Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tabloids really reform themselves? Paul Woolwich, editor of Hard News, a TV program that weekly exposes the worst excesses of the British press, has his doubts: "Who will decide when a right to reply is justified or when there can be an invasion of privacy? The newspapers will." Indeed, the day after the code was signed the Sun was back on the street with a story that began, "Sex-mad Barbara Williams has ditched her toy boy hubby...
...have abandoned the claim to have a monopoly on the truth; we no longer think that we are always right, that those who disagree with us are our enemies. We have now decided, firmly and irrevocably, to base our policy on the principles of freedom of choice, and to develop our culture through dialogue and acceptance of all that is applicable in our conditions...
People of many confessions, including Christians, Moslems, Jews, Buddhists and others, live in the Soviet Union. All of them have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs...
...starting point is that freedom of movement is a basic human right. Thus there could be no better proof of our sincerity about renewing socialism than by starting with human rights. I considered it a disadvantage that we were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...main rival, the Social Democratic Party, at first had no choice but to endorse the speech. Later in the week, though, when the Bundestag formally approved the plan, the SPD began feeling its politics again and abstained from the voting. Kohl also seized the high ground from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum as well as Germany watchers around the world by emphasizing the term confederation. With its explicit echoes of the Zollverein...