Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House flew in two limousines, the President's drinking water, two bomb- sniffing dogs and 28 toilets) became the colorful centerpiece of a campaign to sell what has become known as the Reagan Doctrine: U.S. support for "freedom fighters" battling Soviet-backed governments around the globe. Indeed, Reagan's speech at Queen's Park went beyond praise of the newfound freedom in Grenada, and railed against the absence of it in Nicaragua...
Hussein made the announcement in an emotional 3 1/2-hour speech over Jordanian television, addressed to 1.3 million Palestinians in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as to his own 2.8 million subjects. The King thus broke off a year-old partnership with Arafat in which the two Arab leaders had sought ways to resolve the Palestinian problem through negotiations with Israel. Said the weary Hussein: "Yes, brothers and sisters, we have gone through a grueling year of intensive effort and faced a host of obstacles, in many instances exceeding the limits of our endurance...
Even as Hussein was delivering the speech that ended his peace overture, more fighting was going on 100 miles to the northwest. Early last week a Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist group called the Islamic Resistance Front, which is dominated by the Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), attacked a small Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon and kidnaped two wounded Israeli soldiers. Within hours, some 1,200 Israeli troops pounded across the border in their biggest operation since their army withdrew from southern Lebanon last June. The mission: not only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root...
...high-level cronyism that flourished for nearly 20 years under former Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, until his death in 1982. The new man at the helm has given fair warning that he intends to wean the country from deeply ingrained habits, including alcoholism, corruption and sloth. Gorbachev's speech this week will show the direction in which he intends to lead his country...
...leader's message has been coming across loud and clear. In a May 27 speech in Leningrad, Gorbachev warned party officials: "Those who do not intend to adjust and who, moreover, are an obstacle to the solution of these new tasks simply must get out of the way, get out of the way and not be a hindrance...