Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharply divided Senate committee, after completing its questioning of Bork, plans to turn to other witnesses today who will speak for and against the nominee...
Shimon Peres, the once and possibly future prime minister of Israel, will speak at the Kennedy Schools this afternoon on the prospects for peace in the Middle East and his controversial call for the convening of an international conference as a means to achieve...
...such sensitive issues in the U.S. church as marriage for priests, homosexuality and the ordination of women. "I am accustomed to that," he said in answer to a question about protests. "It would not be normal not having that -- especially in America." John Paul said he intended to speak to both dissenters and the "great silent majority that is faithful...
...prison, Winnie, wearing native dress, brings to him the exalted dignity that she has painfully won. Surrounded by guards, separated by plate glass, they are only allowed to say, "How are you?" "I'm fine." "How are you?" "Fine." "And the children?" "They are fine." Their eyes and smiles speak a silent reminder of apartheid's terrible human cost...
Thus, to a great many people around the country, the Bork confirmation struggle is nothing less than a fight for the soul of American society. Evangelists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson speak of a Bork appointment as a kind of salvation for a morally misguided Supreme Court. Exulted Human Events, a right-wing journal: "The President . . . could advance his entire social agenda -- from tougher criminal penalties, to curbing abortion-on- demand, to sustaining religious values in the schools, etc. -- far beyond his term in office...