Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Defense Minister, the stand was a matter of principle, but he lacked broad political support for his position. Craxi, however, evoked an echo of sympathy and even national pride among average Italians with his defense of his actions. Declared the Prime Minister in a speech delivered the day he resigned: "We acted according to our conscience, according to our political convictions, according to our laws...
...another indication that his cherished goal of direct peace talks with Hussein was on track. The Labor Party leader returned to Jerusalem after an eleven-day visit to New York, Washington and Western Europe, visibly buoyed by the Jordanian monarch's response to his Oct. 22 U.N. speech, in which Peres promised to go to Amman or "any location" to hold direct peace talks. Hussein had called the Israeli offer "a positive one in its spirit...
...confront at his regular Sunday Cabinet meeting: hard-line members of the Likud bloc, the other major partner in his national unity government. Likud Cabinet members, led by Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon, pounced on Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens kept silent...
During the eight-hour session, Peres was adamant that the U.N. speech violated no such policy. On Monday in the Knesset, he railed against anyone who would "pile obstacles on the road to the peace process." Legislators apparently were impressed. By a 68-to-10 vote of the 120-member chamber, they endorsed a resolution in support of Peres' U.N. speech before voting down the Tehiya no-confidence motion...
...offer reflected the intensity with which both sides are maneuvering in advance of the long-awaited first summit between Reagan and Soviet Communist Party Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, set for Nov. 19 and 20. The President authorized the latest proposal just a week after he had tried, in his speech to the U.N., to shift the focus of world attention to issues like regional conflicts. He also gave an interview to five Soviet journalists--the first such session since John Kennedy spoke with an Izvestiya editor in 1961 --sat for questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing...