Word: speech
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...speech was far from a purely academic one. Gates, who is currently editing a Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature, cautioned his audience against any Ivory Tower approach to Black literature. Instead of remaining sheltered "in the swaddling clothes of our academic complacencies," Gates said scholars must be aware of "the yawning chasm between our critical discourse and the traditions they discourse upon...
...Arafat's speech expanded on Palestinian proposals for Middle East peace and appeared to be a bid to gain U.S. support...
While the cuts that the Soviet leader announced in last Thursday's speech before the United Nations would still leave the Warsaw Pact with an unquestionable conventional superiority in Europe, they would go a long way toward stabilizing affairs on that continent. Gorbachev promised to realign Soviet conventional forces in Eastern Europe so that their structure would be "clearly defensive...
GORBACHEV'S speech to the U.N. represented a major change in Soviet rhetoric. His call for more reliance on the U.N. as a global peace-keeping force and international enforcer of human rights seemed like what most Americans would expect from a speech by Woodrow Wilson or John F. Kennedy than a Kremlin head. And his downplaying of ideological differences among nations demonstrates a new willingness to dismiss Marxist ideology calling for world revolution and to adopt a more pragmatic approach to foreign policy...
...claimed more than 60,000 lives, experts on the Soviet Union openly question whether he did so because of negative reactions from the Soviet military. Soviet armed forces chief of staff Sergie Akhormeyev, who opposed Gorbachev in this latest unilateral move, resigned the same day Gorbachev gave his U.N. speech...