Word: speech
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Congress of People's Deputies opened last week. Charging that Gorbachev had lost the "moral right to lead the country," she moved a vote of no confidence in him. It failed, 1,288 to 426, but the spectacle was deeply unsettling to Eduard Shevardnadze, who asked in his resignation speech, "Is this normal...
Shevardnadze went public with his intentions in a remarkable mea culpa speech to the Supreme Soviet in October 1989. Reversing a policy of decades of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not only that, he continued, but by invading Afghanistan "we had set ourselves against all humanity, ignored universal human values." Finally, he said, Moscow planned "to curtail all our military bases as well as our military presence abroad by the year...
...will arrest any further drift to the right. But it is equally possible that it will accentuate such a drift by removing one of the last and most eloquent advocates of perestroika from Gorbachev's inner circle. Among a parade of speakers to the Congress podium after Shevardnadze's speech, Vladimir Chernyak, a Ukrainian economist, gave a new twist to warnings of a coup: "At the head of the coup stands Gorbachev. It's possible he himself doesn't know it. By demanding for himself more and more powers, he is creating the legal basis for a dictatorship -- maybe...
...Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo did not react fast enough. Facing a $1 billion deficit, the state legislature met in special session two weeks ago to adopt a package of cuts that nibbled at school spending and hospitals. When Cuomo took off for ^ Washington three days later to deliver a speech that warned about federal budget deficits, he may have hoped his troubles were over for a while. No such luck. On the same day Republican state comptroller Ned Regan announced that because revenue projections had been too optimistic, the state was still facing a budget shortfall of $500 million...
...during some of the darkest days of World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Franklin Roosevelt in the White House at Christmas. He helped the President light the White House tree and in a short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...