Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America,--alright maybe not me--take for granted. Why, didn't he tell South Africa that they better shape up if they wanted to keep the West's seal of approval? You still belong, he assured them, but time was running out on that there apartheid. There was that speech Tuesday. "If yas still want to be part of this here West, you'd better end all that killing. It just ain't right and there's no room for people like you while I'm sheriff." Reagan put a hand on the handle of his gun and flexed...
Reagan's greatest contribution to the conservative moral agenda has been through his appointments to the federal judiciary. So far, however, he has had only mixed success with the Supreme Court. Although the high court has recently shown a willingness to be more restrictive in its interpretation of free speech and privacy rights, it is still at least one vote away from reversing its 1973 abortion decision...
...took power in 1979. Two weeks ago, Roman Catholic Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, a critic of the regime, was forced into exile in Honduras. The move drew sharp criticism of the Sandinistas from Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit to Colombia last week. The Pontiff delivered a speech declaring that he found Vega's expulsion a "nearly incredible act" that was reminiscent of the "dark ages," when priests in Latin America were persecuted. Vega, the second-ranking Catholic prelate in Nicaragua, was taken to the Honduran border by Sandinista police on July...
...Bonn, Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann urged West Germans who might be sympathetic to the noble-sounding aims of terrorist groups not to excuse their grisly crimes. The Red Army, he said, "consists merely of perfidious, ordinary murderers." U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz echoed that sentiment in a speech before the Washington press corps last week, calling terrorists "beasts" and warning journalists against becoming "fascinated" with them...
During his inaugural speech Waldheim decried the "horror of the Holocaust," but such regrets could not silence groups of American and Austrian protesters...