Word: speech
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Weinberger opened a new round with a speech three weeks ago, taking issue with earlier statements by Shultz. The Secretary of Defense laid down six conditions for the use of U.S. combat troops abroad. Some were unexceptionable: "We should have clearly defined political and military objectives." But others were more controversial. Military power, said Weinberger, should be used only "as a last resort" to protect "vital interests" of the U.S. or its allies, only "with the clear intention of winning" and only if there is "some reasonable assurance we will have the support of the American people and their elected...
...military forces to creep-or be drawn gradually-into a combat role in Central America." Shultz, while no less opposed to military entanglements in that region, has long insisted that his diplomats must be backed up by a credible willingness to use force. He replied to Weinberger in a speech of his own last week, arguing that "there is no such thing as guaranteed public support in advance." If force is used effectively, as in Grenada, he said, public support will follow; if not, as in Viet Nam, it will be "frittered away." He added, "A great power cannot free...
Ever since Election Day, when Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro took a memorable drubbing at the polls, political pundits have been analyzing how the Democratic Party should reposition itself for the future. Last week, in her first speech since the campaign, Ferraro offered her own analysis, cautioning the party not to lose sight of its "core" belief in equal opportunity as it strives to attract new voters. Said Ferraro: "The last thing this country needs is two Republican parties...
...think we have to get at the judge jury question. The Supreme Court has been reluctant to do that I think quite wrongly. Judge Bork, who is regarded as a Reaganite conservative, says in this opinion that it is the duty of a trial judge not to let any speech or writing go to a jury in a libel case if the speech or writing is in what he calls the "public, political arena." I agree with that...
Dershowitz made frequent reference to campus activism over South Africa and demanded similar commitment to the Jewish plight from members of the university community. "It is wrong to take action only against some violators of human rights," he said in a speech from the steps of Widener Library to a crowed of nearly 150 students...