challenges, it creates problems, but it creates an opportunity to make government in California a model for people all over the country...
...public is ugly, the citizens are mean," declared Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. Despite the one-shot relief from the state, countless local officials remained fearful about the long-range effect. As Committee Chairman Rodda quipped, "Having rescued the state from chaos, the legislature can now proceed to address the problem of total confusion...
...Illinois capitol with 500 followers. To symbolize their opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, which was about to be voted on in the house, the women had brought loaves of home-baked bread-apricot, date nut, honey-bran and pumpkin. But as she climbed onto a kitchen stool to address the cheering crowd, Schlafly the demure housewife turned into Schlafly the aggressive polemicist. The passage of ERA, she declared, would mean Government-funded abortions, homosexual schoolteachers, women forced into military combat and men refusing to support their wives...
...Your Line. Nor did Tito give a hint that he was anything but eternal. His hair still a perky shade of red, and looking tanned and relaxed in a jaunty, Palm Beach-style cream-colored suit, Tito delivered an hour-long series of excerpts from a 92-page policy address that was remarkable for its globe-spanning comprehensiveness-plus, in certain respects, its blandness. He soberly warned of the dangers of a new world war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Tito lectured party stalwarts on the need to raise productivity in Yugoslavia's worker-manager system...