Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held a drill in Harvard Hall this month cannot be argued. That gays are not welcome, nor are they even permitted at such drills cannot be argued. And that the University's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities guaranteeing all students, including gay students, among other things, the freedom of speech, freedom personal force and freedom of movement, stands violated by the presence of such a group on our campus cannot be argued, nor can it be forgiven. The rights guaranteed all students and the worth of our non-discrimination policy are put into question by such negligence on the part...
...separate Palestinian state is in reach as part of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Palestinian deportee told 80 people at a speech in Jefferson Hall last night...
...waxing eloquent about a "common European home," he almost certainly did not anticipate the scenario that would unfold as the renovators plunged into the task. But unlike his predecessors, he may understand that the Soviet Union will be more secure with neighbors who tolerate free minds, free ideas, free speech, free markets and free movement. If handled properly, the revolution unfolding in one country after another opens up opportunities, unimaginable just a year ago, to create not just a new Europe but a new and far less menacing world order...
When Kennedy did see the Wall, the event became one of the great spectacles of the cold war, his speech one of the most memorable in his presidency. When Kennedy flew into Berlin that June morning, he had a text that did not please him. "You think this is any good?" he asked the U.S. Berlin commander, Major General James Polk, who had joined the Kennedy caravan.Polk scanned the speech and replied bluntly, "I think it is terrible." Kennedy agreed and began to write a new one. But before he taunted the builders of the Wall, he rode four hours...
...beyond Germany. It became an epitome of the partitioning of Europe, the overarching symbol of the cold war and one of the places where the Western alliance and the Warsaw Pact came gunsight to gunsight. After the magnificent oratory of John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, it was de rigueur for U.S. Presidents -- and other Western leaders -- to come and shake their fists at the Wall and call down imprecations against those who had conceived and built it. But the barrier also stood as a reminder of the limits of power in the nuclear age. Paradoxically...