Word: speech
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...take down or deface political posters is an offense against freedom of speech and hence unacceptable, especially on a campus dedicated to the exchange of ideas. It is like preventing speakers from being heard by drowning them out; they have the right to express their opinion, however unpalatable it may be to those present, however benighted or offensive or politically incorrect...
...reaction of some Harvard students to these posters, so clever in their appeal to principle, so vicious in their sous-texte, has been to violate the rules of free speech and thereby play into the hands of the real enemies of freedom...
...countrymen on Wednesday were broadcast not by Panamanian radio, which was still controlled by Noriega's forces, but by Radio Impacto in Costa Rica, which had taped him by telephone. On Thursday the new President, under the protection of American soldiers, left the base for his first speech to the National Assembly. He pledged to lead "a government of reconstruction and reconciliation," but by then his fledgling regime distinctly bore the label "Made in U.S.A...
...Hungary and Rumania, or between two feuding republics of nonaligned Yugoslavia, Serbia and Slovenia. NATO should be maintained during a period of transition, as long as it is understood to be playing that temporary role. To his credit, and the Administration's, James Baker, in a thoughtful and farsighted speech earlier this month in West Berlin, seemed to be inviting Western statesmen and thinkers to join in the search for new ideas and institutions that will ensure the security of post- cold war Europe...