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...that more than 600 legislative staffers lost their jobs, Speaker Willie Brown ascended the rostrum of the ornate, walnut-and-velvet California state assembly chamber and, with a trembling of his smartly tailored shoulders, broke down and wept. Veteran assemblymen who have known him for 25 years as a tough-minded political chieftain were amazed. "It's a tragedy that we have to let these people go," Brown sobbed. "This place will not be the same...
Condemnation from the reformers stung the President into counterattack. Marching onto the rostrum of the Supreme Soviet, he proposed suspending the country's five-month-old law that guarantees freedom of the press. "We are going through a period of the most serious decisions," he said. "People need objectivity...
...moment, however, Bush's speech did serve to strengthen the anti- Saddam alliance. Arab governments were delighted by a chance to counter Saddam's incessant propaganda that by lining up with the U.S. they are also siding with Israel. From the U.N. rostrum, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal argued that it was America's allies who were now making progress on the Palestinian problem while Iraq was obstructing such progress by dividing the Arab world...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's speech at Harvard's Commencement this afternoon symbolizes not only the dawn of a new order for Europe, but also the end of an era that began with a speech on the very same rostrum four decades...
...district that would like to be polled, please deliver your ballots to the RFC, they will be taken directly to the rostrum for tallying...