Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's headliner, Ronald Rea gan, was not due in town until Wednesday. Earlier in the week he planned to make campaign stops in Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. He was also putting the finishing touches on his Thursday-evening acceptance speech, an occasion that will mark the beginning of his last campaign for public office (see following story) and provide him with an opportunity to outline his vision of the Republican Party's future...
...Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson are the heirs apparent after their "electrifying" speeches to the delegates. Since when does an individual who can write a good speech make a good President...
...current, high-pitched debate began last month, with Mondale's convention speech. Taxes must be raised, said the Democratic nominee, but only he, not Reagan, would admit that up front. Recalls a White House aide, "Everyone here was saying, 'This is just wonderful. Nobody wins an election promising to raise taxes.' " But when asked about his opponent's contention a few days later, Reagan left the door open to new taxes, giving credibility to Mondale's charge that the Administration has a secret plan to impose them. Last week the President was considerably less equivocal...
Indeed, the platform, like the convention, promises to be a near-perfect reflection of Ronald Reagan. When he strides up to the beige-and-brown podium Thursday night to give his acceptance speech, he is expected to aim more at voters' hearts than heads, striking many of the themes that have been the hallmarks of his presidency: optimism, patriotism, traditional values. Republicans are hoping that Reagan's rhetorical powers will produce a postconvention bounce in the polls similar to what the Democrats got out of San Francisco. For the Great Communicator, it is another big opening night...
...joining in the acclaim for Mugabe's speech were rival Black Leader Joshua Nkomo, white former Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who served as Prime Minister during the transition from white to black rule and who has been detained without charges since November. Nkomo, whose guerrillas joined forces with Mugabe's during the struggle for black majority rule, was booted out of Zimbabwe's coalition Cabinet in 1982 for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. "Any coercion leading to the one-party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster...