Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Hoxha died last year, his isolationist policies still guide the current leadership, at least on the surface. In a speech to the Albanian Communist Party Congress earlier this month, Hoxha's handpicked successor, Ramiz Alia, 61, said, "Our party will apply his teachings with courage and wisdom." Yet even before Hoxha's death, Albania had begun to crack open its doors, and today there are signs that the eagle may be ready at long last to spread its wings...
...Administration, he replied bluntly, "No." Asked if he had discussed resigning, Shultz responded with calculated ambiguity, "I serve at (the President's) pleasure, and anything that I have to say on that subject I just say to him." On Monday he increased the pressure, telling reporters after a speech in Chicago that even appearing to trade arms for hostages only encouraged terrorists to kidnap more Americans...
...action followed a rally speech by 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman in which the anti-war protester strongly criticized alleged CIA involvement in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Vietnam. Hoffman was also arrested...
Well, by now I was good and worried. I didn't like to think that our President had been maybe coming to us from some different dimension entirely, but come to think of it I did remember a sentence from his last State of the Union speech: "As they said in the film, Back to the Future: `Where we're going, we don't need roads...
...nationally broadcast speech November 13th, Reagan defended his policy of selling arms to Iran, saying that "since U.S. government contacts began with Iran, there's been no evidence of Iranian government complicity in acts of terrorism against the United States...