Word: speech
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Defendants of the Pi Eta complain that such official actions are themselves immoral as they tresspass on the sacrosanct territory of free speech. Yet this logic confuses the principles involved. Few people deny the club the legal right to make whatever statements it wants. But the University and its members have the same right to declare that viewpoint inappropriate and to try and discourage it. While that policy would be disconcerting if applied liberally, all but the staunchest of libertarians would have to concede that it can be used against blatant sexism or racism without poisoning the atmosphere for free...
...series of events following Inman's speech heightened concern among researchers. That April, the Administration issued an executive order which allowed the government to clamp down on any information that "by itself or in the context of other information could be expected to cause damage to the national security...
...zero. Jackson, whose political shrewdness matches his evangelical fervor, realizes that an independent bid is the one thing that could damage his hero status in the black community, since it would help re-elect the Republican President many of his followers are passionately eager to defeat. In a speech last week to a nearly all-black crowd of 3,000 greeting him at a railroad station in Philadelphia, Jackson seemed to be preparing his followers for a unified effort against Reagan in the fall by stressing that their votes should not go exclusively to black candidates. Said Jackson: "When blacks...
...Post. When asked about the threat, Jackson conceded that it was "wrong." But he declined to condemn his Muslim chum. "I cannot assume responsibility for every state ment made by a friend or supporter of mine," Jackson argued. That Farr Farrakhan speaking in khan's three-week-old speech became an issue just before the New York primary, Jackson says, suggests political "tricks and treachery." Farrakhan is riled at Coleman for reporting, in a Post story in February, that Jackson privately disparaged Jews with the term Hymie and referred to New York City as "Hymietown." To the Muslim leader...
...moments just after his resignation speech: "Suddenly they all got up and they came around, just surrounded me-it was sort of a huddle, sort of a family embrace, saying nothing and saying everything. And then Tricia said, 'Daddy! You're wet. Your coat's wet through.' And I began to have a chill...