Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired of Nicaragua's intransigence in the slow-moving Contadora peace talks. They were also angered by a Sandinista attack on a contra camp in neighboring Honduras. The Administration early in June disclosed that the Soviet Union had made a direct military shipment to Nicaragua, and in a speech last Tuesday the President starkly portrayed the contras as the only force standing between the U.S. and a "Soviet military beachhead" in North America...
...what former Virginia Governor Charles Robb called a "permanent caste of destitute young men and women" in the nation's ghettos. One of the hosts was New York Governor Mario Cuomo, who was cast into the role of liberal standard-bearer by his stirring "shining city on a hill" speech at the 1984 convention; he has since worked to position himself for a presidential campaign by balancing pragmatic approaches with progressive ideals. The other sponsor was the Democratic Leadership Council, led by Robb, which has sought to bring the party back to the center...
...celebrated speech earlier this year, Robb, a son-in-law of Lyndon Johnson, attacked the Democrats' traditional focus on racism as the cause of black poverty and on welfare programs as a way to alleviate it. At last week's session he again charged that the welfare system "may be subsidizing the spread of self-destructive behavior in our poor communities...
Still, says Lange, a friendly intimacy has developed. "No one has any desperate need to be center stage. We've all been there." She notes: "I don't believe in living and becoming the character off screen. I find that a little sophomoric. But your mannerisms and speech are affected. The two older sisters, for example, are tremendously protective toward Babe, little Babe. Diane and I treat Sissy the same way." Spacek says that Babe "taps a real part of me. The side of me that's Babe got me into a lot of trouble in school. Teachers couldn...
...speech, Garcia said that he had ordered the arrest of police chiefs and officers who had taken part in the storming of Lurigancho prison near Lima on June 18. At least 124 inmates died in the operation, including those killed after the prisoners had ended their resistance. Declared the President: "What happened after the surrender in Lurigancho is a crime that I will not silence." While condemning the police, Garcia strongly defended Peruvian marines who attacked another prison, on the island of El Fronton, where as many as 270 Shining Path disciples died...