Word: speech
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...posts but not the party. The country was also subjected to an intense campaign aimed at building the visibility of 84-year-old Deng Xiaoping, who used to eschew the cult of personality but has come out of semiretirement to show that he is still firmly in charge. A speech Deng delivered on June 9 defending his order to the army to remove the demonstrators from Tiananmen Square was broadcast last week and widely praised by officials. Copies were distributed to schoolchildren for summer study...
...especially for Yardlings, there is Henry C. Moses, dean of first-year students. He oversees proctors and senior advisers, but you'll probably remember him best for the strange speech he usually gives at the opening exercises during Orientation Week...
...homestretch of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court quickened its pace last week by issuing 23 decisions. In addition to its landmark judgment protecting flag burning as a form of free expression, the high bench announced a series of other important rulings in the areas of free speech and criminal law. Following past patterns, the Justices remained vigilant on First Amendment rights but continued to chip away at the constitutional safeguards of criminal defendants...
Assessing these decisions, attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist, said they constituted a "reassuring week for the First Amendment." Said he: "The court has been considerably more sensitive to First Amendment rights than to other civil-liberties claims. Some of President Reagan's appointees have been refreshingly libertarian in their approach...
...precisely this veneration that makes burning the flag such a potent form of speech. And for the flag to truly stand for freedom of speech, the Supreme Court declared, it must stand for its most potent forms. "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration," Justice William Brennan wrote, "for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents." Indeed, the decision that Americans have the right to desecrate their flag could be seen as yet another persuasive reason...