Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Journal reported the press conference, general student interest shifted from the harassment issue to Newman's proposal that police patrol the dormitories, Simoneau said...
Adverse publicity was also the students' first concern, Cynthia L. Simoneau, associate editor of the URI Cigar, said yesterday. She said residents of Coddington Hall, the victims' dormitory, organized a press conference to say the Journal had misquoted them on the extent of sexual harassment at the university...
...Until the last day, I tried to bring about a peaceful settlement," the exiled Dalai Lama said in his first press conference in 1959. He added that he hoped to help the continuing struggle in Tibet "by means of peaceful solutions rather than military force." Nevertheless, Chinese brutality drove some Tibetans into the mountains to organize guerilla resistance. Their efforts have been futile. Today an occupation army of 300,000 enforces Chinese dictates. Dissentors are publicly executed. Monks who refuse to defrock are interred in labor camps. Between 5000 and 6000 monasteries have been destroyed...
...call myself a world citizen," the Dalai Lama said at his last press conference Friday. "Tibetans believe there are many worlds, and I am a citizen of this world. As a Buddhist monk, there are no boundaries in my mind, all countries are the same. All people are alike...
...deep gratitude to America for her hospitality, and said the U.S. has a vital spiritual-historical role at this time. Since the U.S. is the world's most materially successful nation, Tibet, a spiritual society and America's opposite image, has a lot to teach. A journalist at the press conference last week asked for a concise statement of his ideas for America. The Dalai Lama meditated briefly, as if drawing on lifetimes of teachings, and said, "Kindness and love--this is my real message." Like the Pope before him he left us with humanity's oldest lesson, and perhaps...