Word: speech
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...speech, Reagan noted that St. John's alumni include the governors of California and New York more than 250 judges, and numerous local and congressional legislators. He also cited the school's high success rate for those taking the bar exam and its record of attracting students from many countries...
...inaugural speech to the Communist Party Central Committee last week, Mikhail Gorbachev got right to the point: his highest priority would be nothing less than a total transformation of the deeply troubled Soviet economy. That may be a far bigger task than any Kremlin chief, even a young and energetic one, can handle, because the challenge goes far beyond the realm of economics and technology, to the nature of the Soviet state itself. In order to achieve his bold aim, Gorbachev must first deal with a formidable, intractable and historically durable rival-cum-partner--the Soviet bureaucracy...
...will Gorbachev cope with this dilemma? During his speech to the Central Committee last week, he referred to "speeding up the country's social and economic development," a strategy that he associated with the name of Yuri Andropov. The allusion was revealing. During Andropov's 15-month reign, the former KGB chief launched a campaign against worker absenteeism and nomenklatura corruption. At least one prominent black marketeer, with connections to the family of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was executed. Andropov fired several industrial ministers and began to appoint younger, more professional executives to senior posts. Andropov also...
Tehran too was shaken by a bomb blast. As Iran's President Seyed Ali Khamene'i was delivering a speech at the University of Tehran, a terrorist detonated a homemade bomb strapped around his waist, killing himself and five other people. The President, who escaped unhurt, blamed the attack on Iran's own Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who are trying to overthrow the country's leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...