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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsored by the Virginia-based Speech and Communication Association (SCA), the debates have taken place every other year since 1972, according to Donald Fields, organizer of the event...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Harvard Students to Debate Soviets In April Tour of Four Russian Cities | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...speech before the Soviet Union's Academyof Sciences, a Russian scholar, D.S. Likhachev,charged that library officials initially attemptedto conceal the extent of the damage by bringing ina bulldozer to clear debris quickly. "They triedto minimize the cultural losses in the most coarsefashion," he said...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Harvard Offers to Help Razed Leningrad Library | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...morning had been Earl Hendricks, the local political expert in this small town of five gas stations and half a movie theater (there were only shows on Friday and Saturday). Earl was in the front row, double-chin set and eyes lowered to watch Jackson ready himself for his speech...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...speech. It was certainly advertised in the town paper as such. Nowadays, Jesse only gives sermons to Black congregations. He must figure that whites want something a little more structured, whether it was Sunday...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

Jesse jumped right past his usual drug and unemployment statistics and went right to his one-lines. Which left him plenty of room for some old-fashioned brimstone. And the good people in the pews got a sermon instead of a speech...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: That No-Time Jackson Religion | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

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