Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School Dean James Vorenberg '49 expressed "regret" over last Friday's disruption of a former contra leader's speech in a statement released yesterday, but said that the address was cancelled in light of the threat posed to Adolfo Calero's safety...
...five permanent members of the council (the U.S., Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China) can veto a resolution, an embargo rested heavily on Moscow and Peking. The Chinese, whom U.S. officials charged with regularly selling arms to Iran, have been cool to an embargo. In a U.N. address that was generally easy on the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sidestepped the sanctions issue and instead called for joint U.N. protection of gulf shipping...
...feet as shouts of "Bravo! Bravo!" echoed through the chamber. That exuberant welcome was a measure of the respect that Arias has won on Capitol Hill for the peace plan conceived by him and signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat short of substance, but hardly anyone could fault his message. Said the Costa Rican: "Let us restore faith in dialogue and give peace a chance...
Seeking to avoid friction, Arias left all mention of the contras out of his congressional address. But at a press conference following the speech, he objected to the Reagan Administration's attempts to win $270 million in fresh funds for the rebels. "Military support to the contras," he charged, "has been the main excuse for the Sandinistas to do all they have done in the past: to abolish individual freedoms, to abolish pluralism, to make Nicaragua a more dictatorial society...
Although the document's wording is not yet complete, it will call on the presidential hopefuls to renew a partnership between government, industry, and higher education to address grievous societal problems, William C. Friday, chairman of the report's commission, said yesterday...