Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement to revise the loyalty program began in 1954 with citizen groups connected with Freedom House and the Fund for the Republic calling for a complete overhaul of its operations so as to prevent abuses of the rights of government workers. These protests evidently had little effect on the administration until last January when Harry Cain, a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, publicly attacked the loyalty program in a speech in Spokane, Wash. Cain, unable to gain Administration support, continued to press for action, lobbying actively for a bi-partisan commission to review the operation of the loyalty...
...basic protection of rights is the moral law based on man's dignity. This same moral law, however, imposes on the citizen an obligation to obey legitimate authority. We cannot have it one way and not the other. If we believe that we have rights antecedent to government-freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly-which may not be curtailed by any government so long as their expression does not endanger the common good, then we must also conclude to men's moral obligation toward political society. Each generation has its own contribution to make...
...Cambodian village of Svay Rolom last week, a sarong-draped man stepped from his dugout canoe to the Tonle Bassac River's bank, strode purposefully into a cabin's hushed interior and stood solemnly before Svay Rolom's mekhum, the village chief. The citizen's purpose: to vote in Cambodia's first election since the end of French colonial rule...
...easy boast, as Soviet state printers are churning out translations of his books. His Citizen Tom Paine (1943) and Freedom Road (1944) were bestsellers...
Last week, uncaged and happy, Citizen Sihanouk was flitting from village to village in a ruby-red Studebaker convertible, escorted by a fetching songstress and a loud jazz band on wheels. It was election time in Cambodia...