Word: speech
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Kerry's victory speech, which emphasized his campaign commitments to the nuclear freeze movement, was repeatedly interrupted with applause...
...Geneva that have since been suspended. He said during the debate that he had proposed initial reductions in land-based nuclear missiles, with cuts in nuclear weapons aboard submarines and bombers to be negotiated "in a second phase." Actually, the proposal unveiled by the President personally in a speech in May 1982 would have reduced the numbers of submarine-launched as well as land-based missiles at the start, though warheads on bombers would indeed have been saved for a later phase. The deepest reductions would have been in land-based missiles...
...various venomous remarks, and Jackson has not appeared with his former ardent supporter since last spring. Farrakhan still delivers his disturbing messages at meetings and on the radio, but most now sink into well-deserved obscurity. In addition, Jackson offered a moving apology in his Democratic Convention speech to those, including Jews, whom he had offended. Thus while Jackson is still deeply mistrusted by Jewish voters, he seems not to have provoked anything like a serious anti-Mondale backlash...
...first bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, in April 1983, Secretary of State George Shultz has waged a fervent and frequently lonely campaign to convince the public, and often colleagues in the Reagan Administration, of the need to combat terrorism with swift retaliation. Last week in a speech at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, Shultz made his strongest plea yet for public support of aggressive military action against terrorists. "We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond," he said. "Fighting terrorism will not be a clean...
...Shultz's remarks, saying they were "not a statement of policy." Vice President George Bush was more adamant. "I don't agree with Shultz," said Bush. "We're not going to kill 100 innocent civilians just to kill one terrorist." Some felt that Shultz's speech may have been an attempt to frighten terrorists in Beirut out of launching a pre-election attack...