Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MARCH 1983 speech, the President suggested that strategic defense might provide an exit from the dilemmas of nuclear deterrence. The goal of SDI was to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But to escape from deterrence requires a leak-proof defense not only against ballistic missiles, but also against bombers, cruise missiles and weapons smuggled into our cities. Such a perfect defense seems unlikely...
...feasibility of such a task have urged that the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the Pentagon concentrate on the lesser task of defending our weapons rather than our cities. The rationale would be to enhance rather than replace deterrence. That goal is very different from the President's original speech. In a sense, the public is being sold a product that does not match its packaging. An elementary concern for truth in advertising should lead us to distinguish "SDI 1" (The March 1983 brand) and "SDI 2" (the partial defense being developed...
Alzheimer's disease destroys elderly people's memory, their speech, their mobility and even their ability to feed themselves. An estimated 2.5 million Americans have it, and 100,000 die from it each year...
...story of how this came about leaked out in bits and pieces all last week from bewilderingly varied sources: an account published by a pro-Syrian weekly magazine in Beirut, a public speech by the speaker of the Iranian parliament, guarded private comments by government officials in Washington and Jerusalem, even a Danish sailor's revelations about a voyage through the Persian Gulf. Some of the more mind-boggling versions of the tale had touches of melodrama that might have come from the most lurid spy fiction: a presidential envoy slipping into Tehran bearing (so the Iranians claimed) presents...
...case, the secret was out. Rafsanjani was evidently alarmed enough to take strong action to counter Al Shiraa's story and perhaps to cover up his own dealings with the Great Satan. In a speech to the Iranian parliament last Tuesday, Rafsanjani confirmed McFarlane's visit but added some wildly improbable embellishments. According to Rafsanjani, McFarlane and four unnamed American companions arrived in Tehran with Irish passports and posing as the flight crew of a plane carrying military equipment that Iran had purchased from international arms dealers. They brought with them, said Rafsanjani, gifts of a Bible autographed by President...