Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to let the 'no' votes know there is a place for them," proclaimed Kris Rondeau, leader of of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), in a speech the day the union was elected...
...Arafat as a "personal decision." They were worried that it would undermine the peace efforts of moderate Arabs and cast doubt on the U.S. commitment to a negotiated settlement in the Middle East. They also fretted that the Shultz rejection made a mockery of America's commitment to free speech and jeopardized the Reagan Administration's recently improved relationship with the U.N. Nonetheless, both Reagan and President-elect George Bush supported the decision, although Bush made it clear that he had not been consulted...
...speech before such dignitaries as Secretary of State George Shultz and Cuba's Fidel Castro, Salinas tried to spell out his vision for modernizing and uniting Mexico. Said he: "There won't be miracles. But I assure you there is hope." Some of Salinas' early actions, though, are leading skeptics to wonder how serious he is about restoring faith in the country's discredited government: a fifth of his Cabinet are holdovers from the outgoing administration...
...scheduled to begin its perennial debate on Palestinian issues, and Arafat wanted to rally support for the Palestine National Council's (P.N.C.) declaration of an independent state. But mainstream American Jewish groups supported Shultz's view that Arafat's role in international terrorism justified preventing the U.N. speech. In late September, 51 Senators urged the Reagan Administration to block Arafat's visit. "I'm prepared to fight this one all the way to the President," Shultz vowed...
...candidate: cold, arrogant and weak. Funny, that's not what they were saying in Atlanta, when he was 17 points up, and where his absurdly praised convention speech led one giddy columnist to compare him with "the heroes of ancient Greece...