Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Excellency went out to the Yellow Springs Two days ago to Visit the hospitals himself and found them in fine order, he Spoke to every person in the Bunks which pleased the Sick exceedingly...
...Olympic Gymnasium was a small platoon of male bigwigs, including United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Mexican President Luis Echeverria and various other officials. Down on the floor, masses of women draped in saris, ao-dais and other colorful garb listened more or less attentively as the men spoke. That strange beginning for a conference on women marked a meeting that is supposed to be the biggest of its kind in history-the centerpiece of the U.N.'s much-ballyhooed, much-disputed International Women's Year...
...record lunchtime disclosure in order to keep the paper-and the hard-charging Hersh-off the assassination trail? Government and corporate officials occasionally try to "lock up" news organizations with strategically placed not-for-publication disclosures. In the President's case, it is unlikely that he spoke out of guile. "I don't know how devious the President is," answers Ron Nessen, "and I'm not going to ask him." Managing Editor Rosenthal sees no skulduggery in the President's remark. Says he: "How did he know that we would respect the off-the-record part...
...preserve the integrity of national boundaries but to defend principles by which men could and should live everywhere. They kept alive Lincoln's faith that this nation was destined to be "the last, best hope of earth." They were not talking the language of nationalism when they spoke in American accents of Making the World Safe for Democracy or of Defending the Four Freedoms...
General Mohammed Abdul Ghani Gamassy, Minister of War and commander of the armed forces, handed the canal over from military to civilian control and called the occasion "a day of joy." Sadat signed a document making the civilian takeover official, then spoke briefly. He declared the reopened waterway "a tributary to peace and a channel to prosperity and cooperation among men." At the same time, he said, Egypt had to reiterate "its determination to perform the sacred duty of liberating its land and all Arab lands still under occupation in the Golan Heights, Sinai and Palestine, and recovering usurped Arab...