"It was clearly a leak from Kevin to Laurie designed to destroy this event," Gillard says of the live televised National Press Club event at which she was asked the question.
It was kind of drastic, but, unfortunately, it's just what has to be done after people destroy an event for other people".
The Soviet government charged that these areas were to be destroyed, in event of war, to prevent Communist forces from taking them over.
"They could have done all sorts of things under the umbrella of guerilla politics to destroy the event, and they didn't," he said.
A competitor, the defending gold medalist Lynn Davies of Great Britain, congratulated Beamon and told him, with a sense of awe, "You have destroyed this event".
The man who brought the World Tour Finals to London says he will not "destroy" the event by taking it into "a market where fans don't come".
"I'd be a little careful in saying you need only a small quantity of exotic matter" to destroy the event horizon, says Ulvi Yurtsever, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Alexis de Tocqueville observed nearly two centuries ago that "If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation".
Tired guests and guest speakers can destroy an event no matter what other obstacles you had to overcome on the night.
Worried because if the N.C.A.A. doesn't change, it will ultimately wind up destroying a wonderful event.
Ivory has also been publicly destroyed at events in Kenya, Gabon and the Philippines.
