Word: speech
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...Today, the United States does not have an energy policy, and it shows," Dukakis said in a speech in New Hampshire. "It shows in the swings in energy prices that make our elderly on fixed income face the choice of keeping warm or having enough to eat. It shows in the $40 billion of our $170 billion trade deficit that represents imported...
...true that Ronald Reagan and Daniel Ortega Saavedra have nothing in common. Both hold passionate beliefs. They just happen to believe exactly opposite things, as two emotional speeches demonstrated anew last week. "I make a solemn vow," Reagan promised at an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Washington. "As long as there is breath in this body, I will speak and work, strive and struggle for the cause of the Nicaraguan freedom fighters." Specifically, Reagan pledged, he will fight for $270 million in renewed military and humanitarian aid to the contras to enable them to continue battling the Sandinista...
That would greatly endanger Reagan's strategy, which depends almost entirely on maintaining the guerrillas as a force capable of exerting pressure on the Sandinistas. The contras, Reagan implied in his OAS speech, are needed as "insurance" against Sandinista backsliding from the small democratic reforms that they have already instituted, including reopening the newspaper La Prensa...
...bankers, who hold $25 billion in outstanding loans to Mexico). Many of the country's workers were far less enthusiastic, blaming Salinas for the economic belt tightening. Fidel Velazquez, 87, the venerable dean of the 4.5 million-member Confederation of Mexican Workers, pointedly walked out on Salinas' hourlong acceptance speech. Asked why he had left, Velazquez responded testily, "Because I felt like...
...Bork was composing his withdrawal speech that afternoon, Simpson called. "I've been thinking it over," the Senator said. "You ought to stand up for the principle involved if you think you can do it." Bork's resolve began to weaken. Meanwhile, his family debated the decision in a law clerks' lounge across the hall. Soon after he finished talking to Simpson, they entered his chambers. "Something's bothering us," Charles Bork told his father. "You can't quit. To quit now would be to a great degree to concede the validity of the attack against...