Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Remember the war on drugs? George Bush waving a plastic bag of crack bought across the street from the White House during a nationally televised speech? The Pentagon planning to station an aircraft carrier off the coast of Colombia to monitor suspected drug smugglers? Candidates for political office proffering urine samples and daring their opponents to do the same? The appointment of combative William J. Bennett as the nation's first drug czar, a post from which he would coordinate an all-out assault on a menace that seemed to threaten the very survival...
Dixon said that many in the city were receptive to her ideas as she spoke of the need to "clean house." In fact, she said, during a pre-election speech one listener responded, "don't take a broom, take a shovel...
...neglecting to consider all of the facts in this case, the staff opinoin states that freedom of speech is absolute. And indeed, it is correct to defend freedom of speech. But the First Ammendment of the Constitution, however sacred, cannot be protected in the absence of other basic tenets of American justice--of which defendants' rights are essential...
...staff appropriately defends the cause of free speech from the constraints of the judicial decisions. In almost all cases, the courts should not be able to infringe upon the rights of a publication or news organization to inform the public...
They are putting themselves into conflict with Manuel Noriega's right to free speech and a fair trial...