May 17, 1983 - John W. Vessey Jr., Army General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at Minnesota Meeting, a series of speeches sponsored by Minnesota businesses and the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Vessey addressed the subject of national security. General Vessey is this country's top military adviser to the president, the National Security Council and the Secretary of Defense. A Minnesota native, Vessey did his undergraduate study at the University of Maryland, obtained his master’s degree from George Washington University, and Vessey has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.
May 24, 1983 - Jehan Sadat, wife of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, speaking as part of the Carlson Lecture Series, sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Sadat’s address was on world peace. Since her husband's assassination, Sadat has emerged as a humanitarian leader of Egypt. During the wars of 1967 and 1973, Mrs. Sadat visited troops in the combat zone and made daily visits to the wounded and won widespread admiration from the Egyptian people.
June 21, 1983 - Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock," speaking at an Edison Electric Institute meeting in Minneapolis. Toffler’s address is titled "Our Energy Future." He speaks on energy in the future. Edison Electrical Institute is an organization of electric utility companies.
June 21, 1983 - Donald Hodel, U.S. Energy Secretary, speaking at an Edison Electric Institute meeting in Minneapolis. Hodel addresses the future of our energy resources. Hodel outlines the highlights of a report on expected electric demand, which was to be released formally the day following his talk. He also addressed the broader activities the Energy Department is currently engaged in. Edison Electrical Institute is an organization of electric utility companies.
July 14, 1983 - On this Midday program, a broadcast of author and former New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh speaking at the Minnesota Press Club. Hersh talks about writing his book The Price of Power: Kissinger and the Nixon White House. After speech, Hersh answers audience questions.
July 28, 1983 - MPR’s Jim Ragsdale reports on National Coalition Against Sexual Assault meeting in Minneapolis. Segment includes interview with Peggy Miller, assistant director of Sexual Offense Services at Ramsey County, an agency that helps victims of sexual violence; and speech by Sharon Sayles, outgoing president of National Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
July 28, 1983 - National Press Club with author and professor Zbigniew Brzezinski on communism.
August 1, 1983 - I. F. Stone - journalist, social critic, and editor-publisher of I. F. Stone's Weekly - speaks on "A Maverick's View of the World" at Ford Hall Forum.
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September 2, 1983 - Peter Arnett, a CNN journalist, speaking to the 19th Annual Pulitzer Forum, sponsored by the World Press Institute, at Macalester College. Arnett’s address was titled "Bang-Bang and Other Stories: Vietnam's Legacy for Today's War Correspondent." Arnett wrote a 13-part television series on Vietnam called "The 10-Thousand Day War." After speech, Arnett answered audience questions. New Zealand-born, the 56-year-old Peter Arnett is no stranger to war. In 1966 he won the Pulitzer Prize tor International Reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War. He covered that war, for 13 years, for the Associated Press. He was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Arnett then went on to become one of the AP's five senior reporters. Among other major stories Arnett has covered are the Attica prison riot in 1971, the McGovern campaign, the Carter campaign, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, fighting in El Salvador, upheaval in Nicaragua, and the Iranian hostage crisis. He became a Cable News Network correspondent in 1981. Arnett spent two years as CNN's Moscow bureau chief before assuming his present job as a national / international correspondent in 1988.