Word: speech
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Reagan was interrupted by applause seven times in his 20-minute speech, and generously toasted wherever he went during the visit. Yet he discovered that Sino-American diplomacy can still be a very tricky affair. When China's government television system broadcast the President's Great Hall speech, 17 passages were judged provocative and excised (see box). To be sure, the speech also demonstrated that while the President has largely reversed himself on China, his conservative rhetoric has lost none of its crackle. He called the Soviet Union "wanton" and "brutal," and ascribed America's success...
...that we were discussing six amendments at one meeting--as unusually high number--only because we had postponed them throughout the semester in order to devote our time during the year to more substantive achievements. Finally, although the article does devote several paragraphs so the Council's freedom-of-speech report and a couple more to our debate of the housing lottery, it complains about the meeting's procedure while completely ignoring our substantive discussion at the same meeting or reports on improving freshman academic advising, improving the quality of sections, and increasing student-faculty contact through the Senior Common...
...third consecutive year of the KKK visit, Black students were invited only to observe and not to participate in a KKK "teach-in"? The point here is not to draw an exact analogy between the KKK and the PLO, but to underscore the importance of fairness and freedom of speech in the context of a controversial and emotionally-charged issue...
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington cited the need for unity and strong leadership in the Democratic Party in a speech last night before a crowd of more than 250 at the Kennedy School of Government...
Washington called the media a major threat to Democrats, having once referred to them as "barracudas." He explained that "the press puts more emphasis on the freedom of the press element of the First Amendment than [it does] on the freedom of speech element," adding that "policy has become defined by the inflection of an anchorman's voice...