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...spirit of dissent in South Korea has been awakened in large part by the almost miraculous triumph of "people power" in the Philippines that led to the fall of former President Ferdinand Marcos. Yet the differences between the two countries are glaring. Not even his enemies have accused the austere and hardworking Chun of Marcos-like cronyism or corruption. His army, unlike that of the Philippines, is strikingly well disciplined and unlikely to split into factions. Most of all, the South Korean economy has boomed even as the Philippine economy collapsed. While 20 years ago the average Filipino earned almost...
...protesters. Mr. Crystal, however, in his zealous pursuit of convenient truth, completely avoids discussion of the fact that the actions of the Sandinista government with regard to its deplorable treatment of the Miskito Indians, or its suppression of civil liberties, especially the organs of the Church, which have voiced dissent over government policies, are objectively wrong and deserve approbation. It is precisely because of the spiking of these stories by such groups as the Committee on Central America (COCA) that I, for one, ventured to Boylston Auditorium to hear what those who oppose the Sandinista regime...
...there were even murmurs of dissent from Aquino's inner circle. Under the new constitution, said one minister, "we have the same situation as before --the concentration of power in one person, even though that person happens to be an angel or a saint." Other loyalists were disgruntled that the new plan had been drawn up by a very small group of counselors working independently of the Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final...
...government in recent months has tried to intimidate the Roman Catholic Church, which has become a center of dissent. Some 80% of Haitians are nominally Catholic, and the clergy has spoken out more since the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II, who criticized the Duvalier regime and assured the downtrodden population "I am with you." One day after the July referendum, a 78-year-old Belgian-born priest was beaten to death by thugs. Three other priests, including the director of the Catholic-run radio station Radio Soleil, were expelled from the country in July...
...Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment for other crimes. Said the angry chief: "Nothing whatever in the Constitution or our prior opinions supports this bizarre result...