Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference in Blackpool, which opened two days after the Tottenham disturbance, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd proposed a law making the commission of a crime while carrying a firearm punishable by life imprisonment. The rioters and looters, Hurd declared, were motivated by "greed and the excitement of violence." In her speech to the delegates, Thatcher concurred, saying, "This is crime masquerading as social protest...
...Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...
Secretary Weinberger's speech to the National Press Club had been expected to lay out the Administration's defense strategy for the future. In essence, Weinberger stated that the Pentagon's aim is unchanged: to keep up with the Kremlin. The era of U.S. military superiority has "vanished," he said. "We are now struggling simply to win from Congress the resources to assure that we can deter the Soviet Union from aggression...
That was not the first time Gorbachev had used a rival's thirst to his own advantage, according to Fridrich Neznansky, who emigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in 1978 and who, by his own account, attended Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped...
...true that from time to time demagogues get too far in the democracy, it is also true that eventually a decent, awakened majority always brings them low. Yet even a limited display of this kind is infuriating and scary. It seizes the imagination and grows immense. After the speech a fifth column of haters walked down the Garden ramps and out into the city, each brooding in his private storm and waiting for a sign. In the morning they mingled with the world...