Word: speakers
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With his whining voice, rambling syntax and rumpled suits, Sakharov was not cut out to be a public speaker in an era of live television. Sometimes he was all too ready to embrace every needy political cause and seemed in danger of squandering his considerable moral authority. Two weeks before his death, Sakharov joined a handful of Deputies from a radical coalition known as the Interregional Group in calling for a "warning strike" to force Congress to debate Article 6 and a package of reform laws. The strike was a failure, a tactical error that strained relations with Gorbachev...
Meanwhile, House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) was calling representatives yesterday to ascertain their position on a tax bill and to see if they would be available next week...
Martin-Baro, 47, was an annual speaker at the Divinity School and last spoke this January. Montes, 56, was a researcher who wrote a University report in 1985 studying non-violent resistance to state-sponsored terror...
...show also illustrates the way leaders must expect the unexpected and not always believe what they hear. The Soviet side is distressed as Washington gets mired in the constitutional procedures for authorizing the next in line -- the Speaker of the House -- to act as President. Later, the American team is incensed by an intelligence report, which proves to be erroneous, that the Afghan army has fired Soviet missiles armed with chemical warheads into mujahedin refugee camps in Pakistan...
...speaker sent the tax package back to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday after House members voted to strike from the bill a hike in the capital gains tax. Frezza, however, said the committee is not planning to introduce an altered version of the tax package...