Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough questions about Soviet arms policy, the Middle East and human rights, Gorbachev presented official Soviet positions calmly and succinctly. He responded testily only when he was asked about KGB activities abroad. The notion that the Soviet Union was exporting revolution, said Gorbachev, was "nonsense, fit for the speech of uneducated people...
...Disruption is not free speech. Disruption is not a "right." One has rights (and protections thereof) only to the extent that one is also willing to grant the same rights to others. (If this were a "southern university" of 30 years ago and Klansmen were disrupting a speech of Blacks or Communists, would these individuals "defend" their rights...
...Senate Budget Committee, has moved to increase funding for the 1984 education budget by $1 billion, upping the eventual outlay to $16.1. Hollings has in particular, gone after Reagan's hike in defense spending as a prime reason for the decline in education, saying in a recent speech. "I think the school children of America are worth at least one weapons system...
...daily Le Monde noted that French, British and Italian troops are serving beside U.S. Marines in Beirut. Not to mention, said Bonn offi cials, the broad allied support for U.S. policy in southern Africa and Central America. Eagleburger, however, is not finished. He is preparing to give a major speech on the subject in March...
...enjoy intimacy with a potential President: John Glenn, for example, has led a group sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often...