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Your November 8 dissent-opinion article, "No More Joe," implied that Joseph Kennedy was unsuitable for public office because, on a visit to the North of Ireland, he "heckled and harangued young British soldiers like an irresponsible adolescent." In fact, when Kennedy was himself heckled and harangued by the British soldiers, he spoke his mind in declaring that the oppressive British presence has no place in Ireland. Unlike most American politicians, who kowtow to Margaret Thatcher and her imperialist crew, Kennedy openly criticized Britain's role in keeping Ireland divided and at war. In declaring a nation's right...
...Republican Party--historically represented by Jacob Javitz, Nelson Rockefeller, Charles Mathias and other formerly prominent politicians--which has been assigned to political obscurity during the conservative-dominant Reagan years. His independence, unpredictability, and abrasiveness were an asset to the largely monolithic Republican party, which needs more of the internal dissent he provided...
...Resolution maintains that "reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital part in [the University's] existence." Harvard, however, has sought to close off its own alumni's route for expressing dissent through the Board of Overseers by empowering a committee that seeks to pass the "reforms" recommended in its Young Report...
...Undergraduate Council last night passed without dissent a stinging indictment of a Board of Overseers plan to change its election procedures, calling the proposal a "transparent attempt to disenfranchise the alumni...
Democrats voiced confidence they would retainor perhaps widen their majorities in the House andSenate in tomorrow's balloting, and they gotlittle dissent from Republicans on that score...