Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text of Botha's speech, distributed to reporters, ended with the sentence: "I congratulate (our security forces) an assure the country that we will do it again when the occasion demands." He omitted those words when speaking in Parliament...
...Unless the shanties stand when those are here who lead the institution--the alumni--then you are being denied freedom of speech," said Bachrach, whom recent polls show as running second or third in the congressional race...
...Porter was asked to give a speech about competitive behavior couched in terms of NFL and USFL," said Laura Steinberg, Porter's attorney. "In that talk Professor Porter had been asked what ways NFL could suppress the USFL...
...point out that people should always reexamine their positions and challenge their convictions. This is true. I am disturbed beause you seemed to imply that no one can ever be sure that they are right, and therefore should never act on their convictions. No one should ever silence free speech (sorry Crimson, this is one conviction of mine that I won't change, challenge as you will) but everyone who examines an issue and comes to the conclusion that something should be done has the freedom to act so as to achieve the desired change, so long as other...
...small minority. There are thousands of students at Harvard. The majority voted for Mondale in the campus poll taken in 1984; they would be characterized as liberal by most observers. Of these thousands, only a small fraction have been involved in such incidents as throwing eggs and preventing free speech. It is unfair and misleading for the Crimson to take these few, and accuse the rest of us of being exactly like them. Christine E. Webber...