Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEMBERS OF THE Southern Africa Solidarity Committee this week released a 35-page report striving to justify the protest which lead to the premature ending of a South African consul's speech last month. I wanted to question SASC on statements in the report, but I thought that requests for interviews would be refused by SASC, a non-hierarchical organization which would not let any member assume a leadership position in the public's eyes. Under pressure to produce copy, I used the report itself to make up an interview...
...Crimson: If you wanted to confront the vice-consul, why didn't you take advantage of the question and answer period which was scheduled to occur after the speech, but which your actions prevented...
During his Prague speech, Gorbachev strongly criticized the past performance of the Soviet economy and made a strong pitch for his liberalization program. What was needed, he said, was not "small repairs" but a "radical reconstruction." Said Gorbachev: "The phenomenon of stagnation and the problems of the '70s cannot be tolerated anymore...
...skilled hand in dealing with Guatemala's domestic problems. Last week, at the door of the national palace, he confronted relatives of some of the thousands of people who are missing and presumed to have been killed in political violence, often by the army. In a suave four-minute speech, the President vowed to investigate the disappearances but wisely avoided any promises to prosecute military officers responsible for the terror...
...entire history of black managers spanned just nine years and involved only three men, Frank Robinson, Maury Wills and Larry Doby. No team with a reasonable chance has ever been entrusted to a black. Typically, retired black stars become first-base coaches and clubhouse liaisons. In an infamous 1978 speech, former Senators Owner and lifelong Baseball Man Calvin Griffith told Minnesotans that he moved the team from Washington "when I found out you only had 15,000 blacks here. Black people don't go to ball games, but they'll fill up a rasslin' ring and put up such...