Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy. Still, there are certain facets of the polity it sets up we thought had been settled long ago. That is until last week, when Attorney General Edwin Meese III declared that the Supreme Court of the United States was not the ultimate interpreter of the Constitution. In a speech at Tulane University, America's highest-ranking law enforcement official asserted that the Court's decisions were not the supreme law of the land. Only the particular parties involved in cases decided by the Court, he said, are bound by its rulings...
Nader praised a recent speech by HarvardPresident Derek C. Bok, where he expressed concernthat the freedom of scholars may limited bycorporate and government funders...
...postsummit press conference, Gorbachev's performance did not seem like a spontaneous reaction to a failed summit. "He had probably cleared that speech with the Politburo before he left," said one diplomat. Some observers, however, think the Soviet performance was more impulsive than premeditated. "What happened to the Soviets was contrary to their expectations," says Dimitri Simes, a Sovietologist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Both sides were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction...
With the festive atmosphere of the Asian Games two weeks behind, South Korea's ruling party last week resumed its own game of hardball by ordering the arrest of Opposition Assemblyman Yoo Sung Hwan. The incident began when Yoo, 53, distributed advance copies of a speech he intended to make before the National Assembly. When the legislative session adjourned abruptly, Yoo was forced to wait until the next day to deliver his fiercely antigovernment remarks...
...legislator can be arrested for comments made in the Assembly without the consent of that body. But the government, backed by ruling-party legislators, contended that Yoo's distribution of the pro-Communist speech prior to its delivery on the floor was a violation of the National Security Law. If convicted, Yoo faces up to seven years in prison...