Word: dissented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a proud developer of U.S. weaponry. As a patriotic duty in World War II, for instance, the school's electronics wizards perfected the radar that foiled Hitler's bombers. Now duty has become a Faustian dilemma. In the age of antiwar dissent, M.I.T. still gets more money from the Pentagon-$108 million last year -than any other U.S. university. The result has thrust M.I.T. to the forefront of a growing national debate: What role, if any, shall universities play in war research...
During the Reagan regime, U.C. has come under unrelenting attack. Exploiting widespread concern, the Governor has used ridicule and money power in an attempt to cow university administrators into suppressing student and faculty dissent. He recently decreed an $88 million budget cut, which may reduce future student enrollment and perhaps even force one of the campuses to close. If Reagan has his way, U.C. may also be required to change its tuition-free policy, which would further cut enrollment...
President Nixon promised Americans peace last Monday night: peace at maximum cost, peace with minimum justice. Nixon substituted dramatic posturing for national leadership in yet another attempt to support failing policies by lulling domestic dissent...
...greatly in the minority. On occasion we were cited as the agents of imperialism- in this case Communist imperialism. Had we been suppressed our position would not now be- as I believe it is-that of the majority. As a liberal I can be as solemn about protecting minority dissent as anyone. But surely we have evidence here of its practical advantages...
...major support to the coup that established Brazil's military rule. Raised in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil's rugged cattle country, the new President is a compromise choice acceptable to both moderate officers and the linha dura -hardliners who would crack down even harder on dissent. Like most of his comrades-in-arms, he is convinced that only the military knows what is best for Brazil and its 90 million people. "There must be freedom," he said earlier this year, "but there can be no license to contradict the political desires of the nation...