Word: statements
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Dukakis made no mention of the prison furlough issue in a short statement after the breakfast. He said only that it had been a "good, constructive meeting" and that he was pleased by the Black leaders' commitment to his campaign...
Most of the detainees, including Chew Kheng Chuan, were released by September 1987. On April 19, 1988, however, eight of the former prisoners were rearrested, along with their defense attorney, after they publicized a statement repudiating their televised "confessions" and claiming that they had been threatened and mistreated in prison. On May 8, 1988, Chew himself was rearrested, supposedly for helping to edit the detainees' statement. On July 16, he was served with a one-year detention order...
...doesn't take--with the text. Although Williams intends the play to leave Catherine's sanity in question, he biases the audience's choice. In one scene Cathie complains that she lost yard privileges at the sanitarium because she refuses to eat fried grits. In the original play, that statement does not go unchallenged. "She lost yard privileges because she couldn't be trusted in the yard without constant supervision or even with it because she'd run to the fence and make signs to cars," nurse Sister Felicity says in the script--but not in this production...
...October 11th article "New Council Reps. Call for Coed Clubs" included a statement by Undergraduate Council member Kimberly M. Reed, who made an analogy between final clubs and the Black Students Association in regard to the lack of diversity in each group...
Dukakis also was faulted in the Harris poll for his response to Bush's offensive. Fifty-six percent agreed with the statement, "He seems not to know how to defend himself against the serious charges Bush has made about him on crime and on being a liberal out of the mainstream of American life...