May 1988 News Today

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It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaig...

Of different types of families, and secondary schools teach pupils about lg bt relationships. but when i was in school, that wasnt the case. and thats because of something called section 28. so what was section 28? it was a law that was passed in may 1988, and banned councils and schools from promoting homosexuality. because it wasnt clear what promoting gay relationships meant, many teachers felt unable to talk about anything relating to gay people, and they made it very hard for gay people —...

Influence against commonly agreed-upon foes and rivals, right? so you could argue about the extent of the cold war or our position in the cold war, but nobody doubted, no american president doubted that we were fighting a cold war, what kennedy called the long twilight struggle. and it took ronald reagan and president bush, who were on the more hawkish side of that, to end that war from the american side. reagan started his term, his first press conference, sam donaldson asked him a question in ...

Harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. >> i think the big difference. the big turning point in that speech is that up to that point, the president had talked in a negative sense, about the soviet union, about what they didnt have. and in that speech, the president held out the hope for what you could have, that people in russia wanted freedom, religious freedom, political f...

Harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. >> i think the big difference. the big turning point in that speech is that up to that point, the president had talked in a negative sense, about the soviet union, about what they didnt have. and in that speech, the president held out the hope for what you could have, that people in russia wanted freedom, religious freedom, political f...

Harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. >> i think the big difference. the big turning point in that speech is that up to that point, the president had talked in a negative sense, about the soviet union, about what they didnt have. and in that speech, the president held out the hope for what you could have, that people in russia wanted freedom, religious freedom, political f...

Harmony, seeking a place where each cultural heritage is respected. each is valued for its diverse strengths and beauties and the richness it brings to our lives. >> i think the big difference. the big turning point in that speech is that up to that point, the president had talked in a negative sense, about the soviet union, about what they didnt have. and in that speech, the president held out the hope for what you could have, that people in russia wanted freedom, religious freedom, political f...

Finish he had hoped for. >> but there was a big finish in moscow in may 1988. walking through red square with gorbachev, reagan was asked whether he still thought russia s an evil empire. >> i was talking to another time and another era. >> again, there was no trevor but reagan spent time pushing for human rights in russia. setting the stage for future. >> is u.s. official become increasingly certain there will be no big agreements are playing up the presidents contact with the soviet people. sa...