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...opinion was anything but unanimous. According to numerous sources directly involved, key analysts at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department's intelligence bureau disagreed with the estimate. They attempted to insert footnotes of dissent but were repeatedly prevented from doing so. "This false unanimity was not an accident," charges a former official. "It was the personal creation of Mr. Gates." One agency that persisted in its dissent was the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, headed by Morton Abramowitz. Only when Gates called directly to say that Casey wanted no footnotes did Abramowitz finally...
...army or its flag -- but to each other and to our common right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends," the Declaration states, "it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it . . ." Thus for Jefferson, dissent was not only a right but also a necessity: "I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing . . ." God forbid, he added (meaning what he called "Nature's God"), that we should ever go 20 years without...
...neighbors whose salaries are banked in Cali. Their accounts are debited when they make mistakes. The code of conduct is strict: nondescript clothing, four-door family cars, no drunkenness, no loud parties. Also no failures, no excuses, no second chances. This unforgiving system produces few defections: the penalty for dissent is death, not only for cell members but also for their kinsmen back home in Colombia...
...other Western powers can no longer put off cultivating contacts with him and other rising leaders of a rapidly decentralizing Soviet Union. Yet they must try to do so without alienating Gorbachev, who still determines Soviet foreign policy. The question of how far to go is already causing some dissent in the West. British diplomats last week were privately but sharply critical of the White House invitation to Yeltsin; one called it a "needless slap in the face to Gorbachev...
Kuwait offers an opportunity, but I'm not certain that Kuwaitis may not be in the process of missing it. Now is the time when they should be restructuring their constitution, developing some kind of representative assembly and providing for other mechanisms, including media dissent, that allow a safety valve for the expression of discontent without shooting those in power. I realize they have very pressing economic and other problems. But I've never known a society in the history of the world where the quest for bread and the quest for freedom were necessarily in conflict with the quest...