Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge Police said they stopped Richard Alexander as he drove in the wrong direction on Mass. Ave in Harvard Square Police said they found a set of brass knuckles with a blade attached in the car Officers alleged that Alexander had glassy eyes and spoke with slurred speech...
...speaking only of the American Jewish community. He would be wrong in this case too however. Many American Jews are critical of Israeli policies. This is apparent in both Jewish and non Jewish publications. This past semester at the Kennedy School, Boston Friends of Peace. Now cosponsored a speech by Amos Oz, a leader of Peace Now movement in Israel. Kurzman simply shows his ignorance when he says "Moral claims are stifled in an unquestioning acceptance of the immoral actions of the Israeli government...
Gorbachev is thought to have been a personal favorite of Andropov's. He was chosen to give the keynote address at the April 22, 1983, ceremony honoring Lenin's birthday, a speech characterized by a calm, businesslike approach to national problems. Gorbachev is also said to have been given the additional responsibility of helping to make party personnel decisions. When John Chrystal, an Iowa businessman, was received at the Kremlin in November, it was Gorbachev who passed along a message from the ailing Soviet leader. Had Andropov lived longer, Gorbachev might have been groomed as heir, but his relative youth...
Reagan sought to bring about a thaw in the superpower chill when he acknowledged in a speech last month that "our working relationship with the Soviet Union is not what it must be." By that time, all hope for a summit between Reagan and Andropov had passed. A final interview published under Andropov's name in Pravda offered no new counterproposal for breaking the deadlock. Instead, it repeated earlier calls for the U.S. and its NATO allies to "display readiness" to return to the situation that had existed before missiles were deployed in Western Europe...
Then the noisy presidential caravan swept on to Dixon High School for a birthday party and flew off to Eureka College for the speech on his old campus. Hennepin Avenue quieted and for the moment appeared to be the same tranquil corner of the Middle West it had been for more than a century. But that was deceptive. The avenue now is in the history books...