Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked over his shoulder at me, through scratched plexiglass that held him safe from his fares, with this smile on his face so old and firm like he knew I didn't speak the language...
...Berahini... and a mob of Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says he is sorry for what he has to say, and he reads a poem by Berahini which has the words "shit" and "fuck" in it. He says he's sorry...
Some argue that the U.S. should be a sanctuary for all who are cast from their homelands. Why then did the U.S. not allow intellectuals critical of the Shah to even speak out with impunity here? Why did American intelligence services provide SAVAK with information on their activities in this country which lead to their deaths under torture when they returned to Iran...
...United States used to speak softly and carry a big stick, Berrios added, but now, "you speak softly and carry a small stick" in Latin America...
...Soviet Union has allowed a Ukrainian dissident invited to speak at Harvard to leave the country. He and his wife are now in London on their way to the United States...