Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-day conference's featured speech Saturday, Bruce Wright, a black judge, spoke to the group about problems he has run into with the New York State judiciary as a result of his attempts to set bail that defendants can afford, rather than asking sums that would force them to stay in prison...
...Henry Kissinger was Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance is Cyrus Vance. They don't have to be the same. We like them both." Thus spoke the grand old lady of Israeli politics, former Premier Golda Meir, after meeting with the new Secretary of State during the first stop of his first foreign mission. Her conclusion was shared by just about everyone who met the lanky, soft-spoken Vance along the route of his six-day, six-nation swing (not to be called a shuttle) through the Middle East last week...
Vance did not come bearing any grand new schemes, and he listened more than he spoke. At each of his stops, his approach was basically the same -except for Lebanon, where he concentrated almost exclusively on the internal problems of that war-torn country. In Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, he was the persistent interlocutor, running through his list of prepared questions in an attempt to discover new subtleties in the Arab and Israeli positions. How much occupied territory, for example, should Israel relinquish? When and how ought the Geneva talks to be reconvened? What role should...
...Swahili, national language of Tanzania, official in Kenya and other eastern African countries, having some older literature written in Arabic script and abundant modern literature in Latin script, and spoke by about fifteen million people...
Market Appeal. Champions of free speech spoke up vigorously for Larry Flynt, but it was not easy; what he publishes is in its fashion as outrageous as last week's verdict. Hustler has printed photos of a brunette being ravished by a snake, a pictorial feature of a nude woman 8½ months pregnant, and gruesome illustrations of various genital and gynecological oddities. The cartoons seek sick snickers in such topics as castration, excrement, bestiality and, in one memorably tasteless panel, Betty Ford's breast cancer. Every issue features photographs sent in by readers, displaying the private parts...