Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAMBRIDGE, where the O'neills speak only to the Kennedys and the Kennedys speak only...
Asked last week on television whether he thought graduating collegians paid attention to a commencement address, William F. Buckley, a perennial favorite to speak at these rites, replied no. Rather he saw it as "a kind of a final obstacle to their emancipation." The sentiment was shared by New York Governor Mario Cuomo, surely one of the most popular graduation speakers (over 100 invitations), who told the class of '86 at the State University of New York at Albany, where one of his daughters was graduating, "Today's challenge is mostly to avoid embarrassing Madeline...
Indeed, during the first three months of her U.S. stay, Bonner resisted numerous temptations to speak out. But as time went by, she found it difficult to remain quiet. She was outraged when shown a series of five secretly recorded Soviet videotapes of herself and Sakharov that gave the impression they led a comfortable life in Gorky. And she was disturbed last February when Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told the French Communist Party newspaper that Sakharov, a nuclear physicist who helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, could never leave the country because he was still privy to state secrets...
...Instead, National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her for a 30-min. closed-door meeting. Bonner apparently hopes to bring international pressure on the Kremlin to allow her and Sakharov to return to Moscow or leave the U.S.S.R. Says Semyonov: "She believes that whether she did or did not speak out, the Soviet authorities would do what they wanted to do." In bidding farewell to America last month, Bonner instructed her children to call her in Gorky at specified times each month...
During the recent election campaign, Barrow referred to Ronald Reagan as a "cowboy" who "cannot speak without the use of a TelePrompTer." Most observers thought the outcome would be close. But when the vote was counted last week, Barrow's Democratic Labor Party had won 24 of the 27 seats in Parliament. Despite the outcome, the U.S. expected little change in its relations with the island nation...