It was an obvious pre-election speech, skilfully directed both to his immediate audience and to the less committed outside public.

The only exception when he was allowed to appear on Belarusian Television was his pre-election speech in 2006.

I hope that the new President of the United States, as he said in his pre-election speech in Berlin in July 2008, will set a high value on these relations.

In a combative pre-election speech Gorbachev delivered a blistering attack on conservative thinking and "those who came to this congress hoping to take the party back to the old condition of commands and orders".

Yeltsin's pre-election speeches concentrated on proposals for a range of new laws covering economic and social reform, especially the expansion of real independence for industrial enterprises and multiplicity of forms of ownership.

A23 CLINTON ON THE STUMP The President opened a string of pre-election speeches by attributing his low popularity to his determination to shake things up.

Zhao Xiaomao, who in a brief pre-election speech had boasted of newly paved roads, new public toilets and better services for retirees, easily regained the post of director, a full-time position paying about $200 a month.

Under the proposal, the networks would rotate responsibility for broadcasting the interview programs, which might be shown earlier on Sunday evenings than the coveted 9 P.M. time, when the Harvard institution wanted the debates and the pre-election speeches to be shown.