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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is criticism, and the Democrats' covention, had it offered only that, would have been less than successful. If the Democrat's win this election because of that week in July, the credit will belong to the Duke's speech on Thursday night, in which he layed out a plan for the country, vague though...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Bush and the Vision Thing | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

Vice President George Bush, like Dukakis, was off the campaign trail after winding up a trip Sunday night. Bush was polishing a speech in which he planned to call for tougher ethical standards for government officials and members of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis-Bentsen Encounters Hitch | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

...will deliver a speech today at the Library of Congress on ethics in government, prescribing "high standards" to prevent conflict of interest by federal officials, including members of Congress. Aides say Bush wants a strengthened Office of Ethics in the White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis-Bentsen Encounters Hitch | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

...speech, long in the making, was delayed until the release of the report by independent counsel James M. McKay on Attorney General Edwin Meese, which said Meese probably broke two tax laws and twice violated a criminal conflict-of-interest statute. McKay sought no charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis-Bentsen Encounters Hitch | 7/26/1988 | See Source »

...what you will, complain as you wish -- and it usually gives rise to plenty of speech and complaint -- the Venice Biennale is always fun to visit. It also has an edge on all other festivals of contemporary art, like the more didactic Documenta at Kassel, West Germany. For when you have done the central show in the Italian pavilion in the public gardens, and sampled all the national pavilions from the U.S.'s to Yugoslavia's, and sated whatever appetite you may have for the installation pieces of Aperto 88, the section for artists under 40 that stretches like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venice Biennale Bounces Back | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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