Word: dissented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Virus of Dissent...
Mankind could be thankful at least that at no time in 1968 did the superpowers come close to an irreconcilable conflict. Yet nations around the world were confronted with a new kind of crisis, a virus of internal dissent...
...Olympics, Mexico was torn apart by savage gun battles be tween soldiers and students. Two months later, Brazil's generals, archetypes of the Latin American military elite, caught a whiff of dissent and hastily imposed a dictatorship on the continent's largest nation...
...America and the BBC naturally devoted extra air time to news and comment. Much of the comment expressed outrage and dismay, some from Communist papers around the world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major General Pyotr Grigorenko's recent anti-Kremlin statements...
Crackdown on Dissent. If the Soviet leaders do win some respite from international tensions, they will still have their hands full at home. An upsurge of intellectual dissent, of which Novelist Alexander Solzhenitzyn has become the symbol, has prompted a crackdown that is increasingly reminiscent of Stalin's day (see box). The economy is doing well, but not well enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income...